The inside my future dream home
Who knows if I’ll ever be rich enough to justify Kelly Wearstler as my interior designer. However I hope one day I have a nice house with a nice coffee table so I can buy all her books! She’s found that perfect balance between modernism and antiquity which I love. I also admire that she’s bounced back from the horrific 90s Playboy photos to become what ever the classy word for “milf” is.
Eye candy from The Craft Shop
I saw a few of these ads in IRL when they were running and loved the design. Today I discovered they are all out of The Craft Shop in Auckland. So beautiful! Enjoy.
Daily cap(ital letter)
should look at these beautiful capital letters! Typographer Jessica Hische posted one a day and there are three versions of the alphabet for use on your blog. If only I wrote paragraphs long enough to justify using these.
More on graphic design
Eike Koenig from Hort from Leonardo Mercado >
This is actually the kind of stuff that made me want to be a graphic designer when I was younger – before I realised that design is a commodity not worth much in this day and age and that art directors get to be far more creative.
Gill sans morals
AND: The Nativity (Eric Gill, 1931, wood engraving)
A great typographer and a terrible man. We excuse bestiality and incest because we are all guilty of using his font.
Cute dentist sign
I’m researching signs for a website I’m building and saw this which I rather like! According to Ads of the World it’s an ambient ad – not sure how it sells anything, but hopefully it makes some patients smile.
Forgotten women of bauhaus
In keeping with today’s theme of Europe in the 1920s please read this fantastic blog on YMFY about the women of Bauhaus >
The lesbian design teacher at my all girls school took pleasure in telling our class about the German art school which accepted “the beautiful gender”. However I was always disappointed that these women did weaving rather than typography (crafts is not really my scene).
Anyway read the blog, it has stories (some sad) about what happened to some of the females who attended the school >
Flinders lane
Flinders lane is probably one of my favourite places in the world. I first went there when I was about 17 and it’s always first on my list when I get to Melbourne. The coffee there is terrible, but probably the best you will find in Australia, but the turkish sandwiches and graffiti are fantastic! I like the paste up (pictured above) so much, as until recently my trips to Melbourne have usually been to escape from boys.
I was delighted (and yet sadly nostalgic) to see guest blogger Lucy Feagins blogging about Flinders lane on Design Sponge >
Here is the Nicholas Jones map:
Wonderwall website
My uni teacher, Paul White, said that a good ad is one you wish you’d come up with yourself. That philosophy can certainly describe how I feel about the wonderwall website via swiss miss >
Outdoor lighting/ seating
I wish I had a big balcony or poolside to put these on. They would certainly keep your bum warm!
Adorable dinner plates
These pretty handmade (although I’m sure the plates aren’t) dinnerplates are swell! Perhaps you would feel a bit bad eating of them though and you don’t want to become someone who collects plates – not at this age anyway.
DIY Laura Ashley Laptop Bag
This sewing pattern is hilarious! I had Laura Ashley wallpaper in my lounge growing up, so it is a nostalgic brand. Also nostalgic for me is the orange clamshell ibook – just like my first laptop. But seriously, how did I miss Laura Ashley making laptop bag patterns?
One lucky person gets to buy it on Etsy >
Will you be my Bridesmaid cards
These formal requests for your bffs to be your bridesmaids are adorable! If I have a wedding one day, I will certainly be using this idea – you heard it here (or at Once Wed) first. I also love that in the example their dresses are in my favourite colour, salmon. Definitely a good bridesmaid dress colour!
Blame Ringo band (website) concept
This website is flipping inovative! The best band website I have come across, by far. First off awesome name for a band (I love Ringo and have a Zebra Finch named Strakey after him), fantastic concept for using the name as a website, and omgosh it scrolls sideways!
Love your work Sir Mano.
Twitter on Paper!
Today I recieved my Twitter on Paper! Well Twitter by JPG as it was, because I live outside the USA and I couldn’t have one mailed. You can read more about the cool project at top.sampottsinc.com, but you’ve missed the deadline (first at least) to get your own.
Skin art
Google Wants Artists to Work For Free, Is it Wrong?
Article on Mashable, which has got me thinking about how I should take up designing skins as a hobby. I quite enjoyed doing this rather quick job on the Coastalwatch twitter.
Alphabet draws
Oh wow oh wow, cabnet inspired by old printing press blocks. For just under $10,000 I want it, do you think they will send to AUS? From www.kentandlondon.co.uk
