Bangkok illustrator Suralert jirawangso’s women inhabit an inked, abstract world of green spruce trees, coffee-cup-rainbows, lipstick, and mushrooms. I’ve tried-- I can’t pick a favorite. His drawings layer patterned wallpaper, geometric shapes, hand-drawn type, and a confounding control of color. How do you say love in Thai?

As a kid, did you ever have one of those posters on your bedroom wall with the letters of the alphabet? What did yours look like? It's been a few years (I mean, ahem... quite a few years) since I mastered my ABC's, but I still love seeing all the letters of our alphabet lined-up together. And since I'm pretty sure that my first alphabet poster was in plain old Comic Sans, here's something a bit more playful for today's letter-learners... and alphabet-enthusiasts!

Above image by Jing Wei.

And now for the rest of my selects:

I think I'm obsessed with the doodles, drawings and hand-drawn type of Stephanie Kubo. It's hard to describe her work because it seems she can do almost anything.



She doodles beautiful and colorful hoops, loops and circles with an almost infinite compulsion.



Then you'll discover she draws women wearing the most fascinating and intricate head wear.



The best part, her control of eye-popping hand-drawn lettering that look as if they were enhanced in high-definition. And it doesn't just end there either, visit her site for everything else. Big love Steph.

We've been featuring the inside of some good sketchbooks lately. If it gets us excited, we go with it.

Jordan Kay doesn't draw per page. She draws spreads. And in each of these spreads, she plays with shape, color, type, chicken scratch, what have you. What I like most is seeing the stroke of her marker in each object that she draws. So much personality in a tiny book.

Níveo comes to us from Brazil. He has a knack for experimenting with handwritten type and really, who doesn't like a good pencil-pen-marker-etcetera letter doodle? His extensive collection of sketchbooks will keep you occupied for a while - every page is simply done and simply wonderful. Zoom in »