January 2014 - Page 5 of 5

January 3, 2014

Happy Weekend

01/ After Christmas, discarded Christmas trees.
02/ The 124 United States that could have been (fascinating to the geography nerd).
03/ These miniature models of artists in their studios are incredible.
04/ A polka-dot bomber from World War II.
05/ I might steal a few of Woody Guthrie’s resolutions from 1942!
06/ Frozen in a Bubble makes me want to grab some bubbles and head outside.
07/ Swing Rest is just begging for a nap.
08/ Jack the Australian cattle dog balances the 12 days of Christmas!
09/ Animal Lace is one of the prettiest examples of 3D printing I’ve seen yet.
10/ Room-sized collages of colorful cups and paper.

This week (and last week) on Design Crush:
I Love the World, a killer graphic series of cities the designer has visited.
My (imaginary) New Year’s Eve party went off without a hitch!
The best mortar and pestles from Tahir Mahmood.
This textile series – Still – shows off nature at her best.
We hope you had a very merry Christmas and a happy start to 2014!
We reviewed the best of 2013 in food + cocktails, DIYs, art, style, house + home, and paper goods.
Some of Cross Street‘s art will definitely decorate our walls in 2014.
A peek at my Insta December.
We crushed on the abstract paintings of Emily Gherard.
Fourteen notebooks to help you plan everything big in the new year!
Beautiful pixelated floral screen prints from Elizabeth Corkery.

Posted In collaboration/project, create, furniture, grand design, happy weekend, house and home, installation, online, photography, sculpture

January 3, 2014

Elizabeth Corkery

Printmaker Elizabeth Corkery is the founder of Print Club Boston, and their inaugural eight piece collection – The Grid, The Trellis – is a stunner. The limited edition silkscreen prints are made in a small studio in Somerville, Massachusetts and are very affordable for original art at $100 each!

… these pieces are based around the structural geometry of the garden trellis. A commonly used armature for the upward growth of plants, the trellis simultaneously addresses the potential for fertile, organic expansion and the unnatural geometric structure of the grid.

Posted In create, graphics

January 2, 2014

Write It Down

The new year is in full swing, and I am planning for 2014 like a mad woman! List after list after list are all taking form in my notebook as plans and ideas are carefully laid. Sometimes things just don’t feel real until I’ve written them down, you know?

ROW 1: bRead Freshly Baked Notebook // Pendleton Notebook Collection // Dotted Gold Notebook ROW 2: Green Circle Notebook // Large Horseshoes Notebook // Hand Screen-printed Notebook ROW 3: Grafika by 1973 Notebook // Notebook 02 Kraft ROW 4: Monotype Notebooks // LIVRO Notebook // Kraft Journal ROW 5: Ruler Diary // Small Check 02 Notebook // Classic Notebooks

Posted In notebooks + journals, paper goods, round up

January 2, 2014

Emily Gherard

Emily Gherard‘s abstracts are phenomenal. They make me mind spin and turn in a way that makes me think I know what I’m looking at and then two seconds later I’m rethinking myself. I love that feeling. I’ll make you visit her site to learn what she’s actually painting (mwahahahaha).

Posted In create, painting

January 1, 2014

Happy 2014!

PHOTO: Amanda Pham

Happy New Year! Saying 2014 feels like we’re living in the future, don’t you think? This year is going to be a bit crazy, I already have a few major things penned on my calendar and I’m hoping to add a few more. My focus (or resolution, if you prefer) is going to be on living in the present. Like all of us I have the habit of thinking of the what ifs of the past and the what will bes of the future, and I’d really like to change that. Cheers to the best year yet!

Posted In holidays, new years