How sweet it is!

I just discovered this blog, and I must urge you to go have a look:
Dessert Girl is the blog "where Design and Dessert Meet".  What does that mean?

Illustrations and recipes sent in by a variety of artists, illustrators and designers.

(Swedish designer and artist Petra Borner has a recipe for Chess Square Cookies)

Art, too.

(oil painting by Lee Price)

Pictures of spectacularly decorated cakes (and other desserts) to ogle.

(from Maggie Austin Cake)

(Indian henna patterns inspired Rora Does Cake)

And of course recipes galore (Like this one, for peanut butter and banana cream pie!).

Eye candy for sweet tooths... what's not to like?

Heads up

Hello again!  I have been unavoidably detained in recent times with all manner of things, expected and unexpected (yes, the usual suspects:  work and over-work, life, and whatnot...). But I wanted to pop in briefly today and share a new discovery.

Pratica l'Arte is blog dedicated to the creation of art. From practical tips and tricks to inspiring thoughts, to tutorials and announcements for art shows and workshops, it seems to have it all!

I have only just dipped my toes in a little, but it does come highly recommended, from  Le Figure dei Libri, the wonderful blog on children's books by the illustrator and author and teacher, Anna Castagnoli. 

Both are in Italian...

One more

I like this one—

From the very interesting Pit i cuixa, by Joan Casaramona.

Invent

From marvellous Maira Kalman.

Fallin'

Happy autumnal equinox! 

To celebrate the beginning of my favorite season, here's an image from Iranian illustrator Mehdi Mo'eeni.  It is from his book  LEAVES which won the prize at Bologna Book Fair in 1985.  Via the wonderful blog Animalarium.


More leaves:

Javier Jaen Benavides via accidental mysteries

Left: as seen on design*sponge

Right: from kris's color stripes

Left: tardamucho

Right: from typogabor's blog (Westvaco inspirations for printers)

Thought for the day

Thought for the day, brought to you by Jean Dubuffet and the marvelous blog, stopping off place.

Paris, ville mouvementée

A little tip of the hat to yesterday's transport strike in Paris. Good thing I like to walk so much!

It is from the cover of VOGUE magazine (the September 1949 issue), illustration by a G. Coltellacci.

Found at Lori Langille's wonderful blog

Eye of the Storm

What a compelling image. This book cover is by part-time under-the radar designer David Gee. Found on Hanasiana (interview) via The Casual Optimist, the exceptional blog on books, design and culture.

Well done, gentlemen!