I need these in my life.

Letter Coasters & Number Placemats from Little Factory.

Lotta Bruhn

Lovely Christmas patterns from Lotta Bruhn. Those birds definitely have an edge of Charley Harper about them - no bad thing...

Marimekko for H&M

Can't wait to get my mitts on some of this patterny goodness. The H&M website seemed to be down this morning, but there's some images on The Cut and nitro:licious.

Helen Dardik

I found Helen Dardik's blog and portfolio site today via Print Pattern, and it's fantastic! I can't believe I hadn't seen it before. She has a really exciting style and great use of colour and hand-drawn typography - see the bits I pinched from her website above.

Michael Poliza

In some round-about way this morning I found Michael Poliza's site. He recently flew in a helicopter from Hamburg to Cape Town, and has a fantastic collection of imagery from it, particularly the aerial shots. It really struck me how patternistic (did I just make that word up?) some of them become but besides that, they're really just fantastically beautiful.

The Paul Smith Screen

I went to a 'thing' at Nottingham Broadway Cinema this week and it happened to be in the Paul Smith screen. It's so lovely! I'm not normally the soft-furnishings type but these seats make you feel happy as soon as you walk in. I want a stripey sofa now.

I love... lamp.

I LOVE LAMP!
By Hiroshi Yoneya and Yumi Masuko, Producted by Cassina ixc. co. Ltd., photo by Nacasa and Partners Inc.

Si Scott

I can't believe I missed this exhibition - it's right up my street. Luckily Si Scott has a fantastic website with a selection of his Ink & Lyrics exhibition work and lots more besides. The full picture above really doesn't do Black Swan justice, so here's a detail too...

For lots more (and much bigger) images check out his website. Lovely.

Gorgeous Letterpress Ad.

The Selfridges website has a nice feature related to this at the moment too - a wonder search. There's a big long alphabetical list of lots of peoples 'wonders' (although unfortunately you can't read past O at the moment as the link to the next page is broken - rubbish!) that make some interesting (if slightly pointless) reading. It has a nice header too, but unfortunately it bears no relation to the ad in September's Vogue. How odd. I'd think a brand as huge as Selfridges (a guardian for a lot of other prestige brands no less) would do this a bit better really. It seems like all the thought went into the lovely ad and the rest got a bit cobbled together.

Marian Bantjes

Marian Bantjes' website is full of swirling typography, gorgeous design and special bits like this, a map of influences. There are much larger details of it here. A fantastically simple idea and a lovely piece. Marian Bantjes' website is a goldmine of inspiration itself!