Archive for September, 2007
Resources, services, and inspiration for creative people.
Friday, September 28th, 2007In my web- and blog-surfing, I frequently find interesting resources for creative people, cool artists, and creative small businesses offering lovely products. Since I can’t blog about all of them and e-mailing notes about them to myself is really beginning to clutter up my inbox, I’ve decided to keep a list for my own reference [...]
Are you talking to me?
Thursday, September 27th, 2007Just for fun, here is a sheet from Japanese contemporary pop artist Yoshitomo Nara‘s Time of My Life (1992-2000), on display at MoMA. Something about it speaks to me. I can’t quite put my finger on it. Actually, yes I can. This particular piece is pretty innocuous, but Nara’s cartoonish, anime-inspired style belies the dark [...]
Boston design guide!
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007I’ve always felt that Boston gets a little overlooked design-wise, so you can imagine my excitement when Grace Bonney at Design*Sponge posted a Boston design guide. Take a look for a gloriously long list of shops offering unique paper, textile, home, and other goods, handily arranged by neighborhood. She even throws in restaurant recommendations (perfect [...]
Thank-you notes.
Monday, September 24th, 2007Well, I made out like a bandit this year. Cookbooks, ceramic pigs, Wacom tablets (yes!), plastic swords that make pre-recorded swish-clang noises when you swing them – you name it, I got it. As a civilized young lady, of course, this means I have many thank-you notes to write. I devoted some time this afternoon [...]
Let them eat cupcakes.
Friday, September 21st, 2007It’s my birthday and in honor of the occasion, let me point you to Cupcakes Take the Cake, which pays homage to what is, in my opinion, the cutest confection. The blog is filled with delectable pictures, recipes, and other cupcake-related info. Feast your eyes on these perfect, perfect cupcakes. What a treat! (Courtesy of [...]
Julie Morstad is morbid.
Wednesday, September 19th, 2007Sweetly, quietly, morbid. Delicately rendered heads feature prominently in many of her line drawings and etchings, gazing into the distance with resigned expressions. They bloom out of flowers. A child’s dangles from a Near East-flavored cityscape dotted with onion domes and finials. Willowy ladies in flowing dresses languidly drape their arms over piles of them. [...]
One-room tunes.
Monday, September 17th, 2007Ever hear and fall in love with a song that’s so obscure and indie that you can’t (il)legally download it yet or find its videos on YouTube? And then tear your hair out because it’s so good and all you want to do is hear it again, but you can’t? And then have a moment [...]
Color is for lovers.
Friday, September 14th, 2007Colour Lovers is a treasure trove of color trends and palette ideas for designers, giving members a place to create and comment on new colors and combinations. They even specify hex and RGB values for you. Shown here are “Love Addict” and “Cosmopolitan“. I love color, so I love this website. It also has an [...]
The walls have style.
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007Do you still need wall art when your wallpaper is as pretty as the selection at Walnut Wallpaper?
Juniper Breeze is passé.
Monday, September 10th, 2007Seriously, you’ve been able to get Juniper Breeze-scented bath products at the mall since I was in middle school over 10 years ago. Let it go. While browsing for a friend’s birthday gift last week, I came across a more exotic alternative: Bath&Bloom‘s white and yellow bars of Mango Rice natural handmade soap. I wasn’t [...]
Juxtaposition.
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007I like this set of Binth stationery. Children’s drawings of monsters, robots, and what looks like a marshmallow man peer out with sly grins from between the leaves of old-fashioned botanical images on earthy brown paper. Cute. Charming. Chic. Binth products are available locally at Black Ink in Harvard Square, Louis Boston at Berkeley & [...]
Mmm, MoMA.
Monday, September 3rd, 2007This is slightly behind the times because I actually visited the beautiful MoMA earlier this summer while visiting friends in Manhattan. I don’t feel bad about it, though, because good art doesn’t go out of date. Criminally, this was actually my first visit – and it was like a walk through the slide reel in [...]