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January 13, 2014

Whitney English Day Designer

I’m one of those people. The kind who prefers pen and paper to touchscreen and who needs to write down everything in order to remember it. I’ve used a day planner since high school, but 2013 was the year I found The One. The Whitney English Day Designer is so well thought out that I have to refrain from kissing the lady behind it each and every time I see her. From the worksheets in the front for the solo entrepreneur, to the full page allotted for each day, to the schedule and to do columns – I’m smitten. I’ve never felt more organized in my life, which is saying a lot. (Please note the importance of the last item on my Sunday to do list below.)

Posted In calendars, my life, paper goods

January 13, 2014

Prints: January Edition

Oceanica // Constellations // blue and red // Healing Wreath – Happiness

Graffiti Kiss // My Food Is All Natural // Turn the Page // Ordinary Silence

Posted In create, paper goods, prints

January 11, 2014

Happy Weekend

01/ A beautiful photo series of synchronized swimmers and nature.
02/ Step Into the Void, a new installation in the French Alps for the brave.
03/ A giant aluminum sea serpent skeleton on the shore of the Loire River.
04/ ThePresent is an annual analog clock, completing one revolution every 365 days.
05/ Ufogel, a compact home with the most breathtaking views in Austria.
06/ Head Over Heels, a fun series of people walking around Paris on their hands.
07/ Fabric-like paper cuttings by Pablo Lehmann.
08/ Cause and Effect is a chandelier made of 42,000 acrylic resin figures.
09/ This truck is made of ice.
10/ Solitary row houses defying urban decay.

This week on Design Crush:
The beautiful paintings of Jules de Balincort.
The Hope Bird collection represents the future.
I had a merry Orthodox Christmas with my family in Pittsburgh!
Incredible paper cuttings + a fantastic backstory from Elsa Mora.
I’d love to have this Starry Light in my home.
Jennifer Ament‘s killer linocuts.
Ten warm and hearty soups to get you through the polar vortex.
Anne Smith‘s 100 Cups project is lovely.

Posted In create, grand design, happy weekend, installation, paper, photography, sculpture

January 10, 2014

Anne Smith

Last week I started my first official 365 days project (more on that later), and I’d like to think that artist Anne Smith began her 100 Cups project in much the same way. Mine isn’t anywhere near as beautiful as hers, but I love the idea of taking the same thing again and again and finding ways to make it new.

Posted In create, illustration

January 9, 2014

Jennifer Ament

Chances are you’ve seen the work of Jennifer Ament in more than one place over the past year, she’s everywhere and with good reason. Her stark linocuts and sparse pops of color are just that good, yet I love that her biggest run of any piece is fifty. Make one your own in her shop.

Posted In create, paper goods, prints

January 8, 2014

Elsa Mora

Artist Elsa Mora was born into poverty in Cuba and believes she changed her future by imagining a better destiny. I love that. Today she lives in Los Angeles and creates beautifully intricate art using only paper and glue. Never believe anyone who tells you your mind isn’t a powerful thing! (Read Elsa’s incredible backstory here.)

(via Colossal)

Posted In create, paper

January 6, 2014

Hope Bird

The Hope Bird collection is a limited edition collaboration between designer Jaime Hayon and Design-Apart. Each one of the fifteen cheeky ceramic birds is absolutely identical in shape and size, but hand-painted in a unique design using gold and black. The entire collection is a representation of hope and an optimistic future.

(via Design Milk)

Posted In collaboration/project, create, sculpture

January 6, 2014

Jules de Balincourt

Paris born, Brooklyn-based painter Jules de Balincourt is crazy versatile. Figures, abstracts, landscapes, you name it. Yet everything he touches has a unique touch, making it unabashedly his style.

Posted In create, painting

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