Emmanuel Romeuf is a talented French designer and  illustrator with a knack for creating fun and whimsical illustrations. In the past, he’s designed shirts for Human Empire, and today we’re featuring a collection of communications he’s created for Gites de France. This collection is thoughtful in its execution from beginning to end, with its logo design and stationary to its travel brochures and postcards. With colorful details and playful images, these ephemeral items are definitely worth seeking.

 

Emmanuel has more fun and exciting work, including various logo designs and record cover sleeves, on his website that’s definitely worth checking out.

http://jamesjean.com/blog/DC5FCD/rift

Genius.

In the second installment of our batch of short films made whilst perusing the wares and exhibits of the Pick Me Up graphic art fair currently running at Somerset House, we caught up with Alex Spiro and Sam Arthur, founders of Nobrow...

Here's a closer look at the books Al showcases in the above film:

To find out more about Nobrow's books and products, visit their brand spanking new website at nobrow.net/

Visual Greetings from Business Cards to Identity Packages. Great work in there.

La Mas Bella (The Most Beautiful) is a Madrid-based project that takes the idea of a magazine to even further extremes than MK Bruce/Lee. Diego Ortiz and Pepe Murciego have produced a single issue every year since 1993 – it takes that long to produce because every issue is absolutely unique in format and content.

Each issue takes a theme that is used as a starting point to commission artists and designers to contribute and collaborate. Previous issues have taken the form of a set of instructions for life consisting of an kitchen apron stuffed with a cassette tape, a users manual and a fold-put map of ‘life’; another was a DIY tapas set featuring a waiters bill pad, an ashtray, some toothpicks and a napkin dispenser.

The latest issue is called La Mas Bella Anda (The Most Beautiful Walk), and consists of a shoebox containing a sneaker, a shoe horn, a cellophane-wrapped stone (to place in the shoe and irritate your sole) and a feather to tickle your toes. As well as these carefully sourced theme-related items, the box contains a series of specially commissioned artworks in the form of a set of prints shaped as insoles.

La Mas Bella takes the idea of editorial curation to it’s logical conclusion – each issue is a miniature gallery to be unpacked and admired.

www.lamasbella.org

It may well look like a fresh new comic book (and in many ways, it is) but you're actually looking at a new catalogue for Italian designer furniture shop, SKITSCH...

"Mr. Bello in a SKITSCH World is essentially a catalogue of new furniture designs from SKITSCH," explains illustrator Andy Rementer who created the 24 page, A5 book in collaboration with interior magazine Apartamento – which will distribute it as an insert in its next issue. "I've been working really hard on it with the team from Apartamento for the past few months," continues Rementer "and it was just released on March 25 at the opening of the new SKITSCH store in London."

 

Zine from Kelsey Dake