Hi there! More than a week without any updates, something I try to avoid by all means, but that seems to be more and more difficult… Last weeks were pretty intense work-wise, ruining all my plans to do anything else on a spare-time basis. Pitches are officially 1/dreadful, 2/horrible, 3/trying to kill me.
Anyway, time for some purtyyy things. Because work is not all in life.

Type.

A type pong for type and retro game lovers at hypefortype.



Some wonderful letterpress prints on Etsy to send to the one you love (and who loves lucha libre)



And for zombies fans too.
Slammer is a pretty useful grid app. (Via @Johno)

Illustration.

Yuko Shimizu was featured on FormFiftyFive, and she definitely rocks.
Monsieur Qui is a pretty interesting french illustrator, working on Paris’s walls.

Art.

Motoi Yamamoto is making stunning salt labyrinth.

Just for fun.

If like me, you have an obsession with updating your status, take a look at this status calendar. What are you doing?

And now, off to appreciate this fantastic little moment of spare time, watching an awfully bad resident evil movie . \o/ Have a great day, week, or whatever. and don’t forget to brush your teeth. (I’m not kidding here.)
Love and ikea furnitures,
Zélia.

Dear everybody, I hope you all had a great week. Sun is shining and food is great…Wait, no, that’s not how I’m supposed to start this post. I’ve read that I was supposed to catch your attention by saying something like: “Your design sucks” or “Nobody reads you posts.” But, hey, I’m much more into talking about myself. You know that writing the first two lines is incredibly painful? Especially since that’s all you’ll read? Next time, I shall start with something appealing featuring some gogo-dancers, and probably a story about a pervy pixel — then you’ll read it. Anyway, this week again I collected some pretty nice links from around the web.

Graphic design



150 years of advertising in the netherlands. Some vintage eye candy, once again.
10 mistakes logos designers make. One thing: We never make mistake. Never.
You never thought vintage polish jam labels could be so beautiful, did you?




Shin Tanaka and his paper toys strike back.



Art
Polly Morgan does weird things with dead animals. Maybe I’d do this with my soon-to-be dead cats. (Don’t call animal safety associations, I love them. No, really.)




Byroglyphics has updated his portfolio. So beautiful it makes me swear. (Louder than usual.)

Just for fun.


Those things seems really, really temptating. Buy it here.
Kill Bill in 60 scds, one take.

A pretty crossmedia post for once! As it seems that my sense of humour has gone far, far away for today, I’ll stop here. Thanks for reading, have a nice week-end, and don’t forget to floss.With a lot of love,
Zélia.

We are Friday, and, as ever, I didn’t find the time to post all the amazing stuff I stumbled upon this week. You never know when you won’t find the time to post, and as I’m not a professionnal blogger, I don’t write my posts on week-ends. Anyway, let’s go for the weekly cool stuff round-up.

• The wonderful photographs of Alyz are a must see for retro/moddy effects lovers. 
• 20 corporate brand logo evolution. As the title says. Pretty inspiring, and shows the tendancy to overwork logos nowadays.  
• Things graphic designers like. Okay, this is just scary.  
• 15 inspirationnal pink websites. Pink is good.  
• Augmented reality makes such a fuss. This is a really cool example of it’s numerous use. 
• 15 things I wish I had known when I started my first blog. Very useful.
•  My friend Purdey made those cute sequin-made pacman thingies. I’m in love.
• What makes a good creative director?  
• Love to make list? Makefive. 

• Some yummy vintage japanese stuff. That’s why I love graphic design.

• Your inner bits have never been so sexy. Cune fashion wear. 

And now for something completely different…
I’m off to a little week-end in the charming country of Scotland. Let alone my lack of laptop there, I won’t be blogging much there, as I’ll probably spend my time in pubs or museum, or drunk in museums. Have fun and thanks for reading!

We eat lights on Flick’R.

Oh, this is my 100th post on Ilovegraphics! As I love to celebrate small things in life, I’ll dedicate this post to my lazyness, and won’t write anything valuable. A lot of things to come this week anyway: a post about how to look serious on a boring client meeting, a weekly inspiration post bigger than my ego, a designer of the week post (please send your submissions lads!), and  special ilovegraphics Glasgow edition (I’ll be there for 2 days, yum). 

So stay tuned, and have a great week!
Zélia

Side note: as I wrote this, I ate a macDonalds sunday. For a reason I can’t explain, it seems that this stuff is not melting. Plastic icecream anyone?