You may remember me posting this a while back.  Well, it’s been a while since I’ve seen new work up on his flickr set, but Y. Morytah just put up this mind-blowing image and I love it.

I love these illustrations by Ivan Bilibin of Baba Yaga (the lower illustration) and Vasilisa.  Dark and beautifully unsettling (as fairy tales really are).  I had never heard the tale of Baba Yaga until I worked with a Ukranian woman.  Today while refreshing my memory of her fable, I discovered Ivan Bilibin’s illustrations.

Here’s some new work from Albert Sjöstam that is in the new Lines and Shapes.

I scored this book the other day at one of my favourite thrift stores.  Some times I don’t have patience for thrift store book sections because there is generally no organization and it can be quite overwhelming!  I was glad I did last week because I found an old Jacques Cousteau book on Squid and Octopus; a first edition Shel Silverstein book; a great old Life book called The World We Live In; and this book on geology that I’m picturing below.  Score!  I especially love the endpapers in this geology book.  Gorgeous.

My friend Zach’s work is always lovely.  Just stopped by his site to look for new works, and found this, which I love.

 You may remember me posting this a few weeks ago:

Here is the outcome of this collaboration, which I promised I would document and finally have!  You could say I’ve documented their documentation…

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This is something I’ve meant to document for a while.  Our extremely talented friend River Jukes-Hudson (at Way Shape Form) sent this zine to us around Christmas time.  It’s a documentation of the “accidental poetry” of 21 women on a Russian singles website who are seeking friendship/marriage with foreign men.   It was fascinating to read, and is beautifully composed.  Excellent idea River (and Renée)…

Beautiful and complex original drawings (and prints).

My husband took this photo of Sarah Rara when he crashed a drawing collaboration with the Sumi Ink Club (aka Glaciers of Nice, or The Lucky Dragons).  Seth contributed a few doodles and jots of his own to this fabric which was used to make tunics for some clothing line (don’t remember which one).  I will take photos of the resulting zine that they were kind enough to send at the end of the project, which explores close-ups of the pattern.

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The last time I checked Ellie’s shop it was empty… now it is choc full of her lovely designs.  I’m mad about the textile designs she’s done.  It’s only a matter of time before we see her do specialty wallpaper.