Beautiful set of illustrations from the guys at Good Inc, for Tenue de Nîmes coming issues. Also available on iPhone! iPad soon?

(via Another Something)

Cosmic Excerpts is a collection by Ryan Todd from Darklord. The collection is a result of many years of disco, funk, and cosmic record hunting. What makes this collection unique is the way Todd documents only a portion of the record sleeve in order to create a gestalt of new perspective for some of these bizarre designs. Todd had this to say, “I would buy a record and if it happened to have weird, sci-fi artwork then I photographed a portion of the cover for the set, avoiding any words or identifiers as best as possible. If the record turned out to be terrible, then at least I was able to take away a cool image from the experience before donating it to Goodwill. It also turned into a little bit of a game, with random people showing up to see if they could identify records based on the bit I chose to show.”

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Alexander S. Budnitz of Sametz Blackstone Associates has compiled a fantastic collection of cover designs for books dating all the way back to the early twentieth century. Go ahead and judge a book by its cover. Below are some of my favorites.

See the rest here.

Shen Plum you make amazing drawings!

Awesome Book Tour from Dallas Clayton on Vimeo.

Issue #4 of Nico magazine. Interviews w/ shoe designer Pierre Hardy & photograph Miles Aldridge particularly caught my attention.

The Play Ground is a magazine about family, art directed by LBN.

Contributions from: Quentin Blake, Paolo Roversi, Steve Hiett, Louise Bourgoise, Tung Walsh, Kai Z Feng and Daniel Pennac.

Finnish artist Laura Laine has new works on her website. These prints, for instance, were recently done for an H&M t-shirt project. See more amazing fashion illustrations here.

A while back we wrote about Chloe’ Poizat, and last week we visited her in her Parisian studio, where I had a glimpse of some of the amazing works in person. Make sure to check out her website.

Illustrator Keri Smith created “The artist’s survival kit“, a five page downloadable booklet to help artists through the really bad days.