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Some masterful poster art by Akiko Stehrenberger.

Akiko got her start freelancing as an editorial illustrator and experimenting with paint and Photoshop by night. 

Here’s an interview with her from Interview Magazine if you want to know more.

“Fostering a design signature that matches solid concepts with finespun, sometimes comic or dark allusions, her posters are never burdened with quirk or confession. A movie’s intrigue is baited with subtle implication”.

Check out more of her work here. 

sources: Etsy, Pinterest

Some of my favorites from Fashion Week

Antonio Berardi 

Isabel Marant - Her large and powerful shapes are still so womanly.

Marc Jacobs 

Rochas - Amelia Earhart meets a comic book villian.

Nina Ricci 

Dries Van Noten - Again, love these dramatic party-on-the-top shapes and slim/delicate bottoms.

Some old, new and classic images that are inspiring me for fall.

1 Backstage Fashion week.

 2 Charlotte Gainsbourg, I find something so indescribably charming about her graceful imperfection. Similar to the lifestyle image J.Crew is conjuring up lately.

3 David Lynch and Isabella Rossalini. The motion and the tension seem to visually capture Lynch’s work.

4 Feist. Reminds me of the farm visiting and leaf peeping I hope to get into this month.

5 1976 pics of Jerry Hall modeling in Russia by photographer Norman Parkinson. Winds of change.

6 Jean Shrimpton and Terrence Stamp in Vogue Fashion.

Ruth St Denis (1906)

3 Love Magazine covers have been released for International Fashion week.

This last one is very wicken sweet sixteen.

David Poppie has an upcoming show in nyc this fall called Ebb & Flow. Through collages made of color pencils he explores “dichotomies of destruction and stability, order and disorder.”

Pavel Zoubok Gallery, September 8th - October 8th. 

Vodka. The Bible. And kids!

I’m really impressed by this Canadian designer, Talia Cohen. I love the evil/trickster archetype that is strung throughout her work. By developing a memorable personality, these brands become compelling and draw loyalty. The Harley Davidson brand really aces this technique.

The illusion of familiarity.

The Mona Lisa and the Scream Remixed.

Someprints.com has even more intriguing digital art. These prints are “Inspired by Seurat & sitting too close to the TV.”

Working in Rockefeller Center, the Anthropologie window displays are a daily inspiration. I’m all about the unexpected proportions, organic shapes and rich textures. Some designs are almost mathematical, like fractals, often reflecting the details of the clothing in the large woven or wooden sculpture. I had to find out who did them.

Turns out… unlike a lot of national stores, each Anthro shop has its own small team of artists that do all of the display at their location.

You can see a vast gallery of displays on their Facebook page.

Really nice identity for the Edinburg Film Festival from Berg Studio. They created a visual link to a film-strip - A single typographic stack of information is repeated with the word ‘FILM’ bleeding off the edges. The condensed type is inspired by classic 50’s film posters while the texture within the word ‘FILM’ simulates handwritten editing notes on celluloid film.

Beautiful package design by Swedish company Bruto Studio.

“The goal was to achieve an elegant, strong and clean identity to help transmit the unique personality of this wine.”

I love how crisp the letters look, the whitespace around each showcases their form. The logo almost comes off as formal - then the bowl of the “a” gives it some quirky personality… maybe portraying the jovial effects of wine.