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New Bohemia Signs

2010-06-23T16:07:19+00:00

New Bohemia Signs is a San Francisco sign painting company. It’s good to know that the craft is so happily alive and well. There’s a great little short Fontshop did with the founder on Vimeo - look for the handdrawn plans. Amazing!

Collage graphics from Able Parris

2010-06-14T18:55:45+00:00

A year’s worth of just-plain-fantastic collage and type wallpapers from Able Parris. The month of June will never be the same on the ol’ iMac.

Karolin Schnoor

2010-05-04T03:18:38+00:00

Ever feel like you’ve found your art-twin, except they’ve done the things that you’ve only had in your mind? Yup. This girl. I love the colours, the use of patterns, the black and white line drawings. Gorrrgeous!

Royal Bison this weekend!

2010-05-01T00:11:58+00:00

Don’t miss Veekee Workshop at the Royal Bison Craft Fair this weekend! In addition to the ever-popular Veekee Agendas (bonus: they’re on sale!), it’s also the debut of the Veekee Workshop Folk Art Kitchen textiles. Tea towels, aprons and table runners, all hand-silkscreened with hand painted labels. It’s all 100% high thread count cotton, and the durable textile ink holds up to anything you want to throw at it.

If there’s any left, you’ll be able to find them in the shop after the weekend! Enjoy!

Maija Louekari + In Good Company

2010-04-21T19:20:31+00:00

And while we’re on the subject of Marimekko, textile designer and illustrator Maija Louekari has recently illustrated a tableware series called In Good Company. Oh, to eat off those plates and drink from those cups! Make sure to spend a moment on Maija’s website, it is chock full of delicious colour and line.

Sanna Annukka + nineteen seventy three

2010-04-21T19:12:04+00:00

Finnish illustrator Sanna Annukka has made some gorrrrgeous greeting cards for nineteen seventy three. Gold metallics on kraft paper? Yes, yes, yes! If you’re not sure you’ve seen her work before, you may recognize her Kanteleen kutsu print for Marimekko. [via Print + Pattern]

Love Letters | The Texan + Apotheke + Barber

2010-04-21T18:43:46+00:00

A little bit of a potpourri this week—some handpainted interior signs at an apartment building called (wait for it) The Texan, a fancy pharmacy in Switzerland, and a decidedly DIY set of letters.

Don’t forget to send in your favourite apartment building signs for an upcoming Love Letters post—loveletters@veekee.ca is the ticket.

The Texan - some decidedly medieval handpainted lettering in The Texan apartment building. Even the laundry room has a title painted in this style. Wow. [Thanks, Mary!]

Apotheke - The fanciest pharmacy you’ll ever visit. In Switzerland, that is. [Thanks, Jim!]

Barber - Oh yes, Virginia. Housepainting brushes make type too. [via Jeanie via Uono]

Letterpress, explained

2010-04-14T19:06:01+00:00

Thank-you to the Guardian for posting this little slideshow gem on the art of letterpress as part of the Disappearing Acts series. It features Hand & Eye press in London, and I’ve never seen it explained better. [via LETPRESS].

Love Letters | Fresh Coffee + Now Hiring + Borax

2010-04-14T18:51:33+00:00

Next week’s theme is an ode to those last bastions of gussying up a plain old building: apartment building signs. Painted on glass, mounted on the outside, hanging above the entryway…you know you’ve got a favourite you always pass by! Send your pics and scans to .

And this week:

Fresh Coffee - on the side of a lemon yellow, side-of-the-road ice cream shack.

Now Hiring - Somewhere out there is a business you really should work for, and it has a sign on the ground outside its front door that looks like this. [Thanks to Sarah of Famous Last Words!]

Borax - Viva Borax! May more companies retain their old packaging designs well into this century.

Brie Harrison

2010-04-09T16:00:33+00:00

I first came across Brie Harrison’s work in Mike Perry’s most excellent Over & Over book of patterns. Every time I see her work, I sigh a little sigh. I think you understand, no?