We Love You So – Where The Wild Things Are – Spike Jonze

Rose Clark does a lot of things— too many to name in one place but all worth examining more closely at her website. The artist/designer is effortlessly versatile, producing everything from an Edwardian tuxedo shirt and wearable paper trousers made from Tyvek to a poster made in homage to the Bodoni typeface (with information about its creator and history of use) to a research project examining the history of pattern cutting in folk clothing around the world.

There’s so much to see here; we haven’t even mentioned the gorgeous book designs and collages from found photos and abstract landscapes. Clark’s is the kind of astonishing range that can make a person crazily envious or crazily inspired or both. We’re sticking firmly with “inspired”.

UK-based illustrator Robert Hunter has an eye for gorgeous color and playful subjects: bespectacled men in ski sweaters and onesies, pianos that morph into trees, kids riding giraffes, scuba divers lunging eagerly for shark fins. His work has appeared in the Guardian and TIME, among many others, and he’s also put out two self-published books printed by Doveton Press. If only we could commission a bedroom-wall mural…