Scott Ex Rodgers

via http://processrecess.com/detail.php?uid=F6209F&start=0&limit=6

Client: Foster Farms
Agency: Goodby, Silverstein & Partners
Production Company: welikesmall

via http://inspiredology.com/vintage-coke-pop-can-designs/

Client: Sprint
Agency: Goodby, Silverstein & Partners
Production Company: Ted Perez

Aimée Wilder is a New York based designer that has collaborated with Vans on shoe design and Skip Hop for their line of bags and baby bedding. This being unplggd and all, what really caught our eye was her wallpaper. The analog nights line to be exact. We have seen pixel inspired wallpaper and even blankets as wall coverings, but there is just something so right about seeing a repeated pattern of cassette tapes, turntables, speakers and keyboards... •Read more at Aimée Wilder Retro Tech Inspired Wallpaper

This small apartment in France features a cube, suspended from the ceiling that divides the open plan and acts as a bedroom. The odd, bi-level studio space was re-designed by architects Emmanuel Combarel Dominique Marrec. The new suspended cube (which only is connected to the ceiling) helps ease the transition between the low living space and the mezzanine that supports areas for a kitchen, dining and bathroom.

The suspended box is made of a metal structure covered with wooden panels. The cube — as well as the floor, the walls and the ceiling, has been painted with a white polyurethane resin. And the all-over white helps unite the apartment into a single space with mulitple zones. You can see even more pictures at ArchDaily: Valentin apartment / ECDM. Via: Treehugger and ArchDaily. (Images: Gaston Bergeret)

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We have been enjoying lovely weather here in The Netherlands. Spring has arrived! This means that the tulip season has started.

The tulip has come to be a loved symbol of the Netherlands. Many tourists visit our country just to see the bright coloured flower and the astonishing view over the bulb fields. The season begins in March with crocuses, followed by the daffodil and the yellow narcissi. In April the hyacinths and tulips blossom to some time in mid May, depending on the weather.

Happy Easter! I hope you all have a wonderful weekend.

i have a deep love for all things related to tea-consumption. i love tea cups, tea pots, tea packaging- it all reminds me of relaxing and taking a few moments out of the day to just chill out. but one thing that bugs me about my favorite tea pots is that i can’t use them directly on the stove- and having to clean an extra pot or kettle isn’t always something i’m fond of (yep, sometimes i’m very lazy). so i was excited to see this cool new tea kettle/pot from vessel ideation.

basically, vessel ideation has cut the middle man out and built a container that allows you to boil directly on the stove, and then pour straight into your cup. the vessel itself, called “one“, is made from enamel-coated stainless steel and a high-temperature silicone- which allows you to place the teapot directly on the stove, but still pick it up to pour when it’s ready. so when you attach the magnetic trivet to the bottom you can carry it with you to the table- no need to pour into a separate teapot.

what i love most about the “one” kettle is that its blue graphics only show up when there is hot liquid inside. so as the water heats, the graphic appear and help you know when the water is ready to use. such a fun idea. click here to check out the “one” kettle and watch a video mock-up of it in action.

An image from Vector Portraits, ‘Photographs made while travelling 50 to 70mph in Los Angeles, and other parts of the south-western United States.’

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Okay, so you love your wallpaper so much that you want to match some other accents to it. Some pillows, upholstery, a rug... your body? That's what's shown here by body artist Emma Hack. Her Wallpaper Collection depicts the human form blended seamlessly with beautiful Florence Broadhurst wallpaper designs...

These are just a few of our favorites. See the rest of the collection at Emma Hack Artist.

Momentile is a new photo sharing service with some very cool twists. There is, of course, no dearth of photo sharing services online, but momentile has come up with an interesting way to combine photo sharing and lifestreaming with the spirit of micro-blogging services like Twitter. The basic idea behind momentile is that you will upload one picture per day, so that after a year, you will have a collection of 365 pictures that represent that year. Momentile is still in private alpha testing, but we do have a few invites to give away. Instructions for how to get them are at the bottom of this post.

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One Photo per Day

As you would expect, you can upload your photos directly to the service, or you can send them to a personalized momentile email address. Whenever you upload a new photo, you can add a short message that will then be sent out to your followers (momentile calls them 'stalkers') by SMS, Twitter, or email. However, momentile stresses that this is only meant to inform your followers about a new photo upload and should not be confused with tagging or adding a caption to a photo. Indeed, you can't add captions to a photo yourself - only your followers can add these.

You can upload more than one picture per day, by the way, but momentile enforces its one-picture-per-day rule and will automatically discard the older picture. Every day, you have until midnight to update your picture. That constraint, of course, is the focus of the service and it does make you think twice about which picture you want to choose to represent a given day.

Not a Social Network

Momentile insists that it is not a social network, but it does have a number of social features like following other users or saving other users' photos in your own 'stash.'

365

In a way, momentile codifies the 365 meme that is pretty popular on Flickr right now into one coherent app, with a focus on the mobile aspects of sharing and taking these pictures.

Overall, momentile looks like a fun and interesting app. It does have some minor usability problems, but the core idea behind the service is pretty cool. A few weeks ago, the cool kid on the blog was Plinky, a web app that asked you a different question every day. In some ways, momentile is a logical extension of that idea and it will be interesting to see how momentile's users decide to utilize the service in the long run.

Invites

Momentile is still in private alpha testing, but we have ten invites to give away for now - just send an email to 'momentile AT frederic.otherinbox.com' and we will get one to you ASAP.

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These graphs, created by Jer Thorp of Ouno Design, are visualizations of design lingo used in the New York Times from 1984 to 2009. The one up top, for instance, shows frequency of use for the words "modernism" (red), "mid century modern" (orange), "eames" (yellow), and "corbusier" (magenta). See graphs comparing "vintage" VS "retro" and more below...

Look above at how the word "decor" dropped so drastically in recent years, giving way to "interior design".

And "retro" hardly even existed in the 80's. Hmmm... We think these findings are beautifully presented and offer an interesting insight. Do you? Do you find your own design-speak is pretty much aligned with what's shown in the graphs? Via: Ouno Design.

Although we weren't able to land a house tour during our short stay near Lisbon, we did snap countless photos of exteriors of homes, most notably structures with the distinct decorative exterior tiling in Lisbon and the picturesque storybook town of Sintra. Known as azulejos (derived from the Arabic word az-zulayj, meaning "polished stone", which we learned during our visit to the Museu Nacional do Azulejo), the tiles decorate what seems to be 70% of the homes in many of the older, historic neighborhoods in Lisbon. The tiles vary from geometric to painterly, Moorish to Parisian in representation, and there seems to be a notable pride in decorating each home's exterior with a distinct pattern and colour scheme. As we walked down the streets of the neighborhood of Belém in Lisbon, we lost count of the number of different tiles adorning slim and tall dwellings. It is this pastiche of colour and pattern which we'll forever remember as one of our favourite architectural aspects of Portugal...

Some additional links and information about Portuguese azulejos below:

• Museu Nacional do Azulejo (National Tile Museum): highly recommended destination for those interested in the history of tile making in Portugal.
• Sintra Antique Tiles (domestic supplier of hand made and hand painted period reproduction tiles).
• About Portuguese Tiles: short summary of the history of tiles in Portugal, including influences from Italy and Chinese porcelain artwork.
• Tile Designs from Portugal: illustrated book with tile sourcing and included CD.

yesterday my friend bryan was in town and we spent the better part of the afternoon watching seriously immature youtube videos like the cinnamon challenge and kittens book. but then he pointed me in the direction of this incredible stop motion video by israeli artist, oren lavi. whether you listen with or without sound, this video is a MUST-WATCH. it’s like a magical wonderland of bed-time fun. (in a non-dirty, work-safe way)

ps: just in case you loaded d*s yesterday and noticed that monday’s posts were missing, i just wanted to clarify that yesterday we switched servers, and unfortunately it didn’t pick up yesterday’s posts. thankfully i was able to recode everything, but we lost comments. i was able to get them in the cache and repost them manually, but today everything should be running smoothly. thanks for your patience!

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