London & Co.: May 2010

28 May 2010

ANOTHER GEM

Hoping for Happy Accidents is a blog on the theme of interiors and modern artifacts. All culled into one place, from top: A Viennese Attic Apartment (via NYTimes), Carl Auböck (via Reference Library), McCobb furniture (via Treadway Gallery), and that is only the first page. Found on Door Sixteen.

MEN'S MOOD

http://thedayafteryoudie.blogspot.com
Tasteful babes, modernist architecture, the rugged outdoors, minimalist typography experiments and some grafitti/skaterisms here and there must be universal across arty dudes. see also: haw-lin.

VAGUE PAPER

My favorite magazine. http://vaguepaper.com/

27 May 2010

JULIA BORN

Graphic Designer Julia Born has an interesting website. Instead of showcasing her professional work it's more an overall tribute to herself, which is awesome. The style is 90s animated gif, or paper rad with a little less neon. The tunes make it. Found on ManyStuff.

22 May 2010

IN CONVERSATION WITH

Vivienne Westwood chats with the New York Times.
See also: Other Latest Crush.

18 May 2010

NOKO JEANS

Recommended site of the day: Noko Jeans, a company apparently making the first jeans to come out of North Korea. The site features their original two styles of jeans (only 1100 pairs have been made so far) and also has interesting photos of North Korea, as well as a few videos. In addition to making jeans, Noko also curates a traveling museum which just left Stockholm -- a cool way of taking pop-up shop to the next level.

KATE O'CONNOR

http://www.kateoconnor.ca/

17 May 2010

THEME AND VARIATION

A battalion of zebra and mint make up Claridge's rebrand, brought to you by Construct here in London. Love the theme and variation stripes. Found on CR blog.

11 May 2010

REQUIRED VIEWING

Ways of Seeing came out in the 70s, and the series was so popular it was then turned into a book. In this episode, John Berger takes us from the beginning of the European nude -- depictions of Adam and Eve -- to the modern day, relating exactly what kind of cultural baggage we're dealing with.