Black and white and read all over

(image from Haptic Labs)

These beautiful quilts are maps and warmth all rolled into one. Emily Fischer of Haptic Labs designed and creates these beautifully stitched quilts featuring maps of different areas in Brooklyn. Manhattan is coming soon, with the rest of the world on custom order.

I'm totally awash in minimalist map design in my own work and simply loving black on white stitched patterns, like Shirin's wedding dress re-make from last week's Project Runway.


(image from Lifetime)

So elegant, so simple (and so letterpress-ible). Ideas are percolating...