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10 things that made my week #21

Art, blog, design
  1. These hand lettered found objects.
  2. This Italian Kindergarten got some new Okuda San Miguel murals.
  3. This list of Ten Virtues For The Modern Age.
  4. These colorful city images by Ben Thomas are beautiful.
  5. This animated short is completely bananas.
  6. This new sidewalk installation relies on your shadow and dance moves to create some beautiful music. 
  7. This Artist took some pretty incredible aerial shonts of tulip fields. 
  8. This Japanese politician is stepping up his campaign with a cat. 
  9. This whale shot a rainbow out of it’s blowhole. 
  10. This Tortilla Towel is hilarious. 

10 things that made my week #20

Art, blog, design
  1. This list of 10 ways the bicycle moved us forward.
  2. I’m so excited for this Dieter Rams documentary.
  3. This printer changes everything.
  4. This installation in Rome is exploring the passing of time.
  5. This Artist made a series of deconstructed sandwiches.
  6. This ingenious car from 1923 turned into a boat.
  7. This installation by Megan Geckler, is an immersive, vibrant rainbow cube.
  8. These horribly perfect Heavy Metal Album Covers.
  9. This Modular Shelving System, Wallace, looks amazing.
  10. These Pink Portraits of celebrities and Characters are too fabulously perfect.

10 things that made my week #19

Art, blog, design
  1. I tested the BuzziBalance line out at Neocon, so fun. 
  2. More great wisdom on ‘How to be yourself’, by Adamjk.
  3. This book, ‘Food History’ by the Graphic Design firm Papila, is beautiful.
  4. These Pasta Portraits are impressive and hilarious.
  5. This J-Pop cover of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme made me LOL.
  6. Austin Kleon wrote a nice post about Calvin Tompkins, Duchamp: A Biography.
  7. For the car-free folks, this foldable Kayak has be drooling.
  8. This post about creativity and finding your community.
  9. This Lithuanian Goat Pageant melted my heart and made me laugh.
  10. These Technicolor Rainbow Tape Floor Installations are mesmerizing.

10 things that made my week #18

Art, blog, design
  1. This Golden Girls themed cafe is opening in Manhattan.
  2. This camp stove by Primus looks perfect.
  3. I really want to go camping. These custom kitchens are pretty neat.
  4. This ‘Super 73’ electric bike looks like the ultimate urban exploring machine.
  5. The Hungarian firm, Hannabi, designed some beautifully minimalist furniture.
  6. I love old hardware, and this door alarm is genius.
  7. This Strandbeest bicycle is wild.
  8. Italian coffee + Scandinavian design = Collar. Take. My. Money.
  9. Because, Kites.
  10. Illustrator Marylou Faure’s work is giving me googly eyes.

10 things that made my week #17

Art, blog, design
  1. These interactive crystal installations.
  2. This desk is perfect for a small space.
  3. Erik Johansson’s surrealist photography is wild.
  4. When in doubt, redesign the soap, not the dish.
  5. These rainbow Heller mugs are on my wish-list.
  6. The ‘Today‘ clock will change the way view time.
  7. This next level canteen, turns into a pint glass.
  8. Adam J. Kurtz made this free printable door hanger, its on point.
  9. This poor fish.
  10. This giant wooden speaker made from reclaimed liquor barrels.

10 things that made my week #16

Art, blog, design
  1. Not your Mama’s Cuckoo Clocks.
  2. This letter to a few high school student’s, from Kurt Vonnegut.

  3. Izaac Enciso’s Conceptual Street Photography.

  4. This modular shelving system is beautiful.
  5. I want this Leafy Rainbow Bowl.
  6. Ryann Ford created a beautiful book of old Rest Stops.

  7. This Beautifully Illustrated Book Shows Kids A Sustainable Urban Future.

  8. This article is a great reminder to shake things off.
  9. Google built this giant display with arcade buttons.
  10. This Dog Meme video.

10 things that made my week #14

Art, blog, design
  1. These Gold Banana Lamps, by Studio Job.
  2. This Photographer’s Aerial shots of pools are gorgeous.
  3. How to be a ’90s Model.
  4. This rainbow mirrored glass installation by Liz West is perfect.
  5. Urban Confessional is like free therapy for city dwellers.
  6. Mary Oliver’s instructions for living a life.
  7. This disco ball helmet.
  8. These chicken plates.
  9. The cast of ‘Teen Witch‘ reunited for a selfie. TOP THAT!
  10. The Dallas Street Choir performed Miley Cyrus’ ‘The Climb’. EVERYONE is beautiful.

10 things that made my week #9

Art, blog, design
  1. This animation of a ‘Back to the Future’ hover board assembly line.
  2. This Bicycle Alphabet Typography is super nice to look at.
  3. This photographer’s haunting images of Soviet nuke sites are really beautiful.
  4. These portraits of bodies wrapped in flowers are gorgeous.
  5. These drone photos of Hong Kong covered in fog are wild.
  6. I’m just a little obsessed with this Instagram account right now.
  7. These Origami street art installations, by Mademoiselle Maurice, are pretty impressive.
  8. Ikea is set to launch a low-maintenance bicycle aimed at urban dwellers.
  9. This is a great article on ‘The Psychological Cost of Boring Buildings’.
  10. These Cat Bags are too much.

10 things that made my week #8

Art, blog, design
  1. This is a good read about the history of women in Cartography.
  2. This desk unfolds in ten seconds, and helps with your posture.
  3. Tattly temporary tattoos are already amazing, then they went and made this Philodenron Monstera tat.
  4. Two things that will forever go together: Artists + Motorcycles. This BMW is a work of art.
  5. The history of GM’s first all-female design team, The Damsels of Design. Should have had a better ending.
  6. This film showing the lost-wax technique of bronze casting. I miss my bronze casting days.
  7. This photographer put peacock feathers under a microscope, it’s pretty incredible.
  8. This is a nice quick read on designing happiness.
  9. This Italian church has been resurrected in wire mesh, and it’s stunning. Also, this church turned skatepark, in Spain, is beautiful.
  10. This artist mixes paint, oil, soap, and milk, then films it up-close. Zone out for a few minutes.

10 things that made my week #5

Art, design
  1. This 1970’s condo is too great, I hope someone saves all the wallpaper!
  2. Start the discussion of mental health early with this Vincent Van Gogh doll, complete with detachable ear!
  3. Exercise wins when battling depression!
  4. This new mural in Glasgow is pretty wild.
  5. This instagrammer captures some beautifully elaborate interior shots of mosques in Iran.
  6. This is a nice article about Chicago’s thriving Chinatown.
  7. These Star Wars watches by Nixon are on point.
  8. This children’s book by Dallas Clayton ‘An Awesome Book’, also a great talk by Dallas sponsored by Creative Mornings Chicago on Kid Lessons.
  9. This Google Chrome extension reminds you to do your f**king work.
  10. These baby elephants that want to be lap dogs are too much!