I love this awesome new endeavor by SwissMiss creator Tina Roth Eisenberg. Tattly is an amazing collection of designer tattoos designed by an amazing team of talented creators. The tattoos are $5 for two of a kind or the $35 for all launch special. Look for more designs as this amazing site matures.
Wow, this really made my day. I found a sheet, waiting on my desk, of the new Pioneers of American Industrial Design Stamps by the USPS of the when I walked into the “office” today. The stamps are really quite beautiful, featuring the most iconic work of Eliot Noyes, Dave Chapman, Frederick Hurten Rhead, Donald Deskey, & Greta von Nessen with a few others. The collection was art directed by Derry Noyes and is being issued as a Forever stamp which always the current First-Class rate.
Pick them up at your local post office on on the USPS Online Shop!
I love this really beautiful print by Sparkly Pony. The “Not All Who Wander Are Lost” poster is screen printed on vintage travel maps, folds and corner creases included! Each print is a slightly different size, usually around 18″x26″, and is only $24.99 on Sparkly Pony’s Etsy shop, Gnome Sweet Gnome.
I really love these two container series, Wobble & Mushroom, by the really talented folks at Singapore based Studio Juju. The two designs use beautiful hardwood hand spun on a lathe to create really soft forms, vessels that look as though they would feel both at home in the hand and on the table. The Mushroom series lids can be turned over and used as small plates.
Dear Photograph is a really cool new tumbler. Its all images submitted by reader of what they describe as “a picture of a picture from the past in the present.” The concept of the image in an image isn’t new, but I glad to see a blog dedicated to it. Check it out for yourself, there’s not much content right now, but I’m guessing it will be chock full in a few days!
The Burning House Project is a really awesome project by Foster Huntington in which he asks people “If your house was burning, what would you take with you?” The resulting photographs of carefully arranged items display the inner conflict of deciding what to take. Do you take things that are only practical or do you take things that have sentimental value.
This line is blurred in the photographs as deciphering what is practical and what is loved simply from a photo is near impossible. Each person includes a list of their items, which in some cases gives a glimpse into the decisions made. The project has me thinking what I would take and I’ve come to the conclusion that it would mostly be sentimental items, you know, aside from my laptop.
I love the really fun MegaPhone iPhone amplifier by Enrico Bosa and Isabella Lovero of en&is. The ceramic cone sits on a simple wooden base that allows you to direct the amplifier. The simple design uses the age-old method of amplifying sound and brings it into the digital era!
— Via DesignMilk
More Helvetica is always better, especially when it’s an icon set! Max from Goodbye Horses designed Helveticons, an amazing set of royalty-free icons inspired by Helvetica Bold. The set come in three variations, Basic ($279.00), Extras ($259.00) and Complete(439.00) and includes more than 470 fantastic icons all in 7 different file formats including vectors.
— Via SwissMiss
This project falls into the realm of utterly amazing. With a set of clients who are also friends and an amazingly talented designer, pure magic has been created. The Paper Record Player wedding invitations that designer Kelli Anderson has completed for her fiends, Mike and Karen, are out of this world. The invitations feature a built in, folded paper record player that, when spun by hand at 45 RPM, plays an original song written and performed by the couple. The flexidisc record can be played on the invitation itself, unscrewed and played in a standard record player or for the less tech-inclined, the song can be streamed from an online version of the invitation. Reading the full story is well worth your time, it can be found on Kelli’s blog here.
I can’t believe I missed this print when SwissMiss put it up. The Instant Rainbow print by Yumalum is totally awesome! The print is available on Yumalum’s Etsy page for $55.
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