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Links for the weekend

Anna Raff (previously ) has completed over 500 bird drawings already, hurrah!

Love the new Forest Fables wallet collection over at Poketo.

An illustrated journey of Louis Vuitton’s luggage line from iconic steamer-trunk to the portable carry-case it is today.

Infographic: Have you had enough sleep yet? Better clock up or you might just die.

Watch Sarah Dennis’ Tales in a Pea Green Boat (love the papercuts and the shadow puppetry!)

Now you can send art via your phone with the Artogram app – there’s some lovely artist’s work on there already, like Katie Daisy and Kristiana Pärn among others.

Knitted superhero outfits – I’ll let that one sink in for a moment.

Print out your very own motivational Girls with a Message – a project started by Linda Tieu which I can see being hung in little girls’ rooms everywhere.

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Have a great weekend folks!

Malcolm Gladwell is one of my favorite authors. I’ve read all his books and they never fail to make me think (or in many cases, rethink a lot of things). So when I saw this project over at Details are not the Details blog, I was transfixed.

The collection is designed by Paul Sahre with original drawings by Brian Rea and they’re just beautiful. I’ve put in my order and you can get them over at Amazon.

{ Discovered via Details are not the Details blog }

Illo Crush: Mallory of Where the Lovely Things Are

Today, I’m so thrilled to introduce a new column to the blog where I invite a few of my favorite bloggers to share with us their favorite illustrators (which in many cases, involved a lot of whittling down!), and our first guest is Mallory of Where the Lovely Things Are!

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I love illustration. I won’t even admit to how many illustrator’s blogs I’m subscribed to because you’d think I’m semi-insane. Semi-insane because I’m not an illustrator myself (or an… art director or any other career that would logically keep tabs on the illustration world so much): I just love illustration, it’s as simple as that.

I think it all stems from my love of children’s books. Generally, people graduate to reading chapter books and leave their picture books behind: they’re packed up and tucked away. Most adults don’t touch an illustrated book again until they have children of their own: not me. Picture books have never left my shelves and never will. As someone who loves to write, I adore the stories told through words in these books, but man do I also love the illustrations.

I didn’t really get into the whole (wonderful!) world of blogs and the internet until after I graduated from college, but once I did it was only natural that I’d find myself spending hours at a time scrolling through illustrator’s portfolios / blogs. My love for illustration started through those placed in a book format, but now it encompasses the work of illustrators in all forms.

When Amy approached me about doing a guest post featuring some of my favorite illustrators, I thought I’d choose those whose work I would love to see in book form. Hey publishing companies! Make this happen.