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There are times where I really have to restrain myself in the soft furnishing acquisition department (like the week after I get paid, but before I pay rent) but I don't know if I'll be able to after coming across…
Continue Reading →The Picket Fence
It's a sad series of events that lead to the following problem: Someone sees charm in an old house; sees the need to move in; sees the need for energy; notices a lack of electrical outlets; sees electrical cords all…
Continue Reading →Opus Shelving @ DWR
Designer Sean Yoo's Opus Shelving recently made its way to the open arms of Design Within Reach, where its indoor/outdoor flexibility and lightweight building materials are making the piece's sexy sensibility even more desirable. Inspired by ancient Roman wall-building techniques…
Continue Reading →Etsy Color
I don't spend nearly enough time looking around Etsy. Whenever I do stop by to peruse, I find amazing, almost one-of-a-kind buys. I just forget to look. But that will change shortly. Yesterday someone directed me to Etsy's color site,…
Continue Reading →Otra Design
Otra Design makes me wanna do step aerobics. This could be subconscious, as I'm actually pretty certain that my mom had a Jane Fonda video in which the transitions from "warm-up" to "fat-blasting" looked a lot like the transitions used…
Continue Reading →Nation Magazine Cover Archive
You could speculate on a bevy of reasons, from a new age of conservatism to a shrinking audience in face of a digital alternative, for what Nation Magazine Cover Archive sees as a decline in quality print magazine covers as…
Continue Reading →Max Lamb
Max Lamb makes his furniture in nice ways. When I say "nice," I don't necessarily mean by way of hammer and nail (even though hammering and nailing are, by nature, quite nice). What I mean to infer by such word…
Continue Reading →The Quiet Life
Andy Mueller, who we wrote about yesterday in a post featuring the Art Dump design group, somehow finds time outside his diverse responsibilities at Girl Skateboards to run The Quiet Life, a creative collective (of only three) that maintains a…
Continue Reading →57 Even
57 Even, is killing it. At only 24 years old, the young designer specializes in logo, brand, web, print and publication design, as well as a fine arts combination of sculpture, painting, drawing and printmaking. Clients like Loreal Paris, Harley…
Continue Reading →Newspaper Yarn
This type of green design blows my mind. Online design mag de zeen has a story about designer Greetje van Tiem who has managed to created usable yarn created from newspapers. And better still, Tiem has managed to get 20…
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