Charts, Graphs, and Dioramas

Inspired by a birthday card that I got for my friend, where a simple chart showed that her birthday was way better than Denny's and Hell, I thought it would be fun to find some more charts, graphs, and dioramas to share. We love the anatomy of a cupcake, it's a design savvy way of a how-to! How cute and clever. These charts make us so happy, but before we made that official decision, we made our way through the chart above just to make sure we were on the right track. ; )

Louise Bourgeois: The Fabric Works

You may now Louise Bourgeois from her sculptures that are installed all over the world. Her most famous are the towering spiders, one of which is in our city of San Francisco. With knowing her previous works, we were excited to find out that she ventured out of her usual medium and explored the world of fabric design (just we discovered about Frank Lloyd Wright in our post last week!) Above are some of her creations, where she used unusual color combos and pieced together multiple patterns that offers different dimensions. As textiles designers, we truly appreciate when great artists like Louise Bourgeois spend time in our world.

Lucky's Pattern Play

While flipping through the pages of the most recent Lucky Magazine, we found this playful, pattern-filled photo shoot that reminded us of the quirky, yet beautiful book, Animal House by Catherine Ledner. A while back we did a fun post on that book in our "What's on Our Coffee Table" feature. Check it out here! Anywhoo, back to the Lucky spread...like animal house, we just love the vintage floral wallpapers as a backdrop to suck bold and modern clothing prints. The drastic contrast between the two is so wonderful we  just had to share!

Leeloo

Good Fortunes!

One amazing magazine

Pear pillow!

Lauren Carney Original

Found through Indie GoGo, Leeloo.com is a blog/store featuring artists from down under. Now, we don't live there, but some other pretty awesome people do! Like Lauren Carney, someone we featured way back, and someone we still adore! There is so much goodness on that site, but we just grabbed a few faves to feature in hopes you will be intrigued and check out the site yourself! Have fun!

Indie GoGo

Last week we posted about the fab Free Time Industries. This got us thinking...what a great idea to have a place for independent designers not only have more press by featuring themselves Indie GoGo, but also be able to receive donations through them. So, we decided to feature them as our "charity of the month", although we like to think of it as paying it forward for amazing designs to come. Ingenious ideas and ever-flowing creativity is not the problem for the designers, film producers, musicians that you find on Indie GoGo, it's the funds that keeps them from being able to share everything they have. What a great resource they have found in this company!

Let Them Make Cake

This one is our favorite!

What goes good with tea?! Hmmm....CAKE! These beautifully designed desserts were discovered through the lovely life and design blog of Black Eiffel, who worked on creating the branding for the company who made them. This edible art was made by Nine Cakes, who "have a passion for food and handcrafted goods..."and you can definitely tell. Our favorite is the ombre lines, the color fade and overlay creates such an amazing treat for the eyes. We are now in the works to throw a fantastic party just so we can have one of these!

Cups for Tea

We are jumping the pond a bit today and featuring the lovely world of tea cups. Vintage, girly, bold, modern, or illustrated, these home essentials have endless possibilities to displaying your style. The illustrations that we have found not only showcase different personalities within the cups for tea, but different techniques and mediums used to create them for our viewing pleasure. Hopefully these designs will inspire you to sip you tea from your favorite cup (we know you have one) and paint, doodle, draw or paste. I suppose you coffee drinkers can join in the fun as well. ; ) Cheerio!