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Baubauhaus.com has recently become one of my favorite places to check out for a bit of inspiration when I’m in a designing rut. It can almost be a bit overwhelming with all the work, but something always catches my eye, sparking a new direction in whatever project I’m working on at the moment. Do use!
Need some good (fucking) design advice…then make your way over to appropriately named…goodfuckingdesignadvice.com where it will tell you some things you knew, but also advice you might have forgotten, or never knew at all.
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Just got a pretty awesome email from Sixpoint telling me they got some press, but also that I got a little press myself for my piece I did for Sixpoint’s Facebook Profile Picture Contest. Meredith Olson, a Writer at my favorite local publications/blogs wrote a piece highlighting the contest, and featured my illustration. Unfortunately they got my name wrong, but we’re working on that.
Sixpoint Brewery is holding their second (annual?) contest to become their newest Facebook profile. The first contest I entered too late, so my Facebook ‘Like’ showing was a bit disappointing. It’s only April 8th and I have until the end of April to rack up some votes/Likes. So click on the image above to vote by simply Liking the image. This time Sixpoint made a theme, “Beer Is Culture”. After some thinking I kept coming back to Pop Culture, and couldn’t stop thinking of Homer Simpson and his love of Duff beer. So did a little research and made a collection of my favor drunks…I mean beer fanatics. Stewart Smalley from SNL, Norm Peterson from Cheers, Snooki, Al Bundy from Married with Children, and of course the crew from Always Sunny. Go vote my friends. I’ll owe you one!
Headed down towards the East River in Williamsburg with Mackenzie to check out the new Sunday location for the Brooklyn Flea. I expected a different scene from the typical Fort Greene crowd, but it was all the same great food (with the addition of a stand from Saltie), fashionable people, gorgeous furniture, and your fair share of cute puppies. I fell in love with a desk constructed by Fat Dog Fabrication, which I’d love to introduce to my laptop some day. Maybe after a few paychecks and some guts to shell out the cash.
This also made me think about my favorite furniture site which I visit too much, Sit & Read, which Mackenzie showed me. With a couple locations around New York, this store has only a few hand-picked pieces of furniture and vintage book which are often sold even before they photograph them for the site. Below and the photo above are a few of my favorite pieces from Sit & Read.
I’ll be sure to give you an update (that’s worthy of it’s own post) if ever I do buy the dream desk by Fat Dog Fab.
The couch that Mackenzie found on Sit & Read. She was very close to purchasing it before it sold.
One of my favorite piece, but the price tag is way out of my budget.
Love this piece, as it’s obviously from New England, listing a few nearby towns/areas to my mother’s house.
Made another poster for Little Anchor this past weekend for their upcoming show this coming weekend. They will be performing at Spike Hill in Williamsburg for a nice change, with a completely new looking lineup before and after they hit the stage. Spike Hill location is great as it’s only two blocks from my apartment, and only steps from the Bedford L train. Plus, it’s only a six dollar door charge for the night. It’s a great way to grab an early(ish) drink and I encourage you all to go! Hope to see all you New Yorkers there.
Got to love today’s Hulu page for April Fools. I ended up watching the whole episode of THe X-File they have posted on the front page. Reminded me of my time at boarding school, watching an episode after a day of classes. Never been a huge fan of The X-FIles, but you do have to like the 90s acting and of course the very odd storyline.
Great typography can exist on the web thanks to Vancouver’s Academy who transformed an interview of Nike’s Tinker Hatfield into a visual masterpiece.
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How awesome would it be to have this Mona Hatoum piece as a room divider!? This is one piece of 130 pieces from 70 different museum and private collections currently being shown in Barcelona until June.
Quick brief of the show’s description: The Art of Eating pays special attention to various art forms created from the 1960s and 1970s, when food and the act of eating, burst into the work of artists who were looking for other materials, new behaviours and new approaches to go beyond the representation of reality.
These are obviously marketed towards women, but If I’d have lots of money to splurge of some odd reason I’d really love to own these Cast of Vice shopping bags. They are very clever and spot on with the graphics.
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Always a good idea to take Advice from a Rapper right? Check out these fun illustrations by Jessica Wright. I can’t wait to see more.