Friends With You

I'm usually not a sucker for the whole illustrator/artist/designer toy thing, but I still want these, badly. I really enjoy Friends With You/Wish Come True ever since they designed some amazing rooms at the Hotel Fox in Amsterdam. I might just have a thing for rainbows and color, but these guys stick to their style and create their own universe through gallery shows and interactive exhibitions. 

Friends With You/Wish Come True

Wish Come True toys

Ndebele House Painting

Ndebele house painting is the 400 year-old South African Ndebele's traditional wall-painting, handed down from mother to daughter. The car is done by famous Ndebele artist Esther Mahlangu for a BMW artist series in the early 90s. So awesome and flat, this graphic representation is pulled from everyday life, as well as personal milestones, and translated into a symbolic language. The tradition is super old and influence is evident throughout modern art and design, but it still looks so fresh.

car photo link, from Decida

Esther Mahlangu's profile

the third painting

frosk

frosk.org

Stamps/Color

Gavin Potenza of Exploratory Design in Portland designed these stamps as a personal project in 2007. The color and transparency is evocative of the color change in numbers when their environment changes. I saw this on Grain Edit.