Moths To A Flame

I hated to waste the sweet little photos of my green moth, so made another "design is" wallpaper. More wallpapers here.



1280x1024 here

Mary Darwall

Mary Darwall's divine creations Island Reef and Sea Urchins. oh my!

Wordnik

Wordnik: "An ongoing project devoted to discovering all the words and everything about them". I love it!

Vicki Fish

I could eat Vicki Fish assemblages of Birds and Beasts with a spoon, they are so delicious.

Text Art

Hold on to your keyboard, I love this -- Inspirational Text Art again from DesignM.ag.

Natural Beauty

Found this little piece of seaweed at the beach at low tide.



Day 2. I had to invert the photo because it bleached out in the sun in one day it is hardly visible. Very delicate.



In black and white, a delicate piece of seaweed.



This beautiful green moth.

Creattica

Creattica is a gallery of great design and inspirational imagery. So many great logos and graphics, Killed Productions logo, Firestarter. It looks like that in some instance, they create the logo, then offer it up for sale. The Jack of all business cards, fabulous. Via Matt Hamm.

Body Scrub

Mom and I celebrated her birthday by having a Korean Body Scrub (and talked in to the moisturizer part). We feel wonderful. The poor woman that drew my name got the raw end of the deal, lots of scrubbing. The downside it --- you have to walk around naked for a couple of hours. The upside -- you get rid of years of dead skin. It is the best present I can think I giving anyone! So think about it! And if you have never had one yourself, think about it!

Coca-Cola

The ‘Coca-Cola’ Art Gallery is a collection of images that has been designed by leading artists and designers and the Flickr photostream.



Coca-Cola collectible information. Vintage Coke Pop Can Designs.

Simon Oxley

The simple genius of Simon Oxley illustration and ideas from Fukuoka, Japan. I love his animations. Interview with Simon Oxley at Vectortuts+

Font Front

Jonathan Calugi, HAPPY LOVERS TOWN and his portfolio on Behance and his new free typeface called BADABUM. Fuzzy Font by Font Soup all via the wonderful Free Typography.

Fontfabric's tutorial – Multi-colored effect

champagne letters by settka.

Some Of My Sta-cation

I thought my stacation was over yesterday and when I got to work ... was reminded I had taken off a couple of more days. Dementia setting in. Today is mom's birthday! And that is why I had taken off a couple of more days. We are going to run around, maybe take in a movie and dinner.

"Downstairs is so far away from me". Pixel gets distraught when anyone goes to the basement without her. She hasn't realized that she can come with us by going down the stairs.



Ruth gave me these sweet little *heart* cards and they found their way to my wall of inspiration.



Started a couple of new pieces and added on the an old one.





Added shell exterior to my buddha

Meteor Shower

After a disturbance in the neighborhood around 2am, I couldn't go back to sleep and found myself looking to the moonless starry sky out the back door. I really love deep night, quiet and pure. Within 15 minutes I saw 6 meteors streak through the sky. Thrilled. I found this July Meteor Shower Schedule at MeteorBlog.com. I hope we have more tonight.

Also total eclipse of the sun on July 22 over India and China.

Daily ephemerids, I don't pretend to understand all of that information.

The Grid System

The Grid System, the ultimate resource in grid systems. Very wonderful resource!
The Grid Designer (wow)

Self-Portrait Challenge

I have been participating in this month's SPC challenge of "Seven Deadly Sins". More self-portraits from years gone by.

Gluttony



Sloth



Envy this year, and from 2006



And the next one, a sneak preview, Greed. Meaning, that when I think hydrangeas ... I can't have enough.

Netsuke

Mom has a netsuke and we decided to look up on the internet to find out some information about it. I was shocked at how many sites dedicated to netsuke. The word netsuke is usually translated as "toggle," but it's actually more like a keychain in that it was fastened at the end of a cord attached to a traditional Japanese carrying case (sagemono).



I found on with the rotating head like moms here.



Big collection and prices on Antique Netsuke, Netsuke Online has lots of images, even on Flickr. A nice collection at Bolton Museum, Netsuke Resources Online.

Leandro Castelao

Argentinian illustrator Leandro Castelao via Ace Jet 170. Cool!

Tools Of The Trade

Might have all ready blogged this ... The Museum of Forgotten Art Supplies. I have most of this stuff in my studio! Does that make me a dinosaur? (Don't answer that).

Finger Painting

Jorge Colombo sketches nighttime driving using Brushes, an application for the iPhone.

Typography In Advertising

Design Inspiration: Typography in Advertising at DesignM.ag, community for designers.