April 20, 2011

Sponsor Design Crush

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I’ve been accepting sponsors for the past year and have never really mentioned it, so if you only read Design Crush via a reader chances are you had no clue. I thought for May I’d throw it out there. I keep my ads limited to ten so that you get max exposure and response, and so far my sponsors have reported really great traffic results. If you’re interested in becoming a monthly sponsor you can email me at designcrushing@gmail.com. I’m more than happy to answer any questions you might have and send you my rates and traffic numbers.

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April 20, 2011

Banana Cream Pie

PHOTO + RECIPE: Martha Stewart

 

I’m in charge of dessert for dinner this Sunday and this Banana Cream Pie looks unbelievable. But I’ve never before made a Pate Brisee crust and am wondering if I’m being a bit too ambitious. And now I have to stop looking at this because it’s lunchtime and I’m starving, which always leads to bad food decisions…

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April 20, 2011

Proenza Schouler Wallet

This leather wallet from Proenza Schouler comes in a rainbow of colors, but I love this peachy pink for spring and summer. Lately I’m really getting into clutches, and because this wallet has no interior dividers it would make for an easy transition.

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April 19, 2011

Three Wrap Bracelets

There’s something about summer and wearing loads of bracelets that just go together. They just scream bare arms, warm weather, and tan lines – sexy! I love these three wrap bracelets from amore valkyrie, especially the turquoise and orangey-red. They’re made of premium leather cord wrapped in bright 24k gold vermeil, sterling silver and Czech fire-polished beads.

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April 19, 2011

Takeaway

 

Takeaway from Established and Sons is a catchall for baubles and trinkets. Constructed out of folded sheet metal, it goes to show that even something as simple as a fast food container can be interesting when looked at with different eyes. (via Core77)

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April 19, 2011

Laurie Frick

 

 

 

Artist Laurie Frick uses pattern, words, and color found in bits of paper to create collages that replicate the feel of neurons firing in a person’s brain. The point is, there’s a fine line between art and science.

“I imagine the brain breaks down visual time into bits where the novel and odd are as essential to recollection as the intensely emotional. Vaguely familiar cut-up materials stand-in for everything you stumble across in a day, the amount you see and forget and the things you give only partial-attention. How much does the brain take in every day, every logo and advertisment online, every storefront you pass by, the packaging along every aisle in the grocery store, every ad on television.”

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April 18, 2011

Sunday-ness


PHOTO: via Audrey Hepburn Complex, no photographer source

 

I read this short editorial last week in The New York Times about the melancholy of Sunday, and thought there’s no better time to share than a Monday afternoon. It’s something I feel nearly every single week and could never hope to put into such beautiful prose. My favorite excerpt:

But Sunday evening brings a feeling completely unlike, say, Tuesday evening. The slower pace on the sidewalks feels like reluctance. The traffic seems almost melancholy. You suspect that the dogs, out for the last walk of the night, can smell the Sunday-ness of it all.

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