Tina Kalivas’ Studio Space
I love this work space filled to the brim with beautiful projects by designer Tina Kalivas. (Oh, and her clothes are wonderful too!) Mounting the measuring stick to the edge of the table is brilliant. [via jubella.com]
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William Chambers Millinery
In 2007, Scottish textile designer William Chambers took a hat-making class at Metropolitan University, creating a collection that was shown to great acclaim at the year’s Glasgow Fashion Week. Fast forward to his Spring/Summer 2010 collection, shown here, and it is easy to see that Chambers is taking this fashionably antiquated craft to new elevations, […]
Exploded Apple Settings Icon
I love exploded view diagrams, but they are most often of physical objects. Leave it up to icon designer and consultant Sebastiaan de With to create this cool graphic of the Apple Settings icon. Available silkscreened on a shirt, and perfect for the iPhone addict in your life.
How-To: Convert Hand-Drawn Illustrations to Vector
Jen Cotton and Jessica Floeh made this super helpful walkthrough for converting your hand-drawn illustrations into vector format, useful for silkscreening, designing your own stationary/paper products, or laser cutting! They show you how to scan the file using Photoshop, then show a few different tracing options in Illustrator. More: 101: Adobe Illustrator
Food Design Competition
The sixth Food Design competition just announced their call to entries: Participation in the competition is free and is open to all those who want to put to test their abilities in projects linked to the theme of Food Design. Particularly architects, professionals, artists, craftsmen and designers creatives, high school students, university students and students […]
Typekit to the Rescue!
For those of you who have beat your head repeatedly against the archaic wall of finite system-only web fonts, relief is here. Tired of Arial? Bored with Times New Roman? Fatigued by Verdana? Insulted by Comic Sans? Me too. Typekit to the rescue! Typekit is a San Francisco web app company produced by Small Batch […]
Mysterious Mushroom Puzzle
This wooden puzzle from the Maker’s Market is a delight. The natural wood colors, the amazing detail, and the complex forms of mushrooms all contribute to a piece of challenging puzzle art. I think Xylocopa Design has created something that will capture the attention of mycology lovers and puzzle solvers everywhere.