The Power of Color at CoolHunter
This is eye candy at its best. CoolHunter posted a great roundup of bold color in modern design. I think that even the way the blogger put together the images for the post shows sharp color skills. Very inspiring!
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Vegan Meat Wallet
I have a known weakness for ironic meat accessories, including the steak earrings I’m wearing as I type. Well, Makers Market seller Kitten Camero makes this vegan wallet depicting a lush meat scene on the back. Not into meat? Her other wallets are also quite quirky and fun, like this periodic table billfold.
Handmade Buttons at Home Ec.
Sometimes the perfect hand-sewn project needs the perfect handmade button. These animal buttons are custom made for Home Ec, the cutest little shop for the cutest little things. The description for these porcelain pieces of art nailed it, “They are like portable sculptures you can wear!”
Summer Printmaking Workshops at GSS in Brooklyn
Angela from the Gowanus Studio Space in Brooklyn, NY writes in about their summer printmaking workshops in their new 1200 square foot print shop. Learn screenprinting, intaglio, woodblock printing, and more! Head over to check them out and sign up. In it’s simplest form, The Gowanus Studio Space is a workshop for designers, artists and […]
Nature Textures Library
As a designer, I have a great love as well as a professional need for visual lexicons. Type faces, illustration, ephemera, old signage — you name it, I collect it. Textures are no different. It’s not infrequent that a texture is needed for a design project, and what better way to amass a royalty-free collection […]
Playful Jewelry from Hairy Sock
I’m really enjoying the creative mixture of materials and concepts from Hairy Sock, including this eccentric “Drown in a Blossom” hair pin! I also really like the way the website is laid out; you can search by concept, type, and materials (including “hair”). There are also some wonderful photographs that make you look twice and […]
Crafting electronics
It’s Geek Chic month over at Make: Online, where I posted a bunch of pictures from my recent trip to the MIT media lab, where Leah Buechley was busy hand-crafting LED modules for her research group’s TearDrop electronics toolkit. More: Craft Meets Tech at MIT