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A few things about Jean Espezial: One: they’ve got a great looking new site (well, new to me, I haven’t checked in a while…but I think it’s actually legitimately new). The gallery is especially (or is it espezially…) cool, with some great filter-driven animated effects. Two: the new site has a bio section, which nicely explains that Jean Espezial is, in fact, a collective. You see, all along I’ve been under the impression that Jean Espezial was simply one prolific person, and I suppose it’s a bit a relief that it takes 7 people to produce so much great work. And this brings me to Three: there’s a ton of great stuff in the gallery. I’ve posted a few selections above, but take a little time and pick through everything.

We’ve been working a lot on this new desktop wallpaper illustration and planned to have it finished by today, but alas, it’s not quite there yet. Who new building an entire city would take so long? In the mean time we still have some great wallpaper tiles in our gallery.

If you’re ever in the Design District of San Diego check out Igloo. The Chalkboard Skateboard is great, and the shop keeper will tell you all about the Design District, where to get good eats and where to see great art, design and illustration, which is what Farmidable is all about.

Also, we’ll be releasing a new pattern on Monday. Make sure you check back!

Oh man, who doesn’t like antlers? we at Farmidable sure do.  What you see here is a new pattern in production; and, word to the wise, if you don’t like antlers: too bad.

Australian artist Viv Miller uses mixed media to for her natural/geometric paintngs. Check out her site to see some pretty amazing stuff.

Beautiful prints, illustrations, and design over at Steve Harrington’s website.

Farmidable Contributer: Robert Burch

I needed a hat and a pair of kicks. I hadn’t brought either with us on our trip to San Diego and we were headed to the desert for a day of hiking. Marshalls saves the day! I found just what I needed, a hip pair of Pumas and this madras “old style” cap. I figured I looked pretty spiffy in the hat and not only wore it to the desert but all the rest of our trip. (and right now)

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As promised, we’ve released a new pattern today! Pine Boughs is available in the gallery, so click on over and download it. You’re guaranteed to find peace and serenity amongst these idyllically drooping boughs of pine! It may be noted that this is a somewhat belated entry in the line of Farmidable patterns inspired in some way by Japanese wood block prints and samurai therein.

This is another prelim for Building Boxes. We’re poised to be releasing two new desktop wallpaper patterns in our gallery over the next two weeks. The first hopefully on Monday, 4/21, and the next pattern on Monday 4/28. Maybe we’ll make that a pattern. In the meantime we’ve got some great posts in the works and will do our best to post every day.

Really cool drawings and collages and such over at Sacred Mtn. Some of the work is reminiscent of collages and frottages by Max Ernst.

Here at Farmidable we’re not just about patterns, we love design too. I love Typography is one of the if not the best blogs about type out there. Featuring news, interviews, tests, free fonts, a lot of great design. If you’re an artist, designer, illustrator or you just want to make nice wedding or bar mitzvah invites, this is a place to learn a lot about type and how to use it.

There’s this thing going on over at Kitsune Noir where cool desktop wallpapers by great artists are being given away for free. While this is far from an original concept (ahem…), it’s an initiative we at Farmidable are fully supportive of. Anyway, this desktop designed by Dan Funderburgh was just posted today. Dan has some great work involving repeating patterns and super-cool ornamentation of every-day or bellicose objects like vacuum cleaners and battle axes. Check out the largest versions and get a full-detail glimpse of the umbrella.