The Paper Pushers

Cut Out: Type made of 3D cutouts surrounded by the “negative space” left from the lifted pieces of paper. Sharon Pazner:

Folded: Handmade type project from Tyrone Ohia: Each letter is made from a folded sheet of A4 paper, which is then placed on a lightbox. The dark areas that form the strokes are where the paper folds and overlaps, therefore letting less light from the lightbox through:

Cut and Taped: Well, it’s much thicker than your regular paper, and bigger, but still, close enough -Sex C on Legs from Marc Wathieu:

Outdoorsy Types

Grass from the geniuses behind Handmade Fonts

Fly high in the sky with Photoshop Star‘s Cloud Text tutorial:

Watch the ice melt on this clever cover design by Ruiter Janssen symbolizing the increasing desperation of the plane crush survivors:

Foodies? Yum-yum

High Fiber Foodonts (Handmade Fonts again):

Got a sweet tooth? Open wide for a Candy font all the way from Montreal, by Julien De Repentigny:

For comfort food, nothing beats some pb & j (minus pb) via lovely For The Love of Type Blog:

Wanna see an awesome Food Font Fight? Come on over to a Typhphile:

Oh, and here’s a glass of milk from Jónas Valtýsson, to finish off your meal. Don’t spill!

Clean Freaks? Here we go

Typography Soap is now available from The Soap Lab

Juvenile Delinquents

Crayon letters courtesy of some very creative soccer moms:

Balloons will never look the same, thanks to some creepy clown types (no offense, I just have a mild case of Coulrophobia):

Let there be light from a German photographer ~Blickwinkel~ on Flickr?

For your viewing pleasure

Backbreaker font:

or better yet, Stick Figure Kamasutra font:

And now we’ll have to erase your memory so you will not be able to transfer all this valuable information to the aliens… Cause this is exactly the TYPE of knowledge they are after

Doodles are on TV, yes, that’s right. Case in point- Season 5 of Project Runway:

Interior and Product Designs have certainly dipped it’s virtual toes in doodling pool. From vinyl decals and wallpaper to down right doodling on floors!

Textiles that began as doodles on a piece of paper:

Fashion & Jewelry designers use doodles a lot:

Would you like a cup of doodles? Here you go:

Environmental Art, is just doodling on a large scale:

Advertising is just brimming with doodles:

Last but not least – web design:

Not to mention the places where I suppose you’d expect to see doodling the most – journaling, street graffiti, lettering (hand-written and typography), artists sketchbooks and graphic design.

Opportunities for doodling are endless! You don’t need any fancy equipment, or even skill to try it. The freedom is the second nature for doodling, so there are no artistic standards or restrictions to worry about! Any place, any time, you can doodle for fun, relaxation or to give your tired brain a little jolt of creativity! Let the doodles (together with creative juices ) flow from the tip of your pen/pencil and onto the scrap of paper you’re using.

Here are some links to few of our favorite doodling exercises and articles lovingly collected from all around the web:

* Great article by LaurenMarie @ Creative Curio for mental and physical doodling as a way to combat designers’ block.

* Illustration Class led by the super talented designer and artist Von Glitschka is all about doodling exercises, complete with PDF instructions and excellent progress photos of projects by the author himself.

* For something totally different and fun, take in one of Daily Monster’s videos by Stefan Bucher and then go ahead, try creating one yourself!

* Or how about engaging in some Digi-Doodling at Veer?

Over at Doodlage, we (LeO and RaShell) are on a mission to elevate doodling to an art status it certainly deserves. Come, come out of the doodling closet, join the ranks (no registration required, just curiosity and good spirit), and you will be inspired as well! We love, love, love when people leave comments and send us links to all kinds of unexpected doodlyshness! And if you follow RaShell on Twitter you’ll be the first to know about the important news in the doodle-world. Doodlage even has an Etsy store, that features doodles by RaShell. Check it out for very unusual and fun gifts and art.