Nuzzles

The brainchild of Chicago based designer John Christensen, Nuzzles are custom designed, handmade wooden letter puzzle, that can spell out the word or name of your choice in its own unique typographic style. Between 4-5 inches tall and about 3-4 inches deep, you can have any name up to 12 characters long created just for you at around USD$12 per letter ($2 extra for colour or stain and + shipping). Love, love, love :)

Yulia Brodskaya

Yulia Brodskaya is a Russian born artist who studied in London, and has been creating wonderful artworks ever since. She finds herself constantly experimenting and evolving, always pushing her style in new directions. I always knew that paper quilling would come back into vogue! Image courtesy of Freshly Blended.

Blanka

Awesome website that a friend put me on to. Has fantastic T-shirts, posters artwork books etc (all at fantastic UK prices too!) So save your pocket money and head to www.blanka.co.uk for some designer goodies.

Set 26 Letters

These are so cool. Set 26 has designed letters that double as storage devices, gotta love the Germans! If only the website was in english, but check it out anyway, in particular the section where you can create your own word.

Mizue Hirano

Mizue Hirano's watercolors are so gorgeous and delicate. Shown here are examples of her work on a book, poster, packaging and magazine spreads in Japan. I love to see such a soft medium being applied to advertising and mainstream design. (Source Oh Joy!)

ANTIGIRL

Antigirl (Tiphane brooke) is a talented young girl who works in mixed media to create fabulous fashion-styled collages. Her work is available as prints, lithographs and books, together with a handful of original artworks. Her 'bleed deeply' collection is truly beautiful, and her gorgeous books are sewn and constructed by hand.

Aranea

Funky font available from fontshop.com

Marian Bantjes

Marian Bantjes is an amazing designer and typographer who has worked with some of the best studios in the world, this is one talented lady. See some of her work at www.bantjes.com