Text
- Indezonefont-creative*³
- Miama*¹

Ladder
- Alfabilder*¹

Flower
- DT Flowers*¹

* available in most font directories
¹ Free for personal/commercial use
² Commercial font
³ Personal use only

Text
- Champagne*¹
- CAC Champagne¹ (free to use, according to Typophile)
- Champagne & Limousines*³

Asperand roses are made with Champagne and CAC Champagne.

* available in most font directories
¹ Free for personal/commercial use
² Commercial font
³ Personal use only

There are many pretty fonts that are very inspiring to me especially for my design work. Fonts can set a mood or show off an attitude.

I thought I should begin to showcase the ones I’m fond of (which are either free, purchased or came with software) and I’ll also include decorative fonts that you may like to use in your craft projects for card/label/banner making and etc.

Text
- Academy Engraved²
- Selfish*¹

Motiff
- Fraktur-Schmuck³

* available in most font directories
¹ Free for personal/commercial use
² Commercial font
³ Personal use only

Remember these roses?

Haven’t seen any of them for ages…until some time ago one came up in an email and I couldn’t get it off my mind. I then had an urge to dress it up with fonts + colours – convinced that would bring out more rosiness. While doing so, I turned them upright too. You know me.

Finally I lined them up as my desktop wallpaper. And so can you. If you like to be greeted by this blooming scene, choose between standard or widescreen.

For your personal use and enjoyment only. A little something from me to you. Enjoy!

Since I really like these typographic blooms, you should be seeing them again.

This clip titled 赤い糸 which means red thread, illustrates life’s big + small moments with a red thread. A brilliant production by Okushita Kazuhiko [奥下和彦].

Watch out when the thread snaps and heals back .

Initially I had wanted to just tweet this to friends immediately after watching but I really couldn’t bear to leave the rest of you (who don’t tweet) in the dark!

The illustrations of Toronto-based artist Afsaneh are so sweet and adorable. And they are housed in her shops JooJoo + Persian Garden. Then equally sweet are the polymer clay figurines and jewelry she makes, many which are based on her drawings and these are housed in JooJoo Land. In Afsaneh’s new 2010 calendar cards, the sweet drawing of 2 hugging penguins for February makes me want to hug someone (I know) too!

Btw have you started your Christmas shopping? I started mine officially last month (unofficially almost any other day :D) and am restricting myself to buying handmade as much as possible. I’ll be scouting around for great buys and will jot them under chapter “Great buy”. If you like to recommend something or direct me to a shop, just let me know!

I’m captivated by the candid depiction of cluster titled “Bike Stack” by bicycle artist Taliah Lempert, whose bicycle paintings have appeared in major newspapers + magazines, including Japanese bike magazine, 自転車人.

The drawings sold in her shop are not restricted to paper prints but prints on tees, caps, baby onesie and a colouring book for kids.

I’m attracted to the symmetric artwork by Indiana-based artist Jill Browning not only because of the vibrant colour-mix, but also because it instinctively conjures an image in my head. Looking at each of four designs above, I see stacks of books, streamers/long necklace, arrows and a railway track respectively. I asked hub if there’s something else he pictures, and he said a dining table for 6 (bottom right). I believe symmetry should be this interesting!

Left to right, top to bottom: Firefox, Twitter, Basecamp, RSS, Gmail, Stumbleupon, IE, Mint, delicious, Digg, Skype, Opera, Apple, iTunes, Flickr

Free to download at I am Paddy.

This beaming Tutfur Dandy is a freehand cross-hatching (drawing with parallel lines) artwork by artist Sage Benart of Hatchin. What a stunning and clearly a very unique portrayal of everyone’s favourite dandelion!