URL: EMBLEM: Flameworked Glass
My dear friend Amara's husband Jake makes beautiful handmade glass jewelry, wine glasses & goblets, oil burner, pens, etc... He currently sells his pieces on Etsy and boutiques stores around town in San Diego.
URL: Z-Grade
RELATED LINKS: Eco-Monster Puppets
New Z-Grade creations!
We attended the holiday boutique sale event at TBWA/Chiat/Day again this year.
URL: Sori Yanagi
RELATED LINKS: Sori Yanagi Design | Bookendless
SHOP @ Tortoise | Amazon
CAFE: Menya Sou
When I first saw Sori Yanagi's cast iron sauce pan at a small Japanese boutique stand at Manhattan Village Mall called Uzu in person, I fell in love with Sori Yanagi. And I've been discovering more of his products, and I'm always amazed and surprised with his genius design and sensitivity for usability. It's rare that product itself makes you think and smile.
URL: Elisabeth Timpone
...just came across Elisabeth Timpone's illustrations.
...those beautiful delicate detailed fine lines... love them!!
URL: Tortoise | Mitsuru Koga
ADDRESS: (MAP)
1342 1/2 Abbot Kinney Blvd
Venice, CA 90291
PHONE: 310.396.7335
Tortoise is having an exhibition of the Sea Stone Vases by Mitsuru Koga till end of upcoming weekend (November 02, 2008 Sun). The Japanese artist, Mitsuru Koga transforms ordinary object into minimalist design enhancing its own natural beauty.
URL: FAT: Fashion Architect Taste
RELATED LINKS: Dezeen
I saw this Soft Hércules Stool by FAT on Dezeen Blog the other day... and kept thinking about it.
A friend of mine, Jen sent me a link to the Vitamin after coming back shopping from Abbott Kinney, CA the other day. She saw their Urban Gnomes all displayed in the store... and thought that I would love them :) They're indeed very cool!
KUSAMA: Princess of Polka Dots
RELATED LINKS: Yayoi Kusama | YouTube
I have recently come to find out about this documentary film about a Japanese avant-garde artist, Yayoi Kusama called "KUSAMA: Princess of Polka Dots" directed by Heather Lenz.
URL: New York Times: Fold-Ins, Past and Present | Article on Al Jaffee
RELATED URLs: Mad Magazine | Wikipedia
A must check article and interactive gallery of Al Jaffee's fold-ins for Mad magazine on New York Times :) Mr. Jaffee has been working on the Mad Magazine's Fold-Ins since the 1960s to the present (He is 87 years old now). The master artist illustrates everything by hand (no computer!!) and surprisingly never folds his art!!
Continue reading "[ART] Al Jaffee's Mad Magazine Fold-Ins" →
URL: Oddpod | Oddpod (Sketch)
Odopod is a small design studio in San Francisco.
I recently discovered a section of their website where you can sketch/draw anything onto their browser. Once you sign in, you get a blank canvas (vintage rice paper feel), 23 colored pencils (thin to thick), eraser, and white out. The drawing capability is pretty amazing (Above are sketches Paul & I did on their website)!
URL: Charley Harper | Treadway Gallery
RELATED LINKS: Flickr | YouTube | Amazon
Very tempting books to buy... little expensive though...
URL: Milk Jar
RELATED LINKS: Crazy Label | Flickr
OMG! How cute is that?!
I just came across this irresistible cute creature called "Treeson" created by Hong Kong illustrator "Bubi Au Yeung".
URL: Fun Forever
RELATED LINKS: Cara Barer | Georgia Russell | Robert The | Abelardo Morell | Takeshi Ishiguro | The Book Arts
Very inspiring Art with books.
I came across this blog Fun Forever by StumbleUpon... and I was so intrigued by all the pictures of Books in Art form. So amazing...
The pictures above are the works of a photographer Cara Barer. His photography focuses on "a documentation of a physical evolution".
URL: Readymech Series 002 | Fwis
Cute make-it-yourself toys by Readymech :D
You can download their free PDFs, print on your thick 8.5" x 11" paper, and build them yourself for fun! I was thinking... they might even make a cute gift packaging to give out some candies, small accessories, or perhaps even gift certificates?? (Not sure if a gift certificate card would fit though... Hmmm...)
URL: Mariek Blog
RELATED LINKS: Flickr
Marieke Van Esveld is a freelance designer from Amsterdam, Netherlands with a special interest in needle felt and other crafts. A lot of her works and her interests cross over many of the things I'm interested in, like doing, and also want to be doing... So, I was very happy to discover about her today!
Helena Zália, Portugal
URL: ZAI-ZAI Blog
RELATED LINKS: Flickr
Adorable ornaments by Helena Zália in Portugal.
URL: Gary Baseman
SHOP@: Bristol Farms | Amazon
When I was shopping at Bristol Farms yesterday, I saw some Hint Mint with Gary Baseman's art on the package. They only carried the right 2 designs (as shown on picture above) at Bristol Farms, but I discovered there are more!! They are very cute!! I like the left 2 packaging designs the most... and they are going to be only sold for this holiday season. They are limited edition!! ...and they might be a good collectible items for Baseman fans! :)
URL: Z-GRADE
RELATED LINKS: Z-Grade Eco-Monster Puppets
New additions to the Z-Grade Eco-Monster family :)
URL: Z-GRADE
We've been working really hard on getting our Z-Grade Eco-Monster Puppets ready for the TBWA/Chiat/Day holiday boutique sales event :) We decided to participate 2 weeks ago, so there was not much time to prepare many of them... but these puppets will be available on our online website when we launch in December 2006.
RELATED LINKS: Sainsbury's and Arts Council bags | TreeHugger
Yesterday, I wrote a post on grocery bags at Whole Foods and Trader Joe's. Then today, I find these cute recycled grocery bags used at supermarkets in England (pic above)!! These artistic bags are almost stylish enough to wear to any place, and they cost only about $1 and the profit goes to charity :O These are just really cool both ways!! What a beautiful idea...
URL: FAFI | MySpace
RELATED LINKS: DOZEN | Flicker
Fafi - The Female French Graffiti Artist
I first became aware of Fafi when she released Artist Gacha-Gacha capsule toy series in Japan along with some other artists around the world back in 2003. At first, I didn't like her figures that much (I liked her drawing/painting style though)... but her figures started to grow on me every time I saw them. I was reading this guys blog this morning, and he wrote that he had to move the figures off his desk because they kept flirting with him!! I was laughing so hard!! But, I think fafi's figures seriously had the same effect on me!!
