Category Archives: Websites
Independent Retailer Month – Ideas and Resources
Calling all independent retailers, take a look at this great website and get involved.
hipshops
This website is a must for any store owners looking for inspiration for any shopaholics like me looking for some great new places to visit.
Click the link below to see their website.
Hip Shops – A themed tour in Paris
If anyone if off to Paris to visit Maison & Objet then before you go click on this link to see some must visit stores.
Thanks to Hip Shops for sharing this with us.
Fabien Barral – Graphic Designer
Last week I posted the “Seven Rules for Designers” by Fabien Barral, I then went on to have a look at his website and just have to post about it, as it is a graphic feast of letter-press and typography.
Take a look at some of his projects they are stunning.
Here are a few of my favourites.
Specialist Tree Lighting by Artis Tree
My business partner Lynda found this website the other day whilst researching Christmas tree lighting for a client, its pretty amazing.
ArtisTree Lighting offers an exciting new concept in specialist tree lighting effects.
Utilising a 100% tree-friendly system, stunning, dramatic or subtle lighting effects can be created to enhance any tree on your property at the touch of a button. Using state-of-the-art equipment that has been specifically chosen due to its low environmental impact, an unlimited colour palette can be easily explored and selected from a control panel that controls several discreetly-positioned, low-voltage, high-powered LED lights positioned within the tree canopy. These can be either selected from a pre-programmed list or customised to suit any application including interchanging colours, static displays, cross fades, strobing etc. really whatever your imagination can provide.
Pinterest – Typography Ideas
My cousin in Cape town sent me a link to a fab website called Pinterest its a virtual pin board where you can browse and save ideas.
I have had a look through and its great, I loved this Typography pin board that someone has pulled together.
Here are a few pics from it if you would like to see more then click on the link below.
The Selby
Todd Selby is a portrait, interiors, and fashion photographer and illustrator. His project The Selby offers an insider’s view of creative individuals in their personal spaces with an artist’s eye for detail. The Selby began in June 2008 as a website, www.theselby.com, where Todd posted photo shoots he did of his friends in their homes. Requests quickly began coming in daily from viewers all over the world who wanted their homes to be featured on the site. The Selby’s website became so popular—with up to 55,000 unique visitors daily—that within months, top companies from around the world began asking to collaborate.
These joint projects have included a large ad campaign and web project with Nike 6.0, a solo show at colette, an international ad campaign for Habitat, work for the New York Times T Magazine, and frequent contributions to Vogue Paris and Architectural Digest France. Todd’s first book, The Selby is In Your Place, was released in May 2010 by Abrams.
The Selby Book
To promote his forthcoming book The Selby Is in Your Place (released April 1st worldwide), legendary interior photographer Todd Selby moved in with Colette. “The Selby’s Window Apartment,” on display from March 1st through 6th to coincide with Paris Fashion Week, features Selby living in the French designer’s front window at 213 Rue Saint-Honoré in Paris. Passers by can steal a glance at Selby in his unnatural habitat, but stopping in the Colette shop comes with rewards
To buy the book on Amazon click here
To Visit The Selby Website Click here
Sebastian Lester
I was browsing the internet yesterday and as usual I got lost and led to different sites and happened to come across this amazing guy called Seb Lester.
He is based in London he is a type designer, illustrator and artist.
He has created typefaces and type illustrations for some of the world’s biggest companies, publications and events, including the likes of Apple, Nike, Intel, The New York Times, The 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics and JD Salinger’s final reissue of The Catcher in the Rye.
I am a mad type fiend and just love it when I find someone as talented as this. I have no doubt seen examples of his work everywhere without realising he was the designer.
Here are a few of my favourite pieces of his work and no surprises they are all type based.
