DESIGN: LETTERHEAD

Great design can be found in the simplest places; I present to you, courtesy of LEADERHEADY, well, letterheads...

The great artist, Roy Lichtenstein, circa 1971. (I HEART ROY LICHTENSTEIN.)

Marvel Comics, c. 1982.

My childhood favorites, Laurel & Hardy, c. date unknown.

A Special News Bulletin from the Office of Johnny Cash, c. 1960.

One of the most brilliant entertainers ever, P.T. Barnum, c. 1891.

And the bizarre:

The Church of Scientology, c. 1976.

Go HERE to see more.

OTHER: STUMBLE!

I stumbled upon this:



From REDDIT.

ART: SHAUNA RICHARDSON

U.K.-based artist Shauna Richardson creates life-size, ultra-realistic animals using the medium of crochet. (She refers to her art as Crochetdermy.)

The Lioness.

A Jack-Rabbit.

A detail of the Brown Bear.

A mounted Fox.

The Monkey.

Richardson was chosen as one of a handful of artists to create works of art to be displayed around London during the 2012 Summer Olympics; her contribution will consist of three thirty-foot tall hand-crocheted lions, representing the East Highlands, home of Richard the Lionheart.

To see more of her work, and shots of her creations in their "natural habitats," visit her website HERE.

MUSIC: WILLIAM ELLIOT WHITMORE

HERE is a clip of Whitmore performing Hell Or High Water

DESIGN: MARK, BY DAMJAN STANKOVIć

I'm not one for internet abbreviations -webreviations?- but I'll make an exception this one time:

OMG I WTB THIS SUPER-AWESOME XC10 THING!!! IT'S EFFING G9!

It's a light for your bedside table...

That's also a bookmark for your bedtime reading!

Here's how it works:

When you put your book across it shuts off automatically!!! Unbelievable! Who thinks of such a thing?? (The answer is Damjan Stanković, a designer based out of Belgrade, Serbia, and you can see more of his work HERE.)

It's only in the prototype phase, but when it's released I will have one, I <3>

Here are a few other options for your bedside table:

The Nod Light by IC Designs...

My Pet Lamp by OFFI...

DESIGN: THE MAST HUMIDIFIER, BY SHIN OKADA

I've become kind of obsessed with beautiful designs for mundane things (see the parking garage below)and I'm not sure anything more mundane could be more beautiful than this humidifier, designed by Shin Okada from Japan. It's constructed from Hinoki Cypress -which, according to Wikipedia, is also used to build palaces, temples, traditional Noh theatres, and ping pong racquets- and uses absolutely no electricity: The wood absorbs the water from the base and diffuses it into the air, tinging it with a slight lemony scent.

Unfortunately, I don't think we have need for a new humidifier... Although, I believe that this one retails for under a hundred dollars...

DESIGN: EUREKA TOWER CARPARK

This is an underground parking garage in Melbourne, Australia... It's designed to look like absolutely nothing, until you're in the right place, looking at the design from the right angle, at which time all is revealed.

It feels weird to refer to a parking garage as brilliant, but c'mon... This is brilliant.




I would drive if parking garages were this fun.

This is incredible design; it turns the mundane into something artful.