ZEROPERZERO

Top to bottom: Hokkaido Railway, New York City Railway, Barcelona Railway and Seoul Railway

I love maps! maps! maps! maps!

When I look at these maps it makes me feel satisfyingly organised. Everything is so neat and colour-coded, geometric and symmetric. I love how characteristics of each city influenced the design of the maps. From Gaudi's architecture in Barcelona to Milton Glaser's I♥NY logo. These maps are super neat!!

They are designed by Zero Per Zero, a design duo made up of Kim Ji-Hwan and Jin Sol from Seoul, Republic of Korea. AND you can buy the maps through their website! Yep. Awesome.

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Chewed by Tuesday

I remember watching my last favourite pen in high school (a cheap, but nothing less than awesome, Blue BIC Fine Biro [they don't sell these anymore]) being lent to a notorious pen chewer and watching (as if in slow motion and in the third person) it enter their mouth into the black abyss of oblivion... Goodbye BIC! it was great while it lasted but... "no really, that's ok, you keep it..."

These fantastically clever necklaces by Melbourne Designer Vivienne Gibson from Chewed by Tuesday, will definitely separate the non-chewers from the chewers... and now let's see chewers, if you can bite off more than you can chew... HA!

Found via Design Fetish

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Chris Ware

After Chip Kid twittered about Chris Ware's rejected Fortune 500 cover (which is awesome by the way), I remembered this gem of a book that I bought last year in Collingwood (again) at one of those discount book shops (when I found it I nearly started frothing at the mouth). The ACME Novelty Library is full of large colour 'comics', stories, faux 1950's advertisements, instructional paper cut-out toys and the tiniest drawings that make you go blind looking at them. It is one of the most beautiful books I own because it has gold foil stamping, embossing and my favourite is the celestial map, which has glow-in-the-dark UV ink printed on the stars and delicate line work. WOW.

Hattie Newman

Images: Free Range Birds, Venus Fly Trap, The Fedrigoni Mountains, Home is where your stuff is.

Colourful set designs and installations by Hattie Newman makes me happy :D

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Voiceworks

The latest issue of Australian youth magazine Voiceworks is out now, it is also my last issue as I am now officially too old to submit (25 being the cut off age). This issues theme is Missionary and I have illustrated 8 of the columns using this religions theme. If you are under 25 and you write, draw or make comics I highly recommend you submit. They also list all the places you can buy Voiceworks in Australia.

Nomono

Images clockwise from top left: illustrations for Hommu, illustrations for Sant Jordi, Poster for Festa Major Sant Pere Gava & Kein Schöner Land

Nomono is Cristóbal Schmal, a Chilean graphic designer who now lives and works as a freelance illustrator in Berlin. Nice bold illustrations, above are just a few from his selected works. But do check out his 'others' links for very cool Drawing Jams videos.

...thanks Paul for sending me the link!

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Scale 1:1

A series of some of the world's smallest birds intricately screen printed to scale by Fanny Shorter, an illustrator and printer maker who is inspired by anatomy and botany. Teeny tiny goodness!

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Welcome back, Kotter (if I may say so myself)

Peru and Galapagos images from top to bottom:

Llamas at Machu Picchu; cheeky goat watching Easter celebrations in Cusco; Lady with alpaca and lamb on the way to Ollantaytambo; Locals on the way to Puno... and lucky last, Galapagos Hawk that was hovering a couple of metres above my head at Isabela Island (Galapagos Islands)... cool.

Sea lions, tortoises, iguanas, hawks, llamas and alpacas...

what more could a girl want?

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Charles Burns

Charles burns is one of my favourite graphic artists, if you only read one graphic novel make sure it is Black Hole. It will blow your mind. The above photos are of a collection of comics of his that we found (without a cover) at a second hand store in Collingwood last year. It's about a grumpy mexican wrestler detective called El Borbah and all the freaky stuff he uncovers. It's a great and funny read, highly recommend checking this out at Fantagraphics.

Beci Orpin

Beci Orpin's solo show is opening at Lamington Drive tonight. She's one of my favourite illustrators EVER! Above is a selection of what she will be exhibiting entitled The Infinite Shape of Rainbows.

I had a Beci Orpin tote bag in 1st year Uni that had dancing green skeletons on it. I loved it so much I wore down the handle. Make sure if you're in Melbourne that you get down and check it out, it should be rad.

Sad eyes

Images from top: Eirian Chapman. Bottom: Double Parlour

Maissa Toulet

I have been obsessed with looking through op shops to find something wonderful like human teeth or a taxidermy bird, alas seems like a lot of other people have the same idea. Ever since I bought The Selby book the desire to fill our apartment with random crap is pretty strong. Must resist hoarder urge. Then I found Maissa Toulet's site. She has the wonderful ability to arrange beautifully delicate objects in cabinets to create great colour combinations. LOVE IT.

O is for Awesome

Yesterday I picked up my Jessica Hische 'O' print from Lamington Drive. I love the embossed monogram at the bottom right of the print, it's a bit hard to see in the photo but it's a silhouette of her profile. Now to get it framed!

Covered up

Images from top left: Image found in Style Bubble , Lu Flux, unknown (please contact me if you know the origins of this great image!), Sibling London.

The Selby is in your place

I had a very exciting morning when mr mailman came and delivered The Selby Is In Your Place book by Todd Selby (A portrait, interiors, fashion photographer and ILLUSTRATOR! is there anything he can't do?). I really love snooping through peoples houses on house inspection days so this book is great as you get access to some of the worlds most creative people in their homes without getting arrested. bonus. Buy it here at Amazon it even comes with stickers!

Stardust

Thanks to the St Kilda library for the free wireless, I'm blogging again! life is hard with limited internet access so I'm going to pump you full of blog posts starting with these beautiful images from Simon Ekrelius's A/W 10-11 collection. I found these images via my fav fashion blog Kingdom of Style.