Things that inspire us: Beautiful Things

These book cover and poster mockups are part of a student project. These particular ones being produced by Sebit Min who, unfortunately, doesn’t appear to have an online presence (not that I could find, at least). A quick search for the name did throw up one other peice of work, which you’ll find around two thirds of the way down this page. One to watch our for.

You’ll find details of the project brief and work by other students in this post on John Gall’s Spine Out blog.

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The colours and subtle texture used by Invisible Creature for this poster design are stunning. You’ll find a nice big version on the Invisible Creature website, and you can pick up your own print at Poster Cabaret.

Discovered via the wonderful Grain Edit, for whom Invisible Creature have also designed this t-shirt.

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24 Ways is a kind of advent calendar for those of us who make things for the web. This is the cover illustration by Migy for the printed edition, which is being published by Five Simple Steps to help raise funds for UNICEF and their work with children around the globe.

If this preview of the front cover is anything to go by, it’s going to be a beautiful thing, and well worth getting hold of a copy (I ordered mine a few days ago). It’s very reasonably priced too, at only £8, and if you’d like one, you can order 24 Ways at the Five Simple Steps website.

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Yet another gem from Erik Marinovich at Friends of Type — one of our regular haunts. See the original here.

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Blake Suárez does some amazing illustration work, and this project is particularly interesting. Blake used cut out paper, string and tape to create a three dimensional world, which was than photographed for use in various ad formats. For images of the process, check out the Oak Park page on Blake’s portfolio site.

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Hoxton Street Monster Supplies, created by We Made This for The Ministry of Stories is story-telling at its very best. The shop is designed to inspire young imaginations, as well as sell products in order to help fund the location’s core activities, which happen at The Ministry of Stories, accessed via a secret entrance, disguised as bookshelves in the shop.

Through this secret door, lies the Ministry itself, where children and young people can spend time in one-on-one sessions with professional writers and other volunteers.

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This is a bit of a departure from the usual Beautiful Things posts. As you know we usually highlight something that we find visually beautiful, but I couldn’t help but post this video of Frank Chimero‘s presentation at the recent Build conference — an inspiring talk about how we should be working to delight our audience and to tell them involving stories. This isn’t just true for designers, it’s true for anyone who produces anything at all.

What does this have to do with our Repository of Beautiful Things? The more people who see this video, and work according to these ideas, the more Beautiful Things we’ll have to post here in the coming weeks, months and years.

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I tweeted about how much I liked the back cover of this month’s Creative Review when it arrived on the doormat a couple of weeks ago, and so was delighted to discover, whilst browsing the CR Blog, that it’s creators, Telegramme, have produced a screen printed version, which is available to buy via their website, here.

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The amazing thing about these installations by Gabriel Dawe, isn’t their beauty (although they are beautiful), it’s their construction. Made out of thread attached at either end to blocks of wood, the effect is like a real-world version of computer generated imagery. Stunning.

See more shots of these and others at Gabriel’s website.

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