



Love these lovely invites from illustrator and graphic designer Anna Hurley — they’re clean, whimsical and not overly saccharine sweet. Just the way I would like mine to turn out!
{Originally discovered via Invitation Crush}




Love these lovely invites from illustrator and graphic designer Anna Hurley — they’re clean, whimsical and not overly saccharine sweet. Just the way I would like mine to turn out!
{Originally discovered via Invitation Crush}

Thumbtack Press is an online art community that exposes art enthusiasts to unique, affordable art – in all a total of 100 or so of the world’s edgiest illustrators and fine artists from around the world.
Soon though, Thumbtack Press will be given a new lease on life by its new owner, Barry Friedland, with new artists and a new website to boot; set to launch in June. Many of the original Thumbtack Press artists are continuing their journey with Barry, and along with them too are a bevy of new artists that are personally picked and curated by Barry himself that will be added continually to the site. And unlike other sites that just sell art, the new Thumbtack Press will become an online art enclave that exists to create a community of like-minded art enthusiasts.
To celebrate, Barry is giving ONE lucky Pikaland reader a chance to score a framed piece of art from any artists from Thumbtack Press!
To be in the running: go to their site, find the one print you just cant live without, and post it here in our comments section. The winner will be announced here and on their Facebook page on May 3rd at 3:00 CST.
UPDATE: Congratulations to Chelsea, winner of our Pikaland Giveaway, who chose Lilly Piri’s “Matches” print! See Thumbtack Press’ Facebook Page for more info!



Katie Scott’s artworks are like intricate observations and studies of a world that we kind of know, but ourselves aren’t really a part of and that’s really what an artist and illustrator is, right? We are observers who document worlds, people, characters, and moments that would normally go unseen.
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