People Too/Alexei Lyapunov & Lena Ehrlich
What do you get when you pair vintage sheet music with vibrant, joyful doodles? Magic. You get magic.
This is the gorgeous, happy, lovable work of People Too. Designers/best friends Alexei Lyapunov and Leha Ehrlich stalk the sales and stalls in their native Novosibirsk, Russia. Then they take their precious finds back to their secret lair (no, I don’t know for sure that they have a lair. Bear with me. I’m painting a picture, here.) and doodle and doodle until the sheet music comes to life. The illustrations have an innocent 1950s vibe that I find really refreshing. They’d even work in a child’s room!
The design team also creates commercial-yet-charming paper sculptures which I have profiled before! If you’d like to purchase the musical doodles, gallery-quality prints, tote bags, note cards and the like can be found on Society6.
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My OBT 
January 4, 2017 at 7:23 am
These are great and they gave me a smile as I start my day.
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January 4, 2017 at 8:35 am
I’m so glad! I want to send these people my work papers so they can make them more cheerful.
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January 4, 2017 at 7:30 am
So darn cute! Where do all these people get so much talent?! And how come I am not one of them!? 😀
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January 4, 2017 at 8:35 am
Darling, you have other talents!
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January 4, 2017 at 7:53 am
That sure is a unique idea!!
[I happened across some sheet music at a bazaar last year. I just picked them up because it seemed a shame that good, old music was lying around with disheveled magazines. Do you have any idea what I should do with them?]
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January 4, 2017 at 8:38 am
They make good wrapping paper, or you could frame them and hang them, or you could get out your colored pencils and try your hand at illustrating them like today’s artists!
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January 4, 2017 at 1:52 pm
All good thoughts – thanks!
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January 4, 2017 at 7:56 am
These are joyful. I rather like the fact that, as someone who can neither read Russian or decipher Cyrillic, I can invent the meaning of the text and create my own song lyrics and tune to accompany the illustrations.
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January 4, 2017 at 8:39 am
Exactly right! Here are two art forms that transcend language together in a pleasing form!
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January 4, 2017 at 8:00 am
Having played piano until Beethoven’s Sonata Pathetique showed me how good I’d never be, I will always love sheet music, even (especially) unplayable stuff. These quirky illuminated scripts are pure joy. Another gem unearthed by My OBT. Thank you!
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January 4, 2017 at 8:39 am
Very kind of you to say. Thanks, sweetie, and Happy New Year!
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January 4, 2017 at 8:04 am
Really fun idea, Donna 🙂
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January 4, 2017 at 8:40 am
They are adorable. Make me want to copy them with some of my favorite music!
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January 4, 2017 at 9:19 am
These are amazing. I wish I was half as talented as these folks!
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January 4, 2017 at 9:56 am
Me, too!
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January 5, 2017 at 12:01 pm
I’ve seen these before. They are wonderful, aren’t they?
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January 5, 2017 at 4:47 pm
Truly. I want one. Or more than one.
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February 10, 2017 at 1:11 pm
I’ve never seen anything like this!
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February 10, 2017 at 3:56 pm
I find them so cheerful, even if I am terrible at sight-reading!
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February 21, 2017 at 12:27 pm
These are fantastic. As an artist and musician, these pull at my heart strings. Thanks for sharing.
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February 21, 2017 at 12:43 pm
I’m so glad you enjoyed them! I really do love them, too.
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February 22, 2017 at 8:45 am
This is actually really cool!! Smart idea. They should have a music like this.
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February 22, 2017 at 10:21 am
I agree. It would be great to get children interested in reading music.
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February 22, 2017 at 8:46 am
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