Earlier this week we were in B&N when I came across the most beautiful cover for Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales. Brad said it looked like a Sufjan cover, I defitely agree. The image above doesn’t do it justice, you MUST see it in person. Especially so that you can see the back cover and flaps. I rushed home and looked up the artist and was pleasantly surprised to see that he lives here in Chicago! Anders Nilsen is the illustrator and he’s absolutely fantastic. His work is so dreamy and beautiful.

Beyond amazing Chicago photographer Todd Baxter.

Neutral, a project by Letterlabor uses designers Susana Carvalho, Experimental Jetset and Kai Bernau to create simple poster design with their neutral typeface.

Hello Saferide

The Radio Department

The Concretes

Taken By Trees

El Perro Del Mar

Loney, Dear

I’m From Barcelona

Jose Gonzalez

The Hives

Detektivbyran

Jens Lekman

Lykke Li

Fever Ray

The Knife

Here it is! The most updated list of my favorite Swedish bands, artists and musicians. I hope this will bring you all to love Sweden as much as I do. Have any other Swedish artists to recommend? Sweden seems to breed so many great ones already, I can’t wait to see how many more emerge in 2010!

Thanks Boris

I’m speachless. This is new Sufjan. Yes I said NEW Sufjan live from Ithaca, NY recently. It’s hard to even recognize this as the Sufjan we last heard four years ago. Nonetheless, exciting!

GIVEAWAY!

I’ll be giving away one of the above 3 items to a lucky winner from my shop 1918 Vintage. The winner will recieve an item of their choice either the bow headband, small ropey scarf or small holey cowl. To enter click here.

Seriously Mark Weaver? Phenomenal! MSCED

The dreamy creations of Fatma Gultekin aka Little Girl Blue.

No. 11: Broken Glass Blues by planned_obsolescence

So good! Thanks again Beckness.