These bags and gadget sleeves by Stash Bags are really beautiful. All are hand made by Mari in Omaha, Nebraska using gorgeous vintage fabrics. She’s got iPad, iPhone, Ipod, laptop, e-reader and camera bags in some really beautiful fabrics. The products are all reasonably priced, ranging from $32 for an iPhone sleeve to $120 for a 17″ laptop messenger bag.
This RGB wallpaper by the Milan based studio Carnovsky is really blowing my mind today. The wallpaper, which has been designed in many different motifs, features three color layers, one each in pure Red, Green, and Blue. The resulting patterns and complex shapes mask the real images within the wallpaper until the wallpaper is washed in corresponding colored light. When this happens, each layer is revealed in vibrant monotone color.
Abigail Edwards‘ new wallpaper pattern, Seascape, is truly beautiful. A simple repeating line drawing that blends into the wall when your not paying attention, but becomes a wonderful landscape of rolling waves that draws your eye further in when you look a little closer. The wallpaper is £59 a roll, about $92, and is hand printed in Lancashire, UK by one of the last traditional wallpaper printers in the country.
Birds in Watercolor is a beautiful on-going series by Pennsylvania based student and Illustrator Abby Diamond. These vibrant and exciting paintings seem to come alive with movement through Abby’s use of color, shape, drips, and washes. Her work is definitely worth checking out.
La Vittoria is an amazing gala event to raise money money for the Breast Cancer Foundation of Quebec and LG2 Boutique’s branding and event collateral for this years even is nothing short of spectacular. The black, white & gold colors paired with the clean typography makes for a package that feels elegant, a little American art-deco with classic cabarets styles mixed in.
I Love Creative Thinking is an awesome self-promotional piece by Brooklyn based designer Jose Ortize and a really beautiful example of letterpress capabilities. I Love Creative Thinking was printed by the talented guys at Peter Kruty Editions.
SO I had really busy weekends for the last two weeks and it skipped my mind to do the Sunday round up of the weeks posts two weeks in a row. My bad. Here it is now in its full two week glory! Enjoy.
I’m really loving this iVictrola dock by Made-Craft, merging of the iPad or iPhone & a vintage Magnavox phonograph horn creates a one of kind dock that uses passive amplification to shoot your audio around the room.
The beautiful Roudy Residence by Miller Hull Partnership sits atop a 100 foot bluff overlooking the San Jaun Islands in Washington State.
3 new videos, Sydney, Vancouver and Los Angeles, for the EF Language Schools “Live the Language” campaign
The typeface Pyke, named after the legibility researcher Richard Lionel Pyke, comes in 3 font weights Pyke-Micro, Pyke-Text & Pyke-Display. The design of Pyke brings together elements of the Transitional typefaces with much of the styling and hinting of Didone typefaces.
This is a brilliant hallway storage idea! The Shifty Desk hallway stand by designer Daniel Schofield is an Ash wood table that hides an ample amount of storage under its sliding top.
Oldenburg, Germany based photographer Klaus, aka Leontjew on Flickr, takes some really amazing photos that skirt the line between minimalist and pure pop.
These beautiful book shelves by Berlin based designer Daniel Becker arrive flat packed and go up easily. The Vincent book shelves include built in book ends and are made from powder coated steel and solid Oak shelves.
The Mensa6 Table by designer Michael Schougaard Svane is as minimal as it gets. The table consists of only 4 simple parts and assembles with no tools.
The Felt & Gravity line of storage furniture by London based designer Amy Hunting uses 100% wool felt, Douglas Fir and gravity as its main components. These brightly colored pieces all feature draped felt to hold your precious items and come flat-packed.
Wood Type Revival, a foundry that rescues old wood type and makes it play nice with computers, has released a new typeface, Concave Tuscan. Its based off of Gothic Tuscan, designed by William H. Page and it was first seen in James Conner’s Sons “Typographic Messenger” in November of 1866
The Bookmark Lamp by designer Leonard Kadid is a really brilliant reading light that uses one of your own books as its base. The ultra thin profile is made possible from tiny, but bright, LEDs set into a single bent piece of Cherry wood.
The beautiful Iona Cheval Mirror by London based design firm Pitch, run by the husband & wife team of Russell Pinch & Oona Bannon, is a solid oak full length elliptical mirror built on a simple base with a built in drawer.
The City Cottage, by Helsinki based Verstas Architects, is a tiny little 150 sq. ft. cottage built with-in Helsinki just a short distance from the clients home. The cottage uses brilliant planning to fit all the creature-comforts of home into this tiny little package.
The Inner City Bike by Grand Rapids, MI based designer Joey Ruiter turns the traditional form of a bike on its head to create something totally new.
Love the Bush Man Print series by Natasha Vermuelen for 326, a collective of designers from Auckland, NZ. The 4 print series features a Pipe, Stag, Bushshirt and an Axe all beautifully illustrated and hand printed.
Love the Bush Man Print series by Natasha Vermuelen for 326, a collective of designers from Auckland, NZ. The 4 print series features a Pipe, Stag, Bushshirt and an Axe all beautifully illustrated and hand printed. Each print is available on Endemic World for $45.00. Happy weekend.
The Inner City Bike by Grand Rapids, MI based designer Joey Ruiter turns the traditional form of a bike on its head to create something totally new. Ruiter does away with a chain and instead, attaches the cranks directly to the hub of the back wheel. This allows him to shrink the length of the bike an do away with many components.
From the designer:
“Our goal was to hit the reset button on bike design, it’s a city cruiser, more fashion than function. It is really good for simply popping out to go a short distance, and you will look smashing while doing so. But, it is not one you would use to get to work every morning…”
The City Cottage, by Helsinki based Verstas Architects, is a tiny little 150 sq. ft. cottage built in Helsinki just a short distance from the clients home. This little vacation home away from home proves that you don’t have to go far to find beauty in Helsinki.
This virtually zero-impact cottage is powered entirely by solar electricity. The house’s layout and intelligent use of space provide ample room for all the creature-comforts of a normal house into a tiny package.
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