All posts tagged Graphic Design
Happy summer, y’all
May your days be filled with the scent of freshly mowed grass, sweet
taste of ice cream cones, glow of bonfires, roar of live music,
warmth of sunkissed skin and slobber of puppy kisses– or whatever
strikes your fancy.
I snapped this photo at Navy Pier in Chicago when I was visiting some
friends back in April. For more photos, check out my Flickr
page.
Wall•eeeeee!
In the spirit of a new Design Star season starting soon on HGTV and in remembrance of ReadyMade, which folded this past week (moment of silence… *sigh), I decided it was time to exercise my interior design muscles again last night. I recently designed a slew of materials for Nurses’ Week at work including a banner for the hospital. And, thanks to the maintenance dudes, I got to hold onto the banner after it was taken down. Hooray! So, because I’m poor and always looking for inexpensive wall art, I took influence from all the purses made from old billboards running around town and turned my banner into a new art form. The before and after shots:
It’s always refreshing to repurpose things. And this project was particularly fun because it allowed me to transform my own design. I love that something I created is now living a second life. I also love that the colors of the banner blend with the colors in my apartment… making me realize that I use the same color palette perhaps too often, hmm…
Here are few other inexpensive ways I’ve brought character to my walls:
Top: Chalkboard paint background with quote created with Helvetica stencils. Yes, I realize I can’t stencil straight. No, I wasn’t drunk while doing this. Bottom left: Foam board covered with an old world map found at a garage sale. Bottom right: Guitar found at a flea market for 30 bucks (orly? yah srsly! so awesome!). I have yet to learn how to legitimately play it, but, in the meantime, it’s doing a great job looking lovely on my wall.
Top: Screen-printed scarf found at an Indie craft show. Middle: ginormous canvas from Michaels painted with mistint paint from Sherwin-Williams and stenciled with love by the Helvetica clan and my weird sense of humor. Bottom: framed wrapping paper bought on clearance at Borders.