Takeaway from Established and Sons is a catchall for baubles and trinkets. Constructed out of folded sheet metal, it goes to show that even something as simple as a fast food container can be interesting when looked at with different eyes. (via Core77)
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Artist Laurie Frick uses pattern, words, and color found in bits of paper to create collages that replicate the feel of neurons firing in a person’s brain. The point is, there’s a fine line between art and science.
Posted In create, paper“I imagine the brain breaks down visual time into bits where the novel and odd are as essential to recollection as the intensely emotional. Vaguely familiar cut-up materials stand-in for everything you stumble across in a day, the amount you see and forget and the things you give only partial-attention. How much does the brain take in every day, every logo and advertisment online, every storefront you pass by, the packaging along every aisle in the grocery store, every ad on television.”
The palette of Iittala’s purnukka jars couldn’t match my home better if they tried. I’d love to sue that turquoise one in particular to house my sea salt. {via Creature Comforts}
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PHOTO: via Audrey Hepburn Complex, no photographer source
I read this short editorial last week in The New York Times about the melancholy of Sunday, and thought there’s no better time to share than a Monday afternoon. It’s something I feel nearly every single week and could never hope to put into such beautiful prose. My favorite excerpt:
Posted In read upBut Sunday evening brings a feeling completely unlike, say, Tuesday evening. The slower pace on the sidewalks feels like reluctance. The traffic seems almost melancholy. You suspect that the dogs, out for the last walk of the night, can smell the Sunday-ness of it all.
PHOTO: not martha
Promo for Karen Walrond’s book The Beauty of Different
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PHOTO: Jennilee Marigomen
01. love these tie-on birthday crowns
02. I need some neon in my spring wardrobe
03. a little morbid, but some of us want to be modern even in death
04. I’m awful at making lunch, looking forward to trying some of these recipes
05. make a hanging gutter garden (then say that three times fast)
06. yeah, I could shack up in this treehouse
07. make your own Peeps + Cadbury Eggs (there’s even a deviled version!)
08. I like the idea of a skewer station next to the grill
09. cloud doughnuts
10. a brilliant paper record player invitation from Kelli Anderson
PS: Sign up for the mixtape swap!
Posted In birthday, easter, happy weekend, holidays, house and home, invitations, kitchen, make it, outdoors, paper goods, recipes, wear it, weddings
And Now This by Dave Ladd
{via this isn’t happiness}
Michael Cera & Jesse Eisenberg, I Thought They Were the Same Guy For 2 Years
by David Barclay
black and white paw poster by Tree Fox
(and every other print in their shop!)
{via Studio Sweet Studio}
Cody Trepte’s All It Is, And Ever Was, And Ever Will Be project made me catch my breath a little. Honestly. It’s such an immense though, and when you put it against a backdrop as majestic as outer space it makes my mind want to explode in an amazing way. The entire series consists of twelve silkscreens, most not even containing text.
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I’m a gigantic infographic nerd, I think most designers are. Infographics are a way we can put our creative brains to use in a more analytical manner, all while making everything look nice and organized. That’s probably the reason the My Life in Graphs journal caught my eye. A book full of graphs all about me? Come on, there’s a little bit of narcissistic tendency in all of us.
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Type nerd alert! Check out the Le Bijou Alphabet Ring collection from Axylo. At first glance it’s just another chunky ring, but look a little closer and it’s a letter. All twenty-six are available in different finishes and materials.
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