27 Friday Feb 2015
Posted in Inspirations & Amusements, Trends
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color, design, home decor, interior design, interiors, maison & objet, paris, product design, trade show, trend
Okay, here’s the last smattering of vignettes from January’s Maison et Objet trade fair in Paris. Happy Friday & enjoy the weekend!
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26 Thursday Feb 2015
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Since it’s “Maison” week on the blog, I thought I’d feature a song discovered along the way. A friend and I were shopping at Merci in Paris’ Marais one Saturday night, when the champagne began flowing. Well, who can resist that? So we settled in to people watch the fabulous folk attending the posh design week event (most of whom were actually invited, which – technically – we were not). Today’s track was part of the hipster playlist. Life Changes by Rose Smith from the album Dawn Raiding, 2002.
25 Wednesday Feb 2015
Posted in Inspirations & Amusements, Trends
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color, design, home decor, interior design, interiors, maison & objet, paris, product design, trade show, trend
A bit of eclecticism from the halls of Maison this January…
24 Tuesday Feb 2015
Posted in Inspirations & Amusements, Trends
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color, decor, design, furnishings, home decor, inspiring, interior design, maison & objet, paris, trade show, Trends
A blogger without reliable internet is… well, pretty hosed. Now it seems that bothersome situation has ebbed, and I’m up and running again. So it’s about time I share out some of the amazing eye candy I absorbed a few weeks ago at the Maison et Objet trade fair in Paris. Today, some of the notable colors stories.
23 Monday Feb 2015
20 Friday Feb 2015
Posted in By Design
I’m loving this fresh take on design for The Kitchen, the prepared-foods division of Whole Foods Market. Moniker teamed up with San Francisco-based Rubber Design to create a visual identity system that spanned everything from identity and packaging to custom illustration and signage.
19 Thursday Feb 2015
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chill, electronica, euro chill, london, music, UK
Something easy today, that talks of sand dunes and salty air… At the River by Groove Armada from the album Vertigo, 2000.
16 Monday Feb 2015
13 Friday Feb 2015
Posted in Inspirations & Amusements
Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone!
12 Thursday Feb 2015
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A little ode to Valentines Day! Love Is All Around (the single) by Adriana Evans, 1997.
11 Wednesday Feb 2015
Posted in Good Stuff
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design, graphic design, holiday cards, letterpress, lovely, product design, stationery, valentines day
Here are a few of my favorite “love letters” to celebrate this Valentine’s Day… (As always, click to shop!)
Ink Meets Paper – $5
Chez Gagne – $5.25
Fluid Ink Letterpress – $5.19
Ink Meets Paper – $16/6
Lark Press – $4.50
Giorgia Kat – $5
Paper Source – $17.95/10
Egg Press – $5
The Red Button Press – $4.70
The Red Button Press – $4.70
Chocolate Letters – $2.75
Paper Elephant Press – $5.55
Downtown Writing & Press – $7
Rifle Paper – $4.50
Rifle Paper – $4.50
Steel Petal Press – $4.50
09 Monday Feb 2015
05 Thursday Feb 2015
Posted in Today's Tracks
I’m frazzled. Work life is spinning madly and it seems virtually inevitable that I won’t be able to deliver on my epic project load – let alone come up with anything truly extraordinary. All of which makes me hyper and stressed out and all the more unlikely to produce anything brilliant. A familiar vicious cycle, right? So I need a chill pill in the form of a smooth groove to help center myself… and a little Crown Royal probably wouldn’t hurt either. Crown Royal by Jill Scott from the album The Real Thing: Words and Sounds, Volume 3, 2007.
04 Wednesday Feb 2015
Posted in Good Stuff
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art, artist, ceramics, creative, creativity, design, gifts, housewares, pottery, product design, shopping
Leah Ball is a Chicago, Illinois-based artist whose jewelry business took a turn towards ceramics when she began creating dishes – just as a method of display. This blossomed into a passion, and she began to focus on the art of marbling porcelain, a tedious process she developed by layering colored slips and stark white porcelain to achieve swirling textile-like patterns and vibrant colors that go deep beneath the surface.
Originally from the beachside town of Carlsbad, California, Ball’s aesthetic foundation is in the patterns and rhythms of the Pacific coast. The kind conditions, workable sands, and persistence of the tides provided her a place to play, develop, and create, but more importantly accept the Ocean as a humbling force of renewal that privileges the maker with a fresh medium every day. Her kinship with the natural cycles of the sea helped generate a creative spirit that finds satisfaction in doing and re-doing, product in practice, and truth in tedium.
Day Night Bedside Pitcher and Tumbler Set, $140
Day Night Mug Set, $75
Made-to-Order Marbled Porcelain Mug (no 2 are the same), $40
Pink and Black Hanging Planter, $68
Geio Kitchen Bowl, $40
One-of-a-Kind Marbled Porcelain Mug, $40
One-of-a-Kind Marbled Planter, $68
