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I’ve seen a few people talking about this A6 illustration magazine before, and after Katie mentioned on twitter about the new issue, I decided it was time I bought some! http://ammomagazine.co.uk/ have the first 3 issues of the teeny mag for just £12 inc. p&p, what a steal! Mine arrived yesterday (super quick delivery), here they are…

Seeing as missed last weeks for one reason or another, I’ve got quite a backlog of fun things that I bookmarked this week…

Gigantic plush creatures and vinyl figures, I WANT TO WORK HERE!

I also wouldn’t mind working in a studio like this, via boingboing

Nice printed maps by ‘These are things‘, via design*sponge

Amazing bird decorations/lampshades by Mathieu Challiere, found via Oh Joy!

This story made me squee the other day, two trekkers going through the USA and down through South America picked up a companion in Louisiana. Adorable. Via cuteoverload

Gorgeous work of Istvan Vasil, found on poppytalk this week. My kinda colours!

London’s flagship Mulberry store transformed into a colourful Glastonbury, more images on the CR blog.

Illustrations by Alyssa Nassner, found on pikaland

Here is a possum baby in a saucer of milk.

The forever blanket, featured on design for mankind.

Where the wild things are mobile, via rare bird finds.

Smashing Mag round-up of minimalist web design
Also from Smashing mag this week, 20 fresh high quality free fonts
Soupa provided a great list of illustration agencies for those wanting to get their work on agency books.

A day late! But I was at Iron Man 2 last night (which is most excellent) so didn’t get a chance to post this. Just a few things this week..!

Lovely work by artist Ben Heine, see more on his flickr.

Great seller on etsy who upcycles vintage crockery into pieces of wonderfulness. Ranging from dinosaurs to star wars, check them out here.

Love this photo post on Oh Joy! this week, nothing better than super colourful houses. I’m really loving mixing tonnes of different colours right now, we have this mix going on on our landing walls.

Octopus chandeliers posted on Craftzine this weekend, nice nice.

Living paintings by Alex Meade, you have to see these! amazing.

UK band get $300,000 to change their name because of Banksy’s new film, Exit Through The Gift Shop Door.
Time line graph of time travel in science fiction shows.

• Straight into it this week, check out the video above. It’s amazing.
• The BBC website/visual identity is changing, they’ve got one of my most favourite designs on board (Neville Brody, I heard him speak once and he basically told us that Uni didn’t mean shit… I still stand by that statement) to help see it over. Super interesting stuff if you’re into web design, or graphic design, or anything remotely related to technology I guess.
• Web designer wall looks at the fun things you can do with CSS3, nice.
• And on the subject of geeky web-stuff, I went to a conference last week in Leeds called Speak the web. Well, I say conference, it was more like a group of speakers in a relaxed pub environment, it was neat. So maybe I should do a write up about it? Maybe.

• This photo of a snowy dog belly made me laugh quite a lot the other day, maybe more than I should have.  Via cuteoverload.

• More amazing illustration found on Pikaland, you can find Jenni Saarenkylä’s haunting forest inspired prints on etsy. I bought the set of 3 for our art-landing :D

• The british library are holding a special exhibition for all things Alice in Wonderland, they have this original manuscript of ‘Alice’s Adventures Underground’ written and illustrated by Lewis Carroll. Neat, hey? You can find out more and see more of the scan on the CR blog » Curiouser and Curiouser.

• Hot sauce embroidery on craftzine!

• Tiny dinosaur figure on boingboing

Let me know if you have anything to add! :D

I have hundreds upon hundreds of blogs on my google reader, I’d be lost without it. Some blog posts I skim, some I barely look at, but I always end up finding something to love on Pikaland. Showcasing some great (up and coming) illustrators and artists, pikaland is supreme eye candy. So yeah, you should take a look. The blog design is sweet, too.

ps. I figure I’m going to start posting about my favourite sites like this more, separating things from weekly good stuff (which will be returning this Friday) so that it ends up with more visuals/links to separate articles rather than just sites etc.