Penguin Classics has created a series of clothbound novels, designed by Illustrator Coralie Bickford-Smith. Each book in the series is a true work of art, and is bound in an elegant colored bookcloth and stamped with a one-color foil stamp of a pattern inspired by the work within. Penguin is already on it’s second series of these books after the success of the first. Available from Anthropologie and other stores nationwide. Also, check out some more of the artist’s work on her website.

Andy
www.orange-element.com

Thanks everyone for the great Font Hour submissions! We had a lot of fun looking through them all. Results will be in on Monday!

Until then, enjoy a Font Hour themed Freebie!

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MICA’s Art Market is here!

The MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art) Art Market is a venue for the sale of original artwork and handcrafted pieces created by more then 250 students, faculty, staff and alumni. The event, which lasts for four days, is a perfect opportunity for holiday shoppers and helps to provide funding for need-based student scholarships. Some of the works you can look forward to seeing include illustrations, prints, posters, paintings, sculptures, photographs, mosaics, stationery, T-shirts, ceramics, jewelry, textiles, book arts, tote bags, letterpressed gift tags, screen printed wrapping paper and much, much more.

Vendors will be accepting: Visa, MasterCard, cash & check.

Admission to the market is FREE.

Make sure to stop by the Graphic Design tables at their new location on the 2nd Floor to see works by current & previous Orange Element interns, Nicolette (me) & Jasmine.

Hope to see you there!!

Nicolette

Like cool t-shirts? Nonsek Machine is a fun and interactive way to create your own custom one-of-a-kind t-shirts based on art from popular artists and designers, such as Jesse Ledoux, Aesthetic Apparatus, Art Chantry, and more. Load an artist’s channel, select your shirt color, and then create your own re-mixes of their illustrations! This is the kind of stuff that keeps designers busy for hours…

Andy
www.orange-element.com

“1 0f 1500″ is a 10-Year retrospective book highlighting the collaboration between JDK (Jager Di Paola Kemp) Design, Higher Ground, and the Iskra Print Collective. It showcases over 120 silk-screened music posters and features comments by the designers and the bands themselves. The cover is silkscreened and hand-numbered out of 1500 copies (hence the title “1 of 1500″). Go get yourself a copy (available here) while you still can!

Andy
www.orange-element.com

How does the designer solve a problem?

Michael Bierut of Pentagam says that he doesn’t consider himself creative but he is someone who people come to for solutions to problems. He works out these problems in his notebooks, which are filled not with paintings, or cartoons but problem notes, requirements and free-flowing ideas. After 86 notebooks of problem solving, he has narrowed his process to the 5 simple secrets listed below. The video is only about 19 minutes long but his words are packed with experiential knowledge and practical application throughout his esteemed career.

1. Listen first, then design.

2. Don’t avoid the obvious.

3. The problem often contains the solution.
Create simple solutions from the byproducts of your requirements.

4. Indulge your obsessions.

5. Love is the answer.

Do what you love and find other people who do what they love; you’ll be successful, you’ll do great work, you may actually make money, but bottom line, you’ll be happy. Remember who you’re doing it for, remember why you’re doing it and you cannot go wrong. –Paraphrasing Michael Bierut

–EJ
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