Habitat Spring/Summer 2010

I love Habitat and its natural, "non catalogue" feeling we get while looking at these images.
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I'm in love II

There's something about this bed and the big rug. Now I want a BIG rug too:)

via ffffound and madebygirl

I'm in love

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Creative office of Anya Hindmarch

This is the office of Anya Hindmarch, a British handbag designer.
"This is my office, where we have lots of meetings about everything from ideas to marketing. I'm ashamed to say they're a bit of a laugh most of the time. People often sit on the floor, and the other day someone was in a fur coat and a scarf because the heating was broken. We have breakfast together on people's birthdays, too – pain au chocolat, mini-cupcakes, sometimes booze, sometimes not. Still, I was thinking that if we all die tomorrow, what do you look back on? Not how much money you made, but how much fun you had."

Details:

JAR "I always have sweets in my office in case anyone needs a pick-me-up. My creative director changes them with the colours of the season – he's neurotic like that – but the blue ones are never quite so nice."

TEAPOT COSY "I love tea – I drink three or four cups a day. We have lots of celebrities coming in here to borrow bags, and often give them a cup, too. We didn't ever set out to court them. In the early days Princess Diana used to come to the shop in Walton Street, and then Elle Macpherson and all the "supers" started coming, too. It all happened fairly organically."

Via guardian.co.uk

Hand carved spoons

Nic Webb is a wonderful spoon maker if I can call her like that. Nick's work is so organic and beautiful, like palpable poetry.“When I begin carving I look for the differing qualities in each piece, allowing the grain and character to influence the design. Each spoon evolves to have its own personality and when finished becomes a showcase for the limitless beauty of wood.”Every item is hand carved.

More information here.

Making of

This is an expensive type to buy, but i like sooooo much! It's the ITC Chino made by Hannes von Döhren and Livius Dietzel. I believe it's interesting to know the creatice process behind design:) Enjoy.
"Our first idea was to create a headline face built up by combining straight lines with brush-stroke elements. How could we create a complete design with this system that would still maintain enough consistency?
Our first round of sketches were limited to just a few letters. These allowed us to easily examine the possibilities of our self-defined brief. "
"As we were filling out the heavy weight, we asked ourselves if the same design principles might also be applicable to a light version. In order to create the largest amount of contrast with our heavy cut, we decided upon a hairline weight; one that would only employ the lightest, seemingly monoline strokes."
"From the completed ITC Chino Regular, we developed a Black and a Light weight. With a MultipleMaster axis, we interpolated the Medium and Bold. These two raw results were then optimized by hand. This way, we could give each weight its own individual details."
"To sit alongside the five upright fonts, we added Italic variants. The characters from the upright files were obliqued, and then optically corrected. Outstroke terminals were added, and the letters a, f, and g — as well as a few others — were replaced with “true Italic” versions."

Images and text from ITC Chino

Designers work spaces

This is the work studio of Solange Azagury-Partridge, a London jeweller.
"The walls are dark, which I adore, as they're very atmospheric, but as it's actually an old conservatory there's lots of light coming in through big windows. It has a sliding door so I can shut myself off and be private."
This is the Somerset studio from Alice Temperley which was originaly a warehouse.
"It's a real luxury to have a studio all to myself, somewhere to start mood boards for the next collection. All my team are in my original studio a few miles away, and the only way to clear my mind is to come and lock myself in here, with no phone or email."
Erdem's fashion studio in east London which has a pattern-cutting table 7m long.
"We're right above the Rich Mix cinema, which is great because I love the movies. The view is amazing. I can see the Gherkin, Barbican, Canary Wharf, and check on the progress of the new Shoreditch High Street train station. My bike got stolen, so I now walk from my flat in London Fields every day, down Broadway Market, get my coffee from La Bouche. It takes about 20 minutes."

I love to see work spaces as I mentioned before in other posts but these ones are special because we are looking at real studios, apart from homes. Rooms where you breathe creativity.

Feel inspired to be creative?

Images and info from The Guardian

Eclectic kitchen

Images from LivingEtc

Ebay ad campaign

This was an ad campaign made for Ebay by Euro RSCG Paris with the baseline "Christmas is coming".

via fubiz