It’s true. Better yet, we like the infinite array of possibilities available when choosing how you want your treasured statements to look.

If i could have my way (alas, it’s so rarely the case) I’d be allowed to design new fonts all day long, creating beautiful pieces to hang on my walls and wow all my friends.

However, since I can’t do that, playing around at Hoefler & Frere-Jones has become the next best thing. Interactive fonts - check. Attractively designed - check. Soft, muted colour tones - check. All my favourite things, wrapped in asnuggly, typeface blanket. Mm.

1. Spar-ke-lee, 2. Cotton Candy (I want the monster bag!), 3. Palm Trees

Take a bike ride, eat a Sno cone, watch fireworks, sing the national anthem, and enjoy this gorgeous summer day!

I’m keeping it simple for now. Clockwise, from top-left: Pagoda umbrella, dress by Miu Miu, Oxford shoes (Urban Outfitters), and bag by Marc Jacobs.

Olivo Barbieri is an Italian photographer, best known for his work with tilt-shift photography. These are photographs of real landscapes, not models. amazing.

Knack Studios is a South Carolina based outfit that offers a variety of re-surfaced and re-designed home decor. Their flickr page and blog are both worth a gander, lots of good things going on in both places.

Christiaan Postma has married function and design, til death do they part, in this calendar wallpaper. His clock is another feat of intellect and imagination, composed of 150 individual clockworks and laid out in such a way that all the tiny ticking hands spell out the hour on the hour. Brilliant.

Artist Jenn Ski has some retro-modern artwork for sale (etsy store is here). She also has a pretty rad blog that includes some equally rad etsy finds such as retro kitchen cannisters.

I also discovered Tupp-a-lamps and ted lights via her blog (check it out here). Great artists have great taste, let it be known.

Another found item from Singapore. I don’t know what I’m going to do with them yet, but I assume it will be magnificent.

Some of my favorite pieces are by Mathilde Aubier (visit her website here) and you can see these below.

Other artists include, but are certainly not limited to Franck Juery, Marc Loyon, and Julien Pacaud.

Thomas Wold is an experienced designer, having reincarnated from (and back into) painter, sculptor, fabricator, and decorator. In my opinion, that’s the best way to go about settling into a career. After all, I just graduated from university with no trade and no job. I know all about “work” in the “real” world.

Jokes and jibes aside, one look through Wold’s online portfolio (check it out here) will tell you everything you need to know about him - namely that his design style is fun, clever, and distinctive.

Shaz Madani has created these beautiful portfolio pieces for Arctic Paper. Unfortunately, they’re not something you can buy and put on your wall, -sob- so we’ll have to go the next best thing and ogle them here. Lets just hope our drool doesn’t short out the laptop (again).

Another trinket picked up in VivoCity shopping center in Singapore Mid Valley Megamall in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia last month. Brilliant note-passing strategy.

Shi Yuan (shiyuan.co.uk) has introduced a wallpaper that bursts into bloom when it comes into contact with heat — in the case of the images above, the blooms appear when the radiator is on and disappear when it’s off.

I picked this book up at page one, a bookstore/publishing company not unlike Taschen (except maybe better) in Singapore’s VivoCity last month. You can see a couple more pages on my flickr account here.