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Book Crush: Soda Palm Suite

March 22nd, 2012 · 2 Comments

The artwork of the Dutch artist Lotte Geeven is featured in Soda Palm Suite, a blissful book designed by Adriann Mellegers and Karen van de Kraats. I’m drawn to the theme of plants and flowers in Geeven’s work and how they are re-contextualized as graphic, shocking and absurd.

“There are many ways of storytelling; I am researching storytelling with only these background details: the information in between. The way a whole city can unfold from a single detail and a landscape can grow around a single smell… (I’m) creating a net of landmarks… An abstract mental domain where the viewer is left as overwhelmed, unstable or surprised as I was.” – artist statement

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All images from the designer’s website.

Artist Crush: Ashley Moe

June 24th, 2011 · 2 Comments

Ashley Moe is twenty-two year-old Kansas City native studying print, paper and book design in Minneapolis. Her blog, sleepy fawn, is absolutely lovely and she also has a brand new shop on Etsy! Her work is soft, girly and ephemeral but at times includes darker undertones. Isn’t her work just lovely?

I can’t get enough of her handmade books like Waldeinsamkeit, below…

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Le Lapin print.