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September 9, 2016

Happy Weekend

1/ Shower to the People, a mobile unit that provides free showers to St. Louis’ homeless
2/ Japan’s Ghostbusters-inspired marshmallow burger
3/ Beautiful tooled leather bike saddles
4/ Paris’ first floating hotel
5/ Bit Leaves: square flowers and plants by Baku Maeda
6/ The lunar cycle displayed through 15,000 colorful origami birds
7/ Vibrant, realistic frescoes painted over old building facades
8/ Charming cut paper silhouettes transform famous U.S. landmarks
9/ How to give a car a wicked paint job using gravity
10/ Sweet Dreams
11/ This musician tattoos the names of suicide survivors among his fans
12/ Greenlid compostable compost bin

1/ Alexandria Coe
2/ Print Edition: September 2016
3/ Lisa Sofield
4/ Nick Pena
5/ Oxford Pennant
6/ Thomas Mailaender’s Illustrated People
7/ 12 places to find great bedding
8/ Where to Eat Pizza
9/ The world of Whirlpool

Posted In create, do good, food, happy weekend, house and home, kitchen, living, paper, series, street, tattoos, textiles, travel, video

August 26, 2016

Happy Weekend

1/ Cheryl Sorg
2/ All Things Coffee
3/ Daniel Taylor
4/ Marc Figueras
5/ Mix&Match
6/ All Patched Up
7/ Rice Krispie Treats 12 Ways
8/ Tom Blachford’s Midnight Modern
9/ Alessandro Calabrese’s A Failed Entertainment

1/ Russian family poses for sweet and surreal photos with a real bear in the woods.
2/ Exploding paint cans in slow motion.
3/ Camera traps capture striking photos of African animals at night.
4/ The crazy things you can use as tiles.
5/ Mesmerizing acrylic and resin swirl table brings the universe to the dining room.
6/ Technicolor rainbow tape floor installations by Jim Lambie.
7/ The Moment, a short animation that will punch you in the gut with emotions.
8/ A stunning house that can change colors like a mood ring.
9/ An antique piano cut in half, connected only by a wishbone.

Posted In create, furniture, happy weekend, house and home, installation, living, photography, sculpture, series, video, walls

August 14, 2016

Happy Weekend

1/ Giant living painting with 26,500 real flowers at London’s National Gallery.
2/ Spanish street artist Pejac hangs gravity-defying shoes over city streets.
3/ Rocking chair bed.
4/ Inside the crazy world of Olympic pin trading.
5/ Aerial photos that capture the divide between rich and poor in South Africa.
6/ The creative projects inspired by the 2016 Rio Olympics.
7/ A glimpse inside a handmade amusement park 40 years in the making.
8/ Mesmerizing kinetic sculpture at the 2016 Olympics glitters like the sun.
9/ DNA-shaped suspension bridge inspired by the Olympic rings.
10/ A clever ring that let’s women point out the obvious.

1/ We’re giving away a George Nelson Bubble Lamp on Instagram!
2/ bunglo
3/ Daniel Entonado
4/ Eight new notebooks
5/ Lorraine Nam
6/ Michael Nykamp’s Mid-Century Modern Homes
7/ Ring Soap
8/ Sigrid Calon Memory Game
9/ Snapbacks are where it’s at

Posted In create, happy weekend, jewelry, photography, sculpture, series, street, style, travel, wear it, wood

August 7, 2016

Happy Weekend

1/Rent this floating house on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef 2/Brian Finke captures sad desk lunches 3/Emillie Ferris’ hyperrealistic embroidered pet portraits 4/Check out the new IKEA museum 5/Nike’s summer shoe collab is a floral dream come true 6/Haroshi carves stacked skateboard decks into colorful sculptures 7/Japanese restaurant serves noodles in elegant ice bowls 8/A dizzying infographic takes us through 146 years of music 9/Instagram chef turns junk food into next level cuisine 10/A collection of colorful crafted ceilings 11/Send your friends an envelope of the night sky

1/Backpacks + Rucksacks 2/Conrad Crispin Jones 3/Designer Fund / Moniker 4/Graham Yarrington 5/Kate Hush 6/Laura Jane Scott 7/Tips + Tricks: Food Styling and Photography 8/Print Edition: August 2016 9/Tacopedia

Posted In collaboration/project, create, food, graphics, happy weekend, living, music, online, photography, sculpture, series, shoes, style, textiles, travel, wear it

July 29, 2016

Happy Weekend

1/Christo floats a 3km walkway across an Italian lake 2/This company is revolutionizing the way we put on sunscreen 3/Thirteen animals made from 13 circles 4/Glittering galaxy-inspired donuts 5/Works by Van Gogh recreated by swirling pain in water 6/Lifelike wooden animals sculpted using a chainsaw 7/MI Guitar can make us all experts 8/This plate absorbs excess oil from food 9/Ceramic shards found on the beach are turned into chopstick rests using kintsugi 10/Shitty Rigs, a tumblr of DIY filmmaking rigs 11/A turntable that lets your friends know what you’re listening to 12/Tattoos that integrate ink with body curvature

1/Courtney Mattison’s Our Changing Seas 2/Backyard Spaces 3/Benoit Paille’s Surreal Mexico 4/Abeego 5/Ugo Rondinone’s Seven Magic Mountains 6/House Plant Mobiles 7/Bodil Jane 8/The Dreslyn Tarot Deck + Guidebook 9/Rose Wong

Posted In create, food, grand design, happy weekend, installation, living, music, painting, sculpture, series, tattoos, technology

July 22, 2016

1/Mehmet Ali Uysal‘s installation literally peels and pinches the walls of a gallery. 2/Adult Capri Suns are a thing. 3/Chuan-Bin Chung uses his chalkboard drawing skills to teach students anatomy. 4/IKEA taps HAY and Tom Dixon for new products. 5/Minipresso is the world’s smallest outdoor espresso maker. 6/The colorful grout trend. 7/Pole dancer performs an interactive routine with a responsive geometric background. 8/Genius wage gap alarm clock that rings for women after 79% of the workday. 9/JC Sheitan Tenet got the world’s first tattoo arm prosthesis. 10/Temporary tattoos from Jeannerot look and smell good. 11/Perch Light is a playfully interactive light shaped like an abstract bird. 12/Olafur Eliasson installed a waterfall in the middle of the Palace of Versailles garden.

1/Kris Knight 2/Dreamy Daybeds 3/Katherine Tromans 4/Incense Burner No. 1 Corian
5/William Betts 6/Muesli 12 Ways 7/Matthias Heiderich 8/Ridges 9/Reyes de la Flor

Posted In collaboration/project, create, grand design, happy weekend, house and home, illustration, installation, lighting, living, outdoors, recipes, series, tattoos

July 15, 2016

Happy Weekend

1/Edward Hopper’s paintings are brought to life by film director Gustav Deutsch. 2/Ralph Graf documents the emptiness of abandoned houses and military bases. 3/In Pizza Hunt friends travel the world taking photos of old Pizza Huts. 4/Laura Zalenga creates dreamscapes inspired by the Brothers Grimm. 5/Lee Stewart‘s minimal tattoo style mimics brushstrokes. 6/Haruka Misawa‘s 3D printed waterscape aquariums. 7/Molekule, the molecular air purifier. 8/A wheelchair that might actually change lives. 9/Truck-A-Float, a hotel in Rockaway. 10/Vivid Sydney cloaks the city is a display of vibrant lights.

1/Angel Oloshove 2/Cecile van Hanja 3/12 July DIYs 4/Katy Ann Gilmore 5/Nicole Tijoux 6/My 3 Cats + Helping Purina Help Cats in Need 7/Su-Jeong NAM 8/4 Manicures I Might Actually Try

Posted In collaboration/project, create, do good, happy weekend, house and home, installation, living, photography, series, tattoos, travel

July 8, 2016

Happy Weekend

1/Jidouhanbaiki is a photo series that explores Japan’s obsession with vending machines 2/Chihiro Ogura creates cookie masterpieces inspired by cultural Japanese motifs 3/Inks, a modernist art app disguised as a pinball puzzler 4/Rippling liquid marble mimics a flowing river in Petit Loire 5/Serpentine tattoos by Mirko Sata weave black and white ink together 6/A model painted with glowing makeup lights up beautifully under UV light in Neon Dream 7/Paper flowers by Haruka Misawa 8/Hair stenciling in the new trend everyone will be trying 9/France has a wine theme park, La Cité du Vin 10/The Beach Vault will keep your stuff from getting stolen at the beach

1/Happy 4th of July 2/Print Edition: July 2016 3/Bonnie and Neil 4/Anna King 5/WKNDLA 6/Endre Penovác 7/To Wallpaper or Not to Wallpaper 8/Leslie Weaver

Posted In beauty bag, create, food, grand design, happy weekend, installation, living, photography, series, style, tattoos, technology, travel

July 1, 2016

Happy Weekend

Maybe you’ve noticed that Happy Weekend has been inconspicuously missing since last December, or maybe you haven’t. To be completely honest it’s a time consuming post and didn’t seem to be garnering much interest, so I thought no one would notice if it just went away. But as in many things in life I was wrong, and its demise has been mentioned by several of you in the past few months (including my own father.)

So without further ado, here’s Happy Weekend in its latest incarnation! A slew of links from other sites that I share on Facebook throughout the week as well as a roundup of what you may have missed out on right here on Design Crush.

1/Bitchin’ Bugs, a groovy book about the insect world directed towards an adult audience. 2/Abandoned in Place is photographic exploration of forgotten relics of the American space race. 3/ReGen Villages is a self-sustaining utopian village in the Netherlands. 4/Your food is delivered on tiny rollercoasters at the aptly named Rollercoaster Restaurant. 5/Scientists have developed see-through wood. 6/Explore the forgotten spaces below highways and bridges in the Skies of Concrete series. 7/Mini golf gets a modern marble redesign. 8/Cinema Palettes generates the color palette used in iconic movie scenes. 9/Play Werewolf. 10/Instrument 1 aims to make playing music less intimidating.

1/Jess Riva Cooper / Viral Series 2/Livada Fragrance Vase 3/Underneath It All
4/Rebekka Connelly 5/Paul Trillo / Chromacity 6/Turntables, Speakers + Headphones
7/Jesse Moretti 8/The Roommate Book 9/Clare Pentlow

Posted In happy weekend, series

November 21, 2015

Happy Weekend

This week on Design Crush:
Have you entered our EPICfail giveaway? You could win the prettiest Slope Ring to keep or gift.
We created a tasty Friendsgiving with the help of the Mealtime Movement.
A second giveaway! Enter to win something special for both you and a friend from Lamps Plus!
Antoine Cordet‘s portraits and moody and perfect for November.
You’re invited to my imaginary Thanksgiving! And trust me, it’s the best ever.
Take a virtual vacation with Stacie Green‘s mixed media art.
I gave my bar cabinet a little makeover with the help of some removable wallpaper and Walls Need Love.
Don’t you love Ben Skinner‘s Same Same series?!
Because this time of year is about picking your battles – Make or Buy: Advent Calendars.

Design Crush elsewhere:
Check out 5 tips for feeding a crowd before Thanksgiving.
A masculine take on some interior inspiration.

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