Monday, October 24, 2011
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Heading Home
Finally heading back to Chicago today after two months of being away. Working from the west coast for the summer was a blast. I’m so incredibly thankful that I was able to have that experience of being in Portland, and then working with Tomorrow Partners. Everyone I’ve had the good fortune to meet has been awesome.
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Berkeley Bound!
Flying from Portland, OR to Berkeley, CA today, to work for the amazing design group Tomorrow Partners. I’ll be working in living in Berkeley for a month, till the end of August. San Francisco/Berkeley peeps, feel free to drop me a line if you want to hang out! email: elaine@elainefong.com
Friday, July 8, 2011
Michelle Aramas
http://armasdesign.blogspot.com/all images belong to Michelle Aramas
currently listening to: TelePopMusik
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Mary Blair
Color, charm, wonder, delight… I could go on about Mary Blair, the famous illustrator and designer for Walt Disney, who was also an illustrator and set designer for famous projects beyond the Disney dynasty. When I was a kid, I always admired her work in our Disney records, animations, movies, and rides — most notably my favorite ride, “It’s A Small World.”
Ah yes, this is one of those afternoons where I wish I had the magical drawing wrist of Mary Blair. That lady knew her color.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Store Fronts in Ballard
On a recent trip to Seattle, we stopped in Ballard for some shopping. I loved all the type on the windows of these stores, who were perfectly next door to each other.
currently listening to: Mackintosh Braun
Monday, June 20, 2011
Julia Calabrese
Yesterday we spent Sunday walking around the Mississippi/Albina area of Portland, and came across this beautiful window installation in the store front of Sunlan (a massive lightbulb shop). The piece was done by Julia Calabrese, who’s color and patterning I admire. You can view more of Julia’s work here: http://juliacalabrese.tumblr.com/
currently listening to: Mother Mother
Thursday, June 16, 2011
And We’re Off!
S and I are heading to Portland, Oregon today!!! I’ll be living and working remotely from PDX till July 17. Portlanders, drop me a line if you’d like to meet up sometime! e: elaine@elainefong.com
currently listening to: Tender Loving Empire’s “Friends & Friends of Friends” album vol. 3
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Monday, June 13, 2011
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Friday, June 3, 2011
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.
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
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
Friday, May 20, 2011
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...
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
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:
Friday, March 18, 2011
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
Friday, March 11, 2011
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.
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