A week in Twitterland

+ This amazing and beautifully designed paper record player invitation. Watch the video to see it in full action.... brilliant! (via @swissmiss)

+  Papercrafted poster by Benja Harney for Birds of Tokyo (via @paperform)

+ Some rather rude but true design advice (via @jessicahische)

+ Beautiful book themed invitations by Rifle Paper co. (via @frolicblog)

+ A giggle at this story (via @mcsweeneys) The Washington Post Inadvertently Publishes My Online Dating Profile with the Editor's Notes Still Included

Photo of the day > Todd McLellan

Available here

Landskap // Kikki K

The new Landskap range of stationery from Kikki K is a lovely lot. The colours, the little horse and the trees... oh my!

Illustrations and letters // Chris Silas Neal

When looking for some book design inspiration this morning, I stumbled on C.S.Neal's very fine portfolio. He is a great illustrator and has a way of pairing this with hand-lettering which overall is quite frankly just too greedy in terms of talent!



He is Brooklyn based & has done many illustrations, covers and gig posters for a wide variety of clients. I highly recommend a closer peek at his site if you like the look of these below too - particuarly the art + type section. (Studio image above via from your desks where you can read an interview with the man himself)



The food prints in his shop are pretty darn cute too...

Creativity with Austin Kleon

I really enjoyed reading/viewing Austin Kleon's slideshow on 'How to steal like and artist (and 9 other things nobody told me)' - Some really great points about art, originality, making things and being nice. I especially like the point about just making and not waiting until you know who you are or what you want to do - I'm definitely a victim of too much planning & not enough just doing! Worth a look if you're after some inspiration or brain power on this friday.



Above is a screenprint of one of the points addressed