Dogfighters is such a brilliant no brainer, I can’t believe it hasn’t been done! INK’s love of both dog and plane has spurred on this project that partners a golden retriever, a schnauzer, and a beagle with their WWII propeller plane counterparts. Well done, INK!
PHOTO: garmonique
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01/ Where Does the Dust Itself Collect? uses dust collected from 9/11 to try + understand it all.
02/ Check out the restoration + colorization of an old photo.
03/ Haunting photos of big rigs resting at night.
04/ Someone recreated Grandma’s Den from Little Red Riding Hood.
05/ Back to Nature, symmetrical sculptures in nature.
06/ Escalators have never been so interesting as in Escalator Portraits.
07/ Yeah, I want a bicycle-powered treehouse elevator. And a treehouse.
08/ It took 10,000 chopsticks to form this mythical dragon.
09/ Secret fore-edge paintings revealed in early 19th century books.
10/ X-rays of NASA spacesuits, so much detail goes into one of these.
This week on Design Crush:
Labor Day / So Long Summer
Marimekko’s Weather Diary Collection
Take a Note
Krochet Kids
Crumpled Sky Map
Brittany Schall
Autumn Wardrobe Wish List
therainpaintings
Brazilian artist Gustavo Sousa collects raindrops from different places, then uses them to create his beautifully simple watercolor series entitled therainpaintings. Each one represents a cloud, which couldn’t be more fitting. So far the series includes pieces from the United States, Europe, and Brazil.
Back in high school, when I was heaviest into creating my own art, my favorite tools were a pencil, an eraser, and a portrait of whatever alterna-musician I was currently crushing on straight outta Rolling Stone or Spin magazine. (I have a massive 4 x 5′ drawing of Kurt Cobain to prove the previous statement.) Hair was forever the most challenging part to get just right, so I have the utmost respect for Brittany Schall‘s Hair Studies with their perfect highlights and wispies. (via The Jealous Curator)
Clockwise: The Abbott // The Auburn // Baseball Tee // The Stephen // The Davis Jr. // The Pike // The Simon // Pocket Zip Hoodie
Krochet Kids has an unlikely back story that involves three dudes – Kohl, Travis, and Stewart – who picked up the not-so-cool hobby of crocheting while in high school. After graduating, attending different colleges, and summers spent volunteering in developing nations, the guys realized they could bring a way out of poverty to these peoples via yarn and crochet needle. Five years later 150 people in Uganda and Peru are working, receiving and education, and being mentored by creating gifts that give back! A great story with a great story and a great shop full of goods to prove it.
Posted In do good, technology, wear it
ROW 1: Sea Foam Strokes Journal // Large Notebook // Bloom Notebook Set ROW 2: Notes Blue A6 Notebook // Small Notebook 1 // Letterpress Map Notebook ROW 3: NOTES 04 // Multi Notebook ROW 4: Strike Through Notebook // Lanvin Printed Notebook // WORD Notebook ROW 5: Basic Fig. 1 Notebook // BRIKA Notebook Set 2 // Pulp Notebook ROW 6: Dots Journal // Sailor Medium Spiral Notebook // Signature Duo Notebook
Posted In notebooks + journals, paper goods, round up
01/ Prices is a series of art made from, you guessed it, price tags!
02/ Students learn anatomy by painting a live body.
03/ Museum quality specimens of popular breakfast cereals.
04/ Overlapped photography reveals similarities between fathers + sons.
05/ Love these drawings with a fingerprint-like patterns.
06/ Street garbage gets turned into quirky characters.
07/ Japan’s summertime firework festivals are gorgeous.
08/ Billowing clouds of colorful smoke.
09/ A ballerina performing en point in knife shoes!
10/ Beautiful aerial photos of Poland’s lakes across the seasons.
This week on Design Crush:
And Five Years Later I Have a Guest Room
Tips&Tricks: Kitchen
The Guest Room // The Paint
Defne Tesal
The Guest Room // The Lighting
Feel Good Wednesdays
The Guest Room // The Art
The Guest Room // The Wallpaper
Pattern Box
The Guest Room // The Bedding
InstaAugust
This collection of patterned postcards – Pattern Box – just makes me happy. You know what I mean, how something seemingly small can do that? Curated by NYC’s Textile Arts Center, it features 100 postcards from ten international designers. Pattern Box is definitely going to amp up my correspondence game which has been sorely lacking in 2013, not to mention the inspiration wall in my office.
Because the accent wall of intricately patterned wallpaper takes center stage in the guest room I really wanted to focus on having one main piece of art. My initial plan (pre-paint, pre-everything) was to hang a large print over the bed. But once I got the headboard in the room and realized it rose considerably higher than I remembered that plan went right out the window. Instead I chose this photography piece from Ivan Tsupka’s Minimalscapes series through Saatchi Online.
That luminous sun and white frame pop in a big way when hung against the navy wall. Saatchi Online has so many great artists that it was really difficult to decide, but I’m so happy with the direction I went. I also think it contrasts nicely with the secretary desk and white accessories directly underneath for a nice minimal look.
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