‘design’ Archives
Mia Nolting : Your Name in Chalk for $1 »
It's always fascinating to see how artists put their work out to the world. And even more interesting to see how creative people make a living. Mia Nolting's site holds a host of goodies ranging from her design work, to illustrations for editorial, drawings and patterns she creates for free and for sale. But we were struck by [...]
Video of the day : Paul Alexander Thornton : Post »
This video of Paul Alexander Thornton's process with ball point pen and watercolor compelled me to look at his other work. There is something comforting about the patterning and repeated line of Thornton's paintings and drawings. His use of skulls, flowers, birds and color compel us to investigate [...]
Esther Horchner : Skinnydipping in Tea Cups »
Esther Horchner is an illustrator from the Netherlands with a gift for line. We came across this cheeky little tea set, and immediately thought of the reaction of surprised guests, as they sipped, exposing the ladies under the surface. Hand-painted on porcelain by the artist , the set has four cups, saucers, and spoons with [...]
Jay Nelson’s Reduced Reused Recycled Art »
Alright, maybe not reduced, but Maker Faire is this weekend, which inspires me to present Jay Nelson, who embodies the process of making, and then some. With mad skills, Nelson's campers are artfully patched together, post-apocalyptic, customized vehicles perhaps influenced by his upbringing. "My dad was a USC physics professor [...]
Launching heARTbeat on ecosalon.com »
If one lives long enough, and pays attention, everything seems to come full circle. A few years back, with my other company, we were asked to work on developing a blog project. It was full of win for an eco-marketing company. The brief was ambitious : create the basis to become the go-to green blog for the latest eco news, fashion, products [...]
Ai Weiwei : Love the Future Poster by Andrew Lowe »
This morning a comment was submitted on our post Love the Future = Support Ai Weiwei. One of our readers, Andrew Lowe sent this poster he designed: Love The Future Free Ai Weiwei. Andrew says : I created this poster à la Shepard Fairey’s OBEY Giant in order to help raise awareness for Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. His recent arrest and [...]
Plumen Launches Their Stylish Eco Lightbulb in U.S. »
As we discussed when Plumen won the Brit Insurance Design of the Year award, this lightbulb is brilliant. Americans need wait no longer to experience the stylish, 110V bulb which uses 80% less energy, and lasts 8 times longer than incandescent bulbs. According to Plumen: After some extra tweaks and certification delays, we’re [...]
Arthur Buxton Mixes our Perception with Color Trend »
Arthur Buxton's color charts are engaging and interesting in their intent. Using color extraction software and Adobe Illustrator, he has developed a way of looking at color schemes of artwork we have seen before. By removing what the eye expects to see from an image, he simply leaves behind color percentages, and we are left, with an [...]
Newspaper Wood : Product Design by Mieke Meijer & »
Newspaper is probably one of the most ubiquitous items found in the waste stream. Everyday, piles of it are added to landfill around the world. While still a student at Design Academy Eindhoven, Mieke Meijer devised a solution to use this surplus of trash as a renewed material. After going through its transformation, Newspaper [...]
Magda Sayeg & Knitta Please Yarnbomb iPhone »
Magda Sayeg, founder of the original knit graffiti crew Knitta Please describes her vocation as working... to redefine a craft that has been relegated to the stuffy attic of people’s brains and dismissed by a limited vision for knitting’s purpose, its function, its practitioners. Sayeg’s work repositions this granny pastime in public [...]
