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Friday, November 30th, 2007Ah! I can’t wait to check out the Prints Charming exhibition at pinkcomma gallery in Boston next Friday. The show is the first of an exhibition series that will showcase inventive Boston-area design in disciplines including housewares, fashion, textiles and product design.
Prints Charming will focus on… prints, of course, on everything from [...]
Munchies.
Friday, November 30th, 2007A sweet little foursome of chocolate penguins, available at Williams-Sonoma.
Via Black Eiffel.
Found paper.
Friday, November 30th, 2007I stumbled across lovelymailorder today via laissezfaire and am a big fan of these handmade notebooks - 65 pages of found paper and envelopes.
Check out designer Sharilyn’s blog here. And just for fun, see her pretty presentation of found paper scraps - read up on where they’re from and how they were acquired.
Holiday greeting card roundup.
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007There are so many great holiday cards to choose from (can you tell that I have this on the brain?), running the gamut from cute and cheerful to luxe and elegant. Here are some of the best I’ve gleaned… so far.
From Tess Darrow’s Portland-based Egg Press. These bright and bold graphics (see the [...]
The labeled table.
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007I’m loving this handmade, hand-lettered pottery from Emma Bridgewater’s classic Black Toast line. Simple, bold, and a little rustic - perfect for warming up with this winter.
Gift-wrapping is fun again.
Monday, November 26th, 2007For me, half the fun of having or giving a pile of presents is seeing how prettily they are wrapped. I’m not ashamed to admit that I always peel off the tape carefully so that I can preserve the wrapping - pretty paper is always a good thing to have!
I mentioned a few weeks [...]
Printable holiday cards redux.
Friday, November 23rd, 2007Hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving!
By special request from Stef, here is a holiday-nonspecific version of the bird holiday card I posted earlier this week. Click here to download the design, and see my previous post for more info on what you’ll need to make this.
Circle the date.
Friday, November 23rd, 2007I like the organic look of this 2008 calendar from Lux Bond & Green. Each of the months is silkscreened onto a circular sheet of paper handmade in Japan. Not the most practical calendar perhaps, but nice to look at…
If you’re interested in more, see my previous post on indie-produced calendars here.
Chris Natrop.
Wednesday, November 21st, 2007LA-based artist Chris Natrop turns a flat medium into amazing three-dimensional environments with his freehand cut-paper fantasy lands.
In his words…
I see emptiness as a solid object. I discovered that emptiness is a thing through the actual process of cutting paper. In the beginning, to create a work of cut-paper, I thought what I needed to [...]
The writing on the wall.
Wednesday, November 21st, 2007You already know I’m a fan of the “Keep Calm and Carry On” prints… here are a few more typographic pieces that will make a statement on your wall.
These are from Matthew Cerletty, whose Diet Coke painting was featured in this month’s Domino. Funny… strip away the packaging and marketing, and a logo suddenly [...]
DearNic.
Wednesday, November 21st, 2007Nicole of NicEvents has unveiled her first consumer line, just in time for the holidays! Click over to her etsy shop to check out her cheeky greetings.
Printable holiday cards.
Monday, November 19th, 2007I’m still wondering what happened to the summer, but with Thanksgiving almost upon us, it’s obviously time to start thinking about the holidays. In that spirit, here are two printable holiday/Christmas cards. More forthcoming (time allowing).
First up is this card with a streetlamp-in-snow motif.
For this one, you’ll need:
4-bar folded cards in Superfine White
clear [...]