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Our latest Designer Highlight interview is with Portland-based illustrator Arthur Mount. Check it out! He has some great thoughts to share on being a professional illustrator.
The awesome Amy Ruppel shares her thoughts on creative practice in the latest installment of our Designer Highlight blog series! Check it out!
Last week we sent a bunch of Scout Books down to SXSW with @rohdesign and @austinkleon for their Visual Notetaking 101 panel.
A make-ready! That ink smear across the top didn't make it onto the final books, don't worry!
It has been two months in the making but today we finally took delivery of the first copies of the new Anabas corporate brochure. The brochure itself features information about what the makes the company unique within its sector.
Fun, funky work from Amy Martino! Amy is a NYC based graphic designer and illustrator, and her bright, textured work has us swooning.
She dressed this Scout Book up in ways we've never seen! Hot pink and neon green paper? Yes, please.
Oh yes, and metallic gold. Don't forget about the metallic gold.
Find more at Yellow Bird Machine, Amy's online illustration portfolio.
Letterpress, perfect binding, outerspace: a new MPH release
Perfect Bound Book, 232 pages, 4.25″ x 8″
Exterior: 1/0, Letterpress Printed, Curious Touch Soft Milk 11# Cover
Interior: 1/1, Exact 60# Text Peach and Gray, Pantone soy-based Reflex Blue ink
Wallace Cochran writes a creative non-fiction history of the rocket, and Marriage Records‘ publishing imprint MPH has released it in this gorgeous limited-edition book. One half of the band Drakkar Sauna, Cochran’s text lent itself to lyrics for the band’s latest release on Marriage Records.
This book was lovingly assembled from two colors of interior text-weight stock and wrapped in a cover letterpress printed by EMprint Press. Design was done by AF Jamison. As much an exploration of publishing as it is of paper and ink, we’re proud to have worked on this specimen of fine printing.
Janet and Trisha Snyder are Pawling Print Studio. The pair of sisters create home and paper goods featuring their handcrafted patterns. These Scout Books are just one of their many gorgeous goods! Go see for yourself!
“The Tell-Tale Heart” and Other Stories illustrated by Malachi Ward
Available now in the Scout Books Bookstore:
Ina Weise is a young lady with quite a bit of creative experience under her belt. She is currently an intern at The Post Family, but before calling Chicago home, she studied in Austria, Poland, and her native Germany. Her command of geometric shapes is astonishing, and her work spans mediums from textiles to printmaking to apparel to installation. Her installation at the Post Family's Family Room Gallery will close this week; if you're in Chicago, stop in to celebrate the closing of her show The Following of One Thing After Another.
Ina explores circles in this pocket notebook, incorporating pen, pencil, cut paper, collage, xerox transfer and woven paper.
These Scout Books are HOT!
Mt. Hood Community College’s Integrated Media Program recently had it’s yearly Portfolio Show featuring the work of 18 graphic design students and 12 digital photography students of the class of 2010. They handed these Scout Books out to more than 500 attendees of the show and encouraged them all to vote on their favorite portfolio. The book was also used to take notes on each participant and served as a great take-away.
Mia Nolting is a Portland-based artist, illustrator and designer. She filled this Scout Book with page after page of illustration, collage, typography and musings. We're impressed.
The Scout Book cover was designed by Bwana Spoons, another Portland-based artist.
What do you fill your Scout Books with? Share the creative goodness that takes place in your 32-page pocket notebooks and add your images to our flickr pool: Show Us Your Scout Book Flickr Pool.
Stay tuned: we interviewed Mia for our soon-to-be-released Scout Books blog! Awesome!
Lorena Siminovich of Petit Collage so kindly answered a few questions for us over on our blog, CoinOp!
Check out Petit Collage as Pinball's latest Designer Highlight.
Also head over to Petit Collage's flickr stream to see new work!
Small Things Design handcrafts beautiful, unique jewelry. This tag will hold their creations. Find the lovely work of Small Things at their website.
1/1, Die-Cut Tags, Environment 120# Cover White, Pantone blue 631 soy-based ink.
When Will Bryant and Mark Menjivar join forces, terrific things happen. Terrific chipboard things, to be specific.
Will and Mark worked together to create this identity system for the youth advocacy arm of Texas RioGrande Legal Aid (TRLA). Mark works with TRLA to offer aid to youth experiencing homelessness. He got in touch with Will to help him create a series of print items that could be at once beautiful, useful and durable. From that collaboration came three print pieces: a business card, a pocket postcard, and a Scout Book with custom-printed interiors that acts as a Youth Rights Booklet. Will also did the lettering and design for the snazzy TRLA Youth website. Chipboard internet? We’re into it.
In addition to being a chance to create a set of fun printed pieces, Will looks at this collaboration as an opportunity to help out: ”Enabling youth [with] the opportunity to better their circumstances is huge! Most of the kids come from rough backgrounds, so having access to this knowledge empowers them and provides hope for the future,” he told us. “It’s a blessing to be involved with a project that does this.”
Theresa Joyce runs Twig Art and Garden down south in Sonoma, California.
What a lovely illustration!
It has been two months in the making but today we finally took delivery of the first copies of the new Anabas corporate brochure. The brochure itself features information about what the makes the company unique within its sector.
Laura, our rad-tastic Director of Operations, shows us what 50 Scout Books looks like.
We pack 'em up into a perfectly-sized box for you.
That blue shirt of hers goes really well with orange...
Thanks Laura! (There's Dave's head in the background, too!)
Pinball is proud to announce a new artists series! We will be releasing regular editions of Scout Books featuring the works of our favorite artists, near and far. World, meet Scout Book Illustrated.
The inaugural edition, above, features artwork by Bwana Spoons.
Are you interested in being a featured artist? Head over to Society 6, an online artist and illustrator community, and apply for the grant we're offering! One lucky artist will have their artwork featured on our next edition of Scout Book Illustrated, and will receive 100 Scout Books in return! And, Society6 is rad anyways, so you should check it out.
Watch soon for Scout Book Illustrated editions to go up on our online shop.
* Sixth bag in a new series of shoulderbags.
This bag is made out of black and silver vinyl (reptile print), has a silvertone buckle on the front and is lined with a powder blue cotton fabric, with a zippered pocket.
The shoulder straps are made out of window rolling-shutter straps.
* Zesde tas in een nieuwe serie schoudertassen.
Deze tas is gemaakt uit zwart met zilver vinyl (reptielenprint), heeft een zilverkleurige gesp voorop, is gevoerd met een lichtblauwe katoenen stof en heeft een binnenzak met ritssluiting.
De schouderbanden zijn gemaakt van bedieningsbanden voor rolluiken.
Ina Weise is a young lady with quite a bit of creative experience under her belt. She is currently an intern at The Post Family, but before calling Chicago home, she studied in Austria, Poland, and her native Germany. Her command of geometric shapes is astonishing, and her work spans mediums from textiles to printmaking to apparel to installation. Her installation at the Post Family's Family Room Gallery will close this week; if you're in Chicago, stop in to celebrate the closing of her show The Following of One Thing After Another.
Ina explores circles in this pocket notebook, incorporating pen, pencil, cut paper, collage, xerox transfer and woven paper.
A sampling of short works by three of the greatest authors of the twentieth century, this trio of illustrated books is a wonderful introduction to these revolutionary stories, each full of stirring imagery and finely-rendered characters.
Includes:
“Araby” and Other Stories by James Joyce
Illustrated by Lizzy Stewart
“Kew Gardens” and Other Stories by Virginia Woolf
Illustrated by Jennifer Parks
“The Garden Party” by Katherine Mansfield
Illustrated by Dylan Horrocks
Available now in the Scout Books Bookstore:
Portland violist and vocalist Lisa Molinaro is in the band Talkdemonic. She had this lovely illustrated business card printed up! Black Pantone soy-based ink printed onto 100% Recycled Chipboard! Wow!
This Scout Book was designed by Open for the US Initiative. The Us Initiative is a part of the urban re-invention projects organized by CEO's for Cities.
Open is an independent design studio in New York. They work on everything from identity systems, print, motion and web.
The US Initiative is spearheaded by CEO's for Cities. It is a national initiative to 'redefine the American Dream' by using the talents of the large percentage of people living in cities to improve life for everyone.
Check out our new styles! Geometric shapes and bright colors designed by Austin Whipple. We're giving away Scout Books on our blog...
Head over to Pinball's Graphic Culture Catalog (Blog) CoinOp and read our newest Designer Highlight: an interview with Teresa Robinson of Small Things Design!