Posts Tagged art
Like tea, only better
Posted by katiesol in Beautiful things on February 8th, 2010
Cosy knits for your tea - tea + knitting = The Best. Sure, you could pay $15 for this, but I reckon it’d be pretty easy to knit yourself.
Hanger tea - because teaspoons are for losers and those stupid strings always end up in the cup
Typewriter teapot - God, yes. I just love that this exists. Of course, I couldn’t buy it until I had a room full of curios otherwise the other kitchen implements would bully it (I think I watched Sword In The Stone one too many times whilst growing up).
Pretty little milk jug - this doesn’t go with anything I own either, but I still want it devilish bad.
Maths is scary but pretty pictures are all right
Posted by katiesol in Beautiful things on February 4th, 2010
Serious maths is about as comprehensible to me as the appeal of golf and why it’s so difficult to run an underground train network that works. But I do enjoy looking at these peaceful photography-based graphs and ignoring the complex brain-straining equations alongside them.
Good one, Nikki Graziano via Wired.com
Pure unadulterated grade-A awesomeness
Posted by katiesol in Beautiful things, From around the web on February 4th, 2010
Unborn children of mine take note: this is what your future holds.
I’d rather have the Lego version, to be honest.
Waterfall sink - like an infinity pool in your kitchen. Yes please.
As good a motto as any.
Finally, a use for all those old boring books I buy from library sales because they look nice but actually they’re rubbish. Happy day.
I just adore this AT-AT Walker inspired lamp, even though it’s completely ridiculous that the light lives in a drawer.
Great finds from around the internet
Posted by katiesol in Beautiful things, From around the web, When I win the lottery... on January 23rd, 2010
Just a few of the brilliant things I’ve come across lately. Needless to say, I want them all.
Origami tea bags - Beautiful origami green berry tea bags by Natalia Ponomareva. Just a concept for now.
BookBook - A MacBook cover that looks like an old book from TwelveSouth. Lush, but it’ll set you back $80.
Amazing chairs - it’s not always easy to get excited about chairs, but these are exceptionally beautiful with their Rob Ryan style cutout fairytale design. By Kranen/Grille, via DesignBoom.
I’m Here - a short film by Spike Jonze that debuted at Sundance this week. It’s a robot romance, somewhere between Wall-E, Where The Wild Things Are and 500 Days of Summer with a typically dreamy aesthetic and inspiring soundtrack.
Moss wallpaper
Posted by katiesol in Beautiful things on October 10th, 2009
Moss. It’s not something the average person devotes a great deal of thought to, but there’s something really appealing about carefully controlled moss. I liked the idea of poetry moss on a tumble-down whitewashed wall in my garden-of-the-future and these moss-decorated interiors are pretty nice too:
It is a beautifully unusual idea, and a nice antidote to the staid wallpaper designs and plain walls that most of us endure. I’m not so sure about inviting actual moss into my house though, I can see that getting out of control quickly and turning the house into the garden and the street into my home when my landlord finds out.
The delicate designs are the work of Tokyo-based design studio nendo, whose adorable ethic is:
Giving people a small ” ! ” moment.
There are so many small ” ! ” moments hidden in our everyday.
I love those ! moments. Images from doornob via @katiescott1980
Something for everyone
Posted by katiesol in From around the web on July 3rd, 2009
Everything you want - right now!
Posted by katiesol in From around the web on May 12th, 2009
Sharing his love/hate feelings towards advertising, I can’t help but adore Steve Lambert’s work:
I’m not so sure about his Firefox add-on though - Add-Art blocks out website adverts and replaces them with pieces of art. It’s a sad fact but online publishing relies on advertisers paying to display their messages alongside enticing editorial to survive, and is struggling enough without add-ons like this causing more problems. With the New York Times basically on its death bed thanks to rock bottom ad revenues, it seems more than a little insensitive to use them as the example on the website.