Nothing wins me over as a good sense of humor. I was browsing Book Cover Archive, saw the section on books about book covers, so, me, not liking design and art books at all, I clicked, to find this on Amazon. What I like most? That “Moneys!” in red. Hilarious.
Oh, yes, by the way, I’m obsessed with Penguin. I want that book please, plus a mug. I don’t want a Pantone mug anymore. I definitely want a Penguin mug.
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-How will you manage, with your master, and work?
-Oh, I’ll deal with it!
Classic. You say: if I have to, I won’t sleep! But you can’t do that… If I don’t sleep, I make ugly illustrations and bland patterns, I need my brain fresh and awake! So, if I have to, what I won’t do is: cooking, watching tv, painting my nails or just anything that involves stepping out the doormat. I have a full-time ticket for my little working seat in the coming months. I have a massive list of to-do-now-or-yesterday.
I’d like to add to my to-do-if-I-ever-have-free-time-again-list this:
At Burda you can find instructions to do this yourselves, even downloadable in PDF (the instructions, not the fabric). I can’t believe I’m meeting up again with Burda like this. When I was a kid, I was fascinated by those weird magazines, with the funny sheets in the middle, all white with pleeeenty of black lines and numbers. That was something! I have the picture in my mind, they were so eighties and wrinkled… Nothing like that now! Their web looks neat, with good beautiful design, that makes me want to click everywhere… waitwaitwait… I must go back to work. Sigh.
via Little Blue Day
Disaster. I know, it’s a classic, but last friday I forgot to carry the camera to my very nice opening with some very nice people. So to do that post that I promised telling you all about it, I have to go around begging for some pics.
While I manage to get a bunch of them, I’ll show you three things.
One. They call them cupcake wrappers – I’m fascinated that there’s a name for such a specific thing. These ones are special for their laser carvings: cute. Paper Orchids, in Wisconsin.
Two. I know, everyone’s got totally over this poster but, hey, still, I love it. Which colour do you prefer? I have it quite clear: the last one, the aqua-pastel-pale-mint coloured.
At keepcalmgallery.com you can find a lot of posters like these, category: chin up. I think they’re perfect for a workplace, but I’m sure they might as well fit nicely anywhere in a house.
Three. Mountain-shaped cushions. Knitted mountain-shaped nicely patterned cushions. Do I need to add anything else? Made by Hillary Grant; muy bien, Hillary.
I’m liking more and more the designs by Silvia Salvador and Nando Cornejo, from Potipoti. Beautiful graphics and clean lines that suit well.
I have to blame them for my obsession with printed-fabric-leggingousers (yep, I made up the name). I saw Silvia wearing them in a great workshop she gave in Madrid. I’d show you a pic, if only I could find it! They were gorgeous. I’ve seen no one else wearing or selling something alike.
Potipoti “Lovers Rock” S/S 2011
BTW, the photo on the left: the make-up, the pose, the pattern, the accesoire in the middle of the chest… is it me or we can sense some Klimt-Schiele here? If Amateur Couture checks this out, I bet we’ll see potipoti on one of the next posts (graphic art versus fashion)
A blank notebook with this on its cover: “Mi first novel”. A notebook with one face in each page, called “Face Book”. Simplest ideas are the best. Such a beautiful design, along with an idea of this kind, really wins me over.
Sukie make them and you can buy them here .
Via Print & Pattern
Music for this post: Golden Years, by David Bowie -> [youtube] [spotify]
This dream is real, I promise. Given that, unfortunately, we cannot choose what we dream of, I’m quite lucky, right?
Me: “David! This dress I’m wearing, it was yours”
It was true, I had bought it in a vintage shop.
David Bowie: “Oh, really? Let’s dance then!”
This could be perfectly dreamt by one of the characters of Fauna Mongola, a blog about Madrid’s cool-hipster people, so funny that you can’t just read one post. It’s in spanish, but it’s got brilliant drawings.
It’s only three days of final countdown to know the results of this grant, I told you about. To go through this torture, I have these two nice thoughts.
If I get it:
Right now, I think I’d feel like spending the whole summer being lazy lazy thanks to The Sims. Playing again and letting this game steal hours and hours of my youth –like it happened to me with version one some years ago. Getting addicted and not caring about it.
If I got it though, I might as well spend a whole month drinking relaxing infusions.
If I don’t get it:
To get over it, I’ve promised myself a little gift: this book, writen by Mark Everett, the leader in the band Eels:
Cosas que los nietos deberían saber, de Mark Everett
Because I’ve heard it’s great, because I feel like and because of the way All the beautiful things begins:
One…
Erh… I’m not gonna count, sorry
