Bonne Année!
Images from ACNE PAPER via FGR

Discovery of the day, online magazine Work For Free which features new/small artists and designers including Wonder Wonder who led me to this discovery.
work featured above by Jacqueline Kari Bos, Wonder Wonder, Paul Wagenblast, Lahaina Alcantara and Work For Free.

Things I’ve had my eye on.. Confetti System banner, Arielle de Pinto necklace, Postalco raincoat, Cats Let Nothing Darken Their Roar 2010 calendar, bottles of Sofia (can’t find it in Paris!!), lavender happy tape, Sabrina Dehoff necklace, Prism glasses, Margaret Howell Houses book, Repetto flats, opalescent rock, Sunshine and Shadows tie dye necklaces, Society for Rational Dress leather backpack, Opening Ceremony knit turban hat, The Little Prince audio recording, Rachel Comey boots, gold id bracelet, MMM sweater, Linda Farrow sunglasses, Charles Anastase swan tote, Vanessa Bruno heels, Le Creuset dutch oven, Anthropologie feather ornatment, Christopher Wool book by Taschen, Vanessa Bruno gloves, Loeffler Randal Yvette cut-out bootie, green striped notebook, Acne Awesome shirt, tin of Mariage Freres tea, army short suit, Green Porno Isabella Rossellini book, Lena Corwin + Mociun pillow, more happy tape, Vanessa Bruno purse, vintage Issey Miyake leg warmers, Jas MB leather belt bag, Totorro cake by Chez Bogato, Cavern lavender t-shirt, micaela greg skirt, harlequin notebook, Lyell blouse + shorts, Fredericks and Mae arrow.

Something I forgot to share from our party, the invites David and I designed together.

After seeing Eco Trip I discovered another amazing show by Isabella Rossellini, there is never usually much tv in my life but these are only 2 minutes long and you can watch them online. They’re a little bizarre but this show has amazing sets and costumes, and is a pretty funny production.

I’ve added some new links and fixed the comments problem so now you just have to type in some words to help digitally convert some books at the same time and comment away!

A bit last minute but here are some small gift ideas that I thought I’d share. Not quite as extravagant as my very selfish wishlist but I am mostly making gifts this year and like to look for little things to go along with those gifts. These little wood elephant bottle openers are amazing, my favorite Postalco notebooks available from South Willard, Tortoise and Auto, Juniper Ridge California Bay Laurel soap smells like trees! I love it and it’s actually made of trees and all natural ingredients, I have also seen it for sale at Mothers Markets so you might find it there and avoid shipping, this little box is just interesting and would make a great little lunch box, a lovely little print from Fifi Lapin, colorful rock soap, a Honey in the Rough knotted headband, and the easiest gift to give is Papabubble, it’s really amazing how they get the letters so small in this amazing candy, I miss stopping in there to say hello to those guys. I also received a very cute letterpressed calendar from SeeSaw letterpress, and I love the colors and linear layout of it, it’s a very sweet gift.

Who wouldn’t love a little gift wrapped up like this? As someone who uses paper doilies and ribbons for any excuse I can find, I am in love these beautifully wrapped packages made by Emma Cassi.

More amazing stationary products from Japan from So-En Magazine. click here for a closer look. It was also from this spread that I discovered Penguin books products. I love the pencil set!







available here.

It has been officially one year since I started this site. Thank you to everyone who drops in every week!

these stationary products from and spring are so simple and perfect. I wish it was easier to find stationary shops that carried products like these.

discovered via lá

A new issue of Acne Paper is out and features so many great people, Jarvis Cocker + Camille Bidault Waddington, Paulo Melim Anderson, Alber Elvaz, William Wegman, many more…. discussing what elegance means. go out and get a copy it’s available at opening ceremony..

I’ve been meaning to post the work of Su Blackwell for a long time now, but now there are even more images of her incredible work on her site so I’m glad I waited. These book sculptures are so beautiful and that dress! It’s like something out of a Miyazaki animation or origami coming to life.

i’ve been super sick and busy with designing myself some new cards and a few other projects lately please excuse the irregular posting..

i love making collages of beautiful images i find online to send to friends who don’t go online much but definitely appreciate these things as much as i do.. here is one i found the time to make recently to send to my friend lili.

This is incredible. I like when something so simple is presented in a whole new way that is completely amazing.



via david via gizmodo

Perfect, simple notebooks and stationary products by MUCU.

I recently discovered a store called Arts & Science. They have beautifully designed packaging, that makes me want to buy something just for the packaging alone, as good packaging should.

catalog designed by Naomi Hirabayashi.

I’ve been really into origami again lately. I love these origami shirts and dresses made of maps by Elizabeth Lecourt. I wish I could have been at the exhibit to see them in person.

I also read an article in the New Yorker on Robert J. Lang, who is basically the Origami Master. He uses laser cutters on low settings to make super intricate creases, designs his own origami, was hired by Hermes just to make an origami Pegasus and that is incredibly amazing. I want to pick up all of his books since reading that piece. Here are some of his amazing creations:

While I was trying to find one of my old origami instruction books for how to fold a paper heart I was making for David, I came across this video on YouTube that shows you how to fold a BEATING paper heart! What’s great is that you can fold along with them.

This is great. (you just have to sit through the commercial)
A fellow paper freak.

I recently picked up the new issue of Acne Paper and I love that the first few pages are just blank solid sheets of different colored paper.

Playful is the theme this issue and the image below reminds me of what my friend Lili and I used to always say we were going to wear to school one day, pink tulle skirts with converse and matching scout shirts. It never happened for us but I’m glad someone did it.

Also featured is an article on Carsten Hoeller, I’ve noticed a lot of press on his ‘Upside Down Mushroom Room’ piece lately..

It was featured in the MOCA Ecstasy show last year and I believe now belongs to the Prada Foundation.
Here’s me and a closer view of the mushrooms.

i love seeing how things like this are made.

POSTALCO. is one of the nicest brands of stationary and leather goods I have ever come across.
They have the most amazing wallets, as well as beautiful, simple pressed cotton fabric notebooks. I use the travel wallet as a clutch and as my regular wallet. It holds so much stuff! Aside from the great simplistic design, the quality of their products is a big part of what makes them so beautiful. I love the interior of my wallet just as much as the exterior.

The only place I have found that carries many of their products is South Willard on 3rd St. It’s a beautiful and amazing store that carries the best men’s and women’s brands like Hussein Chalayan, Veronique Branquinho, A.P.C., Band of Outsiders (David bought one of their amazing suits here), Rachael Comey, Bernhard Wilhelm and many more. The owner of the shop Ryan is a really nice guy, who was kind enough to special order my postalco travel wallet for me when I first discovered the brand. I can’t pass 3rd St. without stopping in to say hello and check out what’s new there.

I really like the interesting use of color and details in the way this Blueprint magazine office is decorated. It’s nice to see a behind the scenes look at a magazine’s workspace, and it’s also nice to see that it looks as good as the magazine if not better.

I wish I still had access to free printing and more time to make collages like this one I sent to a friend:

I might be looking to buy a new printer (again!) because they are so cheap these days that they don’t last very long. I really hate tossing them out though it is so wasteful. I wish there was more ‘Cradle to Cradle‘ type of consumer goods. Things that last and can be reused or recycled, instead of so many ‘cradle to grave’ goods. Admittedly, I haven’t actually read Cradle to Cradle yet, but I’ve heard a lot about it from my friend Evan who is an amazing landscape designer and a teacher of sustainable agriculture in Costa Rica.
I’m still looking for a way to revive my old printer somehow before I give in and buy a new one. It is so much nicer to send someone something that is tangible vs. digital. My friend Anna-Helga just sent me some really nice things in her last letter to me. One of them was this really cool old notebook from a sale at her mom’s school in a tiny village in the north of Sweden.

We celebrated David’s birthday a night early because I had to work on a fashion show, so I made up for it by dressing the house up with some decorations I made.
Paper letter stencils are great for making your own ‘Happy Birthday’ sign. I ran out of letters and used the pop out parts from the stencils.

I also made some party hats out of origami paper and added some yarn. Scout even wore one for a little while.

Both Scout and David’s birthdays were a couple weeks ago, but I am catching up on postings. More photos of the birthday dinner festivities here.