Designers career path

"Young designers should understand a career path in interior design rarely plays in a straight line."

Gioi Tran, Applegate Tran Interiors

Hand crafted wooden glasses

Glasses are quite fashionable right now and even the ones who don't need them wish they did, so they use frames with acrylic lens. Retro is also the thing and from reading to sun glasses there's tons of models to choose from.

But I believe this is better than any of that! These wooden models are made by Herrlicht, a German company. They use three types of wood: marple, pear and walnut. And in case you are wondering, it seems they are light.

Do you like these? Imagine yourself with a pair? I've seen proces around $1000, but I guess it's a price to pay for great design...

More images and info at Herrlicht.

70 Million!

This is so original!
In this music video, scenes from famous paintings are recreated with band-members performing within them. The band is called "Hold your Horses" and this is a video for the music "70 Million".

70 Million by Hold Your Horses ! from L'Ogre on Vimeo.

Creative workspace

This is the workspace of Beci Orpin, an Australian illustrator and artist. It's organized chaos, an explosion of clutter, colours and shapes. Check her blog.Image from the design files. (check this amazing website).

Hilarious packaging

This is such an original approach to packaging! These were made for an UK coffee shop called Puccino's. This brand doesn't take itself too seriously and that's such a rare capacity.
Designed by Jim Smith | Country: United Kingdom
Published on the lovely package

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

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

Ebay ad campaign

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

via fubiz

Handcrafted clocks

Clocks made out of what seems to be china plates is a truly cool idea. And through what I've read they are really well crafted.They are made by {flaire houre} and you can buy them here. Remember that these are almost always one of a kind.

Via decor8

Original barcodes

From Barcode revolution
via cool hunting

Paper chandelier

This is an artwork from Lena Corwin made of paper and straw. In her blog she says that this cool idea came from Laura Normandin'd blog in this post about a polish paper chandelier (below).She bought it at The Polish Art Centre and out of curiosity I looked for it online. And among the varieties they had I found this picture with a different and interesting angle (below).

The price of each chandelier is around $125 american dollars but there are cheaper ones. The Polish Arte Centre ships internationally, but you need to create an account and then see if your country is on the list.

Would you hang one of these at your house?:)

Funny calendar

Etsy is a big big creative world and the phenomenon of "Keep Calm and Carry On" posters a success, and sometimes there's someone who just gives a twist to it and creates something new and funny. Oh I like these a lot:)The whole list of sentences:
January: Keep Warm and Get it On
February: Play Guitar and Look Sensitive
March: Remove Shirt and Pretend It's Warm
April: Drive Fast and Hydroplane
May: Buy Flowers and Sell Hard
June: Pump Fist and Drink Beer
July: Fire Up and Sear Meat
August: Shave Chest and Suck in Gut
September: Watch Replay and Curse Interception
October: Carve Pumpkins and Scare Children
November: Eat Turkey and Fall Asleep
December: Say Thanks and Exchange for Porn

This comes as a PDF file you can print. Buy it here at little brown pen etsy store, ($5,00).

Cool packaging

I love this and it seems to me that this brand/package is a good example of how to make something different and original having the past and tradition as a source of inspiration.

"Work winner of the competition of IED in Packaging Design for the course of 2009/10: The idea of this project is to promote a more healthy food consumption and, concurrently, to also promote sustainable local agriculture, which involves methods that do not harm the environment, respect workers and animals, provide fair wages to farmers and support farming communities."

I have created a brand for a little market, that sells products of its own farm. Is called FOOD LOVERS. This brand is for people who appreciate tasty food, like to know where they came from, and care about all the elements involved in its production. The typography was created after a research on little markets, where the products are traditionally mentioned on a blackboard, in large separated letters written with a piece of chalk.

The idea of the hand in the brand come up because it is the greatest instrument that a person needs to do cooking. With the hand the sauce is tasted, the salt is sprinkled, the dough is kneaded, the quantity of oil is controlled, the limon is squeezed, the bread is sliced, and so on. The changing symbol shows the movement of the hole process of cooking. The hands interact with the typography of chalk, “tasting” and “preparing” it, as if it was fresh food, came right from the farm."

Text and images from Thedieline
Designed by Isabel Serta

Workspace

I like messy workspaces because it's like having your creativity flow free. The "white canvas" can be too scary and oppressing. The problem in this room for me? Too difficult to clean the dust:PThis is the workspace of Kate Bingaman-Burt, an artist from Oregon, Portland. Go to her website at Obsessive Consumption. She is truly original:)

Photos via Share Some Candy

Art display

This is such an interesting idea! Art on walls doesn't have to be rocket science =D

Image from room service (visit please*)

Houseboat on the Thames

From Sunday Times style magazine, found here

Kitchen cabinets

One more example of a creative response to a need. No more "where are plates?":P

(Photo via The Selby - check the link to see the whole house)

Hallway wallpaper

Do you like this hallway? I'm not sure. It's a big statement that's for sure. And it works really well when all you need is a clean space with no clutter or decorative items, because the wallpaper is the star.

Now I kinda like it, I guess. Maybe with a lighter wallpaper.
What do you think?

(Photo via Alvhem Mäkleri & Interiör)