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david's photo column #1

from halloween night in our 'hood

liz schuppe

i came across the artist liz schuppe in lena corwin's blog
i love these two paintings.
check out more of her work here

afforable holiday presents on etsy- take one

art by oh my cavalier (read my original post about oh my cavalier here)


gocco printed desk calendars from modern printed matter



handprinted tees and totes from maryink


postcards from bismo080


labels from remake


personalized pencil bouquets by sweet paperie


possum beanie from justjussi


mahogany earrings from orno


mobile from pukapuka

five and a half

this year i am trying to get my holiay shopping on early, since that's usually me making something at the last minute. so as i find neat, cute, unique, handmade and one-of-a-kind stuff i'll post it. eh voila.

i recently stumbled across five and a half, a brooklyn bookmaking and design studio. judy lee creates unique handmade journals with great covers, many of them inspired from varied landscapes.and they're eco-friendly! her description is best:
Each journal is filled with pages of sugarcane fiber and postconsumer recycled paper, a textweight surface that is ideal for writing, drawing, and painting, while leaving the planet's dwindling supply of trees untouched. There are useful details present in each journal ~ an inner pocket for looseleaf notes, and a perfect-bound spine so that each book opens flat for writing and drawing across the pages. The cover designs are made in limited editions, featuring original illustrations or photography.
the top journal, the ossining mural, is panoramic format. i love the inside pocket- and other varieties have a pen loop and come with an "old school pencil". swwweeet. visit their website here

moog

introducing. . .moop.
moop is a hand-maker of really cooly designed bags.
to quote her blog: "Our objective is to provide a supremely crafted bag made by hand and intended to last. We aim to change the way people dream about clothes by creating a model of high quality, modern, sweatshop free goods, that are simple and just a bit understated". The fraulein bag, pictured above, seems to me to be one of those bags that makes owning one good bag just enough!
and. . .i'm not sure where she lives (somewhere in the northeast) but her studio/home is enviably inspirational.

you can buy moop bags on etsy here
she also has a moop website and a blog

victionary books

check out these fabulous looking graphics books! all put out by victionary, a publisher that seems to specialize in "out of the box' design. if the insides are anything like the outside then we're in business. you can purchase a lot of them on amazon (or wishlist them as i did), and they seem to have few but great reviews. they have a sassily designed website (which a design book publisher should!) with a more comprehensive view of all their publications. . .

robert ryan

i came across a mention of london artist rob ryan on bloesem blog. he is primarily a paper cut artist who does introspective lovelies that comment on relationships in a touching way. he has an etsy shop with tiles inspired by his paper cuts. he has a great blog. best of all, his website has a great collection of his amazing paper cut work. he also apparently has a book out too!

we're in print!

apple-pulling

ruby and her papa

listen up

albert hammond jr!
the guitarist from the strokes who came out with his own album this year.
if you haven't heard him, check out his album here. i recommend 'everyone gets a star'. and david sent me 'blue skies' but i don't know where he found it. enjoy!

glaciers

i was reminded this morning of lynn davis' photographs of glaciers. david and i saw one of her pieces at art basel and sort of wordlessly nodded an "amen!". see more of her work here

koi suwannagate

check out her collection on her website

mum (with an accent aigu on the 'u')

a great icelandic band david turned me onto. love their illustrated videos.

new designs for children's club show

MANOUSH!

voila

three potato four

i came across this great webshop via the decor8 blog. it's called three potato four. the owners are a married-with-child couple of designers with impeccable taste, particularly in signage and typesetting! and the styling of the product photos is lovely. check it out here:

that hopper-esque light

ah..... one thing i've missed about maine is this painterly light. . .
we got a nice dose this weekend.

levitating at m + g's wedding

YOLO colorhouse

YOLO colorhouse is a designer series of paint with no volatile organic compounds (those pesky VOCs). they just recently have added an outside color palette to their collection as well as "little YOLO" a line of washable interior paint for the little ones' rooms. one of the best things about YOLO, considering the hefty price tag on their paint, is that you can purchase a poster-sized swatch before committing to a given color. i love the palette. and indeed i love the posters!
check out the YOLO colorhouse website here,

cool tidbit: the cofounders, virginia young (YO) and janey lowe (LO), are former fine arts students with backgrounds in graphics, illustration and advertising, which makes their packaging pretty nice also!

john patrick organics

as some of you may know, i've been looking into greener options for my kids tees. i also recently began a search for an eco-chic party dress to wear to a wedding (meghan, gideon), only to find a proliferation of jersey dresses (lovely for around the house) and weirdly unwearable futuristic pieces. where were the structured lovely audrey-hepburny dresses in brilliant colors but not made by children in sri lanka or made of fabrics and dyes that impact our planet in a bad way? (if you know, email me!!!) i was looking in short for something preppy and elegant and striking in kate-spadey way but much "greener" (and more transparent in its origins). . .no luck! but in my searches i did come across this cute line through the inhabitat blog that is super preppy and casual and breezy. john patrick organics. check out their website here,and the inhabitat piece here,

constructed/deconstructed

i love the idea of a plush, plump feminine couch silouette with a very deconstructed bare-bones but not dangerous-to-toddlers ottoman/coffee table.
here: the chester sofa from mitchell gold with an ottoman from anthropologie. the couch in a lovely velvet, a little drawing on the wall above, some chunky very masculine boxy lamps. . . this ottoman would look natural when messy. this is the kind of ottoman you can put your feet or food on and not feel bad about it. not so fussy as an upholstered ottoman, not so plate-unfriendly as a coffee table. it's like a coffee table with a light straight jacket, or an ottoman that has been undressed to it's built-in canvas undies.

my favorite things

from anthro this september are red and white and grey, most of em french and femme and lovely:

clockwise from top left: cirrus duvet in white, patisserie cup and saucer, neptune chair, astrid chair in naive tropical, ditte sofa in charcoal wool, vannus pumps (is this not the classiest silouette?)

just when i think i've spent all there is to spend at target . . .

alice temperley comes to target's go international collection september 16.
(via oh joy! blog)

cutey mccutester laptop bag

the Mina bag from abbi new york
(via oh joy! blog)

a very inspirational blog

a lived in, loved in home styled with great panache, lots of handmade items and interesting thoughts and stuff at robot jumping rope.
(via poppytalk blog)

blue

a blue-tiful holiday dress from jovovich-hawk

mmmm. black and white

photos courtesy daniel and stephanie