Inspiration for This Week...

image credits Graphic Exchange

 finch&hawk™...LUXE.

 finch&hawk™...LUXE.

 James Donaldson  //  Baskerville Ornate

 Philadelphia illustrator Kevin Cornell and California graphic designer Randy Jones have teamed up to create an exciting new font family—Phaeton.

Whiskers on Kittens Colour Palette of The Day

Christmas/Holiday Card Design

Red Bean Design  - This is not strictly a holiday card but the deer motif makes it an alternative to the norm of red and green with gold. Fawn Notecards

 

 Tracy Chong Etsy - Snow Crystal Pop Up Card

 

A Beautiful X’mas Is What You Make Of It , a collaboration between designer Jonathan Yuen and B.G. Tan. contains a deck of four cardshoused in a custom designed package. Pieces from each card can be plucked out to form reindeer, Santa Claus, a Christmas tree and even a snowman. The cards are deliberately designed as a blank canvas, to encourage the recipients to use their imagination and creativity to personalise it.

Studio Z Mendocino

Avie Designs Holiday Cards

made with recycled paper and soy-based inks

Pear Tree Greetings

printed on 100% recycled paper, 30% post consumer

 

Norie & Lee

Printed with soy-based inks on 100% post consumer recycled, Green Seal & FSC certified paper, manufactured with Green-e certified renewable wind generated electricity and chlorine free

Pancake & Franks, designed in chic, minimalist style with line drawn images, stylised natural elements, abstract suggestions. Pictured above (clockwise from top left) are their antler, pine needle, pomegranate, and menorah holiday cards.

Here's one for the designer geeks. From the UK Telegraph

Kate Spade "Hope Peace Cookies" at finestationery.com.

 

 From Paper Skirt

For something more bright and modern check out Etsy seller LookyLoo

Etsy seller armatodesign created these traditional but modern letterpress cards.

A contemporary yet retro feel with a typographical solution from  Ink and Iron

 

Vintage 1950's UNUSED Christmas Card with Dot to Dot Activity

 Vintage Floral Card from  hubpages.com

1937 corporate Christmas card from Disney.

Vintage Perfumery Inspiration

 

Im not sure where all the these images are from - but I have collected them over a period of time to refer back to when I am working on fragrance and beauty product packaging with a vintage edge. I find that the past holds the key to the future in design, if we can figure out why it moves us still, we can take those elements, clean them up, add to the soul of the design and build on it.