©Maud Vantours
Category Archives: Design
Genius/Artist/Weirdo HR Giger Dies at 74
Birth Machine ©HRGiger.com
Today, we lost a brilliant mind. Continue reading
I Didn’t Even Know Stalinesque Was a Design Style
©Andrea Wyner for The New York Times
“I decided I wanted to design the apartment in the style of a senior bureaucrat of the early Stalin period,” said the owner, antiques dealer Sergei Bobovnikov, 47. Continue reading
Sadder-But-Wiser Pottery (A Beautiful Story Told By a Smart Ass)
The Power of Dust
“We are Dangerdust. Every Week we take over Columbus College of Art & Design’s chalkboard. It’s the best form of vandalism.”
©Dangerdust
Paint by Numbers
Today, you get a bonus OBT because this is just too fantastic to keep to myself.
© The Internet
Ink From Seattle
Souvenirs From Dead Whores Bay. Wait, What?
Is This House Eligible for Amazon Prime?
Tempting Tiny Terrariums
I love growing things. Continue reading
Wood, Glue, a Card Table, and a Vision
A friend wrote “They are so realistic that the pictures with him in them are creepy!” He’s not wrong.
©Michael Paul Smith
Imogen Heap’s Music/Tech Mashup
©RCA
Shut Up and Take My Money
©Paul Michael Design
Geek jewelry designer Paul Michael has got to be the happiest guy in the world.
OBI (One Beautiful Idea)
©GreenProphet.com
In 2012, after Hurricane Sandy hit the Northeast, we were displaced from our poor broken little house for 6+ months. We were fortunate enough to have the resources to find a place to live while we waited for our home to be restored, but not everyone in the world is so lucky. Continue reading
I May Ship Myself . . .
Spring and Other Horticultural Disasters
The calendar is turned to April, the weather is warming (albeit gradually), and the world is starting to smell like green things and hope and the promise of better days. And so my mind is once again turning to . . . dead plants.
©Elżbieta Wodała
Squee of the Week
Although I have always been a big fan of little things (hi, honey!), cute generally doesn’t get it done for me. However, these minuscule crocheted animals are so tiny and so perfect that I must make them mine. This one actually extracted from me the exact sound “squee!” Never really understood that before. Turns out it’s a thing.
©SuAmi
Love and the Art of Baby Helmet Painting
When OCD Produces Beauty, It Produces Really a Lot of It
Beauty in a Hopeless Place
Storai and Saeeda are budding jewelers and artist in Kabul AND THEY ARE WOMEN.
©Turquoise Mountain Arts
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