Last day to enter to win one of two beautiful art posters, and Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!  Don't forget that today is the LAST day to enter to win either the Pride and Prejudice poster or the Alice's Adventure in Wonderland posters.  If you like design you will definitely appreciate how Affichionado's posters are both modern and timeless.

Click here for more information and to enter.

The Pride and Prejudice poster on the left.

The adorable Alice poster

A sneak peek of my home office.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

The home office/studio of one of my favorite graphic designers/bloggers

Designer Fabien Barral's blog, Graphic Exchange, is always my go-to site for design inspiration when I'm starting a new project and feel a little bit of designer's block. He has a way of finding the most stunning work being produced in the graphic design world - especially when it comes to typography. It was no surprise really that his home office, which he shares with his wife in the countryside of France, is as equally inspiring.

Separate work stations provide lots of work surfaces, and in my humble opinion, one can never have too much surface area...

The plants are a nice touch... I have three in my space

One day I'll have space to have a separate table for pencil/ink/and paint, and a separate desk for my computer...

Make organizational tools like filing/storage that are out in the open pretty, and somehow visually cohesive - love these.

Lovely office right? I know I'm a bit jealous.  You may also know Barral from Harmonie-Intérieure, a home-decor stencil company that does some really unique wall stencils.  I did a post on them years ago.

images via Graphic Exchange

A little tangent - some awesome design on the silver screen

I saw Sherlock Holmes a while ago in Boston visiting my friend Liz, and we both ended up drooling over more than Robert Downey Jr. Both of us being RISD grads, the art at the end credits left us in our seats while audience rolled out. Here are some great screenshots I found on Graphic Exchange. The end sequence was done by a company called Prologue, which coincidentally enough, another RISD friend of mine used to work for in LA. You can read about their process and see more concepts at the post on Graphic Exchange.

The board



Rachel McAdams was great in this role too - but I like all her stuff (a bit of a girl crush)




So, if you ever watch the movie stay tooned for the great work of art that is the end credits!

Gorgeous poster designs to get your creative juices flowing

As some of you may or may not be aware, I have been a web designer (you can see some of the sites I've designed here) before I ever became interested in interior design, and it's still the primary way I get the bills paid. Web Designers, like most creatives, well, like anyone in any industry I suppose, require fresh sources of inspiration and need to stay on top of what the market is responding to. Normally I don't bring web/graphic design into Decorology but I thought some of these posters were so beautiful I just had to share.

You can see all of them and discover who created them by going to the original source.



Just gorgeous



Another fav



Any likes or dislikes?

Awesome treatments for your walls

Don't want to hang art or wallpaper, but just a coat of paint too boring for you? Well, Jill recently introduced me to her unique take on walls and I was impressed. She is also a talented interior designer. Check out her graphic murals...

Of her process, she says:
"The murals started a number of years ago when I had a short-term loft rental in Tribeca (NYC). I had these massive white walls and didn't want to spend a fortune on art since I'd be moving out in 6 months, so I painted the murals directly on the walls. Then other people started wanting them, too. All of my murals are painted, but there are different techniques. The geometric ones like the yellow octagons I work out in Autocad first to get the dimensions and spacing just right; then I use a laser level to tape it off. It can take days to do the taping for one of these, but then the paint just gets rolled on so that part happens pretty quickly. For the figural ones like the birds in trees, I work out the design on paper or in the computer in small scale first, then project it onto the wall and trace with a pencil. Then I hand paint all the outlines and fill them in, often needing 4 coats of paint to get the nice crisp opaque look I like---these are the most labor-intensive of the murals. I'm currently working up wallpaper designs based on the murals, which will be available on www.wallpaperstogo.com sometime in the next few months."

I think her murals are really tasteful, and are simple enough you wouldn't get tired of looking at them after awhile.





I think I'd pick this one - maybe in a high gloss cool gray over the same color in matte.
Which is your fav?

Go to Jill Crawford's website to see more!

Some of her interior design:

Amazing wallpaper, patterns, and art from Alan the Gallant

So Alex and Alan the Gallant sent me a little message introducing me to their beautiful work. It's possible you recognize their wallpaper, as I did - but they have some really lovely design across the board! Check them out at http://www.alanthegallant.com/.