We couldn’t pass up sharing this very clever self-promotional campaign by the Canadian ad agency Rethink. Eager to tout their own creative prowess, the firm came up with the concept of creating a range of table wines bearing labels showing some very famous table designs. “The back of each label — Continue reading
A series of pop-up cards that bloom to reveal brief messages for all occasions, Bloom Lines is the brainchild of Los Angeles-based Artecnica. Designed by Tahmineh Javanbakht and Clara von Zweigbergk to be versatile enough for use as card, gift tag, ornamentation or bookmark, Bloom Lines appropriately reflects the company’s — Continue reading
Who doesn’t like a good story? We certainly do, and if this beguiling info-graphic illustrating some facts about the color purple is any indication, we hope it’s going to be a very long story. There are the interesting tidbits, yes, but it’s the retro-inspried composition—like pages from an old color — Continue reading
Our only criticism of these lovely architectural illustrations is that they’re in greeting card dimensions; they’d make, we think, a terrific poster series. Still, for the architect or architectural enthusiast, a suite of 6 blank greeting cards, depicting famous modernist buildings designed by Le Corbusier, would do quite nicely. Graphically — Continue reading
Architectural monographs are the equivalent of fashion magazine layouts—ravishing models airbrushed to perfection, makeup, clothes and flattering angles carefully calibrated to induce gasps of admiration and envy. The murkier backstory of those layouts—costume changes, inconvenient blemishes, personality clashes, tantrums—remains, of course, out of view, left to our imaginations, or better — Continue reading
Don’t get too aflutter over this tea packaging; it’s only a concept from Yale student Yena Lee, but what a concept! In our Earth Day survey of items that take their form directly from nature, this one, not yet on the market, has to still rank high. Lee’s genius was — Continue reading
The distinctive three bands and monochrome color scheme of the Penguin paperback cover has had more than its share of design and art world admirers—the painters Harland Miller and Alanna Cavanagh, amongst them. So, perhaps Penguin Library, a new wallpaper motif by Osborne & Little, was simply an interior design inevitability. Still, — Continue reading
With over 100 destinations under their belts, the design team at Wallpaper magazine has hit upon an ingenious formula for making their city guides a magnet for design savvy wanderers. Reduce the essence of a city to a single color, keep typography to a minimum, and then watch as — Continue reading
Fashion and dieting are a natural fit. That’s what Diet Coke, the world’s best-selling brand of soda, hopes, anyway. The brand is celebrating its 30th anniversary by appointing the fashion guru Marc Jacobs as its Creative Director for the year 2013 only. Part of Diet Coke’s “Sparkling Together for 30 years” — Continue reading
It’s hard to imagine the intellectual and serious Josef Hoffmann laboring over the details and prettiness of a botanical design, but that, presumably, is what he was doing in 1904 when he designed Blueberry, this exceedingly beautiful wallpaper pattern now being produced by Studio Printworks for the design shop of New York’s — Continue reading
For architecture buffs who love those meticulously constructed to-scale building models only seen in museum surveys, London’s Design Museum has the next best thing: a set of 4 intricately laser cut pop-up greeting cards of some of the city’s famous landmarks. The impressively detailed foursome has something for traditionalists—represented by St. Paul’s — Continue reading
We applaud any product that induces us to put pen to paper, which is why these striking notebooks by the Washington, DC letterpress print shop Haute Paper most definitely caught our eye. We couldn’t very well resist such a compelling array of all-over patterns—and their added twist of glamour, foil stamped in silver — Continue reading
For a project that is “part an ode to architecture and part a self-challenge to never stop looking up,” the New York graphic designer Jose Guizar has taken it upon himself to create a suite of weekly illustrations featuring The Windows of New York. Thus far, the collection is a portrait of — Continue reading
Editorial pundits may be proclaiming the death of print, but that isn’t discouraging writers, photographers and designers from pouring themselves into publications that celebrate the particular joys of a glossy two-page spread. The new UK food and travel quarterly magazine, Cereal, has set for itself the lofty goal “of making something — Continue reading
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