Category: Friday links (Page 7 of 8)

Pattern tile from TopKapi in Istanbul / photo by Seta Zakian

A few links:

• I love how this artist combines beautiful illustration together with special lettering.
• Cat accessories have started to draw my attention. This is an elegant cat-bed that will not clash with the contemporary style in your home.
• I love these wooden letters for my kids rooms.
• Marutaro, the hedgehog is so adorable, I want to squeeze it.
• Thirty Days of Thankfulness: for one month, artist Frances MacLeod decided to share one thing she was grateful for each day.
• Something between an installation and a wallpaper, made from real insect patterns.

Have a good weekend!

Pattern by Debora Sayuri

A few links:

• A very sleek glass touch keyboard and mouse interface, for both Mac and Windows
• A typography poster, where letters look like …icebergs.
• A glass milk jug designed to look as a milk carton. Smart.
• Beautifully designed student residences in Berlin’s Kreuzberg district.
• A great video with fun and inspiring typographic styles and treatments.
• These are not your usual fortune cookie lines, but they made me laugh!

Have a good weekend!

Pattern by Frances MacLeod

A few links:

• A great oak console desk.
• This camera won’t let you take the photo everyone else does: a funny concept.
• A mug about being an artist, by Emily McDowell.
• 36 hours in Paris (Right Bank) from the N.Y. Times travel section.
• The most iconic sidekicks in history – in infographic form.
• Ten designs for coffee lovers. Check out Anza espresso machine.
• HiddenHUB – wireless high definition audio meets timeless industrial design.

Have a good weekend!

Pattern by Rachel Cave

A few links:

• I love these experiments in blue by illustrator Lisa Congdon.
• A lamp with more than 10 billion possible combinations.
• I am thinking of getting this illustrated book about the marvelous world of microbes for the kids. 
• The Crayon Initiative is a dad’s brilliant idea to reuse and recycle  leftover crayons that get thrown out by restaurants and schools, to be given again to children at hospitals.
  
• A bride decides to be her own wedding photographer.
• I was surprised to find out that this amazing villa is actually in Rhodes island in Greece.

Have a good weekend!

Photo by Max Wanger

A few links:

• This sculpture called “Love” cought my attention. It is from this year’s Burning Man festival in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada.
• Interesting photography and makeup inspired by religious imagery for the new autumn-winter Camper campaign.
• How to make a fabulous wood cake stand.
• A cookie pit! Yes, I would jump right in!
• A day in the life of an imperial stormtrooper. Excellent stuff.
• A Chinese concept designer imagines surreal futuristic worlds.
• This mobile home would be nice to carry around with you in your travels.
• The main titles for the film “Run All Night”, created by the same team that did the titles for “True Detective”

Have a good weekend!

Pattern illustration by Julia Rothman

A few links:

• Αn amazing, yet little known story about 9/11. I actually double-checked it and not only it’s a true story, but it has also come out as a book.. The message: even in times of great turmoil and conflict, people can and must look to one another for comfort, help, and hope…
• The greek orthodox church of St Nicholas on Ground Zero has been redesigned by Santiago Calatrava, after it was destroyed on Sept. 11, 2001. You can see the new designs here.
• Kaktus København, an interesting new concept store in Copenhagen, specialises in over 150 different species of cacti and succulents. How Scandinavian!
• I love these oversize ceramic “necklaces” by Katy Krantz.
• “The journey is everything” by  Erik Marinovich.
• Great ideas for bookshelves.
• Back to school in Greece today!

Have a good weekend!

Pattern illustration by Julia Rothman

A few links:

• A funny ad for IKEA.
• In this factory in Denmark, autonomous robots and precise machines can make 36,000 Lego pieces per minute. See how they do it.
• This chair made me laugh! I wish we had something like this when our kids were younger, we could have avoided many “Only me will sit on daddy” battles.
• I love the work of letterer and illustrator Heather Hardison. This is an interview about her new lovely book Homegrown: Illustrated Bites From Your Garden to Your Table.
• Great packaging for Minus 33, a juniper-infused spirit.
• 100 disposable cameras were handed out to homeless people in London. The theme of the project was to capture”their” city.
• John Oliver makes fun of New Zealand’s decision to change its flag.

Have a good weekend!

Moroccan tile background

A few links:

• Kinder Surprise eggs are hugely popular with my kids and everywhere around the world, except in the United States, where they’re considered a choking hazard and are illegal. This is the story of  a Kinder-egg smuggler.
• I would sit in this chair that keeps you offline and relaxed.
• This artist gives new life to old black & white photos.
• In Mumbai, there are currently 55.000 taxis. A Kickstarter campaign was initiated to help local graphic designers showcase their work on the fabric seat covers of taxi cabs.
• Art to make you smile.

Have a good weekend!

Illustration by Lisa Congdon

A few links:

• The Cosmic Diner Collection: You can now eat your dinner on plates with realistic images of planets.
• There are currently twelve master penmen in the entire world. Jake Weidmann is the youngest. An amazing video about Weidmann and the fine art of penmanship.
• Six of Penguin’s most popular recent fiction titles have been redesigned with new craft-inspired covers.
•  A wooden toy camera called Pixie. Great for the kids!
•  The Year Round calendar tape, can be used in any number of ways to give you all possibilities of planning and organising. Brilliant!
• A road trip through Greece by photographer Hanna Fasching.
• Now you can see what happens to your checked luggage at the airport.

Have a good weekend!

A few links:

• The Greek fishmarket wrapping paper becomes a bag!
• Great logo animation for an online pop-culture magazine in France.
• Watch the trailer of Inside Out, the new brilliant animation film by Pixar about our emotions.
• A futuristic concept for a house overlooking the Aegean. Wow!
• This guy sings the same song in 15 different places.
• This is a classic, and so useful for the house.

Have a good weekend!