Yu-I recently participated in an art show called “Inspired” which opened on Jan 14th 2009 in Tinlark gallery, Los Angeles, California. Her work featured prints inspired by mixtures of childhood memories and imaginary nights. In conjunction with the gallery show, she’s releasing a very limited edition set of gocco prints — like this one called Orchid Yard, which is one of my favourite.

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And here’s a couple links to keep you busy today:

1. Take a look at Jen Corace’s apartment over at Apartment Therapy
2. Listen to Jillian Tamaki on how to generate ideas (via Drawn!)
3. And to help you along with some more ways to generate ideas, how about trying out The Scribbler?

Have a creative weekend everyone, and thanks for your patience as I ironed out some technical issues over at Pikaland yesterday!

You’ve probably heard by now that the PikaPackage Project is almost launching — and I’m so excited to let you in on the first half of the submissions for this round!

1. Rosemary Travale sent in Gocco printed words of wisdom;
2. Kate of PaperKate sent in pretty rub-ons and notecards;
3. Helen of Hello Memo sent in a screenprinted bag, notebooks, cards and brooches;
4. Lertsis sent in a bevy of personalized postcard packs with her illustrations
5. Pam of Zoetropa sent in her beautiful block-printed cards, stickers and moleskine notebooks;
6. Luciana Carossia sent in her beautifully handmade bookmarks made from her illustrations;
7. Suzanne of Silver Tree Art sent in an assortment of lino-printed goodies;
8. Leslie of SparklePaw sent in her adorable cards and buttons;
9. Holly of Good Bloom sent in more of her vibrant, happy prints and cards;
10. Handmade Julz sent in her delicate prints, magnets and colorful coasters;
11. Stephanie Fizer sent in her line of adorable characters on stickers, cards and prints;
12. Victoria Usova does it again! This time she sent in special bookmark + button sets, mirrors and coasters;
13. Rachael of Number Eight sent in postcard packs of her illustrations; and
14. Mika sent in miniature original artwork, brooches and earrings and a big stuffed creature!

There’s one more update happening very soon, but if you want to see more pictures of what our participants sent in, please head on over to our Flickr stream, and remember to sign up for our mailing list to be the first to know about the giveaway, and also when the packages this round will be available for purchase!

No, I didn’t, but Erin does! I am in love with her shop that dedicated to being all about the face fuzz. If you’re curious about her process, head on to her blog to see how it’s done.

And she can also draw other things besides beards too (!), and she sells her other beautiful quirky artwork on her other shop, erindollar.etsy.com

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Sorry for the lack of posts the last few days — preparation for the launch of the next PikaPackage Project is underway and there’s also the launch of something else that is super exciting. SUPER I TELL YOU.

And hey, you can always sign up for our non-hounding, non-irritating newsletter to find out when we do. Talk to you all soon!