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Yellow.
Rain rain go away.
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.
Sweet ceramics.
Beautiful little ceramics from Pretty Random Objects, all rounded edges and milky glazes…...
Snapshots…
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...
Cash money.
Orange Beautiful makes an outrageous statement with their Cash Money print, available on Supermarket. Visit their blog to learn more!...
Grown up.
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 ...
Hearth and home.
Love these pleasingly subdued yet carefully crafted household wants from Anthroplogie… Shown above: Airtight Kilroy canister | safari bottle stoppers made of recycled glass | green stoneware measuring bowls | house-shaped incens...
White and azure.
Some gorgeously airy photography from Canada-based Jennifer Squires Productions. Jennifer emailed me to tell me about her new collection of photos featuring scenes from Greece, including Gateway to the Past and Farther Than the Eye Can See (both sho...
Creepies.
When did it get so cold out? I was just hitting my stride tan- and A/C usage-wise when suddenly, it was fall. Alas. Though I prefer summer, at least the change in season means I can have pumpkin pie (best pie ever) and take my fierce boots out of ...
I Am Still Alive.
Remember the We Are So Good Together print I loved this spring? Here are more great prints from Dylan Fareed’s Brooklyn design practice, I Am Still Alive: I Can’t Get No, Gravity’s Rainbow, The Seven Rules of Astronomy (”shit...
A few cool prints.
From London design agency SampsonMay - Radius ‘09 (a radial 2009 calendar), Dirty Bird, and Use Two Hands. Though they work primarily on design projects for corporate clients, the people at SampsonMay spend their non-work hours on great art pr...
Tabletop Baskerville.
Too cool… plywood coasters fashioned from carefully cut Baskerville letters, from New York design student acd. You can find these on Supermarket here (and a version in clear frosted acrylic here!)....
Toys.
Tap into your inner kid with these beautiful hand-sculpted wooden animals from Romp, made of made of pear, walnut, beech and other woods and finished with beeswax. So carefully and beautifully done… Via elephantine....
The abc’s.
Love this alphabet chart from The Small Object, created wholly from their line of rubber stamps. Goofy little creatures - from underdogs to dust bunnies to teeth - cavort in rows across the chart, illustrating their letters. Available in sepia and ...
These posters don’t suck.
Check out this array of seriously awesome original posters from The Poster List - a little bit vintage and thoroughly, well, rockin’. I’m especially tickled by their take on the ubiquitous Keep Calm poster… Via Design Milk. add...
Sitting pretty.
Even more sweet songbirds, this time in three dimensions. Those handy with a needle and thread will find plenty to keep them occupied at Spool, including a pattern for this mobile. I like the real branches - a naturalistic touch. Share This...
One and the other.
Surprising, simultaneous hardness and softness in these “knitted” pieces by Brooklyn ceramic artist Alyssa Ettinger - very cool! To check out more of her collections, visit her website or stop by her etsy shop. Share This...
Wine and olives.
An excerpt from a recent gchat (as you can see, we apparently think about food all workday)… 11:28 AM Melissa: i am brainstorming for our date 11:37 AM Melissa: i was thinking rustic kitchen because they have amazing olives 11:39 AM me: ooo you...
Ever so clever.
Love these cocktail napkins from Toronto-based Avril Loreti - especially the trompe-l’œil-esque character of the wine stain design on top. These pretty watercolor wine stains are splashed liberally all over her website, too - take a look, or ...
A paper menagerie.
Continuing the animal theme are these sweet letterpress prints from Kirk and Eva Jorgensen’s Ohio-based Sycamore Street Press, which only just started its printing press this year. Charming beasties hide behind and entwine themselves around th...
A plastic menagerie.
I like the innocent, timeless quality of these Elizabeth Soule polaroid prints. Her plastic animal figurines turn up in unexpected places - a city windowsill, lumbering across a map, or by a full-size cupcake. Visit her etsy shop for more. Share T...
Doodles on porcelain.
Bailey Doesn’t Bark prints and paints these evocatively simple flowing lines onto paper, glassware, and porcelain. Take a look at the etsy shop - the sleeping birds are especially sweet. Share This...
PopMat.
Add a little scenery to the table with San Francisco-based Publique Living’s PopMats, 100% recycled pop-out placemats that double as placecards. Share This...
Life is beautiful.
Armed with her vintage Polaroid camera, photographer Jennifer Altman finds beauty in the little things - a drained cup of cocoa, a half-dozen fresh eggs, a pile of dishes waiting to be washed, breakfast… The graininess and soft blur inherent i...
Keyboard shortcuts.
My life would be a lot more harrowing if it weren’t for keyboard shortcuts. During the workday I’m all about Excel shortcuts (Alt-E-S-V, anyone? - that’s “paste values” for the uninitiated), but while prepping a blog po...
More from the Keep Calm Gallery.
The Keep Calm Gallery (which, true to its name, stocks the print nearest and dearest to me) has expanded its offerings - and it’s all… I… can… do… to not grab them all for my walls. I love them for their vintage look-an...
Only in Japan.
The 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 pi...
Sharp.
These knives from Rockett St George boast both sharp edges and sharp wit. The cut-out letters supposedly help prevent crumbling and give you a clean cut; whether that really works or not, I’d be pleased to have a set of these offbeat knives in...
Stylized botanicals…
…in these fresh-looking letterpressed coasters from 12fifteen. Share This...
