Joshua Covarrubias

I saw the fantastic flowchart below from the Pipeline, designed by Joshua Covarrubias (through a tweet from @yellowgoatetsy) and it made me smile. I'm glad I Googled him and found his website (bit mean of them not to link to it I thought?) as it has some lovely pieces, particularly the image above (for Kalina Magazine).




The Sartorialist

Pattern People

I've just discovered the great Pattern People blog. Written by Pattern People Jessie Whipple Vickery, Valerie Mathus and Claudia Brown, the posts pull together inspiration and trends from the world of fashion and textiles, alongside everything from interiors to art exhibitions they curate themselves.

Image above from Hervé Léger for Max Azria post. I love the organic shapes the contrast of these harsh linear patterns create.

Below, Janine Rewell's "Tan Lines", originally seen here. A fantastic idea, although it would definitely make me feel less squiffy if it was a spray tan. Not sure anyone really needs encouraging to use sun-beds...

Looking Into The Past

Portland Oregon, Then and now, originally uploaded by Tinflower.

The lovely Looking Into The Past Flickr pool juxtaposes old photographs with their contemporary original locations.

Via Wired

Tate St Ives

Tate St Ives, originally uploaded by hello.vickibrown.

Just got back from my jollies and now I'm ploughing through the ridiculous amount of photographs taken. In the meantime, St Ives is lovely, Tate St Ives was really rather nice and there were some great bits of handpainted type bobbing around.

More to come on Flickr, and normal service (ie. sporadic and random posting) will return soon...

Faber 80th Poetry Series

Faber 80th Poetry Series, originally uploaded by Faber Books.

Lucky me, I have some very pretty books to dig into over my holiday.

Featuring fantastic lino-cuts by various artists, credits for all on Faber's Flickr stream, and more info on the books here.

Joanna Rutter

Gorgeous jewellery from Joanna Rutter, soon to be stocked by Soma Gallery in Bristol or you can buy direct.

You can also keep up with Joanna's new work on her blog and Flickr stream, currently featuring some lovely surface pattern designs and pretty leaf cut-outs too!

Salvaged Garden

Fab salvaged garden, originally uploaded by hello.vickibrown.

Bit quiet on the blogette at the moment I know, trouble is when 2 out of 3 of the design department are off on maternity it gets a tad busy.

Anyway, here's a snap of a great garden I saw on Friday, every time I look at the pictures I spot more things...

We Love You So

'Wildcake' from Coco Cake Cupcakes, worth a look for some sweet sugary goodness, and also cat cakes.

Blogging the inspirations, influences and building blocks of the Where The Wild Things Are film.

via Binky

So jealous...

... that my friend got to meet these guys today!

Beach Balls & Balloons

TOBYhouse is primarily an interior and retail design consultancy, but they also produce a small number of lighting and housewares products. The Beach Ball and Balloon Lamps particularly stood out to me; the beach balls so much fun, happy bright and joyful, and the balloons are just such beautiful colours, they have a great depth and warmth to them. Apparently the products are available in boutiques in London and Milan, or you can find contact details on the TOBYhouse website.

Rob Ryan. Yes, again.

Bristol's Soma Gallery brought some lovely lovely new prints to my attention. (How is this guy not writing songs?)

Cherry Blossom

A friend of mine forwarded me an email full of pictures of Japan's cherry blossom season today and I had to share it. The contrast of the softest soft pink and the bright orange here is beautiful. To see the cherry blossom has to be one of my dream trips.



The pictures seem to be watermarked from wusjp.com but I have no idea what that is as I can't read Japanese, and apparently neither can google translate to any useful extent. A quick search through Flickr finds plenty more great examples.