Great feature on Martha Stewart for the wedding of Christie and Greg. The couple used the Flora Invitation Suite designed by Love vs Design Featured Artist Grace Lee.

This hard working lady is part of our design team at the Love vs Design office. She is graduating in a few weeks and we're very excited for her to join us full time. She brings a lot of positive energy and she loves to travel around the world to places she's never been before.

Things that catch my eye are clean and classic with a touch of modern elegance; I also have an affinity for condensed typefaces and clean white space. All my life I have had a love for all things visual. From being in elementary school and color coding handwritten notes with jelly pens to painting as a teenager. I feel lucky to be a designer and to have fun every day doing what I love, at times feels surreal.

Other interests and musings: Travel, midcentury modern architecture & design, pugs, black and white, Japanese food & culture, old hollywood glamour, red lipstick, & ice cream! I love to see new things and to travel to places I have never been before. This year I have been lucky enough to backpack through Europe with my friends. And will be travelling to Asia to visit my family in the Philippines and also Hong Kong.

Modern Deco, designed by Karina Ramos

Heart in Hand, designed by Karina Ramos, photo by Max Wanger

Floating Ribbon, designed by Karina Ramos, photo by Max Wanger

Simply in Love, designed by Karina Ramos, photo by Max Wanger

This week Featured Artist Mark van der Noord visited us from Holland. He has designed the Fly Away and Anchors Away invitation suites and he's working on a few more invitation suites for Love vs Design. He is an amazing artist and we were excited that he wanted to give our office walls some color. Below are a few photos from his work.

I admire any artist that makes me react, good or bad. I'm influenced by everything that surrounds me, my pups, friends, family, music, tv, movies, magazines, the internet.

I was inspired by the thought of all different walks of life that would possibly look through LVD for inspiration. I imagine the couple who prefer vintage, outdoors garden wedding, or the minimalist. It was initially overwhelming with having endless ideas and inspirations, so hopefully these are also inspiring. Being chosen to contribute to LVD makes me proud :-)

The easiest part of the design process is the beginning - brainstorming, inspirations pulls, the blank white computer screen is my favorite part of the process. The most difficult part is the ending - knowing when to stop.

You can see more of Christine's designs on her website cpakcreative.com and you can follow her puppies here.

I'm inspired by New York City, Paris, Rand, Kalman, Tufte, Hoefler, Eggleston, Eames, Corbusier, Frankenthaler, and Whiteread.

My Language of Love wedding design was inspired by Minimalist, midcentury, urban and beyond.

I'm proud of working at MoMA during their new building campaign and seeing it come to fruition. Launching a new aesthetic style and look for K2's tech driven snowshoe brand Atlas.

Most of the artists I admire are designers. I have a pretty long laundry list of design-heros, but the designer I currently admire the most is probably Jessica Hische. She does really amazing work in every area of design from hand-done typography to web. I'm influenced by current design blogs. My usual morning routine involves waking up and clicking around on the internet to see what new design work has been posted. Some of my favorites are: Ffffound!, Grain Edit, Graphic Exchange and Type Everything.

My style varies from project to project, but I think one common thread is that I really like clean, well-set type. I also like to incorporate hand-done processes into my designs whenever I can. Whether it's just creating a texture to scan in and add to a logo or creating an image to be photographed for a layout, I like to design both on and off the computer.

The main influences for these designs were historical. I was looking at a lot of vintage packaging while creating these designs including old tins from the 1900's and air mail envelopes and stamps from the 40's and 50's.

I think the most difficult aspect is probably coming up with a strong concept for a design. I'm not sure what the easiest part would be, because I think it changes from project to project. On one design it might be hard to find the right typeface or choose the perfect colors, but on another design it might be a really simple decision.

I don't typically think too much about what I've done because I usually like to focus on what I'll do next. However, I'll be receiving my BFA degree in Graphic Design in December, so I guess that's pretty cool. I also just finished putting on a gallery show with a group of fellow designers that I think came together pretty well, so I'm pretty proud of that.

You can find out more about Shannon on her website.

There are a lot of designers who inspire me. In the last couple of months I'm really diggin fresh illustrations with an own style combined with Typography, like Hedof, Steven Harrington, Flying Fortress , 123 Klan and Stefan Marx. I'm really into the website Grain Edit, I like 95% of the inspiration blog.

For the Heartchery design we wanted to create a soft and tender little world thats growing love all over it. A growing love flora and fauna. Like in a forest were plants and little birds and butterflies are busy creating a new life and working to set the right environment. A feeling of working together in the garden thats called Marriage were you need each other to let the plants of the future grow into a little forest together.

My business partner Camiel and I run a visual marketing company Studio Wonder. Last year we won the Deventer Aanmoedingsprijs 2011 – an award for artists and businesses who make a different in their city by working on many cultural and community projects.

You can read more about Sander’s work at studiowonder.nl

My creative areas of interest are illustration and design with a strong typographic influence. I try not to focus too much on one particular design style. Instead I try to experiment with different techniques and things that influence me and bring these into my designs. Influences such as personal experiences, political issues, interesting people and materials I come across. I’m trying to translate these experiences from my mind onto paper.

I’m inspired by many things. A few of my favorite websites and blogs are: FFFFOUND!, Thisisnthappiness.com, Fecal Face, Convoy Tumblr, Haw-liny, But Does It Float and Andren Tumblr.

Find out more about Mark on his website corkville.com.

There are too many artists I admire. Among them are Mary Blair, John Singer Sargent, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Saul Bass, Bob Dylan, William Eggleston, Hayao Miyazaki, Maynard Dixon, Eyvind Earle, Edward Steichen, John Lasseter, Tim Burton, Wes Anderson, Nadav Kander, Miroslav Sasek, Charley Harper, Paul Rand, Walt Disney, Edward Burtynsky, Bill Cone, Zhao Ming Wu, Tim Hawkinson, Stefan Sagmeister, J.D. Salinger, Johannes Itten, Walt Disney, Michael Jackson, Taryn Simon.

I’m influenced by creative thinkers, non-creative thinkers, relationships, conversations, nature, landscape painting & flipping through a good art book. My favorite websites are Amazon and Google.

I started my LIGHT AS FEATHER design by creating the illustration of the feather. I loved the feather's simple elegance and then I built everything around that. For me the easiest part of the design process is coming up with ideas. The hardest part is deciding which ideas are the best for your design.

See more of Leanne’s work at hellodare.com.