You are such a deer...

Don't we all love little Bambi? Embarrassing as it sounds, but I do cry watching him losing his mother. Bambi falls into a second place in tear jerking Disney movies to Lion King, at least according to me. Ok, enough about him, I'm sure we like the little wide eyes Bambi with wobbly legs, but there's something about Bambi's dad that captures us, and not even teenager Bambi can't beat. His antlers. Deers are blessed with beautiful antlers for us to envy, not that we want the huge thing on top of our head, but it's regal, beautiful, and captivating, making the deer in popular list of head taxidermy. ( But please, stop accessorizing your home with dead animals.)

Enjoy my Etsy antlers find. None of my pick is made from real antlers, of course, I am against using real dead animals as craft and fashion. Enjoy your antlers moment.

top row: White Twig's monogrammed linen pillow, Neawear's wallwear
second row : Nice's deer plague, Catrabbitplush's bonnet cat plush, Tastysuite's decal sticker
corner : Corid's original painting

An opposite of a Dentist Office..

Janethillstudio's The Little Cake Shop

Ginko's birthday card.

Bakers Dozen's Blanca Gomez's card.

..guarantee to satisfy your sweet tooth.

Illustrate those Typo!

I was reading through a design magazine (I'm sorry I forgot what magazine it is, I'll tell you when I remember, because I read it on a stall, ssshhh!) when I came across this article about typography and it's purpose in design in general. It was stated that a typo (I hate typing the whole word, so do forgive my lazy fingers) defines itself and the design it is in. So, when you decided to use one typo in a design, you shouldn't add any more design elements to define your whole stuff, for example, a Helvetica can stand alone in a design to tell you that the look is simple, modern, and so on.

I agree to that, at some point, mainly because my Indonesian clients always think that the more the merrier, in a ridiculous way. In my experience with clients, they always want more than a typo to go with their design. A picture, photograph, illustration, clipart, anything but typo-only. The more you can add to a design, the better. It's like a photograph of a banana with yellow and brown puffy font saying "this is a banana" and below that a watercolor illustration of the banana itself.

But I resent to that theory sometimes, when the "add-ons" to the typo are something related, beautiful, they deserve being there with the type (or embedded in the typo itself, in my picks), and obviously making the typo "speak" louder than before! Check out these example and you might agree with me.

Kate Forrester for Wallpaper magazine.

Rodrigo Braga found via designfeedr.

eika.dopludo found via Holga.

Press me..

I don't know about everyone else, but I just love letterpress. There's something magical about different levels of paper it creates. It elevates a design into some kind of personal art instead of just printing it, it lets you know that a human actually involves making the design. Here are some of letterpress studio I adore.

Sweetbeets.

Fugufugupress.

sycamorestreetpress.

letterpressed and diecut card (punchable character) from Egg Press.

Don't you just love running your fingers through all these? Or am I just crazy here?

Ready to Mail.

First, I want to apologize for the outdated blog title, I know it's March already, happy new month everyone (gee, isn't it fast how time goes by? March 2009 already? I thought I was still picking for the "it" calendar!).

Ok, back to the actual post. I want you to meet my new graphic designer friend Sakato of Sakatodesign from Tokyo, Japan. I stumbled upon her lovely blog one day, and I was quite fascinated of her project or campaign or.. I don't know what you call it, but here's what she actually do with her blog; she's giving her Sakatodesign stickers to every reader around the world, free, yes, free. In return, all readers have to photograph the sticker in their hometown and send the photos to Sakato. Sakato then files all her pictures in her blog, her stickers are everywhere now! From Barcelona to Chile, to Belgium to Australia! It's amazing how stickers can connect the whole world! Way to go Sakato! I think it's a very creative and effective way to know about different people and other parts of the world!
And... it's my turn! She just shot this picture for me to let me know that mine is going to arrive soon! Thank you Sakato! I'll take a lot of pictures!

Check the whole lists of cities with photographed stickers on her blog.

Feature Artist : Muchlove

Don't you love sweet quirky things, especially the ones you can put on your body and defines your whole look and fashion statement? Let's face it, all girls love to accessorize. How many bracelets are too much? And how many necklaces does a girl need in her lifetime? You don't know a thing about being a girl if you say 12 or 20 and you're completely clueless when you say 6 or so, and which planet are you from when you say none.

Given the fact, I'd thank God for those who make fine accessories. Meet one of accessories crafters extraordinaire, Anna from Muchlove (and thank the people who run Etsy)! Her design can be describe as sweet, pretty, yet quirky. They seem to fit in a girly girl type of person but a vintage dress fan can also put her accessories too. And so is a one of kind unique personality. They all seem to fit everyone's taste. Anna doesn't just have eyes for accessories but also a keen interest in design and fashion. Visit her blog for inspiring arrays of fashion talks and creative tutorials like what you can do with old thights. A natural on her field (Anna is a Flash/Graphic designer), she hauls from birthtown Jogjakarta (an iconic cultural city with a lot of traditional and modern art scenes in Indonesia) to Melbourne, Australia, and settles there now happily and creatively.

She is also kind and patient enough to let me interview her! So here's the sum of our little chitchat yesterday ...

Hello, Anna! Introduce yourself to our reader, please!
Hi, my name is Anna, and I like pretty things.
Do tell me, what is your biggest inspiration source? I am mostly inspired by my thoughts and imagination. Everything around me can inspire me... people, blogs, culture, fashion, I like to take it all in.
Let's say, you're not making accessories right now, what would you do? If I were not making accessories, I'd probably be trying to do something creative anyway. I've always liked to dabble in art and crafts.
What do you regret as a child? I regret that I wasn't more outgoing as a child
Have any desirable item(s) lately? Recently, I am dying to get my hands on the latest issue of Lula magazine! That magazine is insanely gorgeous.
Please share your best kept policy as a craft seller? My ultimate personal business policy as a seller that I'd like to keep in mind all the time is I would never make or sell something that I wouldn't wear myself! It wouldn't be as fun if not.
(quite simple yet so true!)
Do you have any pet peeves? My most un-tolerable pet peeve(s) is/are arrogance

Thank you, Anna!! Keep making those beautiful things for us!

I want this..

See this, and contemplate...

Now, what do you think it is? A luxurious storage system to bring fancy makeup or accessories along wherever you go, right? The one like Paris Hilton or someone rich carrying around. You're wrong. This is a photo album. Can't believe it? Me neither. These are products of Indonesia own photography agency, Axioo. Man, I'm proud to announce that these guys (and girls) are Indonesian (not much of real good gems you can find here). They usually serve as wedding and events photographer, and as a whole package, Axioo will make you these albums, base on your choice, to treasure your moments taken by them. I am desperately want one of these!


Some may think, isn't this too much for an album?

Well, seriously, look again. I think it's out of necessity, it's a MUST! Are you a bride or bride to be or 5 years old bride? Envy the brides in these pictures. Such pain.