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Snarkitechture

Snarkitechture is a design firm founded by Daniel Arsham and Alex Mustonen. Together they aim to provide collaborative spaces where artist and architecture come together. This project for the Richard Chai store in NYC is absolutely amazing! The dynamic walls and spaces turn a normal retail store into an art gallery. 

"The Richard Chai store is a temporary retail installation created by Snarkitecture in collaboration with designer Richard Chai as part of the Building Fashion series at HL23, presented by Boffo and Spilios Gianakopoulos. Carved from the confines of an existing structure beneath the High Line, the installation envelops visitors within a glacial cavern excavated from a single material. 

White architectural foam is cut by hand to produce erosions and extensions of the sculpted walls and ceiling to create a varied landscape for the display of Richard Chai’s collection. The range of shelves, niches, hang bars and other moments embedded within the form encourage the designer’s curatorial eye for display. At the close of the temporary installation, the material was returned to the manufacturer and recycled into rigid foam insulation."

Penelope: Erin Dameron

Erin Dameron is a designer and recent graduate from Parsons based out of Brookyln, New York. Just wanted to share her beautiful package design for "Penelope". 

"Penelope is a five piece cosmetic line consisting of perfume, facial cleanser, an 8oz and 16oz facial moisturizer, and facial mask. The line is targeted for an Anthropologie shopper who is looking for unique designs. Penelope's special 3-D floral detailing was created to mimic lace and to merge vintage aesthetics with modern form."

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Making Future Magic: iPad Light Painting

Check out this amazing video by Dentsu London, a creative communications agency, combining the Apple iPad, photography, and 3D rendering into a seriously magical stop motion short.

Making Future Magic: iPad light painting from Dentsu London on Vimeo.

"This film explores playful uses for the increasingly ubiquitous ‘glowing rectangles’ that inhabit the world.

We use photographic and animation techniques that were developed to draw moving 3-dimensional typography and objects with an iPad. In dark environments, we play movies on the surface of the iPad that extrude 3-d light forms as they move through the exposure. Multiple exposures with slightly different movies make up the stop-frame animation."

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Packaging Paper

I love when I have to send out gifts or orders in the mail. The wrapping and really making each package special is so much fun, and in my mind, almost as important as the gift itself! With shopping season and the holidays just around the corner, here are some of my favorite inspirations for wrapping up all those goodies!

Beautiful metallics!

Marimekko Satula Gold-White Gift Wrap from Crate&Barrel

 Anthropologie always wraps gifts in-store so lovely, but their new season of gift wrapping supplies are simply amazing. The layering of the patterns and different textures of ribbons and yarns make each package so luscious! Another plus is that a lot of their papers are sustainably crafted from renewable bark from Iokta bushes.

I love this lace paper from La Boheme's blog. I have so many paper doilies laying around from past art projects and after seeing this I can't wait to use them for wrapping up little boxes!

Kvadrat Clouds

These Clouds are a collaboration between Danish textile manufacturer, Kvadrat, and Ronan and Erwan Bourourllec. It's a tile concept that can take many shapes and dimensional forms, and are put together using special rubber bands. Using these would be a great way to create cubicles in an office, or separate space in a studio apartment.

Final Decline & Total Collapse

A really amazing series of 50 poster illustrations by Toronto based artist, Anthony Gerace. I love the different patterns and era each chair and piece of furniture comes from. 


"Final Decline & Total Collapse is a series of 50 posters dealing with themes of loss and decline through the image of antiquated chairs and lamps from bygone eras." 

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San Fran is for Carnivores

Just wanted to share these posters from drywell art, which is the creative site of Alyson Thomas. Her Etsy shop is full of humorous posters on subjects from pigs and hotdogs  to mustache mysteries. I am loving these San Francisco is for Carnivores posters in red or grey so much, where the San Francisco neighborhoods make up the pig butchery diagram.

Open House: California Dreaming

As Kyle and I think towards the future in family, careers, and homes, I'm dreaming about this Point Dume Residence was built by Griffin Engright Architects in Los Angeles.

Apartment Therapy: Room for Color

Being newlywed and all of a sudden having to share an apartment with my husband, I am always scouring Apartment Therapy for new ideas on how to take advantage of our small space. I've been following their new contest: Room for Color, where readers were able to submit colorful rooms from their own homes to be voted on by the public! I think the best way to browse the entries is by clicking on your favorite color combinations on the palette page.

Here are just a few of my favorite entries:

Jen's "Motley Missoni" Bathroom

Chris & Dolores's "Transit: CMYK" Guest Room

 

 Jacquie's "New Orleans" Kitchen

Keely's "Parisian Chic" Living Room

Don't forget to vote for the Grand Prize Winner, coming up November 1st - 8th.