My new website is UP!

My new website is up and LIVE! Check it out! Coming up next: adding a Shop to the site so you can buy prints and randoms, and redesigning this here blog. Now it’s off to bed...

Downhill Bike Racing in Chile

Downhill cycle racing in Chile braving jumps, stray dogs, flights of stairs and a steep downhill path. I love this video:

Sketch Detail

Been working on a new index page for my site these last few days. Here’s a detail of what’s to come. Hopefully this will be go live by the end of the weekend...

While choosing a new typeface to best represent my name, I’ve realized the letter “G” was just as important as the “E”. Deciding I was a san serif was easy, but staring at the negative shapes in “ELAINE FONG” for too long made it all came down to these two elements:

currently listening to: Human League

Happy Friday + New Releases!

It’s a whopping 45° in Chicago today! This is cause for celebration, as well and the release of two projects of mine:

Polyvinyl Records has announced the pre-order for Of Montreal's “Controller Sphere” EP today. I worked on the EP packaging/layout last December when we were staying at the Ace Hotel in Portland, OR. During our visit, I met the awesome folks at Tender Loving Empire, a new favorite label of mine. The EP is in traditional digipak, and the vinyl version has a beautiful flood coat of PMS 205C – a really nice, solid pink I chose to accent the artwork.

Also released today is the Of Montreal artist book that I've been working off and on for a while, called “What’s Weird?”. The book has a nice format for viewing: 11.75" square with 132 pages of colorful, intense paintings, sketches, and thoughtful anecdotes from artist David Barnes. His fantastical style of paintings allowed me to make some fun decisions for the book's typography, and fun design choices for the hardcover version of the book.

You can pre-order both the Controller Sphere EP and the What's Weird book here.

Hanging Plants

How cool would it be, to have a few hanging planters holding herbs in your kitchen? Esp. if you have a loft-like space with lots of good lighting. I'll take five of these Sky Planters please.

currently listening to: Typhoon

Featured online in the “New York Times”

Coolness! I just came across this September 2010 article in the New York Times, about the future of music packaging. One of the noted albums was Of Montreal’s “Skeletal Lamping”, (with a plug for their “False Priest” album as well.) I'm still very proud to have been a designer for the album and that whole campaign. Cheers to Polyvinyl and Of Montreal!

Good quotes from Kevin Barnes: “...and in the future, square CD packaging will be abandoned forever and only interesting art objects will fill record stores.”

You can read the article here!

Featured in “Better Homes & Garden”

My “bowls recipe card” and “Marigold Paper” are featured in the latest Better Homes & Garden, holiday issue! Thanks to LB and LH for telling me about it. I never pick up that magazine myself, but I noticed this time around they did a redesign that is quite nice. The new style is reminiscent of “BluePrint” and “Domino”, two lifestyle magazines that many were sad to see fold. Cool that they considered Marigolds as a holiday wrap!