Don’t play with your food
Pen and the pixel made a series of plates inspired by scenes of the Harrow Ladies Luncheon Club from John Betjamen’ s Metroland (1970).
They also reminded me some of those scary voices of my childhood.
Archived entries for Design
Fabrica Features Fabricante
Some beautiful forms from Fabrica.
Fabricante and Fabrica Features products photographed together by Liz Hingley with designer Becka Citron.
Commanding life
Clever and inspiring prints by Atmostheory.
The Most Beautiful Bikes In the WORLD!
These bikes are made by the the Lepzig, German company Retrovelo. Started in 2003 they began building what is know as a “balloon racer”. It is half mountain bike half cruiser bike.
The availability is very limited, as far as I can tell, but they are some of the most beautiful and fun looking bikes I have ever seen. Keep your eye out for these beauties.
Pictured above are the men’s model “Fritz” and the women’s model Paula.
Candywhistle
According to the designers at Fabrica, Candywhistle from Wellington was one of their favourites at the Salone del Mobile (in the Satellite Pavillion). I was quite pleased with their assessment because that was my friend Robert Rose, and the sterling Craig Bond and Stu Barr. Check out their wonderful work here.
Tenebrously green
We do have to think about recycling…
Pixelated pin-up art
For all those cheesecake lovers, here is a sweet. Andrew Bawidamann creates contemporary pin-up art through his graphically oriented girls, offering appeal to today’s soldiers,
tattoo artists, bikers, rockers and just about anyone with a fetish.
Via Priya
Excellent Book Covers and Paperbacks
Very hard to design, book covers pretty much communicate the idea behind the book on one single page and in the spite of seconds. Good ones are unforgettable and also a great source of inspiration.
Smashing Magazine, willing to provide you with some creative, expressive and appealing book covers, came up with 61 Excellent Book Covers and Paperbacks. Enjoy!
Free grunge
Is there anything better in life than getting free awesome stuff?
Outlaw Design Blog has found and put together the best 63 grunge fonts for you.
The best of the best? Yes my friend, you can download your favourites for free!
Tell Tales
Reuberhenning (Franziska Henning and Torsten Rueber) make beautiful carpets, the ones above are from their “Stories” series. I almost tripped up on one (right) in the “Berlin Dome” Exhibition in Zona Tortona, Milan. You can stumble upon them here .