vintage Olivetti Studio 44 poster designed by Giovanni Pintori (via ninonbooks)

graphic design & illustrations by Darling Clementine
(first discovered via grain edit, above is The Claudettes postcard series)

wedding invitations designed & illustrated by Katie Kirk
(discovered via Grain Edit)

likeable:

“…Built on marshland, former flood plains and paddyfields 30km north-west of Seoul, Paju Book City is an attempt to create an ambitious new town based exclusively around publishing. We may be reading obituaries of the book and the printed word almost daily, but the news has not reached Paju. Plans for the Book City were first proposed in 1989…”

—excerpt from article A City Dedicated to Books and Print in FT.com

likeable:

Telegram Papers Goods distributes stationery products including notebooks
from O-Check Design Graphics in Korea

via the stylish personal stationery range by O-Check Design Graphics
(discovered via The Design Files)

Bang Goes the Theory print ad campaign for BBC designed and illustrated by James Joyce
(discovered via FormFiftyFive)

Ideal Bookshelf print by Jane Mount (via 20x200)

already have a small print of Bookshelf 20, should I add another to the collection?

“Camille Rose Garcia print, with all money going to charity” (via Boing Boing)

vintage advertisement
(discovered via print.magazine on flickr)

a little late in discovering this April Fool’s Day joke…

marianoviola:

Tache a “fusion diagraph” (via Graphic Definer)

[…] Research and predictive modeling conducted at Carnegie Mellon University over the past year has concluded that because the combination “th” occurs more than any other in the latin alphabet (primarily in English), the reduction of it’s double-character footprint to a single-character footprint, could save a staggering 1.21 billion newspaper pages per year in the US alone. This would translate to a 3% decrease in the cutting of domestic forests to produce that new newsprint in the same 12 month period. […]

“Gallery Card as Relic?”

“Of all the things going the way of the Internet these days, one is the gallery exhibition announcement card. For decades this useful bit of art-world indicator has been an indispensable constant creatively deployed by artists, avidly cherished by the ephemera-obsessed and devotedly archived by museums…” via ArtsBeat Blog

blakeley: moth:

Inset from a killer wedding invitation (click through to see the whole thing) that’s making the rounds on Twitter and Tumblr, for obvious reasons. The Matt in question is Matt Dorfman who does amazing design at Metalmother.  (via gesteves and caterina)

designgallery:

Favourite Shoes print
By Karena Colquhoun

“If Print is Dead, What Are We All Still Doing Here?” —FPO for Print Only, a great new blog from UnderConsideration (not a bad replacement for SpeakUP, though we wish it was still going strong)

via designsites:

FPO: For Print Only

The Arkitip Intel Newspaper Supplement 
(discovered via NOTCOT)