I wish I made this

I found this lovely papercut card at Folio on my Friday night stroll. It was placed just near the entrance over the counter. It just grabbed my attention right away.



This wasn't really an exact papercut, it is actually made by the laser press. However, the details are just so define, it is amazing what a machine could do. This cards printed from the UK, but somehow the URL that they supplied wasn't working. In case, anyone ever heard of it, its published by Archivist and design by Cathy Dow.

A lucky person would received this. It would be perfect for a Valentines cards, too bad its a bit too late for that. I might keep it for my self ^^ hehehe…

Buying stock illustrations

This post is a continuation from my Spot it on post about similarity on two cover design. Quite awhile ago, I actually found out where the originality of the modular shape used in both covers. It was actually came from a suite of a stocks illustrations from stockbyte. I was quite disappointed by the fact that the designer just used a stock of illustrations as it is in the cover. Although, the whole stocks wasn't really bad, it is very psychedelic! '60s-style pop art. If you are interested you can buy it from gettys or fotosearch.

What do you think as a designer buying a stock of illustrations? Do you think its inappropriate? Would you consider its a sign of slackness of the designer to be creative? Especially when there's no further manipulation being done. What is the good excuse as designer to buy it?

Updating in progress

I am really looking forward to get a new fresh look for the blog. I can't stand looking at the brown tiles background anymore. Hopefully it will really happening (sigh…)