MAGIC CARPETS

Featured today on Design Sponge, these “magic carpets,” made of every day objects, are playful but sophisticated. I can marvel at the materials or take a few steps back and lose sight of the clothespins, the paperclips, the thumb tacks…More carpets from We Make Carpets can be found here.

BOOKSHELF PORN

BOOKSHELF PORN, right here. Enabling you one shelf at a time.

TEMPORARY TATS

Tina Eisenberg (aka “Swiss Miss”) is a leader in the design world, for her design work, as well as her gift for community-building and curating. One of her recent projects drew from a band of creatives, ‘design celebrities’ in the blog-world and beyond, to create a series of temporary tattoos, which she calls Tattly’s.

Tattly [...]

Happy New Year! Resolutions

Welcome to 2012. I’m so happy to see you here. I’m sure many of you have a nice plate of New Year’s Resolutions in front of you. I offer my faith, support, and this wonderful article on keeping those resolutions. Before the end of the week, why not fine tune that list?

“To tear ourselves away [...]

ON TIME: CALENDARS, Part I

It’s almost 2012, and a perfect time to stock up on your 2012 calendar. It’s hard to choose among the flood of attractive formats, but these make great gifts, too, if you want to buy them all:
Beginning with an oldie but goodie, the Stendig Calendar.
Here’s a much different take, for your desktop (your actual analog [...]

ORGANIZATION

To my favorite compulsive organizers out there, a new blog for you: Things Organized Neatly. When Martha Stewart Living doesn’t satisfy your need for order…
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That Was Then and This is Now

Irina Werning has been working steadily on a series of paired portraits. Her Back to the Future 2 Series recreates original (child) portraiture with adult subjects, with details meticulously recreated.
Everything changes and everything stays the same.

You can find more of Irina’s work, here.

EAMES Redux

Have you seen the new Eames documentary, yet? The full title is Eames: The Architect and the Painter. Here’s a teaser, the trailer, above. Bonus: James Franco narrates!
This just in, Ice Cube on the Eames:

TOOL: CONCENTRATION

99 % is a great website (whose name predates the popular OWS movement), focusing on workplace efficiency and creativity. Recently, they posted 10 tools for concentration and efficiency. This is a good time to double down on your efforts to work effectively, as holiday distractions are around the corner.
Here are ten applications that can [...]

The Selby: On Lucy Chadwick, for Zara

I have posted photos from Selby photoshoots before. Today, I offer you additional guilty voyeuristic pleasure with a Selby film on Lucy Chadwick. It’s “a little bit country, a little bit rock and roll,” as the Osmonds once sang.