Elum is a design and letterpress house in San Diego, California that began back in 2001. Their work ranges from simple to complex, but each piece is absolutely top quality with wonderful attention to details. Check out these Whimsical Sophisticated WONDERFUL limited edition prints!

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This is a story about how student designers rarely make money from their work…they do it for the exposure. This is also a story about how designers rarely make money from designing for the music industry…they do it for the love of the band and the fun of the project…and the exposure.
But 38 years after [...]

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  ‘In 1970 Gordon B Holcombe a pioneer in the design and construction of buildings utilizing coated fabrics predicted that,’ “Before the year 2000 the house you live in may come in a can of liquid and a roll of fabric-and be inflated like a balloon. And by the end of this decade, everything from [...]

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I read a lot about the FUWA when they were first unveiled as the 2008 Beijing Olympic mascots about a year ago. Thought now, on this opening day might be a good time to review how the mascots came to be.
According to the Olympic site, each of Fuwa has a rhyming two-syllable name -a traditional [...]

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The only thing better than good graffiti is good weathered graffiti like this pasted graphic in New Orleans. Question is whether this art is old or if it’s just the humidity…

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