Holiday cards are ready! The cards I started a couple weeks ago arrived over the weekend and are all set for the holiday craft fairs.

I’ve illustrated all four by hand, colored in photoshop, and had them printed by Moo. I’ll probably put a few sets in the Dull Roar Shop after this week’s fair, if you’re interested!

I designed this little guy for opensource.com way back in 2010. It popped up again today thanks to some love from ffffound, I Love Charts, and Laughing Squid.

I’m reblogging it here so I can keep track of all the notes!

In a few months Red Hat is moving to new digs in downtown Raleigh. The renovation of the new space involves setting aside casual meeting space with wall-sized illustrations created in collaboration with the opensource.com team.

I’ve been working on several of these in the past few months, so I thought I’d share a couple of my favorites. These, of course, have been re-cropped so that they can be used as editorial illustration on the opensource.com site (so not wall-sized, at least not yet!).

Monotype print of a robot who’s just made a huge mistake.

One color on Arches paper, printed at Pullen Arts Center.

Monotype, besides being a type foundry, is a printing method that involves removing color from an inked plate. Unlike other printing methods, you get only one print (hence the name). Despite being a terribly inefficient process, it’s pretty fun and I’m charmed by the soft-edged effect it produces.

Linoleum block print of my dog, Millie.

One color on “cement green” French paper, printed at Pullen Arts Center.

In progress | This is the 4th in my series of posters for AIGA Raleigh’s Homegrown Lunch and Learn series, on the topic “Feeding the Fire: Creative Research for Designers”. I’ve been changing up the pattern in the background each month to fit the theme, so this month we have patchwork squares made up of books, paper, pens, and paperclips.

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Four-headed sweater monster.

Leftovers | A second chance for all the bits and pieces that get left on the margins of a project.

An outtake from an animation project I’ve been working on with Wes Leonard and Colin Dodd. I’m sorry to see it go, but there’s going to be something even better in it’s place (hopefully).

I’ve got a new illustration up on opensource.com this morning! The accompanying article is about the giant (half a trillion dollars!) financial impact of patent trolls. It’s worth a read.

I’ve got a new illustration up on opensource.com this morning, for an article offering strategies for escaping “brainstorm island”. This is a topic close to my heart, since the many of the design thinking sessions I’ve participated in ended abruptly somewhere between “ideate” and “implement”. In my experience, getting between those two points is the hard part—and it’s the part we often left our clients to grapple with themselves.

So what better way to illustrated a design thinking session gone wrong than to use the iconic post-it as medium? All those post-its are on the board, ready to provide insight, and instead they’ve arranged themselves into a desert island, never to be escaped.

The article is by our brand manager, John Adams. You can read it here.

Leftovers | A second chance for all the bits and pieces that get left on the margins of a project. This was a first go at a set of “playground” themed icons.

Leftovers | A second chance for all the bits and pieces that get left on the margins of a project.

Libby Likes | Here’s the highlights from April and May 2011 (I’ve gotten a little behind).

1.  An incredibly colorful mural by Matt W. Moore
2. “Improvements” to Damien Hirst’s LSD by Banksy
3. A huge collection script logotypes, via we love typography
4. My most popular post ever: Matilda poster by Andrew Bannecker
5. Paintings by Jaakko Mattila that look like out-of-register prints
6. Chili Con Carne made entirely of paper by Sarah Illenberger

Want to see more? It’s all over at Libby Likes.

Libby Likes | Here’s the highlights from March 2011 (I’ve gotten a little behind).

1. Gorgeous poster by Martin Venezky and Appetite Engineers
2. One of 101 pattern explorations by NCLZ
3. More amazing hand lettering from Sarah Maxey
4. A frightening beastie by Hylton_Warburton
5. Delicious posters by Lucas Melborne for MunchaCruncha
6. Letters made of yarn by Kelsey Oseid

Want to see more? It’s all over at Libby Likes.