Attention sophisticated design folks with kids, or grown-ups with a penchant for neat toys: Readymech is a site with downloadable PDF’s of toys that you can build yourself if you have a printer (colour printer is ideal)… look at their site, you’ll see what I mean. Think “paper dolls meet Kid Robot“. The one pictured is by Siggi Eggertsson (see earlier post) which is my personal favourite.
13th Floor is a store out of Japan which collects and sells vintage Scandinavian pottery. Their curation of it is very nice, which is why I’m posting it to The Looksee, instead of posting links to Ebay (the more affordable route). These are some recent acquisitions.
So I was already familiar with/in love with Lorena Barrezueta’s work via her own site, but didn’t realize until searching through like 180 pages of ceramics on Etsy that Lorena has her own Etsy shop. If you don’t already know about her work, she primarily makes cast ceramic versions of things that are usually disposable (ie: aluminum pie tins, solo cups, etc). The result is beautiful.
Here is a sleekly animated little video about optical illusions, directed by Mauro Vecchi.
I like this image from the “Charming Suidcide” zine, and a lot of other work on AJ Purdy’s site. His other collaborative zine “Freak Out Face Off Force” is awesome too.
I keep finding more and more designers who are creating artful, high-fashion pieces with crochet/knitting techniques, often used in conjunction with other media. The result is often very sculptural and highly textured. Here are a few that I’ve found recently.
Yarborough jewelry:
Sandra Backlund (who I found via Dezeen) is amazing- this photo is from a previous season, but you should really explore her site to see the full range of her work:
This is old news (by internet standards), but I just found that Ian Stevenson has a book out: “Best Wishes Get Well Soon”. As a sidenote, I was looking through his old ilikedrawing site, and his bathroom drawings for Mother, London made me laugh. There are more on his site.
