Awesome Wallpaper

Vintage wallpaper from an old Victorian home in San Francisco. My friend Gail lives there and is house hunting, and I went along for the tour while I was visiting her in April. I went nutzo over the mushroom paper in the kitchen.

Tweaking This Thang

This blog site is going to look a little off or weird for a bit. Since I only blog about my new projects, work, or process, working on this page has fallen to the bottom of the totem pole. But for now, I think small moves like color changes, increasing the width of the site, and a new header will do. All entries prior to today will visually look retarded, including this one. Oh well.

In the meantime, the above image is just something nice to look at. Lush flowers at the San Francisco Farmer’s Market. I went to SF last month for 10 days to work on Sleeping Colors, so that photo has relevance to me.

What I’m doing right now: taking care of my clients, getting my Kickstarter project for Sleeping Colors going, setting up an online shop, designing things to fill that online shop, getting ready to move into a new studio for my design work, setting up my old studio as a sewing room, and continuing to reach out to the awesome design community that is you.

Aaaand we’re going to Portland, Oregon for a 33 days in two weeks... Yowza! S and I will be living and working from PDX for the summer. I’m really excited! Any Portlanders who are reading this, drop me a line – I’d love to meet up with you over a fine cup of coffee or a craft brew, starting June 16. Email me: elaine@elainefong.com

currently listening to: Raphael Saadiq

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