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After Dinner I Do A Shit. (And Do It Down A Sewer)

Originally uploaded by Dave Gorman

Some organic advertising found in London. Sweet!

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This one speaks for itself, I think.

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How about a really BIG pop-up book? This is a spread from Space Book, designed by Jin-Hui Kim. I like everything about this concept, the possibilities for photo shoots, film sets, and playhouses are endless. (via yankodesign, more pictures over there if you fancy a gander)

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The Record Envelope - the ‘little’ library of factory sleeves - is a jackpot for vinyl collectors as well as graphic artists. Oh the eye candy, it goes on forever.

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I guess I’m not the only one who celebrates Laundry Day and Hangover Day simultaneously. Clever advertising. (via adsoftheworld)

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Credits: 1. img001.jpg, 2. Book Trails Back, 3. rhymes, poems and stories., 4. The little polar bear - rudolf lukes c1964, 5. Jimmy Jinks & A Brolly, 6. I-Spy The Sky, 7. First-Playbook-Cover, 8. A Dragon in a Wagon, 9. AIRPORT HORSIE, 10. Mister-Robin-4, 11. Untitled, 12. Ich Sehe Was, Was Du Nicht Siehst

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Tony Sarg’s Up & Down New York, a children’s book of bird’s-eye perspectives of 1920s New York City, has recently been re-published. It’s an illustrious, timeless yearbook of the city’s architecture and liveliness.

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Candy-colored and folklore-inspired, these screenprints by Sanna Annukka are charming and cheerful. Love.

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Photo credits: 1. brain, 2. I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky and the blood coursing through the moon, 3. The Family Physician 1950’s, 4. the body in action, 5. Anatomy for Interior Designers

Kristina Collantes: art is in her blood. From her “Human Hands” collection, two selections below.

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The last time Bambi was in style, I was in daycare. That would be… 18 years ago? At least? Great. Then it’s my pleasure to re-introduce this trend in hipster culture: Bambi. Urban Outfitters is a-wash with the little deer and friends. I guess that’s the next logical step in the woodland creature trend.

Above, from left: You Can Call Me Flower lamp base, $24; Bambi Tray, $14.

Keep up your street cred; buy Bambi on DVD. VHS with a working VHS player is a plus.

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I wrote about Alena several months ago (view that post here) so I was pleased to see her new work at urbanoutfitters.com. The triptych of prints is available for $40 for a limited time only.

Also found out today that you can order fabric swatches for furniture online free-of-charge from Urban Outfitters or its sister site and company, Anthropologie. Pretty cool. I love getting packages in the mail, especially when they’re free.

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I’ve been on a bit of a kick lately, accessories wise. I’ve been lusting after the most inappropriate of attire, chunky necklaces and unreadable watches, eye covering hats and the shiniest, sparkliest braclets and rings i can lay my grubby little hands on. So, in the spirit of sharing, here’s some of the pieces I’m loving this month:

left to right: UO Joanna Louca Clutch £279, UO Angel Wings Earrings £10, Tiffany & Co double strand figure 8 necklace £85.

l-r: topshop contrast belt £25, topshop wings charm bracelet, £8, The Carrot Box Robert Dodd Ring $70.

There are of course many more lovelies but I’m at work and by rights I should be working ;)

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arrow ring vs subway arrows

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available here for a bargainous $22, each ring comes in a box along with a printed Arrow Ring logo card that is uniquely numbered with a hand stamp. Neat!

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Vanity Fair featured the Palazzo Chupi in the March 2008 edition. The Palazzo Chupi is the Pompeii-red building Julian Schnabel (artist, director, designer) perched on top of a 20th-century factory in Greenwich Village. And Schnabel, of course, is the Renaissance man responsible for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.

Photos by Robert Polidori, courtesy of Vanity Fair. See more here or here or here (if you can afford it, it is currently on the market…)

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I am in the middle of a long-haul library visit, the kind you know only if you’ve been a senior in college, and I took pause from tortuously wordy texts, hand-numbing drafting exercises, and honestly goofy ethnographic accounts of shamanism to reflect on the things in life that make me happy. At some point in my life, maybe even in the past couple months I might have included any of these activities in a similar list, a list that has been recently re-named “Things I Hate About Being Alive in February During My Last Semester of College.”

Onto more cheerful things.

Furniture named after flowers. Tulip chairs, dooce’s tulip clock. Does a clock qualify as furniture? Whatever. This is my list. I gather designers like tulips. That’s fair.

Girl Scout cookies. Courage, confidence, character. Damn fine cookies.

Blythe dolls. It’s like I have my very own Christina Ricci.

Credits: 1. Archer sample, 2. 070413_01, 3. Eero Saarinen Tulip Chair, 4. Day 119, 5. Untitled

I’m feeling a little bit more positive now. Back to the books.

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