Posts Tagged garden
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
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
Eco graffito
Posted by katiesol in Beautiful things, When I win the lottery... on July 7th, 2009
If I had a garden, I’d want a shabby, peeling whitewashed wall at the far end at a right-angle to the unruly hedge concealing the door to the secret garden. And on that decrepit, possibly unstable wall, I’d like a pertinent (if slightly pretentious) quote about the beauty of nature and the ethereal qualities of garden-based life. Typographically appropriate and written in moss.
I’d also like a comprehensive herb garden.
Sporeborne moss graffiti by Anna Garforth