Guess who's just discovered lazertran inkjet? Where have you been all my life!!! For all of you who were also in the dark about this most beautiful of products, lazertran inkjet is a transfer paper that can be printed on to by any inkjet printer and applied to pretty much any surface. For an example, see before and after below:
Love, love, love it!
As promised, I finally got the photos of my beautiful new acquisitions off the old pentax and on to fluffy. This originally started with a desire to change the feel of my main room slightly and create more (pretty) storage at the same time.
First off the bat, an antique oak card file bought from a rag trade warehouse in Chippendale (it still had all the cards in it, going back to 1904!!! I've lent them to my grandmother, but I'll scan in another post just so that you can all see the scrumptious handwriting.)
Next, an uber retro mag file picked up at a garage sale for $8 and an old mango wood bookcase that's beautifully made and unbelievably heavy!
And lastly, the awesomest poster you've ever seen! From the London Design Museum Shop.
Discovered this little gem through how about orange. Watch some very cool time-lapse movies of sketches being done online or create your own illustration. The colour palette is lovely too!
I love it when I rediscover a blog! A couple of years ago I made a set of memory cards for my grandmother. some of which used beautiful vintage images I found on The Graphics Fairy... I then promptly forgot it existed until today! Browsing through another blog I saw an ad that immediately drew my eye with its pretty vintage type and birds (even though it included "clipart" in the description and I had the obligatory spine shudder at thoughts of microsoft office).
I know I said I'd post some of my new finds over the weekend, but the whole 3 days turned into a bit of a whirlwind and I didn't manage to take the photos I wanted. I did acquire something new and blue though, which will definitely go up with the rest THIS weekend!
Meanwhile, I wanted to share a video of the most awesome bird alive - the moonwalking red-capped manikin. Everytime I watch this I can't stop laughing, thank you QI for enlightening me.
Recently I've been going through a big need to change my living space phase, including some lovely purchases that I'll show you all over the weekend. Today I've been dreamily looking at new workspace goodness and listening to my credit card berate me at the same time :(.
Love these.
1. Walnut Desk from Great Dane Furniture.
2. Robin Day Dining Chair from Habitat.
3. Agra Bookshelves from Complete Pad.
4. Typewriter Notebook from Pulp Creative.
5. Vedel Bird from Great Dane Furniture.
6. Wooden Apple Stamp from Kikki K.
I don't know about you, but I often get the itch to change the look of my living space or bedroom, and don't really have the funds to go out every time this happens to buy an entirely new furniture collection. So I change my walls... but what to do... paint, wallpaper, punch frustration holes in them and hope no one notices? This morning, I discovered Blik, a line of self-adhesive wall decals that were created by and for people who like to change their mind. Perfect! Not only are their designs gut wrenchingly funky, but if you're still not feeling enough cool emanating from them, you can go all custom made on that vinyl.
Blik unfortunately doesn't post outside the States as yet, but they do have distributors around the world, including Jujube in Oz.
This morning I made the mistake of looking at the FontShop newsletter that arrived bright and early in my inbox and discovered my new must have book. Explorations in Typography: Mastering the Art of Fine Typesetting by Carolina de Bartolo with Erik Spiekermann (founder of MetaDesign and FontShop) is a vast collection of beautiful typesetting examples. Page after page, a brief article by Erik Spiekermann has been set in hundreds of different ways in hundreds of different typefaces, creating an extended visual taxonomy of typesetting that allows you to “learn by looking.” Hello next purchase.
They've also included a beautiful selection of typeface combinations which I'll find especially useful when I'm having one of my "can't brain today" days.
Explorations in Typography
If you've ever been after a decent reason to learn Japanese, I may have just found it for you. Often I find stereotypical Japanese design to be either very traditional or face-imploding cutesy, but Orner has definitely found a fan in me.
Zakka: "the art of seeing the savvy in the ordinary and mundane".
To go and drool, click here: Orner
When I die, I hope I go to this stylist retail shop heaven.
Scout House - I think I love you.
