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THE POWER OF VISUAL STORYTELLING
Last week I received Infographics: The Power of Visual Storytelling in the mail from Column Five Media! Before I left C5, they were in the final stages of preparing the book for publishing. So seeing...
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Chip Kidd is arguably one of the most famous book designers out there. He has worked on everything from Batman to Jurassic Park. Not only is he incredibly talented, it turns out he is pretty funny...
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Interactive Electronic Petting Zoo
A couple of weeks ago we posted the Drawnimal app for kids that encourages them to think outside the box. Going along with the theme of interactive learning, we found an interactive book for iPad and...
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Mother’s Day: A Surprise from Rifle Paper Co.
For Mother’s Day this past weekend, Brad spoiled me and got me some beautiful notebooks and a card from Rifle Paper Co. We have admired the stationary and other products done by Rifle Paper Co. for...
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The Magical Book of Pombo
I, like most children, grew up reading a large collection of fables and fairytales. I used to love to look at all of the pictures and imagine myself in their world. I really like when I can find books...
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A Book For Design Entrepreneurs
Though you may have already heard of the book Kern and Burn, I just ordered a copy for myself and I have to let you in on why I am so excited. But before that, if this is breaking news for you, you...
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California Design 1930-1965 “Living in a Modern Way”
Last year, we attended the California Design 1930-1965 exhibit in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). It was such a great exhibit of mid-century modern design and architecture. The pictures,...
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60′s Children’s Science Books
My new addiction is now going to thrift shops and picking vintage children’s books. This time around I found three of the Let’s-Read-And-Find-Out science books from 1961-1963. To make things even...
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Work/Life 3: International Directory of Illustrators
I know I am a bit behind on this, but I am proud to announce that Brave the Woods is featured in Work/Life 3, The Uppercase Directory of Illustration. The Directory features 100 illustrators from all...
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Blank Slate Photographic Templates
Sometimes the hardest part about showing clients the final artwork, is getting them to visualize a flat image on a computer are on their products. The best option is to present the art Photoshopped...
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Additions to our Book Collection
A few months ago, we told you about our latest addiction of buying children’s books. I am here to report that it has gotten worse. We used to just go to thrift shops to find them, but now we are...
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Space Race Concertina Children’s Book
Krystal and I are always big fans of any type of artwork that is both beautiful and serves as a teaching tool. Nobrow Press has been doing amazing things in that realm by starting their Leporello...
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Rifle Kid’s Classics
As Krystal and I are in full on children’s book mode, we couldn’t help but take a break to admire and share these amazing book covers by Rifle Paper Co. founder and lead artist, Anna Bond. We don’t...
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Zacharias by Coffinboys
Collaboration is a wonderful thing. It brings talented people together to create something better than would have been created by one’s self alone. Netherlands based publishing duo Coffinboys,...
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Zoo in my Hand
Sometimes you come across something that is so simple, yet brilliant, that you wonder why you didn’t think of it yourself. That’s how I feel about Sunkyung Kim’s activity book “Zoo In My Hand.” This is...
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Mad About Monkeys Book
This was a match made in heaven. Owen Davey and Flying Eye Books are coming out with a new book called, Mad About Monkeys. We are huge fans of both parties, and couldn’t be more excited to see this...
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The Land of the Living Sugar Lion
After our children’s book, Tatay’s Gift, was funded through Kickstarter, we have a special place in our heart for others trying to self-publish the same way. Once we saw the Kickstarter page for The...
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Shadow Beer
It’s almost Halloween, and all things creepy and spooky are on our minds. To kick of the festivities, we wanted to share this student project by designer Zoey Chung for the Academy of Art University....
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Woven Magazine
We feel so lucky that our paths crossed with the amazingly talented Jeremy and Christi Barnes last year. It isn’t often that you meet people so good at everything they touch, and so genuine at the...
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This Book is a Camera
Pop-up books are known for their interactive qualities, but Kelli Anderson’s book, This Book is a Camera, takes things to a whole new level. Yes, this book is an actual, pop-up pinhole camera made...
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