Inspiration Links

Dig in and suck it all up! Links to some of our favourite style guru's. Enjoy...

	Møller & Rothe Lighting interior decoration · lamps A danish lamp reseller with some cool reference shots of interiors where they supplied the lamps. They are the danish agency for the dutch lamp manufacturer mooi (which by the way also has some great interior-shots at their page) and many more. Go check them out!
	Six Inch foam furniture interior decoration · product design · furniture Sixinch is a belgian furniture manufacturer, who makes foam furnitures in all sizes and shapes. The flexible foam is covered with a hard coating which makes the foam very durable. Imagine the designs you can make with this material!
	Tom Dixon furniture design interior decoration · product design · furniture · lamps Tom Dixon is a selftaught furniture designer from London. His furniture is very scandinavian with clean lines and curvy shapes at the same time.
	Toru Fukuda retro illustration illustration Toru Fukuda's illustrations is very friendly, cosy and retro in a 60's/70's style. He also (like Kalle Gustaffson) simulates the flaws in the old printing techniques, which gives the illustrations a great finish.
	Swedish retro photography photography This is pure retro (yes retro is cool). The swedish photographer Kalle Gustafsson perfects the flaws of the printing techniques in old magazines from the 60's and 70's. He's a favourite of another retro-maniac also mentioned in our links section: the graphic designer ISO50.
	Fresh swedish retro-illustrations illustration Jonas Bergstrand graduated from Forsberg's School of Design, Stockholm in 1997. We can see that he's keen on retro 50's-70's illustration styles, but he always adds something new and mixes different medias with an excelent result.
	Yulia Brodskaya 3D type treatments illustration · typography · custom type Yulia makes curly type treatments and illustrations with paper and scissors in bright strong colors. We like :-)
	James Roper's Explosions art · painting James Roper has a very distinct visual style – A bit like Leonardos' explosion of colors in the ceiling of the sixtinth chapel mixed with 20th century comics.
	Classic retro fabrics from ByGraziela kids · childrens clothing · fabric · retro Great child-friendly fabric patterns designed by Graziela Preisler in 70'ies. Her daughter, Nina Preizler, is now relaunching the some of her creations. Good for us! Check out the ByGraziela archive to see all the old designs.
	Danish Architectural photo-studies architecture · photography · flickr Beautiful flickr-set with photos of (mainly danish) architecture and insightfull descriptions and comments by the architect-couple Seier and Seier.
	Elena Kalis Underwater Photo-series photography · underwater An underwater series from Bahamas-based photographer Elema Kalis. Vivid colors and lights combined with floating children and colourfull props sets you in a dream-like state of mind. Great stuff! Also check out the rest of her Portfolio.
	Las Vegas Neon Graveyard retro · signs · neon This Flickr set by Carl Carl has some great close-ups of vintage neon-signs from The Neon Museum in Las Vegas.
	Kim Simonsson Ceramic Sculptures art · ceramics · sculptures The most beautiful and out of this world shiny mangaish ceramic sculptures by finnish sculptor Kim Simonsson.
	Malota Projects Illustrations illustration Mar Hernandez – also known as Malota – is a young spanish woman living in Valencia. She is sort of a multi-artist, but we're especially loving her charming illustrations.
	Stair Porn Blog architecture · interior decoration · stairs As the name might suggest this is a blog about stairs made by american architects Justin Anthony and Gregory La Vardera who is more than normally interested in all kinds of cool stairs.
	Adrian Johnson illustration illustration A quote from his website: 'Mostly I like doing nothing in particular, for which my talent knows no bounds'. He has a nice 70'ies style with a modern artsy touch!
	Symen Veenstra illustration illustration Symen Veenstra is an illustrator from Amsterdam, Holland. His style is inspired by old art-print techniques but gives it a whole new flavor.
	Matti Kemppainen illustration illustration All we know about Matti Kemppainen is that he graduated from the renowned swedish design school Hyper Island. Apart from that he makes some nice simple vector illustrations with an understated analogue touch!
	Non-Format Design-studio graphic design · art direction Artsy fartsy fashion magazine design and some nice experimaental typography and illustration from Norwegian Kjell Ekhorn and British Jon Forss
	Mike Rea Woodworks art · woodwork · sculptures Cool sci-fi stuff in wood from an american guy who calls himself Michael T.Rea. Very boyish but fun and nice craft.
	Paintings by Thomas E.P. art · painting · illustration 'Over the edge' paintings by a friend of mine who is showcasing his dark and existentialistic work in this facebook album.
	Roommate Interior Products kids · interior decoration Yet another danish design firm with great pillows and dolls for the kid's room!
	Collect Furniture kids · interior decoration · furniture Simple and fun furniture for children. Produced with good carpenter traditions from Denmark. They also do custom designs.
	Jan Kallwejt illustration illustration A simple ornamental illustration style with few colors from the polish graphic designer Jan Feliks Kallwejt
	Commando Group graphic design · illustration A graphic design studio in Oslo width a nice retro but still fresh style of graphic design,
	Paintings by Jason Thielke illustration · painting American artist from Denver doing some very nice 'line-art' of cityscapes and people.
	Paper Voyeur tapestries interior decoration · patterns Is it another trendy flower wall-paper pattern, or is there more to get EXCITED about in this design? Cool wallpaper design from UK designers DED.
	Jeremy Pettis animal typography typography A cool final assignment capturing the essence of the beast in 26 typographic experiments. Very cool and not so obvious solutions. Also see Jeremy's Flickr account for more sketches / process.
	Sara Haraigue illustration illustration · typography French graphic designer with a cool sort of abstract illustration style and she's also into trendy fat-face fonts. We like that!!
	Christian ARO Schupp illustration · graffiti Allthough it's a myspace profile (which usually means ugly visuals) this german guy makes some cool and simple vectorized and grafitti insoired illustrations. Aro's official site is under construction!
	Monsieur Z illustration illustration A french artist from Strasbourg with a background in advertising /print design. He's got a very fresh style and is always portraying desig classics from the 50'ies and 60'ies. Check out this slideshow at his agent for a better overview of his illustrations.
	Rian Hughes at Device Fonts graphic design · typography · illustration Rian Hughes graduated from London College of Printing in the early 80'ies and started his career working for advertising agencies while drwing underground comics. Today he's got an overwhelming portfolio of retroish illustrations, graphic design and typefaces – always with that touch of his comicbook background which makes it so cool, especially the typefaces!
	Hotel Fox interior decoration Hotel Fox is a Copenhagen hotel where each room is designed by different visual artists /designers. Some of the designers are: Masa from Venezuela, E-types from Denmark, Rinzen from Australia.
	Emil Kozak graphic design graphic design · typography Emil Kozak is a selfmade graphic designer with roots in skateboard-art. He's originally from Denmark but now runs a design studio in Barcelona, Spain.
	Bo Lundberg illustration illustration · graphic design · retro Bo Lundberg graduated from Berghs School of Communication, Stockholm. He Has worked as an art director for several years, but is now into colorful retro 50'ies illustrations /graphic styles.
	Siggi Eggertsson illustration illustration · painting · patchwork Siggi Eggertson is from Iceland and works in London, UK. His illustrations has a very unique 'patchwork meets 8bit computer graphics' style. He's also displaying some nice experimental typography.
	Alex Trochut typography typography · custom type Alex Trochut is a freelance graphic designer from Barcelona, Spain. He's showing off some very unique examples of illustrative typography in his portfolio – including a very cool 'ketchup and mustard' mono-line type-sample which has made it to a T-shirt on Threadless.
	Katie Kirk illustration illustration · patterns I stumbled upon Katie Kirk's Flickr album and her very clear and bright yet mystic and complex patterns. Just the way we like it!
	Sanna Annukka illustration illustration · retro Sanna Anukka graduated in illustration from the University of Brighton. She's probably most known for the cover-art for British band Keane's second album 'Under The Iron Sea'.
	Mads Berg illustration illustration Mads Berg graduated from Danmarks Designskole. A very skilled illustrator with a fresh retro style (!). We see influences by our all-time favourite danish poster-artist Sven Brasch in his work. Enjoy!
	Byroglyphics illustration illustration An illustrator and painter from Brighton, UK with a very confident style. He draws portraits and 'fucks them up in the computer' (as he describes the process).
	ISO50 Visual Works graphic design · retro · illustration This is more 70ies than anything made in the 70ies!! ISO50 is the alias used for visual works by San Francisco based artist Scott Hansen. While you're at it do some shopping at ISO50 Webshop, check out the ISO50 Blog and listen to his nice ambient/ electronic music at Tycho Music.
	ISAK Homeware retro · wallpaper · homeware · patterns A bit cheap looking retro table- and homeware, but with cool patterns. Check out a nice display of owls at ISAK blog.
	Emmas Designblogg interior decoration · trendspotting Very popular Swedish blog about interior decoration and the like. A 'must have' in your bookmarks if you're into interior decoration.
	Si Scott graphic design studio graphic design · illustration · typography · custom type Graphic designer from the UK who creates psychedelic illustrations by hand with fineliner pens from words and logos. Very unique and talented.