SAUL

Last week the Google doodle payed tribute to legendary graphic designer Saul Bass on what would have been his 93rd birthday. Doodler Matthew Cruickshank payed homage to many of Bass' film credit sequences with this animated Google Doodle set to Dave Brubeck's Unsquare Dance. It is one of my favourite doodles thus far.

There's a great write-up about the process of creating this doodle over here.

APRIL MIX

Oh yeah, who's actually punctual with the playlist this month? This kid. Here are a few of the tunes I discovered and rediscovered in April. As always, please feel free to share what you've been listening to lately in comments.

GOOD GOOD LINKS FOR THE WEEKEND

Took this photo while I was in Chicago a couple of weeks ago. I always love stopping by Cloud Gate and seeing how people interact with the Bean and each other. Always good people watching.

If you want to sit and marvel at something for a few minutes.

Algae powered building.

This tumblr via exPress-o

Picasso paintings reinterpreted.

This video is silly and will probably make your day.

The 33 most beautiful abandoned spaces in the world.

Aaaand the first clip from the upcoming season of Arrested Development has been released!

SPACE RACE

The accordion book fun continues! I finally went to the post office over the weekend to pick up a package I had ordered from the wonderful Nobrow Press (one of the few companies where I mean it when I say "I want to buy all the things"). Space Race is a beautifully illustrated accordion book by Tom Clohosy Cole. Here are a few shots I snagged from the Nobrow site and you can see more right here.

THE CUSTOMIZED PLAY

Beautiful trailer for the upcoming Korean animated feature The Customized Play. I want to live in this world. (Thanks Amanda for sharing this with me).

FELICITA SALA

I have a thing for illustrated lists, especially of an alphabetical nature. These alphabet illustrations by Felicita Sala are boss. You can check out more of her work right here (I also particularly love her illustrated recipes, among other things). She also has a nifty blog.

IS IT SUMMER YET?

You may or may not know that aside from being an illustrator, I also work as an artist for Kohl's department store creating art for the home products. I don't usually share a lot of the stuff I've created for that over here but I wanted to share these kids' beach towels that I had fun creating art for since I figured they fall more in the illustration category than most of the other products I make.

Also, I love them. There. I said it.

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