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UPPERCASE - About the magazine

UPPERCASE - About the magazine.
"A magazine for the creative and the curious"

"We're inquisitive: learning from other artists, illustrators, designers, photographers, filmmakers and musicians, whether they're upstarts or icons, famous or shy, verbal or visual.

We're inspired: enchanted by great ideas and strange inventions; by colour and pattern; things fancy and frugal; the charm of vintage in a modern life; the ridiculous and the sublime.

We're adventurous: traveling to destinations both real and imagined, peeking into creative spaces and discovering magnificent people and memorable places.

We're eclectic: curating souvenirs, collecting treasures and celebrating the extraordinary in the everyday.

We're playful: delighting in visual amusements, intelligent distraction, entertaining wordplay and sweet indulgences.

We're UPPERCASE: a magazine for the creative and curious!"  -UPPERCASE

Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.

Rainer Spehl.
Title Quote: Elie Wiesel
 

"Wooden Laptop Case with leather lining and magnetic closing device for Apple MacBook and MacBook Pro 15inch. For Purchases please contact Rainer Spehl. Photographs by Achim Hatzius."

If we go down into ourselves, we fine that we possess exactly what we desire.

a view to: Inspirations.
link via dear ada
Title Quote: Simone Weil

We save the world by being alive ourselves.

LOOSELYHINGED.COM.

Title Quote: Joseph Campbell

via dear ada

Lea: Clothes Tag Exchange / Care Instructions

Lea: Clothes Tag Exchange / Care Instructions.

I designed this clothes tag to honor the best of what clothing can be in this world: something that connects us to the earth and each other in positive, beautiful ways. Clothes tags are usually the only tiny snippet of information we get about an item's history: "Made in China," "100% cotton," etc. This amount of information is so small that it is almost meaningless. Furthermore, is it even noticed? I believe that our failure to create (demand?) a new clothes system that treats the earth and people well is really a failure of the imagination. Perhaps China is too far to go to find out for ourselves, but if we can tell stories - true stories - about the peoples and places wrapped up in the production of clothing, and if we can keep these stories and images in our heads, I believe our clothing will begin to speak to us in different ways and with new meanings - meanings that lead to the creation of careful relationships and healthy methods of making.

Leafcutter Designs

Leafcutter Designs.

The World's Smallest Postal Service is a teeny tiny letter transcription service - now available online. Here's how it works: You write a letter (up to 120 words! - see the form below) and I transcribe it onto tiny stationary (1 x 1.5 inches) with a magical transcription device. It then goes into a tiny envelope which gets addressed, stamped, and sealed with a miniscule wax seal with your initial on it. The letter then goes into a see-through folded coin case and is packaged up with a magnifying glass in a larger glassine envelope, finished off with a large "World's Smallest Letter" wax seal. It is then put in a sturdy mailer for shipping. I can send your letter directly to a recipient of your choice, or to you if you would like to distribute it yourself.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

Link: Mizzonk Workshop. Title Quote: John Cage

Approximately 60 clay pots are contained in a wooden box specifically designed for the artwork. The wooden box is for both display and storage. This artwork, A Perfect Arrangement, is interactive and therapeutic (see photos). It allows viewers to use their imagination to create their own artwork.

Artwork comes with a display platform. Limited editions, numbered, titled and signed by the artis

How can I know what I think till I see what i say?

Hammerpress Art Prints

Title Quote: E.M. Forster

Don't seek for truth. Just drop your illusions.

Sfera + monet.

Title Quote: Zen Saying 

via designers block

"From edible delights to architecture, Sfera creates for all facets of life. Sfera presents its latest creation: a new range of HIGASHI (sweets). Sfera has designed a range of products to cater for the entire lifestyle sphere. That is, items relating to fashion, food and living, as well as to sound, space and environment. In addition to products ranging from furniture to kimono design, Sfera has designed exhibition spaces for the Milano Salone, along with various events. The latest HIGASHI project sees Sfera creating for the first time a product based on food. Blessed with the full cooperation of Kyoto's Kagizen Yoshifusa, Sfera has based its HIGASHI on a form that is both appropriate and sensitive in its representation of Japanese culture, tradition and aesthetic values, also summing up the beauty associated with the four seasons. Combining the techniques handed down through generations of local craftspeople with the talents of current designers from abroad presented a considerable challenge. Following a tradition of expressing the changes in season whilst at the same time pursuing new discoveries, Sfera used as a source of inspiration the keywords "nature" and "to sense the four seasons". Three years on, and after much trial and error, Sfera has arrived at monet. The shape represents the floating form of a lotus flower. Just like the lasting impression the flower leaves as it gently wavers on the surface of the water, you can enjoy the monet's graceful and soft forms combined with the manner in which it melts on the tongue."

"The Best"

"The Best".

There's nothing better than surprising someone with a little love and tenderness. (Well, other than being surprised by a little love and tenderness yourself!) And that's what this little sneaky art project by Tamara Shopsin is all about. Guaranteed to delight and thrill whomever it's bestowed upon.

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

2005 collection
title quote: andre breton

  

Consider everything an experiment ...

HI + LOW: RULES.
by sister corita kent
(i love this blog by the way "HI + LOW)

Etsy :: baileydoesntbark :: Postcups for Valentine's Day

Etsy :: baileydoesntbark :: Postcups for Valentine's Day.

Lucy Rowlands.co.uk

Lucy Rowlands.co.uk.

syringe brooch

What's truer than truth? The Story.

Link: Coraline ~ 50 boxes + MORE! (NOTCOT).

Title Quote: Hasidic Wisdom

Steampunk Keyboard Mod | The Steampunk Workshop

Steampunk Keyboard Mod | The Steampunk Workshop.

My goal with this project was to build a retro keyboard that was fully functional and of a sufficient quality that it could be used everyday by a touch typist. In order to achieve this I chose a high quality (though widely available) keyboard as my starting point. This is an IBM Model M "Clicky" keyboard. They were made starting in the mid 1980's and a version is still manufactured today. This particular keyboard was made in 1989 and shipped with and IBM PowerStation 530, a UNIX box the size of a kegerator.

Moss Carpet by Nguyen La Chanh » Yanko Design

Link: Moss Carpet by Nguyen La Chanh » Yanko Design.

moss carpet

contact

Link: contact.

this is my heart.it is a good heart. - sunlit-skies: (via justlia)

Link: this is my heart.it is a good heart. - sunlit-skies: (via justlia).

Interieurs

Link: Interieurs.

Brocante Chandelier (Single Tier) Collection: José Esteves Made in France

Steel structure with hand patina finish and vintage silverware ornament.
3 Sizes Available

Portfolio - Heather Gillespie: Glass Artist

Link: Portfolio - Heather Gillespie: Glass Artist.

red flower - About

Link: red flower - About.

    *       body       candles       diffuser       hair       ocean       perfume       scents       tea

 

red flower defines itself as a life force. created to transform everyday experiences to their utmost extreme. founded on the principles of world traditions, sustainable sourcing, ritual, well-being and aesthetics.

red flower is both full and empty. red flower encourages the enjoyment of simple experiences and celebrates life through the purity and freshness of flowers. each product is created to smell fresh, alive and complete and to offer a quiet ritual. this is an experience of beauty. this is a moment of happiness.

red flower lives life fully. red flower was founded by yael alkalay who was inspired to create a kind of beauty that is not easily bottled, one that focuses both on the internal and the external. always looking and trying to find, yael believes that true indulgence is personal and takes a lifetime. red flower’s inspiration finds its roots in yael’s cultural heritage, her grandfather was the first dermatologist in bulgaria, she descends from eight generations of turkish grand rabbis, kiev musicians and farmers from the pampas of argentina. traveling extensively to maintain family ties and traditions, she lives with deep medical, spiritual and agricultural sensitivity, rich household customs and everyday sensual moments.

red flower more dada than blah blah. red flower launched nationally in 1999 at barneys new york with six flower candles and two organic flower teas. the line has continues to evolve and grow with over a hundred products, each with the generosity of scent, health and environmental consciousness, performance and integrity which make red flower so innovative.

everyone who touches red flower, from the wild crafting pepperina farmers in cordoba to a long list of well-known names that have become loyal followers, feel embraced with warmth, energy and connectedness.

red flower collects stories and words, stones and sounds, plants and flowers, smells and textures that evolve into treatments. two treatment collections, red flower japan and red flower hammam celebrate the rich bathhouse customs and innate bathing rituals at their most subtle. utilizing cultural influences and regionally-specific beauty ingredients to deliver a vital flow of energy and a euphoric release at spa or at home.

red is everywhere. flowers are everything. take time. red flower.

 

What I lost in a trance, my senses saved.

Link: Lisa Fontanarosa Collection :: The Collection :: Unique Artist-Made Furnishings, Accessories,  

"Lisa Fontanarosa presents the world's most wonderful, whimsical, and witty home furnishings.

The Collection of artist-made pieces—from
chandeliers and cushions to glassware and sculpture—dares to be different and
is designed to delight. "

 

Title Quote: Theodore Roethke

You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, / But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.

Link: CB I Hate Perfume | About CB.

   

"I hate perfume.

Perfume is too often an ethereal corset trapping everyone in the same unnatural shape

A lazy and inelegant concession to fashionable ego

Too often a substitute for true allure and style

An opaque shell concealing everything – revealing nothing

A childish masque hiding the timid and unimaginative

An arrogant slap in the face from across the room

People who smell like everyone else disgust me

* * * * * * *

Perfume is a veil that reveals the soul

Perfume is the fanfare of our individuality sounding differently to everyone who listens

Perfume is a signpost to our true selves – a different journey for the brave to travel

Perfume is the weather of our inner world bringing life to a personal landscape

Perfume is an art that shows us who we can be if we dare – an invisible portrait of who we are

Perfume is discovered fully only by our lovers when we are together - naked

* * * * * * *

I encourage you to be yourself,

expand yourself and please yourself

Allow yourself the luxury

of your own vision

Perfume is an adventure

I encourage you to explore

I love making perfume

I love being a perfumer"

 

-Christopher Brosius

Title Quote: Thomas Moore

In silence we must wrap much of our life, because it is too fine for speech.

Link: .:: SUNDAYLAND ::..

Title Quote: Emerson

clercdesign

Link: clercdesign.

Le kit

Papier d’Arménie is a traditional air freshener, very popular in France.
You can find it in nearly all the pharmacies.
www.papierdarmenie.fr

"Le kit" is there new burner. This little box includes Papier d’Arménie, matches and a little container to burn the paper.

packaging | UQAM | Sylvain Allard

Link: packaging | UQAM | Sylvain Allard.
milk

Identity of the 'Milk Bottle Banksy' revealed: The artist who decorates empties before returning them to their doorstep | Mail Online

Link: Identity of the 'Milk Bottle Banksy' revealed: The artist who decorates empties before returning them to their doorstep | Mail Online.

For months now, they have provided a daily doorstep puzzle for mystified homeowners.

When they go to pick up their milk, they find extra bottles.

The bottles are empty. But etched on them are pictures of animals, often cows or mice, carefully carved into the glass in astonishing detail.
Charlotte Hughes-Martin

Mystery revealed: Charlotte Hughes-Martin engraves milk bottles and then randomly delivers them to houses in the West Midlands

The free artwork has been puzzling and delighting residents in Stourbridge, West Midlands, and surrounding villages since the bottles started appearing in the spring.

But the identity of the artist behind them  -  nicknamed the 'bottle Banksy' after the secretive graffiti artist whose work appears overnight on buildings across the country  -  remained a mystery.

One resident said: 'My son has been trying to get up really early to catch the artist at it. But it's like Santa  -  you never see them.'

 

REBECCA THUSS

Link: REBECCA THUSS . About.

Rebecca Thuss

 

 

When did your heart go missing?

Link: Petit Coeur / Little Heart.

title quote: rooney