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Angel Ha Ceramics
"A decorative ball ...or a vase?"
Fanciful raised ceramic, hovers, lightly over the smooth surfaced sphere ... This peculiar ornamentation anticipates our curiosity, and compels our fingertips, to peel away that delicate layer and in doing so, revealing another pattern - openings and invitation ...
Link: .Grainne Morton
"Collecting obscure and miniature objects is the starting point for Grainne Morton's designs. Through experimentation, objects both formed and found are grouped in to 'collections' and housed in handmade boxes. The various materials used include pressed flowers, old buttons, shells, pebbles, sea glass, printed tin and words/graphics/print. To complement these found elements, handmade objects such as enamel work, miniature drawings and punched metal shim are added to complete the collections."
Link: Hazell Designs Books :: About.
Rachel Hazell is bookartist. She designs, writes, illustrates, prints, binds and exhibits book-related work. It's all handmade using age-old labour-intensive methods
She strives to produce the ultimate artist's book; one that combines form and function in the most simple way
Commissions and collaborations stimulate new approaches to the book. Rachel has worked with authors, galleries, businesses, councils and a fashion designer
Apart from making books, she also sings, travels, practices yoga, takes photographs and looks out for the worldwide possibilities of workshops, residencies and the chance to prove that everbody has a book inside them
Why the typetray logo? A lifetime love of order, repetition and containers, preceded work generated by this particular storage system at Camberwell College of Art, during the Bookart MA, and has continued to be an influential theme
Hazell Deisgns Books has a motto; READ MAKE LOVE BOOKS!
An unlimited edition, handpainted and handsewn - using a medieval long stitch. Perfect for tiny sketches on the beach or poems with few words. Each one is a slightly different hue of blue, and each contains a small surprise
Link: Maurizio Nannucci.LIGHT-WORD-LIGHT
Lara-Vinca Masini
"In all of his work Nannucci has expressed his intention; consistently involving the reaction between the medium and their respective diversity. He accentuates them by means of what defines his "visual attitude"; his method, based on rationality, makes his work, for as much as it is diverse and characterized by a continuous curiosity and a constant impulse toward experimentation, organize itself according to a consistent theme in which the almost continuous "transgressions" represent a sort of leitmotif full of suggestion and unexpected discoveries. Working since the 1970's, initially in the field of concrete and
perceptual structural research, which up until then also involved verbal research. At first he based his formation on scale relationships, while in the field of concrete poetry he created rhythmic verbal expressions using a typewriter: they were his "typograms". In the meantime, he participated in the research of electronic music with Pietro Grossi's musical phonology team of "S 2F m". Using computers he inserted, not musical programs, but "vocal" programs creating "sonorous poems" and "audioworks". This highlighted his image as an artist that "doesn't limit himself to producing works but searches for a simpler way to
create a larger diffusion of ideas". Because of this, also his way of "making art" moved ever further from the "specific", creating a closely woven network of relationships (by mean s of production of artistic books, discs, multiples, magazines, cards and photographs) with avant-garde artists from all over the world (who, like him, made the diffusion of ideas the center of attraction), attempting as he stated, "to widen the confines of the visible". His work was similar because of this to that of the fluxsus artists, making the matrix of his work consist more of "communication", understood in every sense, from the most direct to the most abstract and symbolic; acquiring alson an "entire nomenclature: the artists' sonorous, small, press, radioworks, multiples, artist's book..." gathered for the most part from the new media...con't" Also maurizionannucci.
Link: Art MoCo: "Adrift".
More blue in a box? Funny how these things happen … Except this time it is polymer clay in a wooden box, a piece called Adrift by Noah Nakell. This is from the Portable Disaster series, which plays on a common feeling of vulnerability in the face of something larger and more powerful than oneself. Fear, and the fragility that goes along with this disabler is something that we all go through, and this is so tidily symbolized by the tiny boat adrift on the rough, beautiful seas. Perhaps we can contain these in the boxes that Nakell has so thoughtfully provided. Would that we could pack it all up and kick it under the bed, or throw it away, when it all becomes too choppy, or when it feels like the quicksand will never release us.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Every person has experienced the feeling of fear and accompanying sensation of human fragility, whether in the form of something mundane like speaking in front of a large audience or something more horrifying, like the thought of a plane crashing. Visual metaphors for fear and insecurity play major roles in the creation of my work, including society's collective phobias, the intersection of modern life and nature, and on a more gut level: shelter, exposure, disaster, and defense. This work is presented with the idea that these fears can be faced calmly and embraced as part of our humanity.
-Noah Nakell
Link: Design*Sponge: more from cj o'neill.
"My fascination with pattern and surface texture has been important from an early age with repetition in surface and form being an overriding focus throughout my artistic life – an interest in hidden meanings, layers, secrets and treasures allows me to explore various trains of thought in my work. What is most important is that the pieces work on different levels – aesthetically, the work appeals to the beholder with simple, geometric forms, and organic patterns overlaid – but beyond the aesthetics lies the references to my influences, and often in commissioned pieces there are more layers of hidden meanings for the person involved. A feeling of calm, quiet nostalgia, a sense of belonging, contemplation and thoughtfulness; these are all important to my work.’ -cj"
Link: dedece - "Beautiful things of Life".
After a long search for the right frame, Harry found this victorian beauty in his brothers Hale's closet. Hale, a Philadephia painter, was given the frame by a friend. Cast in polyester resin, it takes on new life as a frame for a photograph. Its high relief brings deserved importance to everyday images.
It would be better to say pages.think™ is an open window for the widest Internet, when we figure it a site. Here, we hope you will adequately taste everything from the deepest soul, which is true, virtuous and fair … And realize the art, inspiration and enthusiasm all over. All the things are possibly come from the near neighbour, or the remote place. No rank here, no benefit here, maybe only the sense and color become the bourn, if it exist. …
Link: OBJETS.
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GARDEN OF EDEN
Office Cupcakes and Birthday Cakes Want to celebrate a colleague's birthday, new joiner, maternity/paternity leave, new baby, job promotion? Commiserate for a leaver? We deliver our delicious fresh cupcakes (vanilla or chocolate) and birthday cakes direct to your desk.
Custom Cupcakes and Birthday Cakes
Do you have a special request? We will try our best to accommodate your custom orders and bespoke designs for any of the above.
Eileen Goldschmidt's accessories are mostly constructed from knitted fabric (monofilament and felted botany wool). She manipulates the fabric by stretching and stitching in a variety of materials e.g yarns, string, wire: by heating and felting, cutting and layering. The surfaces are hand and machine embroidered. Each piece is individually made and hand dyed. She has used the Elizabethan techniques of cutting, slashing and tying with the nostalgic style of the 1940's to reinvent a contemporary wearable range.
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Flatpack toys-print and play.
Link: Antonio Mattei (Toscane) - Antonio Mattei.
In 1858, Antonio Mattei opened in Prato, Italian city located in Toscany near Florencia, a pastry shop "biscotti di Prato".
Since then, the recipe has been passed down from generation to generation. Biscotti di Prato are still made the same way at the same place : 22 via Ricasoli !
We propose you to discover, in the following pages, our preparation secrets of the "biscotti di Prato", which you will be able to order online to taste them :
Link: Spruce Mountain ingredients.
The “secret ingredient” of Spruce Mountain conserve and chutneys is garam masala—a special blend of selected spices concocted by Molly after her years in the East. All of the spices are roasted and ground in small batches to ensure freshness. The garam masala is then combined with Spruce Mountain’s wild berries, plus sugar, red pepper, fresh ginger, and vinegar, and simmered slowly for up to three hours until the mixture reaches just the right flavor and consistency.
Newly developed products—such as wild blueberry vinegar, jam, and topping—have been designed to appeal to more traditional palates.
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Sangaria Ramune - Something Different,Flavors - Soda Pop.
Sangaria Ramune; Imported from Japan. This one was voted "Most Fun to Drink" - the glass marble in the cap keeps you from gulping too much too fast! [6.76 fl.oz/200 ml]
Link: arre: arr�te pom ball wrap.
Handmade cotton pom pom warp that can be wear as a necklace or a scarf.
Each necklace has its own unique arre brand made in silver and is packed in one of our hand embroidered felt bags!
Stolen Chicken is a unique greeting card company that offers a diverse selection
of images created by talented illustrators, graphic designers, and photographers. Each artist's image is silk-screened on high quality paper and hand printed in small editions, making each card truly distinctive. This particular design is part of the Confection collection.
Link: At Day's Close: Night in Times Past Webcast (Library of Congress).
Historian A. Roger Ekirch discussed his book, "At Day's Close: Night in Times Past," which examines the history of nocturnal activity in society in Western Europe, from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean, before the advent of the Industrial Revolution. Ekirch describes how nighttime embodied a distinct culture, with many of its own customs and rituals. Ekirch, a professor of history at Virginia Tech, conducted much of his research on the book at the Library of Congress. Ekirch writes about night perils, official responses to nighttime such as curfews and watchmen, haunts of men and women at work and play, bedtime rituals, sleep disturbances and finally the demystification of darkness underway in cities and large towns by the mid-18th century.
Link: Bizzybusiness.biz.
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Materials
Red white blue striped cotton
Dreaming device This device blocks out the world and gives you space to think.
These all-natural butter creations are made in
Tokyo and contain no additives, preservatives, or chemicals. And that unusual name? The founder of Yoku Moku names his company after Jokkmokk, a village in northern Sweden that captivated him with its quaint beauty and heartwarming inhabitants. Beautifully packaged in a new tin, Yoku Moku's delectable cookies are the perfect present. The all-natural butter creations are made in Tokyo and contain no additives, preservatives, or chemicals.
I have heard the mermaids singing,each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me. I have seen them riding seaward on the waves Combing the white hair of the waves blown back When the wind blows the water white and black. We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us, and we drown.
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock; T.S. Eliot
Katherina Saunders...lives in Shropshire with her husband and 3 children. She teaches children to cook from her home and recently designed Ella's Kitchen Cabinet... named after her grandmother (who gave her the original cabinet) and her 10 year old daughter...In designing the Ella's Kitchen Cabinet, Katherina has stayed faithful to the original design and has used manufacturing processes that would have been used to make the original.
Ella's Kitchen Cabinet has been made to be an heirloom for the future and passed down from parent to child as hers was. She hopes that it will bring you joy and many happy cooking memories in years to come. -Ella'sKitchen
Letterpress Birthday Cake Card by Pancake & Franks
Domestic Bliss by Julie Haslam presents a range of extra special kitchen Tea Towels. The images presented are inspired by domesticity and are printed using the latest in high technology. This makes the fusion an interesting mix of both the old and the new.. -Julie Haslam
A Calendar for the kitchen
that never goes out of date “As you get older, the years seem to go past so quickly. Instead of being reminded of this, just have one calendar that will last forever. -Nigella Lawson
Novacart paper baking molds are designed to be part of the packaging... They are of a rigid freestanding construction and are available in a variety of shapes and sizes. Our baking molds standard color is a dark brown paper background and gold floret print over lay.
Panimold Wood Baking Basket
Haba Toys Wooden Eggs
Nimbus by Mosely meets Wilcox This lamp shade makes use of the unique aesthetic quality of polystyrene balls. By mixing the balls with resin, we created a seductive, lightweight material. As light passes through the gaps between the polystyrene balls it is reminiscent of sunlight shining through a cloud.
Revelations are
found in
the clouds.
-Serge King
Dream Pouch by Lila La Malice
O2 Floats On A Media Cloud With Versa PIXEL
Germany – Versa™ PIXEL -- single dots that grouped together produced over 28,000 points of moving light. The technology was adapted for the event by Element Labs, a company known for making exceptional designs possible through the convergence of light and video...the display consisted of Versa PIXELs housed inside plastic tubes suspended from the ceiling. The varying tube lengths and spacing created distinct colorized pixels that merged into waves of images, giving visitors the impression of moving beneath a blue “Media Cloud” with images wafting across it.
Rudi Hennies, the
technical manager of the project, called the resulting display “overwhelming for
everyone"....Element Labs
Custom Screen Productions "Clouds"
Teapot
Flying Bed Room
See also Agatha Ruiz De La Prada
http://www.agatharuizdelaprada.com/swf/index.html
Continue reading "You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds. -Henry David Thoureau" »
Happy Toys "...Felissimo initiated this project in 1997 to bring happiness and joy to children around the world. For the first year, we asked our Japanese customers to search their drawers and closets for unused fabric. Not just any fabric, however. We wanted 4 x 4-inch patches from fabric that held fond memories for the owner. Felissimo received 30,000 pieces of the fabric from all over Japan. Volunteers, provided with the design and pattern by Felissimo, used these swatches to create 1,100 smiling stuffed animals. We call these creations 'Happy Toys.'..." -Felissimo
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