November 14, 2013
Yago Hortal
Layer upon layer of acrylic paint on linen – this is the sort of painting I want to stare at from about an inch away, so I can figure out the logistics behind it all. Yago Hortal has a definitive style that I’m happy to get lost in even from afar. (via The Jealous Curator)
November 11, 2013
Mix #30: I’m Waiting Here
PHOTO: Thomas Longo
Listen to I’m Waiting Here on Spotify.
Posted In mixtape, music
November 8, 2013
Happy Weekend
01/ Picnic, a vertical loop picnic table.
02/ Would you pick up and move into Round House?
03/ Lick, a photo series that catches dogs what else – mid-lick!
04/ Colorful monster portraits made from candy mosaics.
05/ I bet pizza made in this rotating disco ball pizza oven tastes better!
06/ China has created the world’s largest ball pit with one million balls. Wow.
07/ All Streets, a map of America made up of 270 million roads.
08/ Dark Venice, mysterious photos of Venice under darkness.
09/ In Murmurations swarms of plastic bags resemble flocks of birds and illustrate pollution.
10/ Copenhagen is planning to build a massive incinerator/ski slope in 2017.
This week on Design Crush:
Join me in pledging to Give Books this holiday season and be entered to win 10 of my favorite titles from Chronicle Books! Also receive 30% off all purchases (except personalized) through the end of the year.
Check out the start of our calendar coverage with 2014 Calendars – Part 1.
Lovely photography from Kaitlin Rebesco.
See how Cursive Design’s 2013 FW13 collection was inspired by our NYFW 2012 collaboration.
Creative cross-stitch art from Diane Meyer.
Hatchery – a curated box of artisinal condiments and ingredients – would make a great gift for your favorite foodie!
Even more cross-stitch art (of a completely different variety) from Evelin Kasakov.
Twelve holiday dresses for all of your seasonal fetes.
One of my favorite fall memories and my take on my Grandma’s apple dumplings!
November 7, 2013
Evelin Kasakov
Evelin Kasakov‘s background in advertising and graphic design lends itself extremely well to her current line of work – CMYK embroidery based on the four colours used in traditional offset printing. Evelin uses her skills in typography, grid systems and design techniques to challenge the preconceptions of embroidery as we know it.
November 6, 2013
Diane Meyer
Majorly crushing on American artist Diane Meyer this morning! Cross-stitch and photography is a magical recipe in my opinion, and Meyer does it in such an interesting way by obscuring some of the most human parts of each photograph. She has several projects, but these are all from one of my favorites – Time Spent That Might Otherwise Be Forgotten. Make sure and check out my other favorite, Berlin. (via The Jealous Curator)
November 5, 2013
Kaitlin Rebesco
Kaitlin Rebesco has a similar photographic style to mine, especially in her Head in the Clouds series seen above. (One of my favorite things is to shoot extra high or extra low – perspective!) Kaitlin combines her loves of travel, minimalism, and photography at La Paperie & Print Shop where you can check out her incredible range of work and pick up prints.
November 4, 2013
2014 Calendars – Part 1
We unofficially kicked off 2014 calendar coverage last week with the Bloggers Love Cats + Bloggers Love Dogs: A Calendar Fundraising Project, but in the name of all things official here we go! (Is it strange that I want at least ten more calendars, even though I designed two myself? I didn’t think so.) If you want to explore further, simply click on each image.
November 4, 2013
This Holiday Give Books (+ a Giveaway!)
Thanks to a librarian aunt, as well as a mom and grandma who are both voracious readers, I’ve been a bibliophile for basically my entire life. So when it comes to the holidays I love to gift books more than just about anything. As it turns out Chronicle agrees, they’d like us all to take the pledge to give more books this holiday season. Just click below to sign up and you can download either a red badge or white badge to add to your site to support the Give Books campaign! For every #GiveBooks tweet, pin, or online signature Chronicle will donate a book to children in need through First Book with a goal of 10,000 books. As if that weren’t enough incentive, you can also receive 30% off and free shipping on everything at ChronicleBooks.com (excluding personalized products) through 12/31 with the promo code GIVEBOOKS.
Chronicle also invited me to choose ten of my favorite titles from their collection to gift to friends and family this December, no small task. But here’s the super duper part – you have a chance to win the same ten books! That’s right, a fat stack of reading material that you can either gift away or add to your own bookshelves. Included are One Line a Day: A Five Year Memory Book, Blog, Inc., Gem and Stone, Lists, 100 Years of Fashion Illustration, Pulled, Tartine: The Boxed Set, Little Paper Planes, The Art of Instruction, and Creature.
THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED. CONGRATULATIONS, ROD!
To Enter the Giveaway:
1. Make the pledge to Give Books!
2. Pop back here and tell me in the comments below that you’ve done so.
3. For an extra entry tweet about the giveaway using the hashtag #GiveBooks.
4. Pop back here (a second time) and tell me in the comments below that you’ve done so.
5. Do both before Sunday, November 10th at 11:59pm CST.
This giveaway is for U.S. residents only. Giveaway rules + disclosures.
The incredibly talented and awesome Gemma Correll illustrated all of the materials, including these downloads for Catmas gift tags, Hanukcats gift tags, and a poster!
Posted In read up, win it