Malin Gyllansvaan

December 21, 2020 12:03 AM \

Malin Gyllensvaan is an illustrator and textile designer based in Stockholm.  She started drawing at an early age and now her designs can be found on textiles for the home and fashion as well as paper goods. Inspired by vintage botanical studies, her illustrations are a homage to the natural world, rendered in pencil and gouache.  Her clients include Ikea, Åhléns, H&M and Anthropologie just to name a few.  We love her work particularly those with a simpler color palettes.

The artist can be followed on her website, Facebook and Instagram.

Images:  Courtesy of Malin Gyllensvaan.

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NEWFLIX.Bro

December 18, 2020 12:03 AM \

Love this elegant font created by the design team, NEWFLIX.Bro.  There isn’t much information on the studio except that they are a team of young people from Indonesia passionate about design, technology, illustration and typography.  The font, Valky, is a classic modern typeface that draws inspiration from lovely vintage serif typefaces. It comes with a wide range of beautiful ligatures as well as plenty of special alternative glyphs and ornaments. It’s perfect for many projects packaging, magazine headers as well as for personal use.  

You can see more of NEWFLIX fonts here on Behance.  The Valky font can be downloaded on Creative Market.

Images:  Courtesy of NEWFLIX.Bro.

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Pochibukuro

December 17, 2020 12:03 AM \
Whenever we travel to Japan we always bring back a few of these paper envelopes.
They’re called Pochibukuro traditionally used for children’s monetary gift for the New Year.
Now they are being used for other purposes, tip for service rendered or an envelope to enclose a small message.  We found this tutorial for making a cloth envelope but the same pattern can apply to paper.

Tutorial courtesy of Nunocoto Fabric.

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