Binding visual research: a book art workshop in Cork Printmakers

I often wonder what to do with random bits of research and sketchbook bits when finished a set of prints. These are a couple of pamphlets I made playing with different scales and folds, and a Dosados book using a sailing map for the cover. (Part of a workshop with the book artist Andrew Kelly at Cork Printmakers)

Making baby a present...

It's that age. If you aren't having your own, your friends are popping theirs. How can giving be a pleasure when plastic and generic sentiments seem unappealing? It's an ongoing mini challenge to give from the real heart, bypassing Hallmark sentimentality. Below are a couple of recent examples of baby stuff that I put together from the box of tricks. Any excuse to use a fountain pen eh.

Loving nerdy typographic stickers and muji origami papers – colour mmm!

A ribbon fetish is put to wholesome use in this easter bonnet set for little Erin's christening. One for the head, and a matching one for her wrist. (Thanks to Kate for helping me with the sewing).

Baedeker – the first travel guides?

Victorian era guides by Karl Baedeker were characterised by their famous red covers. Exquisite maps and intense details for the discerning tourist.

Prior to World War I, Baedeker's guides were famous enough that baedekering became an English-language term for the process of travelling a country for the purpose of writing a travel guide or travelogue about it (Wiki)

Map Envelope

Remember that great idea for a google maps envelope from Beste Miray? Well I'm delighted to see a site built around that very idea – you can now generate your own map envelope by simply inputting any location that google maps generates, and a template is generated for you to make your own li'l envelope. Now isn't that very neat?! Check out mapenvelope.com, built by tweevio.

How to Feed the World?

How to feed the world ? from Denis van Waerebeke on Vimeo.

Via Infosthetics

Alice Guillier - Pop-ups

via heystudio

Julie Michel - My Way

Before I first moved to London, I went to my local library and photocopied all the pages of the area around where I would go to college, and taped them all together into a kind of monster wall hanging. Fluorescent filled areas for parks and bits of interest, and village areas ringed. Staring at the areas and getting familiar with the names was essential for beginning the trawl through rental adverts. So when I came across these maps from Julie Michel, it all came back to me. the personalisation of an area to visit with stickers and interventions. She has found some neat ways of folding the maps too.... so check out the rest of the site as well.

Nendo – Minimal Globe

via M.E magazine

www.nendo.jp

Beste Miray Dogan — Mapenvelop

Oh I do love an indexhibit site. I do I do. There's always something wonderful to discover in a template place, that is filled lovingly. So, via something called 'radar' in tumblr, I stumbled onto this beautiful and witty envelope. Neat idea!

Beste Miray Dogan

Le Cool – London

le cool guides – london

500 Pencils

Felissimo has designed this range of pencils for social designer. Each one is named individually. You can't buy the whole 500 in one go: but over 20 months. Like my old Quest magazines, or your favourite subscription magazines.... well, kind of.

via designboom

Cargo Collective

Cargo is a web publishing (CMS) and community-building platform currently in development. It powers a variety of creative communities in the fields of Education, Design, Research, and Conceptual Art.

Jan Chipchase

Researching for Nokia, Jan Chipchase has the enviable job of travelling the world to discover how people live, and how technology is used and accommodated internationally. The future perfect blog... a collection of insights, thoughts and snapshots from those trips.

Lesser Spotted Cards

I came across this range of greeting cards in Paperchase: all the signs are real places and located on a map of England on the reverse. I sent my Dad "crackpot: 3/4 mile" for Father's Day. The photographer is Dominic Greyer.

It's Bauhaus Bicycle!

I'm looking for a bike right now and this takes my fancy. Might just park it outside the Ritzy Cinema on a friday night..www.baubike.dk Via Ceilidh. .

Studio Verbarius

Their website looks like a default 'fake' site, but swallowing the doubts, there are some nifty bits of design here. Let me know if this is a spoof!