London & Co.: 2010

16 December 2010

INSIDE/OUTSIDE

LOVE this sitting area featured in the new Acne Paper. The caption reads "An armchair designed by Axel Vervoordt in the Castle's orangery." Orangery? Guess I should go check out the full issue -- image found online.

15 December 2010

WHOA

Part psychological inquiry, part political statement, these colorful portraits of past death-row inmates by Julia Ziegler-Haynes are super eerie. Found at Refinery29, via artist and photographer pal Brook Schneider.

SPEAKING OF...

Speaking of Walter Gropius, here's a nice selection of typefaces designed in the spirit of the Bauhaus by Gábor Kóthay for Fountain Type.

A NOTE FROM MR. GROPIUS

13 December 2010

CUTE

From Acne's summer London Launch party.

09 December 2010

DREAM COME TRUE: NO LAYOUT

Conceived by Daniel Pianetti (who also has a really good found photo blog), No Layout is a digital library where you can actually view entire issues of hard-to-find rags online. Stoked. Via here.

OLD FAITHFUL SHOP

My favorite inspiration board, Old Chum, belongs to Old Faithful Shop in Vancouver, BC -- one of my favorite cities. I've actually not set foot inside the store, which is why it's great they've just launched an online one. The balsam fir and cedar incense, and the wooden tape dispenser, seem especially appealing.

29 November 2010

SWISS MUSEUM POSTERS

Found here.

28 November 2010

ALIKA COOPER

New work from LA-based painter Alika Cooper.

23 November 2010

AROUND THE NEIGHBORHOOD

16 November 2010

DEAR WINTER

Although it's not technically winter yet, I'm already wishing it were spring. I took this picture in Victoria Park early last May. Sometime I'd like a garden full of Lilac.

14 November 2010

BRUNO FAZZOLARI

Digging this work by Bruno Fazzolari. Apparently his upcoming exhibition will feature an installation of four paintings on linen, as well as a perfume. Wish I were in SF so I could go. Maybe you can go for me. Jancar Jones is one of the best galleries in the city.

Bruno Fazzolari: Mirror 5

November 19 – December 18, 2010
Opening Friday, November 19th, 6–9pm

Jancar Jones Gallery
965 Mission, Suite 120 / San Francisco

11 November 2010

BOXES

Recently I had the pleasure of building two clamshell boxes for a project. The first clamshell boxes I made were probably 10 years ago with Dr. Elsi Vassdal Ellis, who teaches book arts at WWU. They're sort of a pain to make, requiring a lot of steps and waiting while the glue dries, but deeply satisfying once finished.

NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM

Pitt-Rivers Museum in Oxford is directly behind and connected to the Oxford Museum of Natural History (see: pyrite). Here's a poster I designed commemorating a recent visit.

PYRITE

Pyrite -- cheerful and warm, I keep a piece on my desk and pick it up or look at it often. My friend Zenaida, who teaches classes at Paxton Gate in San Francisco, gave me the piece pictured here. Recently I went to the Oxford University Museum of Natural History where visitors are encouraged to touch the near boulder of pyrite on display, which seems to have become buffed along the top from people laying their hands on it, like some kind of healing stone. While there, an elderly woman and I chatted briefly and agreed, pyrite's got it.

AUTUMN

Yesterday was sunny and crisp and so I took a break just before sundown to stroll through Victoria Park. I almost feel the photo of the canal could be a cheesy calendar photo, I've included it because it seems kind of insane for a simple snapshot. Wish you were here!