The Roommate Book

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For *most* of us the roommate phase of life isn’t all that long. College, your 20s, and then you’re more than likely ready to strike out on your own or live with a significant other. My pal Becky Simpson is an amazing illustrator whose latest book – aptly named The Roommate Book – provides a non-serious look at how to live with a friend (or total stranger). Flip through for a look at comical pie charts, hypotheticals, illustrations, and brief essays along with some nuggets of wisdom!

 

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Jesse Moretti

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Jesse Moretti‘s artwork bounces between a bevy of ideas, dimensionality, and materials. She often uses acrylic, paint, and wood together making her style a bit ambiguous at times. But it’s all in the name of creativity and no one can say the end result is anything but bright and fun.

I create surfaces that flutter between the flat and dimensional. Utilizing collage, design, and op-art perceptual techniques, they exist in a liminal state, an active position between flatness and dimensionality, the real and imagined. The forms reference architecture, landscape, design  and myth, reimagining them to become something other.

 

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Turntables, Speakers + Headphones

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1/Nomad USB Portable Turntable  2/Pro-Ject RM 1.3 Turntable  3/Audio-Technica X UO AT-LP60 Vinyl Record Player  4/Braun G 12  5/Ion Audio Max LP 3-Speed Belt Drive Wooden Turntable  6/Crosley X UO AV Room Palm Portable USB Vinyl Record Player  7/Crosley C10 Turntable

 

 

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1/Uma Sound Lantern  2/ARiNA Speaker  3/A2 in Grey  4/Otis & Eleanor + Mashburn Bongo Portable Speaker  5/ONEclassic  6/Steel Bluetooth Speaker  7/Stelle Audio Pillar

 

 

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1/aHead Wireless Headphones  2/Bang & Olufsen Beoplay H6 Over-Ear Wired Headphone  3/Linea N°2 In Ear Headphones  4/Linea Vegan Headphones  5/Rockall Over Ear Headphones  6/LSTN Troubador Ebony Wood Headphones  7/The New Normal

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Paul Trillo / Chromacity

Smoke grenades and a few drones are essentially the formula for magic. Paul Trillo’s Chromacity takes place over the ocean as colored smoke dances across the sky leaving its mark. It feels especially timely as well with the 4th of July coming up next Monday here in the U.S.!

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Livada Fragrance Vase

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One of my summer goals is to have fresh flowers around constantly. It’s one of my favorite ways to keep my home feeling fresh, and I usually pick up a bunch at the grocery store when I make my weekly run through. Designed by Studio Macura, the Livada Fragrance Vase is a glass vase meant to hold a small bouquet of flowers or herbs. Made to enhance and enjoy the fragrance of flowers, it consists of two glass pieces – a small glass container and a cover that’s pierced with a small hole to allow fragrance to make its way out.

 

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Rebekka Connelly

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Rebekka Connelly makes her own rules when it comes to painting by using stencils in some of her pieces. Each stencil print painting is individually unique, created using acrylic paint on cotton paper with super sharp edge lines. The result ends up feeling very organic to me despite the more streamlined process used.

 

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Underneath It All

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2 p.m. // 5 p.m. // 10 p.m.

Dessù is a new lifestyle lingerie brand inspired by attitudes and time. Modern, free-minded women who believe they can live any number of lives in 24 hours are their target.

 

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The Deep V No-Wire // The Mesh-Trim Bodysuit // The Geo Lace Thong

LIVELY is inspired by what makes today’s woman sexy – being smart, healthy, active, and outgoing. The result blurs the lines between lingerie, activewear, and swimwear by taking the best style and comfort from each.

 

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Sade Brief // Saii Silk Brief // G-Tang Silk Top

Marieyat is an underwear and loungewear label with uncompromised style. The line’s seamless cotton and silk knitwear is geared towards modern women strong in both mind and body.

 

nude-Design-Crush
Cut Out Bra // High Waisted Brief // Basic Bodysuit

The Nude Label is a basic underwear brand born from a need for appealing yet simplistic underwear with a good fit and support for everyday life. A combination of classic lines and fresh aesthetic, along with a focus on comfort, emphasize functionality over embellishment.

 

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Como Long Line Bralette // Ariel Bralette // Lillie Side Cut-Out Bralette

PRAE (prefix: earlier than; prior to; variant of pre-) is a brand built around a core collection of design forward bralettes. The importance, beauty, and style of a bra are all taken into account as well as the pre-dressing stage of a woman’s clothing.

 

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Jess Riva Cooper / Viral Series

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Toronto-based Jess Riva Cooper is a mega talented sculptor who loves to incorporate color and illustration into her pieces. Flora entangle themselves around busts in her Viral Series, II, and III, taking over the human body in an almost parasitic way.

I study the foundation myths of the Dybbuk in Yiddish folklore and reinterpret these traditional stories through a female lens. I also investigate fallen economic and environmental climates in cities where houses have become feral, disappearing behind ivy, trees and Kudzu vines that were planted generations ago. I see a direct parallel between my interest in insidious plant life and a malevolent Dybbuk spirit, which takes over the human body.

 

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Get Outside Already

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Free-Standing Hammock

Have you been spending lots of time outside or are you holed up inside avoiding the heat? I’ve been doing a little bit of both, as well as avoiding some rainstorms by hanging out on my porch. (One of my favorite times to be out!) The key to enjoying the outdoors for me is making my yard just as livable as my house, which means furniture that carries over the same style and sensibilities. Peek at my backyard setup that I shared last year, then take a look at these stellar outdoor furniture pieces.

 

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The Loungr Inflatable Chair

 

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Palissade Lounge Chair

 

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Meridien Collection

 

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Catskill Wood + Wicker Chair

 

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Ixtapa Collection

 

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Sonora Wood Folding Lounger

 

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Regatta Collection

 

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Wood Chaise Lounge

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