entries Tagged as [design]

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Today is my birthday. I’ve turned 4.

Image by iamchanelle. More here.

Tomato McGrand

From Japan.

Artistic chocolate by Ginger Elizabeth

‘Ginger takes the time to infuse her ganache centers with a variety of aromatics and does not use any extracts’

Nuance. Fantastic flavors. INcredible.

Here’s the website, Ginger’s bio and (most important) online store (since Feb 14th is, like, so sooon).

Local store too, if you’re in or around Sacramento. Interiors designed by blankblank. Sign up for the mailing list, classes offered seasonally.

White chocolate keyboard

Found via Boing Boing Gadgets

Healthy junk

‘Healthy snacks packaged to look like drugs and junk food’

The work of designer Daizi Zheng.

More images here.

Found via Dezeen

Pretty Trashy preview items now for sale

Recently, I featured a preview of the new collection I’m working on with Pretty Trashy. A few of these one of a kind pieces are now for sale thru the Bows and Arrows store at Etsy.

Click on the images for product info/jump.

Unhappy in the Modern World


‘Still recovering from broken trust, neither wanted to be the first to try the eggs.’
(Dwell, November 2009)

Over at Tumblr, a blog with dark captions for photos from Dwell magazine.

More here. Twitter here.


‘In search of a less bleak playground, the toddler pedaled faster.’
(Dwell, June 2004)


‘Lying on his back, watching the passing clouds, he worried over the Nathaniel Hawthorne lookalike’s role in this grim threesome.’
(Dwell, November 2009)


‘He is sad because his house looks like an elementary school. And all the children have died.’
(Dwell, February 2008)

Found via Twitter.com/exspiro

Italian Roast


Advertising typography for Italian Roast Coffee; crayon on paper

The work of London-based designer Mitsuhiro Aita.

Visit his website. Much more to see.


Italian Roast Coffee: Shadow and texture experiments


Italian Roast Coffee: 100 sheets of burnt white paper

Organic dialing

Photo by TKayla

Helvetica Monopoly

Designer Florent Guerlain’s Swiss take on the Monopoly game board.

Found via Doobybrain

Another local tower

Sutro Tower shirt, San Francisco.

Found via Thomas Hawk


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