After launching the 8×10 blogs & tea and getting so many requests for a coffee print, I decided to design this one. Perfect for a kitchen , office, coffee lovers or even a bedroom! This color is called ESPRESSO. It’s a beautifully, rich dark brown with some subtle highlights in light tan on the coffee cup.

Lovely Jen Ramos, the owner of MadebyGirl is making pretty designs, such as posters, cards and different prints, using recycled, post consumer paper with the hopes of creating a positive change in others. You probably saw her work somewhere on the web. She loves colors so much, because color is for her the most personal and emotional element of design. You can buy this print for only $25 from her online shop.

Bubullina thank you for the link (;

In EVERYDAY MAGAZINE we put the people before the work, not the work before the people. In fact, we don’t show you any works at all.

Everyday Magazine is a magazine created by Mikael Floysand as a semester assignment at Westerdals School of Communication. It’s about graphic designers and other creatives, focusing on the people behind the works rather than the work itself. That’s important here! You can download the first issue of Everyday Magazine as a PDF from Mikael’s site.

We feel that the magazine, an analogue format in a digital world, should function more as a calmer storyteller, rather than doing on paper what the internet already does for free without consuming our planets valuable forests.

This is the first magazine of this type that I have ever seen, full of behind scenes with the the focus on traditional journalism & photojournalism. The magazine features interviews with Your Friends, Uglylogo & Ian Albinson.

There is a note on the back page about next issue summer 2010, is that true? Or it’s just a semester assignment?

Jen Collins is an illustrator living in Scotland. By day she works at an arts centre, and on evenings and weekends she can be found drawing at her desk, as well as spending time with friends and eating yummy food with her boyfriend. Such a interesting person. Things that make her happy include sunny mornings, the prospect of small adventures, meeting and collaborating with other creative people and finding excellent things in second hand shops. Think we have a lot of things in common. She wishes there were more hours in a day, or more days in a week, so that she could sit with a cup of tea & a sketchbook more often.

I’m following Jen on Twitter over a year and she’s becoming very dear to me more and more. Her creative work is so cute, I’m seriously thinking to buy a piece from her shop. She has just redesigned her website hellojenuine.com, go and check it out.

Frankly, I wish to become your friend and stay in touch! By the way, welcome to my blogroll.

We have met generous Sky Nash two months ago and she’s back again with new creative stuff. Her book art and totally unique style always goes forward, over and over. Go Sky! Featuring book art in this article is very special because she decided to publish it exclusively on Die without Art. Thank you.

Up there we got two collagraphs. That’s a printmaking process in which materials are applied to a rigid substrate such as cardboard or wood. Last work on the right hand side is just left over ink, which is just as interesting as the collagraph.

I didn’t notice till after I’d printed quite a few, that the shape looks like a sea horse!

No worries, I’m sure Sky will bring us new creative works soon, so stay tuned here. She’s working really hard on improving her skills. I’m thinking of hiring Sky to make a cover for my future book. Will see.

Check out her blog at sky-n.blogspot.com and follow her on Twitter, she’s pretty.

Lotta Nieminen is a graphic designer and illustrator living and working in Helsinki. She studied graphic design and illustration at the University of Art and Design Helsinki and the Rhode Island School of Design.

Lotta’s work has won honourable mentions at Vuoden Huiput (Best of Finnish advertising and graphic design) as well as in various logo competitions (Aalto Univeristy, divided 2nd prize; Maritime center Vellamo, 2nd prize; Nuorisomerkki, 1st and 3rd prize). She has worked as a freelance graphic designer and illustrator since 2006. As an illustrator, she’s represented by illustration agency Agent Pekka.

Anton Repponen, an ACD/Sr. designer at Fi NY (copied from his website, what that means at all?), made them just to experiment with a pattern designs and textures.

I’d say I would never produce something like that, just because I think it’s too *kitch* and feels like “China Town Represents”.

He also said, things like that can inspire him for something new, for example the Octopus/Calamari texture turned out quite cool, and actually would be interesting to make it as a fabric pattern and already go from there.

Thank you Anton.

I choose it so that I could carry on being an illustrator and learn something practical at the same time.

Enjoy the rest of this article and see what 20 years old female artist can do.

After making some improvements on her original design, she printed on book cloth and end paper. Look at those hardback characters, awesome.

This was an experiment with book structure, trying to take away some of the normality in books.

Sky wanted to experiment more with the paper here, white paper feels a bit lifeless sometimes, she spent a lot of time covering the paper in oil and tea staining it, which made all of the pages even the cover semi transparent.

Sky is such a friendly minded, follow her on Twitter (@skynash). Over and above you should read her blog at sky-n.blogspot.com.

I hope she will share her new works with you, a Die without Art visitor. Subscribe here.