Recent Posts Tagged With 'design'

• Narwhals.

  Posted on Monday September 28th, 2009 at 12:00 in design, buyables, you are just darling

  Today I happily stumbled upon this cute pair from skunkyboy creatures (blog here)… button-eyed narwhal friends Noodles and Nel....

• You cannot be serious.

  Posted on Saturday September 26th, 2009 at 12:28 in design, buyables, you are just darling

  Mini marshmallows fashioned from fleece by scrumptiousdelight in Vancouver....

• Yellow.

  Posted on Saturday September 26th, 2009 at 11:58 in design, buyables, you are just darling, home and décor

• I’m famous!

  Posted on Saturday August 1st, 2009 at 07:41 in design, blogs, crafts, paper goods, wedding paper

  Sweet! My printable notecard design is featured on the fantastic blog iDiY. iDiY catalogues all kinds of great design goodies for special events - think invitations, labels, favor packages, etc… and many are free for download. Here are a co...

• Concalma.

  Posted on Saturday July 25th, 2009 at 16:03 in design, buyables, i am out and about

  I stumbled on Concalma while wandering Old San Juan with D earlier this month - an invitingly quiet and invitingly air-conditioned little shop with a blue façade filled with locally designed bags in all shapes and patterns. I took two home with me....

• Rain rain go away.

  Posted on Sunday June 21st, 2009 at 17:17 in design, you are just darling, home and décor

  Here we are on the first official day of summer, and it feels like it’s been raining and dreary in Boston for weeks. Yuck! At least Donna Wilson’s version is cheerier - clouds and rain get different treatment in lambswool and glass....

• Inkypots.

  Posted on Sunday June 21st, 2009 at 17:04 in design, home and décor

• Sweet ceramics.

  Posted on Wednesday June 10th, 2009 at 00:00 in design, buyables, you are just darling, home and décor

  Beautiful little ceramics from Pretty Random Objects, all rounded edges and milky glazes…...

• Seeing stripes.

  Posted on Wednesday June 3rd, 2009 at 19:58 in design, paper goods, buyables

  Ooo… love the subtle bands of color on these ribbon-like rolls of tape (from happytape, now available stateside here). Don’t know what to do with them? Happytape is more than happy to tell you here. Via Oh Joy!...

• Snapshots…

  Posted on Sunday May 17th, 2009 at 19:30 in design, boston, i am out and about, home and décor

  A couple of quick mobile pics from this weekend’s SoWa Open Market opener (summer is here - at least unofficially). My favorite vendor by far was Painted Pretty, with refurbished old furniture out of their Abington studio. See their flickr fo...

• Don’t forget…

  Posted on Friday May 8th, 2009 at 22:35 in design, flowers

  …flowers for Mom! Here are a couple of shots from Mimosa in Boston and Ink & Peat in Portland to give you a little inspiration… I do have a terrible weakness for cabbage-style blooms....

• Maps & metallics.

  Posted on Friday May 8th, 2009 at 22:06 in design, paper goods, wedding paper

  Thanks to Ellen for pointing me to these gorgeous custom-designed invitations from Lisa Hoffman’s Ceci New York - each a lovingly detailed little package bursting with style. Love these in particular, with their jet-set motifs and shimmering b...

• I am eating your head.

  Posted on Tuesday April 14th, 2009 at 00:00 in design, buyables, fine art and illustration, prints & posters

  Just sayin’. These laurageorge prints (available at Supermarket) crack me up! Her work, with its blobby monsters and offbeat sense of humor, reminds me a bit of Fomato - but with a bit of retro flair....

• Sweetbeets.

  Posted on Saturday April 11th, 2009 at 14:20 in design, paper goods, buyables, products & packaging

  I’m kind of obsessed with yellow right now… is it just me? Is it spring? In any case, I’m loving the kid-friendly and very fresh palette of yellows, oranges, and blues in these sweet letterpressed gift tags from Toronto-based Swee...

• A Saturday scene.

  Posted on Tuesday March 31st, 2009 at 21:07 in design, i am out and about

  This weekend I came across this pretty display arrangement at Anthropologie. It actually reminds me a bit of Tara Donovan’s work - organic, and vaguely reminiscent of… what? A bed of mollusks, a creeping crust of barnacles, a swirl of b...

• Cash money.

  Posted on Wednesday March 25th, 2009 at 00:00 in design, buyables, home and décor, prints & posters

  Orange Beautiful makes an outrageous statement with their Cash Money print, available on Supermarket. Visit their blog to learn more!...

• Work pretty.

  Posted on Saturday March 21st, 2009 at 16:42 in design, paper goods, buyables, desk and office goodies

  I’ve been spending a lot of time at the office lately, which has turned my attention to the sad fact that I’ve neglected to stock my office drawer with supplies and knick-knacks prettier than the standard-issue. So! I’m on a missi...

• Design Police.

  Posted on Wednesday March 4th, 2009 at 23:00 in design, web finds, aren't you cheeky

  Hate Comic Sans? Horrible stock photos? Bad writing? Download Design Police’s Visual Enforcement Kit and plaster everything with these little stickies. (Kind of like the ones that come in my issues of Domino, but more righteous.) (Thanks J...

• Fomato for all.

  Posted on Monday March 2nd, 2009 at 18:51 in design, paper goods, buyables, just for funsies, aren't you cheeky, happy birthdays

  At last! My favorite absurdist cards are now available online at Fomato’s shop. Here are some highlights (”It’s pizza’s job to be incredible”? “I’m busy with this burrito”? “It is a super ugly ...

• Rain or shine!

  Posted on Thursday February 26th, 2009 at 21:49 in Photography, design, web finds

  …Or snow or fog. Pick your city and this weather service, a project by Kurt Riedi and Steffi Gloor, serves up your charmingly illustrated forecast. (I love the hands popping into the frame to hold up clouds - so cute.) Via swissmiss....

• Eieio.

  Posted on Thursday February 19th, 2009 at 23:00 in design, paper goods, buyables

  It’s a wrap with these Eieio papers from designer Jean Orlebeke - no more cheesy gift paper! Her designs are inspired by mid-century modern design, modern sculpture, and the patterns of hand woven textiles. Below are some of my favorites (inc...

• Grown up.

  Posted on Wednesday February 18th, 2009 at 19:23 in design, buyables, home and décor

  Too old for stuffed animals? Put Sandy Vohr’s black leather versions to use as bookends that manage to be simultaneously sweet and stylish. Available at The Future Perfect - or, if you’re craving more color in your life, check them out ...

• Short and sweet.

  Posted on Sunday January 11th, 2009 at 23:00 in design, paper goods, just for funsies

  Love these 2″ x 3.5″ mini notes and postcards from Tara Hogan’s Ink + Wit (all soy inks and recycled papers, of course). Perfect for a succinct little note....

• Plugged in.

  Posted on Friday January 9th, 2009 at 08:00 in design, web finds, excuse me... your nerdiness is showing

  Personalization-happy iPhone users will like this collection of 100 (really) beautiful iPhone wallpapers. I’ve had about a month now to become completely dependent on my own iPhone, and of course went through the designs and culled out my favo...

• New Nervous System.

  Posted on Tuesday January 6th, 2009 at 23:00 in design, wearables, excuse me... your nerdiness is showing

  I first blogged about Nervous System about a year ago - since then, they’ve introduced a couple of new collections based on the morphology of orchids and algae. Leave it to the pair behind these designs to rethink these forms into something ne...

• Letterform.

  Posted on Sunday January 4th, 2009 at 23:00 in design, congratulations, thank yous, paper goods, get in my belly (on food, doing whatever it is i do

  Happy 2009! I am back and blogging after a long New Year’s weekend full of snowboarding (I am pleased to report I am still in one piece), cooking, and prancing around in long underwear. Let’s kick off the year with a look at Chicago-bas...

• Oh-nine.

  Posted on Monday December 22nd, 2008 at 21:10 in design, paper goods, buyables, desk and office goodies

  We just got pummeled with snow all weekend, so I’ve been holed up - staying warm, making delicious chili, falling asleep without warning, and thinking about flipping the page to balmier months. Speaking of which - with 2009 just around the corn...

• Pretty packages.

  Posted on Monday December 15th, 2008 at 22:08 in Culture, design, blogs, crafts, paper goods, happy holidays

  My 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 (fantasti...

• Pretty much irresistible.

  Posted on Monday December 8th, 2008 at 22:20 in design, crafts, paper goods, happy holidays, buyables

  Evan and Nichole Robertson’s Little Brown Pen offers downloadable stationery and gift templates for sale on their etsy shop, to which you “just. add. paper.” Just added are templates for their holiday-themed items to give and kee...

• Some recent custom work…

  Posted on Monday December 8th, 2008 at 21:31 in design, paper goods, my custom stuff

  …for birthday people of all ages....