• Baby,  Good design

    A Nursery

    March 10, 2011 / 2 Comments

    the dreary day in Boston is getting to me. It’s like a fogcloud descent over here. I wish we had lighthouses in downtown, beaconing us to tanning salons.

    These pictures of Kate’s thrifted, homemade nursery with just the right spots of color and lots of warm texture are inspiring.

     

  • Good design

    Ask the Four Year Old

    March 9, 2011 / No Comments

    Q: What’s your opinion of the current economic climate?

    A: Ummm… Dragons.

    I can’t stop reading this thread over at Reddit, where people are coming up with questions for a four year old boy, and his dad types out his answers. His young approach to the world is clarified because you read it without the usual context of seeing the kid face to face, or physically looking down on him while you talk to him.

    Particularly funny to me, in the midst of all those cute answers, is his response to what he would do if he was king for a day. People forget how wooed little boys are by guns and violent video games.

  • Good design

    Liv v. Kayne

    March 8, 2011 / No Comments

    I like this. Whenever I see those “Who Wore It Best?” comparisons in magazines, I always imagine the poor loser sitting in a nail salon, flipping through magazines, and stumbling on 76% of the nation thought her outfit sucked. No fun for anyone. This is in better humor, if you ask as MTV Style did, who wore it best: Kayne or Liv? Liv or Kayne? Hello! Both of them exist in status level unquestionably awesome. (also they didn’t bother to stamp the results in nasty percentages on the photo. Classy.)

    p.s.: Has anyone seen Liv in awhile? I want to netflix That Thing You Do! so I can see her in those awesome ’60s dresses again.

  • Good design

    This Old Seagull

    March 7, 2011 / No Comments

    It’s nice have some idea how old an animal might be when you encounter them. At the very least so you can know what conversations topics are appropriate around them.

    Seagulls for example: I have seen some awfully mangy seagulls on Nantucket in the summer, but I don’t think I gave them enough credit for potentially being twenty-five years old.

    This is a great useful chart, featured today by Information is Beautiful.

  • Art,  Good design

    Good Interview: Abby Clawson Low

    March 2, 2011 / No Comments

    The March issue of Matchbook has an interview with Abby Clawson Low, whose blog I’ve had as a suggested read at the bottom of E & D for awhile now (for too long actually, keep an eye on those and I’ll change them up). She has a super unique eye, designs joyful stuff, and–as it turns out from the interview–is just as nice as one might guess from her work.

    photo from Matchbook

  • Art,  Good design

    Soft geography

    March 1, 2011 / 1 Comment

    Seeing the quilt+floral+map combo in this photo made the little cat inside me curl up and purr to sleep. So cozy. The whole Seattle apartment, featured on Design*Sponge yesterday, is extra lovely and heirloomy.

  • Good design

    French Treehouse

    February 18, 2011 / 2 Comments

    I spent a lot my childhood fantasizing about treehouses. Reading The Swiss Family Robinson did not help.

    Design Mom recently packed up her six kids, found a house, and moved them to France. And wouldn’t you know it, there was a treehouse devoted to details waiting the backyard.

    I secretly can’t wait until Joe has a tree, a box full of nails, and an eager kid waiting for him to build something awesome. Until then, this playful beauty is inspiration.

  • Entertainment,  Good design

    Criterion on Hulu

    February 17, 2011 / No Comments

    I can’t believe Hulu Plus now has the entire Criterion Collection. Criterion of elegant dvd covers, thoughtful linear notes, and prestigious $40 price tags? Is no movie devotee’s preciously accumulated, though admittedly dusty, collection safe from the hounds of accessibility? Will your average viewer just blithely switch between an old Family Guy and The Seventh Seal? gasp.

    (Though of course none of Wes Anderson’s films which have Criterion editions are on there. Clearly Wes is the last bastion of keeping the pearls behind stiffer paywalls than “Plus.”) {Though many of Wes’s personal favorite Criterions are available.}

    I aspire to have watched many more Criterion films than I actually have, and suddenly $8 is not seeming so unreasonable of Hulu after all.