Here’s wishing everyone a relaxing few days. i swear my weekends are going by faster and faster!
PS: This is one of those images that’s been floating around on my Mac for awhile and has lost its credit. If anyone happens to know who it belongs to don’t hesitate to tell me!
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Holy chocolate. If these Jimmy Only Likes Chocolate Cupcakes don’t give you your chocolate fix then all hope is lost. Make your office mates love you and bow down at your feet by baking a batch for Monday.
Every once in awhile I come across something that really hits home so to speak. There’s no real reason, just a connection felt. For example, this watercolor print entitled Jungle by Katherine Benck at etsy shop This is Kate. It just makes me feel all sad-smiley for some reason. Loving those greens.
The simple idea behind the Hold cookbook page holder is obvious, yet executed beautifully. The 10.5 x 1.25″ steel bar lies across the book to hold the pages open without hiding the recipe. I’m forever getting gunk on the pages of my cookbooks when they threaten to shut themselves! This is a great solution.
Good typography is always “in” with me, so I’m both happy and sad that it’s been a hit with the masses lately. This number tea towel set caught my eye in a big way the other day. Me thinks I may have a weekend project on my hands.
:: via Design*Sponge
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Andrew English is the contemporary British mind behind these hand-engraved fingerprint wedding bands. I’m absolutely in love with them, they’re so intimate and unique that I can’t help it. They are technically wedding bands, but I wouldn’t mind having something similar with my best friend or my mom. To me they just symbolize that everlasting bond so perfectly.
Artist Mark Khaisman takes the ordinary supply of packing tape and layers it again and again, over and over itself to create the most amazingly beautiful works of art. By working on a light easel, applying translucent brown packing tape on clear Plexiglas panels, the layers built up to create degrees of opacity. The images are archetypes derived from the cultural heritage – art, architecture, and movies – which Khaisman is inspired by most. People who see the extraordinary in the mundane are always true artists to me.
Legendary brand Converse is the latest to team up with Target and boasting a whole new line of vintage-inspired footwear and clothing. I checked it out last weekend and was really pleased with what I saw. Not only are they a featured designer in the men’s and women’s clothing departments (with some incredible signage I might add), but there’s also an entire wall devoted to the brand in footwear. I didn’t manage to escape without grabbing up this Patch Pocket Tunic which is so, so comfy.
I’ve been really intrigued by bento boxes recently, and since I’m a huge fan of stainless this one caught my eye immediately. Of course it’s a great idea for food – lunch at the office, potluck meals, etc – but I also like the idea of using these food carriers to store other things like make-up and crafting supplies. A shelf lined with these guys would look so organized!
When you’re referred to industry-wide by your last name, it’s safe to say that you’re Someone. And Stefan Sagmeister in this day and age is synonymous with graphic design.
His latest book began as a list Sagmeister made in his diary under the title Things I have learned in my life so far. (On a personal side note, I found this amusing because I have one titled Things I Have Learned So Far in Life in my own.) With the support of his clients, Sagmeister transformed these sentences into typographic works, from billboards in France to sign-toting inflatable monkeys on the streets of Scotland. Accompanied by essays as well as Sagmeister’s own words, the series is a combination of personal revelation, art, and design as well as advice. This book consists of fifteen unbound images in a laser-cut slipcase. Shuffling the sequence of the signatures will produce 15 different covers.
Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far is also an exhibition on show at Deitch Projects‘ Grand Street gallery in New York until Feburary 23.
Sagmeister’s full list of 20 maxims are as follows:
1. Helping other people helps me.
2. Having guts always works out for me.
3. Thinking that life will be better in the future is stupid. I have to live now.
4. Organising a charity group is surprisingly easy.
5. Being not truthful always works against me.
6. Everything I do always comes back to me.
7. Assuming is stifling.
8. Drugs feel great in the beginning and become a drag later on.
9. Over time I get used to everything and start taking for granted.
10. Money does not make me happy.
11. My dreams have no meaning.
12. Keeping a diary supports personal development.
13. Trying to look good limits my life.
14. Material luxuries are best enjoyed in small doses.
15. Worrying solves nothing.
16. Complaining is silly. Either act or forget.
17. Everybody thinks they are right.
18. If I want to explore a new direction professionally, it is helpful to try it out for myself first.
19. Low expectations are a good strategy.
20. Everybody who is honest is interesting.