Wednesday’s Weekly Reader: Triple the Fun

…and late. Well that was extremely annoying last night. I’ll attempt to remember everything as I had it written. And my apologies for the absence of this column the past several weeks: hopefully this triple-stuffed edition will make up for it. (On a side note, I’m paranoid that I’ll lose the post again, so I’m not going to preview it just in case. If something doesn’t work, comment and I’ll fix it. :-[ )

For the Home:

• Design*Sponge broke the sad news that Domino Magazine has folded. But even more sadly for myself personally, Home Companion Magazine folded this month. I'm really going to miss their DIY/vintage ideas!
• Johanna Basford was featured on anything goes, and I REALLY want the plates (for some reason, I couldn't post the photo...)
• I also Love these coffee-filter garlands that Creature Comforts posted a How-To on. Who says decorating has to be expensive?
  

  Courtesy Creature Comforts

• These pillows just crack me up:
  

How-To’s:

• Drawn! posted links to Cody Walker’s technical illustration tutorials such as the one below for Advanced Isometric Illustrations:
  

  Courtesy Cody Walker

• Think Green: D*S also posted a cute project using old matchbooks to make mini-notepads. I can’t wait to use recycled paper at the office to make some…
  

  Courtesy D*S

• You can photoshop your own photographs to look like Tilt-Shift photography with this tutorial…or just plug it into the Tilt-Shift Maker
  
  

  Courtesy Tilt-Shift Maker

Illustration Inspiration:

• I loved the article over at Animation Treasures about Ludwig Richter, a 19th c. German illustrator who worked in woodcuts. Gorgeous:
  

  Courtesy of Animation Treasures

• Katie Kirk and Nathan Strandberg did an awesome job with Eli No! as posted on Grain Edit:
  

  Via Grain Edit

• Grandma’s Graphics has an excellent gallery of public domain illustrations from the likes of Harry Clarke and Sir John Tenniel (of Alice in Wonderland fame):
  

  Courtesy Grandma's Graphics

Typography:

• Who knew that Berlin has a Buchstabenmuseum?? Designistoshare has an excellent article on The Letter Museum.
  

  Courtesy designistoshare

• CR reported that the British Library hopes to acquire the Macclesfield Alphabet Book, a 16th c. type specimen: the article is complete with delicious pictures of the book’s spreads.
  

  Via CR

For Further Reading:

• ReubenMiller listed the Top 90 Design Blogs according to Alexa
• Urban Sketchers has got some great inspiration for my Sketch-More-Resolution

And finally, Polaroid Lives! and I REALLY REALLY want to see Coraline now:

Tags | animation, diy, German, pattern, stationary, sustainability