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Suomalainen antique book layouts, covers, typography and ornaments

.3 — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 11:48:30 +0000

I was away on an “old” Finnish summer house a couple of weeks ago for Juhannus, during that time I came across some brilliant old books from the 1900′s and around that era or ealier.

I love variety of typographic ornament found on those books, the attention to details and the perfect clean layouts. Examples below go through 1903′s leather bound bible, featuring gothic typography, book cover’s illustration hot foil stamping, beautifully balanced page layouts to amazing front cover’s title drop cap.

Overall, a beautiful collection of historical typefaces, ornaments, icons and layout inspiration and know how.

Han Hoogerbrugge: digital artist

.3 — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 10:35:48 +0000

Han Hoogerbrugge is a Dutch artist who depicts the modern man and his everyday life, through illustrations and digital/interactive animations in a humorous and satirical manner.

A large collection of work in different media – water colour: La Grande Fête, interactive storyline: Hotel, interactive animation: Nails series, illustration: Prostress,… – in which he is the principal character when not using real or fictional characters.

Endless possibilities swatch book

.3 — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 20:06:06 +0000

I never realised Arjowiggins’ Conqueror was such a big brand in the speciality graphic paper industry, I have always know conqueror as this quality hand writing stationary collection.

So I was pleasantly surprise when my paper representative came around wit loads of goodies from Arjowiggins, promoting the pretty large conqueror paper range.

Part of this promotion was this cool booklet designed by Blast, showcasing illustration around the theme of endless possibilities. Going through the book, you will discover the illustrations by Damien Weighill through 9 different Conqueror stocks (smooth, laid, textured, wove, iridescent,recycled, cotton…). All illustrations can be downloaded from www.conquerorpossibilities.com

All papers are FSC and Carbon Neutral.