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

Aside from having a name that rolls off the tongue like a melody, Pluc Plaatsman has a crazy-original design aesthetic that draws equally on tattoo design, street art, memories, principles of typography and collage. We’re especially into his Personal Medical Dossier. In the artist’s words, “It is a manual about myself, my past and about what I can and can not do with my restriction. When people read the manual they know all they need to know to understand my situation.”

The work that results is highly personal and undeniably beautiful. Check it out here.

“Graphic designer” sounds so much cooler in French (”Designer graphique”) and that is one of many reasons why we’re in love with Alexandra Roucheray, whose work is as varied and glorious as her native language.

Explore her books and record designs and manifestos and more here, at her website. Employ a translator if necessary.

It is never too late to embrace the silly aspects of the soul. Children’s books take care of this operation when we’re young, but then you grow up and there’s a serious shortage of humor in everyday life. New Yorker cartoons on the fridge? Dilbert shorts pasted to the cluttered office bulletin board? Please! What we need is a surplus of books like Meagan Hart’s A Short Stack Of Silly Shorts For The Morally Sidetracked in our personal libraries.

Hart’s book is a potpourri of cute typography and silly stories to put a smile on even the curmudgeonliest curmudgeon of us all.

It is equal parts intimidating/awesome to encounter an artist who can do everything under the sun. Literally everything.

Miss Lotion draws the kinda stuff you dreamed of drawing during dull moments in high school chemistry: perfectly-proportioned, expressive and loony ice cream trucks, smokestacks, helicopters, psycho cats, magicians and piglets. Also stunningly accurate portraits. Also cool typefaces and commercial illustrations. Also paintings and logo designs.

The Danish-born artist— “born with a pen strapped to her hand”—is clearly the kind of compulsive mark-maker who can’t help herself from filling pages. We hope nothing ever stops her.

Ana Benaroya is a woman of many talents. First, there’s the incredible skateboard she designed for Furni Skateboards (above). Look at that thing! It would almost be a crime to commit it to noodle flips and switch 360 booger grinds, or whatever skaters do these days. That board belongs on a wall with some sort of security mechanism to prevent people from stealing it.

Other elements of Benaroya’s prodigious portfolio include sweet posters, a Moleskine diary of her travels in Spain, awesome screenprints, and so much more (feast your eyes on the hand-painted Converse hi-tops!)

Best of all, Benaroya’s hobbies include being a decent human being and accessorizing a wide variety of foods with hot sauce. We love her so.