Source: Kate Cusack
Archive for January, 2009
Clasp Locker
Posted in Tactile and Textile, tagged Kate Cusack, necklaces, USA, zipper on January 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Typo/topography
Posted in Typography, tagged USA on January 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Source: Jeffrey Docherty
Table setting
Posted in Industrial design, Interior design, tagged Brussels, Europe, Italy, Netherlands on January 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For years, I’ve been amassing a table service of ceramic dishes with Century Gothic curves, each painted in contrasting colours to mix and match. This year, Seletti has thrown me for a loop with witty and beautiful pieces and a clean white aesthetic. I’m particularly keen on their white patent leather tablecloth that takes me [...]
Tea time
Posted in Industrial design, Interior design, tagged UK, USA on January 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Iain Jones‘ snap-together tea set with saucer, spoon and doily would pair wonderfully with Audrey Russel and John Truex’s breeze block sugar cubes. A make-work project for someone with my affinity for builder’s tea.
Source: Cube Me, Iain Jones
Catucinno
Posted in Art and installation, tagged Italy, UK on January 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“[...] what I will always remember of the work – the Leopard looking at me a split second before leaping at the camera, hitting the fence between us with unbelievable force. My heart and every heart in the room pounded with fear despite knowing we were perfectly safe.” – Hugo Glendinning
Source: Galerie Perrotin, Hugo Glendinning
High flight
Posted in Art and installation on January 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I always take a window seat in airplanes, and can justify the cost of any flight for the first five minutes of take-off and landing when the world below shrinks to the size of Mr. Roger’s neighbourhood, semi-trucks become Micro RCs and loud humanity ceases to exist. Equally, I can justify the cost of admission [...]
Snap to
Posted in Art and installation, tagged Canada on January 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I recently lost all the files in my computer, including several thousand saved links and images of briefly-acknowledged art to refer to at a later date. While the reality of this still hasn’t set in, Montrealer Julien Vallée’s piece for Illustrative Zurich stuck in my head.
I hated this the first ten times I saw it, [...]
Cool Cam
Posted in Photography, tagged USA on January 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Jamie Livingston took a Polaroid picture every day from March 1979 until the day he died.
Source: Photo of the Day
462
Posted in Illustration, tagged North America on January 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“A collection of sixty female and male noses, arranged chronologically from people ages 16 – 90. The original pencil drawings (based on arrest photos) are faithfully reproduced on beautifully textured, 100% cotton Hahnemühle paper.”
Source: Shawn Feenery
