Happy New Year!

Here's to peace, love and happiness in 2010. Wishing the best to you and yours. x


HAPPY NEW YEAR Double Banner by bekahjennings

I love Simon's Cat.

Tatsuro Kiuchi.

Such a lovely illustration style.




Heflinreps :: Tatsuro Kiuchi

Chair socks.

These made me laugh. I'm now trying to decide if my couch and chair are male or female.




designspray - Personality Socks

(via better living through design)

Bora Bora Sterling Silver Necklace.

Pretty.



Supermarket - Bora Bora. Modern Map Sterling Silver Round Necklace. from dlk designs

Dennis Flood Photography.

I bought prints of these photos last week and absolutely love them. If you're looking for some really saturated, reasonably priced, gorgeous photos (especially from a quiet, lovely Canadian fellow with a great eye and a tiny dog named Frank), you need to check out Dennis' online gallery/store.


Dennis Flood Photography

International Year of Astronomy prints.

By Simon Page. Gorgeous.




"Intl. Year of Astronomy - Giclee Print by Simon Page

(via @blogofinnocence / Reckon)

Wally – giant wall cards.

Again, my love of giant things jumps out screaming.






(via design milk)
Dadada Studio :: Wally

Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2000.

Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2000
by Mike Sinclair

When I took this picture my sister was living in Las Vegas and I was going out pretty regularly to visit her. I had a routine of photographing in the late afternoons and often she’d come along. We liked discovering her new town together. Usually, we’d start at Las Vegas Boulevard and slowly drive out to one of the edges of the city. The town was growing like crazy—its population almost doubled between 1990 and 2000. It was changing so fast I feared much of what we saw would be gone by my next visit. Not only were the old casinos being replaced with new ones but on the perimeter of town new subdivisions were starting to replace the small ranches, trailer homes and Christmas tree lots.

We listened to the music of Last Forever a lot on those drives, its merging of old and new melodies seemed comforting. This picture makes me think of lyrics from a song on their first album:

I’m on a planet, held down by gravity,
But there’s a big sky. Up there it’s endless
Reason to believe.

20x200 : Print Information : Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2000

Phone box has new life as library.

Things like this make me ridiculously happy.


The traditional phone box was bought from BT for £1.

A traditional red phone box has been recycled into one of the country's smallest lending libraries - stocking 100 books.

BBC News - Phone box has new life as library

(via @jizo_sama)

Giant writing paper.

I can't help it. I love giant things.


Three giant sheets of writing paper.
A little moment of everyday surrealism.
Comes rolled in a cardboard tube.

Set of 3 sheets / 500x707MM (B2)

brighten the corners

Yeehaw fabric.

If I was the least bit inclined to sew, I'd buy it. Maybe someone out there will if I post it. Such cute illustration.




Yeehaw fabric by ChEngel on Etsy

(via Society6)

Enamel letters.

I would like each and every last letter and number, please.



A series of plaques in vitreous enamel featuring different letters and numbers, size 70mm x 115mm. Suggested uses include as a door or house number, a name on a child’s bedroom door, initials on a mantle piece, a memento to mark a special date, a label for a storage box, an oversized keyring...

HYPERKIT

(via NYT)

Maya Angelou.

Okay. This took me by surprise.



Right, the first thing that hits your lips when you think of Maya Angelou is that she’s “Miss Calypso.” In her early days, the prophet poetess was an oiled-up chanteuse in a slinky red dress back-bending under the limbo bar. This Liberty LP was recorded at The Keyboard club in Hollywood in 1956.

Angelou’s Afro-Cuban-Blues-Jazz songs included “Scandal In the Family”, “Mambo In Africa”, “Donkey City” and “Stone Cold Dead In The Market”, the first two of which she wrote herself, and which undoubtedly tweaked her mind to be able to turn out the voluminous amount of socially-significant material that later tweaked so much of American and world culture.

The Worst Celebrity Product Licenses of All Time, Part 2 | Monkey Goggles

Print on Wood: Camera Girl

Sweet, afffordable and available for Christmas.


Print on Wood: Camera Girl : Branch: Sustainable Design for Living

Back from Paris!

Hello again, kids! I'm back after my lovely trip with my mom. So much to see and eat and drink and absorb and so very little time. I'll definitely be going back...

People really do win travel contests.

I say this from personal experience – I'm leaving for Paris today, courtesy of Corbis Image's "Storied" twitter contest. Less than 2 seconds of my life spent re-tweeting a message won me a trip for two to France. CRAZY.


So things may be quiet around here until next week when I get back. I've got some very important business to attend to.



(FYI - because I'm a contest addict, I've started a sweepstakes & travel contests page on Facebook, if you're interested.)

A bientôt! Je vais à Paris! Merci bien, Corbis!*

*Yes, I totally used Google Translate for that.

(Top image: Shari Elf)

Metallic tyvek bags.

When my Ecobags bite the dust, I may have to fancy things up with these bags from one of my fave lil Brooklyn shops, Abitare.


metallic tyvek bags / abitare

(via swissmiss)

Happy my birthday to you, lovelies.

Cheers to another spin around the sun. Hope you're all having a fabulous day.


(Thanks to Katie for sending me the awesome image.)

December 5 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Gift wrap for audiophiles.

I love it when something as simple as gift wrap makes me do a double take.




Joey’s Corner is a non-profit design studio within MOD. We provide pro-bono, strategic creative services to non-profit groups focusing on health care, children’s and social well-being issues.

Michael Osborne founded Joey’s Corner in 2006 to honor the memory of his son, Joseph Michael Osborne. At our first fundraiser, Michael and other artists donated artworks for auction. All of our sales on Felt & Wire Shop, including art, will go directly to Joey’s Corner.

Felt & Wire: Joey's Corner - Two-sided Wrap {2008}

A reminder.

An image from the fabulous Official Shari Elf Gallery

Customized cupcake car.

I'm SO late to the game on this. But I'm going to post it anyway.

Put on your matching hat, slip under the muffin top of your Cupcake Car, and let the world figure itself out for awhile.


Get (or give) the sheer, joyful chaos of a gift that is mind-blowing, triple-dog-dare, double-infinity forever cool. Make the kids or grandkids literally squeal with joy. Bring it to work and buzz the breakroom. Crash parades! Putter about the ‘hood. Ever had a crowd of kids chasing after you just for the crazy gleeful heck of it? (No worries, the top speed is a comfy-safe 7 mph.) What’s it made of? A 24-volt electric motor, a heavy-duty battery, sheet metal, wire, fabric, wood…and mad genius. Launched at Burning ManSM as a cooperative art car project, the Cupcake Car sprang from the fevered mind of Bay Area artist Lisa Pongrace and her less-rules-more-laughs posse of artists and techno geeks. Yours will be tricked out with your favorite topping, so start thinking flavors.
Neiman Marcus - Customized Cupcake Car - $25,000

Ouch. Yeah.

It made me laugh.


New Ouch Tee / Rare Device / good stuff for you and your home / San Francisco

WTF Snowglobe.

An excellent gift for Wisconsin Tourism Federation employees.


UrbanOutfitters.com :: WTF Snowglobe

(via designmilk)

My fave World AIDS Day image.

Stormtroopers 365: Red Ribbons on Flickr