Make Your Own: Laura Macchia

By Lindsay Nansel | Published: June 29, 2010

Laura Macchia is a New York-based designer who offers a myriad of eco-friendly paper goods and wedding invitations as well as custom design services. As a lover of the outdoors, much of her work is inspired by nature and infused with lots of pattern and color. If you don’t find yourself in New York sometime soon, you are in luck, she has an Etsy shop where she sells all her wonderful goodies online!

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Show Us Your Scout Book: Anthony Zinonos

By Nicole Lavelle | Published: June 25, 2010

Anthony Zinonos is a collage artist, member of the international creative collective WAFA and a self-described paper collector. His use of found imagery, torn paper and color creates narrative in ways I never thought possible with so few elements. I’m impressed. This Scout Book is a fresh collection of Anthony’s carefully selected and applied collage work. These diptychs speak to each other. The spreads reference recurring themes. This Scout Book has become much more than a pocket notebook!

Find his work here, in his online portfolio. We hope this isn’t the last Scout Book we’ve seen from Mr. Zinonos.

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Make Your Own: Wedding Edition!

By Lindsay Nansel | Published: June 24, 2010

Scout Books for weddings! What a great idea! We teamed up with the fabulous ladies at Ice Cream Social to help us design and create some beautiful little notebooks. They turned out great and are just one example of how versatile and personal Scout Books can be for that special day! They would make adorable favors, gifts for your out of town guests, or look great as unique invitations! We are so excited about all the possibilities and you will be too!

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Make Your Own: Thorsten Keller

By Lindsay Nansel | Published: June 21, 2010

It’s Monday! Make Your Own Mondays is a weekly feature that lets you start the week with Scout Books. Check weekly for design tips and highlights of some of our favorite Scout Book projects. Find more Make Your Own posts here!

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Thorsten Keller is a media designer in Hamburg and keeps this beautiful blog all about the city’s architecture, design, and photography! He includes a calendar on his blog where artists and galleries can add in their own significant dates and interesting activities going on around the city. Very cool. Keller’s notebooks turned out beautifully as well!

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Show Us Your Scout Book: Mia Christopher #3

By Nicole Lavelle | Published: June 17, 2010

Mia Christopher sent us three Scout Books brimming with juicy, colorful stuff. She brightened our week, and we hope that checking out this series of expertly experimental illustration has brightened yours. This Scout Book is the third in a series of three; be sure to see the first and second.

Itching to own Mia’s work for yourself? Find it online at Arrow to Arrow, Renegade Handmade, and at Little Paper Planes. There are some original paintings in there that I’m eyeing…

Thank you to Mia for sharing the insides of her Scout Books with us!

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Show Us Your Scout Book: Mia Christopher #2

By Lindsay Nansel | Published: June 16, 2010

Here is Scout Book #2 out of a three-part series from the wonderful Mia Christopher! Check out her first book here.

I’m loving exploring her books and seeing how she stacks and tumbles her little illustrated characters and adds unexpected color and texture! She has an exhibition coming up in July, so if you find yourself in the San Francisco area, you should go see her work and ask her all about her Scout Books!

And we still have one more to share with you!

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Show Us Your Scout Book: Mia Christopher

By Nicole Lavelle | Published: June 15, 2010

Mia Christopher is a whirlwind of bright productivity. As a multi-disciplinary artist residing in San Francisco, Mia is filling the art world with color and whimsy, participating in group and solo shows up and down the West Coast as well as internationally. All this while she’s working toward her BFA from the California College of the Arts.

Visit her portfolio site to see lots of great work from Mia: drawings, paintings and textiles live alongside a section called Kitty Corral. I’m sold.

We can’t wait to see what’s next from Mia. Stay tuned for more Scout Books from Mia; she filled up THREE with playful illustrations and material studies.

See below for photos of the whole book.

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Make Your Own: Jess Smiley

By Nicole Lavelle | Published: June 14, 2010

It’s Monday! Make Your Own Mondays is a weekly feature that lets you start the week with Scout Books. Check weekly for design tips and highlights of some of our favorite Scout Book projects. Find more Make Your Own posts here!

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Jess Smart Smiley is an artist and illustrator based in the hills of Utah. He just self-published a comic book called A Map In The Dirt, and made these Scout Books to coincide with the release of his publication. The books are graced with a noble fox and a smattering of plant and animal materials, rendered in Smiley’s delicate line work.

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Fresh in the Shop: Notes for Random Folks

By Nicole Lavelle | Published: June 11, 2010

Halle Cisco is a Portland-based designer, illustrator and educator. She recently printed these quirky Scout Books and we liked them so much they’re now available here in the Friends section of the Scout Books shop! Halle shared her thoughts on the process of creating Notes for Random Folks. Be sure to check out the amazing interior shots of this Scout Book; the glory lies in the inside.

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Make Your Own: Illustrator Round-Up

By Nicole Lavelle | Published: June 7, 2010

It’s Monday! Make Your Own Mondays is a weekly feature that lets you start the week with Scout Books. Check weekly for design tips and highlights of some of our favorite Scout Book projects. Find more Make Your Own posts here!

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There’s really no question: a handmade aesthetic pairs quite nicely with chipboard. In this post you’ll find some of our absolute favorite illustrated Scout Books. Some were created as Official Scout Book Illustrated releases and others were made by the illustrator as self-promotional or client projects. No matter what their use, these books are among our favorite illustrated Scout Books.

While you’re gawking, be sure to check out our illustration set on flickr, where you can peep more amazing artwork done by skilled illustrators.

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