Monthly Archives: September 2011

Spoonflower is an amazing resource if you want to design your own fabric and have it printed at a reasonable cost. (This is one of my own designs)

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I love Charley Harper

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Superb lighting and furniture. Lighting from recycled laser-cut corrugated cardboard: Company: Graypants, Seattle, WA

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Classy Glass

Adam Hussain’s glass work is so unique and refreshing.

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Power of Power

Cyril Power is one of my favorite artists: I love the movement and structure of his work.

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Food in brief

I love Maureen Evans’ cleverness in reducing recipes to twitter limits. Look up her latest concoctions at twitter.com/cookbook or read about her in the NY Times article.    

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Fab fabrics

Check out Wallace+Sewell (London, UK) for outrageously fab fabrics.  They designed recent seating fabric for the London Underground, stunning scarves etc http://www.wallacesewell.com

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Theo Jansen = genius constructions

Automata out of this world http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=HSKyHmjyrkA&feature=email

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Cool clips

I love these clips by David Weeks – to seal bags. Actually I love anything that is useful and creative! Available at http://www.kikkerland.com which is worthy of a post itself.

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MY OWN COUNTRY by Abraham Verghese

Best book read this year.  Great biography.  Beautifully written.

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