My Daily Electronic Pilgrimage
| June 26, 2007

Few sites have kept me coming back day after day to explore and be inspired as the nifty little site called bearskinrug. Starting out in 2000 as the personal portfolio site of Kevin Cornell it has evolved into an illustraion-blog-portfolio-store-archive-link dump-almagamation that, despite it's many functions and seemingly bottomless content, manages to not be overwhelming or confusing in any way. I can't remember how I first came across it, but I have been going back to check in and get inspired, ever since.

Three reasons you have to explore this site:

1. His illustrations are obviously beautiful and the comics are wry and hilarious, but it's Cornell's sense of typography ( a subtle combination of hand-drawn techniques with traditional and ornate typefaces) that makes the type freak in me squeal with envy.

2. The Bear. An element that existed in an earlier version of his site the bear now resides in the work section of bearskinrug in the top right corner. It is a guaranteed way to lose at least 15 minutes of your life.

3. After you have exhausted his extensive portfolio and gone back through all of the archived iterations of his site, what have you left to come back for? His links. Kevin seems to have a knack of finding bizarrely intriguing and genuinely unique paraphernalia on-line that keeps bearkinrug on my bookmarks bar at home and at work.

Link:  Bearskin Rug

Tags:  , comics, desing, illustration, links