d-i-y toys

awesome building blocks for kids + grownups (to d-i-y?)

Wary Meyers has the BEST eye for flea market finds. Dig this giant set of colorful interlocking building blocks he posted on his site. They have no known provenance. Says Wary: They could be old, could be new. My guess is this was an old collaboration between Josef Albers and Donald Judd. and Bill Ding.…

kid’s toy craft as home design inspiration

One of our favorite blogs these days is Made by Joel, the toy and craft projects that artist Joel Henriques makes for his kids. He manages to make A LOT out of ‘nothing’: dollhouses out of Cheerios boxes, puppets from paper clips and cardboard, cities from paper. The thing that we love is how Joel’s…