The Mother Lode of Awesome New-To-Me Art and Design

I hit a jackpot today in my design blog nerding routine, so what follows is just a totally self-indulgent list of links which, incidentally, you may enjoy. Some are rights-managed, but the ones that appear here are not. Be sure to check out the others, though.

Very pretty things here, including free downloads of super high-quality images like the one below.

Next, you'll want to check out Texture Lovers, found via How About Orange. Par exemplo:

Next up that I somehow found is this guy Tycho's photostream. Go see it! I love all the vintage designs and typography fetish stuff. I can't put up examples because he doesn't give permissions, but you can look. *Wink.*

Holy crap, Fiodor Sumkin. I want this stuff all over the walls of my life.

Ansel Olsen. Yum.

And last but not least, a new line of free hand-drawn fonts here, and then (whew) still more free fonts here at Font Squirrel, at least a few of which are gorgeous. These lovely decorative dingbats caught my eye.