Ok, it’s not officially spring yet, but when we spotted this brilliant, graphic tulip at Timbergram, a UK brand of wooden, screen-printed postcards, we couldn’t help getting a little ahead of ourselves. Made from 4 mm birch, and manufactured in the UK, Timbergrams are greeting cards/announcements patterned after early 20th — Continue reading
If only taking a ceramic class was a guarantee of output this drop-dead gorgeous, we’d probably all be lining up for a weekend lesson or two. But the Brooklyn-based sculptor Pamela Sunday is clearly not your standard ceramist. Her work, she says, is informed by nature and science, and we believe — Continue reading
Here’s a novel (and green) gift idea for a kid or any comic book-loving adult: The Letteroom, a UK printing studio, will hand craft upper-case, 3-D letters, using original, vintage comic book pages and 100% recycled card stock. The letters are lightweight, but sturdy, and available in four choices of comic — Continue reading
No one can accuse Charles and Ray Eames of not playing nice. While busying themselves with the business of becoming iconoclasts of American design, they somehow managed to also find the time to invent interactive, imaginative children’s toys like this one, created in 1951, and simply packaged as The Toy. — Continue reading
Humble gingham, it’s safe to say, is not what comes to mind when considering the grid paintings of contemporary artists traversing the high-brow world of art galleries. But the Wisconsin-born artist Michelle Grabner has made gingham patterns, “this clichéd vernacular motif,” as she calls it, a recurring theme in her acrylic — Continue reading
“I want to reinvent the built environment in order to extend the reach of consciousness,” says the ecologically-minded artist Michael Jantzen. Here, he explains his latest concept, The Solar Winds Gathering Place. “The Solar Winds Gathering Place is a design proposal for a large, prefabricated, modular, public art project. In — Continue reading
These graphic Navy Signal Prints are by the London-based graphic designer Hana Tanimura, whose self-initiated project looks to maritime flags and their system of visual communication for inspiration. Simple, cleanly rendered geometric shapes and vibrant colors are a staple of maritime flags and pennants, and Tanimura was savy enough to see how — Continue reading
Directly, or indirectly, artists and designers have always found distinctive ways to express the concept of love in their work. In observance of Valentine’s Day, we’ve started a Pinterest board of our favorite love-laced art, creations by artists both world-renowned and less celebrated. A Tracey Emin mug, Angus Hyland poster — Continue reading
“I have created a space where people become a little uncertain as to whether they have stepped into a work or into part of the museum,” says the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson of his permanent rooftop installation at ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum in Århus, Denmark. And that’s a pretty good description of Your — Continue reading
Nostalgia for the way things used to be—or at the very least, the way things used to look—can fairly be explained in one word: quality. Prior to the advent of mass production, the thinking goes, stuff was made to last a good while, and, thus, made with a great deal more care. — Continue reading
With our ardor for Mid-Century Modern furnishings in no imminent danger of subsiding, these three-color letterpress notecards from Digby & Rose, featuring illustrations of George Nelson’s clock and pendant lamps, and Harry Bertoia’s Diamond wire chair, are a worthwhile indulgence. The debossed brick wall is a particularly nice touch, and — Continue reading
Neon wasn’t invented specifically for Las Vegas, but we might be forgiven for assuming it was. No city on any continent has ever flourished as brightly in the glow (or, in Vegas’ case, glare) of neon signage as has America’s gambling capitol. And now, thanks to the recently-opened Neon Museum, — Continue reading
If you’re looking for a reason to go to Barcelona—and let’s face it, who isn’t?—I’m pleased to offer you four: a suite of visually compelling, primary-colored guides and fold-out maps designed by Astrid Stavro Studio for Barcelona’s Tourism Office. The series focuses on the city’s shopping districts and the retail streets — Continue reading
What is with all the weather indoors? First I saw Berndnaut Smilde’s Nimbus pieces; now I see Tomas Saraceno’s Cloudy House installation at Andersen’s Contemporary Berlin. Saraceno’s exhibition includes a cloud installation, sculpture, video and photographs. The clouds are constructed of matte, white paper which are suspended individually by nylon — Continue reading
There’s good penmanship, and then there’s what Jessica Hische does. The San Francisco-based designer and illustrator creates hand-drawn letters and entire alphabets so unusually ornate in their beauty, they seem almost better suited to a more genteel era. Which may be why her handiwork lends itself so nicely to Penguin — Continue reading
Hand-written notes may be taking a back seat to digital communication these days, but if you’re looking for an excuse to make a lasting written impression, these gorgeous cards and envelopes may be the answer. Inspired by Indian textiles and architecture, these recycled cotton paper products from John Robshaw Textiles are machine stitched — Continue reading
Curves in stone seems against nature, yet man has been creating curves out of stone for centuries. It takes great skill to transform hard Carrara marble into sensuous shapes of legs and arms. Even more so, in my humble opinion, to wield the tools creating biomorphic forms in the — Continue reading
Marüshka was originally founded in 1972 in Michigan and became famous for their popular method of hand-printing and silk-screening decorative canvases. Super popular in the 1970s and 1980s, you often saw these affordable wall art pieces in commercial spaces as well as residential homes. Now prized by vintage-loving collectors, these — Continue reading
Soft, organic, subtle, haunting, sad, promising — Landon Metz’s abstract paintings are all these things and more, and his work from 2012 is a mixture of all the best things he creates. Using colors expertly, Landon’s created these tiny microcosms that make you almost wish you could zoom in and see — Continue reading
We guess the idea of Valentine’s Day has been slowly seeping into our brains, because boy did we fill our Pinterest stream with heart-shaped things galore. But we also spotted a lot triangles this week, cropping up into our minds. And also we pondered strange homes, cactus and stacks of — Continue reading
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