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Monday, December 15th, 2008My mom always foists the job of wrapping gifts onto me, but it’s one chore I never mind - and how could I, when there are items like these to work with?
Shown above are an assortment of handmade graphic wrapping papers from Rifferaff (fantastic blog here on the crafting biz); candy cane wrapping paper from [...]
Happy Halloween!
Friday, October 31st, 2008I can use a few more baby ghost pumpkins in my life, can’t you? Happy Halloween!
Photo by dystopos.
Mini monuments.
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008Lots of tiny, mod silhouettes make up this ad from the Centre des monuments nationaux. Very cool!
See if you recognize any… (click the pic to see a larger image).
Via stephmodo.
Alternative architecture.
Friday, August 1st, 2008Instead of steel or stone, think paper… and jelly!
From Studio d. sharp in Portland, Oregon come these familiar monuments, scaled down to handcrafted paper structures full of vintage charm. The Eiffel, Tower of Pisa, Colosseum, and Arc de Triomphe stand tiny at 5 inches tall.
Then there’s London-based Bompas & Parr, purveyors of fine English [...]
Only in Japan.
Monday, May 26th, 2008The MoMA store is featuring a limited-time collection of products usually found only in Japan, Destination: Japan. The 100+ items in the collection are all designed by established and emerging Japanese designers; here are some of the coolest (the pig lid is my favorite by far).
Clockwise from top left: Apple jar by Tatsuya Okazaki [...]
Tara Donovan at the Met.
Friday, February 15th, 2008Art and science collide again in Tara Donovan’s exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, on view through April 27. Donovan uses mundane materials (think styrofoam cups, straws, or loops of tape) to create sensual sculptural landscapes channeling biological growth. Here are some shots of her gorgeous, surprising work.
This definitely [...]
February First Friday!
Monday, February 4th, 2008Fridays are nice, but First Fridays are even better. Getting a peek at new art, chatting up emerging artists, and a big fat dinner in the South End - what a perfect way to pass an evening. Here are some shots from February First Friday, where we saw everything from half-scale men of [...]
Sound words of advice.
Monday, January 7th, 2008Just before the holidays, I finally snagged one of these for my very own and hung it up above my bed. There are quite a few artists out there offering screenprinted reproductions of this vintage British WWII-era poster, but I got this one from Victoria of sfgirlbybay right here. She’s now offering them [...]
A small shout-out.
Monday, January 7th, 2008Though this is unrelated to design or papercraft, I fully expect it to be just as interesting (which is to say, very)… dear friend, aspiring writer, and romantic old soul Liz just started her own blog, c h i n k / l i t - a travelogue documenting her upcoming 2008 travels in Shanghai, [...]
Pink and gold.
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007Silver and gold? No, it’s all about pink and gold, as in these fairy-tale holiday-scapes from the most recent issue of Blueprint.
For dressed-up get-togethers at any time of year, I often like to hang strings of white lights behind sheer curtains to get a pretty, diffused-light effect - but I also really like this [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]