father's day!

Father's Day is right around the corner! We have lots of options in our shop to let Dad know just how much you appreciate him and all he does. Make sure to check them out and place your order in time for the big day! Happy Monday Everyone!

one of a kind dad

This card, perfect for your unique and one of a kind Dad, is currently available in our shop! 

free shipping for mother's day!

Do you still need a card for Mother's Day? We are offering free shipping for the next two days on our Mother's Day cards and all of our other items! Just use the code LZP4N99 at checkout.

Head over to our shop and check out all our options! 

Offer is valid on any item in our shop. Offer ends May 8, 2014 11:59pm.

mother's day!

Mother's Day is less than a week away! We have lots of options, in a variety of colors, to let your Mom know just how much you care & appreciate her! Head over to our shop to check them out! Hope you like them :) 

color and pattern and texture love.

So inspired by the paper work of Paris based artist Maud Vantours. love love love.

via The Jealous Curator

there's still time before easter!

Order your Easter Cards today to make sure you get them by Easter!  From fun and cheeky cards to more traditional ones, we have you covered! So head over to our shop and check them out today! 

who dares, wins.

A little inspiration this Monday. This is one of my new mottos. No risk, no reward. Right?

via swiss miss.

easter egg card

Introducing our Easter Egg Card! It is a perfect way to spread some Easter cheer and it is now available in our shop! Make sure to head over and check it out along with the rest of our Easter cards!

Happy Friday!

xo

a very clever three-dimensional print ad

How clever is this ad by Felipe Salazar? While at first glance it looks like a classifieds page, upon closer inspection you realize the type is positioned to create a three-dimensional miniature kitchen. The ad, for Corona Kitchen, cleverly draws the eye using nothing besides well placed typography. So smart.

via My Modern Met

to one of my favorite peeps!

Easter is just around the corner. Celebrate the holiday with your favorite peeps! This card is a fun and cute way to wish a friend or family member a Happy Easter! Or to just let someone know they are one of your favorites! This card and many more are available in our shop so please stop by and check them out! xo

layers cloud chair

I am pretty obsessed with the Layers Cloud Chair by Richard Hutton. For each chair, the pattern is drawn out on the fabric, cut out using a CNC machine, and then manually assembled. The design references the pigments of layered rock found in Painted Desert, Arizona and nearly 100 colors were used to achieve the effect. love love love.

The chair will be at the Salone de Mobile as part of Kvadrat's Divina exhibition next month.

via Dezeen and Contemporist.

papercut light boxes

How gorgeous are these back-lit dioramas by Denver-based couple Hari & Deepti? The artists starting experimenting with papercut light boxes in 2010, illustrating fanciful scenes and stories using hand painted watercolor paper. As time went on, they stopped coloring their paper, instead using LED lights affixed to the back of the box to color and illuminate the intricately cut and layered white paper.  The light adds depth to the narrative and creates such a striking contrast between the layers of the paper design. love love love.

“Paper is brutal in its simplicity as a medium. It demands the attention of the artist while it provides the softness they need to mold it in to something beautiful. It is playful, light, colorless and colorful. It is minimal and intricate. It reflects light, creates depth and illusions in a way that it takes the artist through a journey with limitless possibilities. What amazes us about the paper cut light boxes is the dichotomy of the piece in its lit and unlit state, the contrast is so stark that it has this mystical effect on the viewers’”

— Hari & Deepti

via My Modern Met and Black Book Gallery. Images from Black Book Gallery Website.

not what it seems

In the work below by Tokyo-born artist Hikaru Cho, she transforms one food into another using a photo-realistic application of acrylic paint. When you break open the cucumber, you realize it's a banana. When you slice into the tangerine, you find out it's a tomato. And when you pick up the eggplant, you discover it's actually an egg. In this series, aptly titled "it's not what it seems" she surprises us and makes us re-think what we are being presented with. I think this series is so fun, clever, and thought provoking. You can see more of her work on Cho's site. She has other really interesting work that involves things like zippers and electrical outlets on backs and arms or ear's painted on hands. It is definitely worth a look! 

via Visual News

archist city

Archist City is a set of prints by Barcelona based illustrator Federico Babina that depicts architectural structures based on the aesthetics of famous artists. Each print focuses on a different artist and describes the artist's signature style using architecture. This is such a clever, imaginative and fun set of prints. Each time I see them, the make me smile. I haven't been able to pick a favorite yet, but which one is your fave? 

via Honestly WTF, Federico Babina, and Society 6.

welcome spring, it's about time

“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.”

— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

Images by me, from St. James Park in London.

"my white trash family" by kim alsbrooks

In the "My White Trash Family" series by Philadelphia-based artist Kim Alsbrooks, miniature portraits are painted on already flattened trash, such as beer and novelty beverage cans, in the watercolors on ivory style of 17th and 18th century.  Alsbrooks started this project as she became interested in the role that class distinctions plays in art.  As such, she takes portraits that were once painted on ivory, and paints them on trash. With the juxtaposition, the artist is endeavoring to "even the playing field, challenging the perception of the social elite in today's society." Such a clever idea.

Seen at booooooom.com. Kim Alsbrooks' Website.

luck of the irish

We just added two St. Patrick's Day cards to our shop! Perfect to celebrate the holiday of luck, leprechauns and a good pint (or two)! If you can't find what your looking for in our shop please let me know - there's still time to get a custom designed St. Patty's day card as well!

same time tomorrow

A little art related and surrealist humor care of Sam Gross and MoMA's tumblr.

old london layered with the new

In each of the pieces featured below, London-based Redditor shystone has ingeniously matched up 18th and 19th century paintings of specific places in London with the photos of how the city looks today. I love how the mash up allows the viewer to compare the architecture and surroundings of contemporary London with what these artists captured and observed centuries ago. This project was particularly suited to London, which has preserved so much of its architectural history, making it even more interesting to notice what stayed the same and what changed. The different scenes depicted around the architecture add another layer to the comparison by presenting the types of activities that occurred at those locations in the past, but placing them in the present.  I have a particular fondness for the first match up depicting the Strand since I lived there in grad school!

I hope you enjoy these as much as I did!

The Strand Looking East from Exeter Exchange (1822) by Artist Unknown

St. Martins in the Fields (1888) by William Logsdail

Northumberland House (1752) by Canaletto

The 9th of November, 1888 (1890) by William Logsdail

Westminster Abbey with a Procession of Knights of the Bath (1749) by Canaletto

The River Thames with St. Paul's Cathedral on Lord Mayor's Day (1746) by Canaletto

View of the Grand Walk (1751) by Canaletto

Covent Garden Market (1737) by Balthazar Nebot

A View of Greenwich from the River (1750-2) by Canaletto

Blackman Street London (1885) by John Atkinson Grimshaw

Originally seen here. Shystone on imgur.

shadow art

I thought this was so simple, and so creative, that I had to share.

Happy Tuesday! 

seen on myvibelife