Moments of Beauty

I love the delicate colours and forms of these pebbles from the beach, worn smooth by the ocean waves. Beautiful. Photograph from Apartment Therapy Chicago, via Jane's wonderful Fondly Seen.

Vintage Olivetti Ads

Fantastic ad design for Italian typewriter company Olivetti, collected by Eric Baker. More examples (and image source info) here. Via Design Observer.

Texas Monthly Illos

Thought you might like to see what I've been up to lately illustration-wise. These were done for an article on making peach preserves, in the June 2009 issue of Texas Monthly.

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(photo by Joshua McHugh, via Domino)