Remodelista recently posted a compelling DIY by San Francisco blogger Caitlin Long of The Shingled House. It’s an example of a charming idea that has, in our eyes, something of a “fail” built-in, or at the very list, an interesting design problem.
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(Video link here.) The dazzling last gift of cherry and other trees in-flower right now is the “snow” that falls once the blossoms begin to die. We find ourselves walking under lovely showers of petals and finding wondrous patterns of them on the ground… … We’ve been watching them fall…on people on their way to work, sitting…
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Thirty years ago, ramps, the delectable leeks that grow wild throughout the Appalachian and Catskill mountains, were virtually unknown except to locals of those areas. Since them, chefs across the country have fallen in love with them, spreading the word of their delicousness, and their availability in markets. Ramps’ season is short, just a few…
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When VosgeParis posted images of a party at designer Paola Navone’s home in Milan, the wire crates affixed to the wall caught our eye. Are they an artwork, or simply vintage crates made into art, on which she arranges objects to her liking? So we hunted for google images for clues.
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(Video link here.) Ikeda Yosuke is a mime who incorporates graphic design and typography into his performances. He is not a professional designer, but he practices outside-the-box thinking with everyday objects we take for granted. Here he envisions OPEN’s opposite hidden within: an example of true possibility-thinking. More of Yosuke’s work here. via Core 77
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When Fashion designer Martin Margiela’s moved into his 3000 square foot studio in Paris in 2oo4, it was in extraordinary disarray.When Margiela took it over his in 2004, it was in disarray. Built in the 18th century, evidence of its history was everywhere. He preserved a lot of the detail and turned the entire space white. All the furniture,…
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Man Repeller’s recent round-up of popular workout options was peppered with wonderful gifs of exercises you can do anywhere. They take our penchant for improvised plein air exercise to a fab, curiously useful extreme. The memorable images show your really CAN be working out sans gym or special equipment/clothes.
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This charming image of Audrey Hepburn in her kitchen shows how ecologically correct she was, or perhaps better put, the times she lived in were — pre plastic bag. Newspapers were folded into a neat origami bag to line garbage cans. EVERYONE did it in those days, and it worked well enough. We thought we’d check…
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Two astonishing time-lapse videos and a couple of haikus remind us of the fleeing moment that is cherry blossom time. It only takes a moment to STOP and take it the fabulous colors as we walk by a blossoming tree.
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When Ikea’s Livet Hemma posted this compelling image of rooftop party preparations, we ran the Swedish description through our language translator to discover that Ikea’s copywriters left out the best parts for DIYing a rooftop space.
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89 Clouds is collaboration of Pulitzer-winning poet Mark Strand and artist Wendy Mark: 89 beautiful paintings of clouds with Strand’s one-line zennish poems. Unable to afford the now-rare book, we excerpted 16 of Strand’s poems and Mark’s sensational images. We now view clouds differently as we wander through the world.
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In Yummy Moon, artist Yona Lee uses 450 partially eaten Nilla Wafers to depict the different phases of the Moon. She turned one of the most ordinary of commercial cookies into…something rather beautiful and cosmic.
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