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A Hiker’s Dream Rug

By On March 23, 2012

The Angela Adams Forest Floor Treasure Tapestry is absolutely wild, a surreal spillage of colour and shapes inspired both by the forest and ocean floor. Love it. I’m not one to start… Read More

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Ten of Three Hundred and Sixty-Five

By On February 22, 2012

A year of quotes matched to photography: 365 Quotes by Julian Bialowas… Read More

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A Man of All Ages: Paul Revere Williams

By On February 12, 2012

“California represented an acceptance of both him, as an African-American and his work. Maybe Southern California was the only place he could have achieved all this.” -Robert Timme, dean of the USC… Read More

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Smoke Tissue Boxes for W-Works

By On January 25, 2012

Holy smokes, this packaging design (Smoke Tissue Boxes) by Je Sung Park for W-Works is awfully clever, both from a visual perspective and also considering how nicely they stack and interlock together.… Read More

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The Tree Series by Matt Leavitt

By On August 30, 2011

Besides dropping into food related shops and markets with explainer video campaign, we didn’t have a strong inclination to go shopping while in Portland. It seems silly to fly up to such… Read More

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The Masochistic Dreamer: Valentina Rosselli

By On August 29, 2011

Fashioned and coiffed after silent film actress Louise Brooks, imaginary graphic novel photojournalist Valentina Rosselli has battled the villain gallery of “Nazis, astronauts, 17th century pirates, and leather-booted Czarist Cossacks” and has… Read More

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The Best $5 I Spent in New Orleans

By On July 25, 2011

It would be all too easy to pass by this historical gem located in the Vieux Carre Historic District of New Orleans French Quarters, as the New Orleans Pharmacy Museum is appropriately… Read More

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Now That’s a Mean Papercut: Bianca Chang

By On June 29, 2011

Bianca Chang‘s paper work is one part sculpture and another part typography, each sheet giving her letterforms and abstract shapes a presence which makes you want to glide your fingers across each… Read More

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Yuji Kawauchi of Atelier Sango at Dwell on Design 2011

By On June 27, 2011

Dwell on Design 2011 this year had its usual suspects of eco-friendly design, pre-fab fabulous architecture, high end homewares and everything else inbetween which would appeal to the typical Dwell magazine reader… Read More

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In Appreciation of the Stylists and Designers of America

By On April 12, 2011

Despite her saucer eyes, beguiling voice and that certain je ne sais quoi that has made her an indie darling for years now, the partnership between Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward as… Read More