Instaprint - A location-based Instagram photo booth.

Oh, man. I'd love to rent one of these little Instagram printers for our next office event.




Instaprint - A location based photo booth for Instagram

Narrow House in Horinouchi, Japan.

I never tire of seeing how people can create beautiful homes in the most unlikely spots. Design is cool.


The 595 square foot contemporary residence sits on a narrow triangular lot between a river and a road in Suginami, one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo, Japan. (hmDSGN)




Narrow House in Horinouchi by Mizuishi Architect Atelier


via Homedit and homeDSGN

Happy Birthday Box.

So cute.



Question: What birthday present do you get someone when you only have $10? You get them a Happy Birthday Box, of course. Might be perfect for an impromptu celebration (for a forgotten coworker’s bday perhaps?) or for sending to a friend long distance. There’s just room enough for a tiny heartfelt note on the side.

Happy Birthday Box — ACCESSORIES -- Better Living Through Design

Casetagram.

A phone case from your Instagrams. I like.


Casetagram :: Your iPhone case from your Instagram photos

(Thanks, Bradley!)

Simple Grid Locking Shelves.

The price tag is outrageous, but the concept – simple, expandable, sustainable bamboo shelving – is fab.


Modular, Artisan Made With 100% Natural & Sustainable Materials, Zero VOCs, Flat pack, Limited Lifetime Warranty

Supermarket - The Simple Grid Locking Shelves from El Dot

Lytro light field camera.

I'm drooling. I want one.




Lytro lets you take pictures like never before. Unlike a conventional camera that captures a single plane of light, the Lytro camera captures the entire light field, which is all the light traveling in every direction in every point in space.

Check out a sample image here. Just click on different parts of the photo to re-focus. So cool.



Lytro

(via Gizmodo)

Knit a Sweater, Help a Penguin in Need.

AAAUGH. How cute is this?? If I could knit, I'd be making a penguin sweater tonight.


A recent oil spill on New Zealand’s coast has left the environment and wildlife in shambles — including the local blue penguin population. While volunteers are working hard to rescue and clean the animals in the region, they require a little bit of crafty help: tiny sweaters, or penguin pajamas, for the rescued birds. These woolen sweaters keep oil-soaked birds warm until they’re well enough to be cleaned and prevent them from ingesting oil from their feathers.

Knit a Sweater, Help a Penguin in Need | The Etsy Blog

Bizarre short film imagines Paris abandoned and flooded for mysterious reasons.

I LOVED the opening scenes of 28 Days Later, so I'm mesmerized by this.

5:46 am from ArtefactoryLab on Vimeo.

(via io9)

Exploded diagram prints.

Instead of the regular stuff that a diagram says, they say different stuff.


Products: Exploded Diagram Prints

Ecriture Infinie - The Project

Bili Bidjocka interview from Ecriture Infinie on Vimeo.

Eight giant-sized books.

Ecriture Infinie is an art project by Bili Bidjocka: eight giant-sized books made of blank, silent pages. Occasionally one of the books makes its appearance around the world. A large writing desk, a lamp, a pen. One by one, people may approach the pages and leave their mark. They are invited to write as if it were the last time they could write by hand. The focus is not so much on the words, but on the gesture, the flow of the pen on paper, recorded on video. When each book is completed, it is sealed, wrapped, and hidden in a secret place, as in a time capsule. Will the people who will find the books in thousands of years be able to decipher it?

Ecriture Infinie - The Project

New prints at Keep Calm Gallery.

I'm not usually one for foil, but I'm completely in love with the simple new foil prints at Keep Calm Gallery.



Keep Calm Gallery

Highly Inappropriate Tales for Young People - Douglas Coupland + Graham Romieu

Book trailer for a book I may have to buy. I love both creators.

Flash sale at Other Criteria shop.

Other Criteria is offering unsigned exhibit posters for £10.00 today. A great deal. If you're a Damien Hirst fan, you can score big.




Other Criteria — Search results for “unsigned poster”

20x200: Blackford Forest by Laura Bell

Today's 20x200 print is really stunning. Oh, would that I could shell out for a giant version of this.



20x200 :: Blackford Forest by Laura Bell

Vintage Pond Yacht Sailboat.

Someone please buy this so I don't.


Not much is known about this pond boat, except that it came from the estate of a collector.

Measurements: 15" from tip to rutter. 15 1/2" mast. 20" from top of mast to very bottom.

Vintage Pond Yacht Sailboat by KatesleyVintage on Etsy

I Want My Hat Back.

I love Jon Klassen's illustrations. And there are loads of prints of them over at Gallery Nucleus Gallery.


Jon Klassen - Print - I Want My Hat Back (Red Hat) - Nucleus | Art Gallery and Store

Isaac Cordal.

Flickr: Isaac Cordal's Photostream

(via curiosity counts)

I want to print spaceship nuggets.

The Cornell Creative Machines Lab has invented a 3-D printer that not only allows you to print food, but lets you create almost any design imaginable with your favorite ingredients.

Inhabitat – Cornell's New 3-D Printer Lets You Print Food in Any Shape and Texture

christopher willey | asterism

Asterisms are star patterns. Artists Christopher Willey created his asterisms by mapping the freckles and moles of his friends. I find the result quite charming.



Asterism | 5 intaglio relief prints | ink on stonehenge | 10” x 10” | 2008



christopher willey | asterism

Paolo Ventura: Venezia

If you're in NY, I think you should go to see this diorama installation. I would. Good dioramas are fascinating.






His precision dioramas of beautifully dreary, eerily quiet Venetian locales set in the 1930s - somewhat surreal yet nonetheless quite real - are the basis for his exquisite large-scale photographic prints. His craft is impeccable. But there is much more to be felt in these stunning works. – (via Imprint Magazine)

Paolo Venture "Venezia" Exhibition at Hasted Kraeutler :: Contemporary Art Gallery, New York

Robot wallpaper.

Be still my little robot-loving heart.



Robot wallpaper | Studio ditte

(via jeanniejeannie)

Tiny Showcase.

One of the few newsletters I look forward to every week is the one I get from online print store, Tiny Showcase. I ran across this quote yesterday (I've had it in my Facebook quotes section for yonks) and had to share.

Personally, I think they should sell letterpress prints of their own newsletter copy. It's as good as any of their prints (and that's saying something.)

Jon and Shea, I heart you.

Tiny Showcase

A new favorite blog: jeanniejeannie.

How did I not know about this blog before now? I'm utterly ashamed. Anyway, go there and check it out. It's seriously fab.


Jeannie Huang | design finds for the creative mind

Lure/Forest by Beili Liu.

Red Thread Legend Series

The ancient Chinese legend of the red thread tells that when children are born, invisible red threads connect them to the ones whom they are fated to be with. Over the years of their lives they come closer and eventurally find each other, overcoming the distance between, and cultural and social divides.

Red Thread Legend Series is a group of installations inspired by this tale. Lure/Forest is the first project of the series.

The installation makes use of thousands of hand spiraled coils of red thread suspended from the ceiling of the gallery. Each disk is connected to another, as a “couple”, and each pair is made from a single thread. Every coil is pierced in the center by a sewing needle, which enables the suspension of the disks a few inches from the ground. Subtle air currents set the red disks swaying and turning slowly as the loose strands of thread on the floor drift and become entangled.

Beili Liu artwork, Lure/Forest

(via)

Olive Penguins!

C'mon. Seriously. How cute are these?


Once Upon a Plate: Olive Penguins!

(via Pinterest)

Anna Garforth's moss installations.

So beautiful.



A N N A G A R F O R T H

You can even make your own - recipe over here at Design Mom.

Genis Carreras’ Mininimalist Philosophy Posters.

Flavorwire Gallery: Genis Carreras’ Mininimalist Philosophy Posters

Back to the Start.

Lovely and touching. Sometimes companies genuinely surprise me.



Chipotle: Back to the Start

Like plastic green army men, but better.

I know a few folks who will dig on these. Available at Kid Robot starting 9/15.


Straight out of the South Bronx, Kidrobot’s first series of All City Breakers celebrates the best dance style born from 70’s hip-hop culture. Individually foil-wrapped and blind, each b-boy and b-girl’s punctuated move is captured perfectly in plastic – a stylized freeze. Injection-molded and inspired by the retro but classic green army men and their solid plastic bases, these breakers flaunt moves from Power to Flex in four neon colors: pink, green orange and blue. Each 2-inch art piece is paired with boombox to deliver the beat. No matter what your style, you’re gonna want to choreograph a collection of your own.
Kidrobot's Blog, The KRonikle :: All City Breakers Mini Series

(via My Modern Met)