Daily Poetics

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of, and in your nature, there lies hidden rich mines of thought and purpose awaiting your development

Link: Strange-Carafes.

title  quote: Jonathan Swift

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.

Link: Takashimaya New York.T

"To visit Takashimaya New York is to enter a world apart. A unique commingling of Eastern and Western sensibilities inspires the rare and wonderful designs and artisan-made pieces culled from around the globe. Displaying the unusual sensitivity of the Japanese towards refined craftsmanship and beautiful packaging, and the modern appreciation for functional design, shopping online transcends the usual boundaries. At Takashimaya, the world is at your fingertips.

A skeleton in your closet. These travel bags featuring clear panels in anodized aluminum and PETG, make airport security a breeze. Created by award-winning Japanese designer Hideo Wakamatsu."

Title Quote: George Bern

Go to the limits of your longing.

Link: Modify - Detail.

"Michael & Nora Vintage crystal stemware is put to use in this artistic creation by Michael & Nora. Each fixture is hand designed."

    * Made with recycled crystal stemware
    * Dimensions: 35”x15”

Title Quote: Rilke

Link: red dot online: packaging design.

Mysticbox

(Packaging)

"This gift packaging was designed to convey the excitement and
enchantment of receiving presents. It can be used for items of
different sizes, which are thus held snugly and protected against
impact. The Mysticbox is built in two pieces like a frame for pictures.
Each frame is coated with a silicon skin and the items or presents are
positioned between the two skins. When sticking the two frames
together, a vacuum is created between the two silicon skins which holds
the package together. It consists of a front frame and a back frame."

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

Link: red dot online: design concept - winners 2006.

"This ring-making set reinterprets an old courting tradition with a contemporary twist that nevertheless keeps a hand-made approach alive. Together is a costume jewellery-making set that enables two people to express their intimate feelings for each other. Historically, there is a long tradition in Europe of girls making a ring out of strands of their hair for their lovers to wear, and the set brings this tradition up-to-date for the modern world. Together encases fine strands of hair deep within a resin mould to construct contemporary fashionable costume jewellery that is personalised. The set includes moulds for making finger rings and a bottle of liquid resin. Making the ring is easy; first, half of resin is added to the mould, then the hair is laid into the mould, and the remaining resin poured in. Once dry, the ring can be removed from the mould and is ready to be worn. A number of different moulds are provided to suit different finger sizes, and different styles of ring."

Quote: Laurence Sterne

seldom do we realize ...

Link: 3rd UNCLE design inc. SPRUNG Ottoman ... 3 sizes available ...

Seldom do we realize that the world is practically no thicker to us than the print of our footsteps on the path. Upon that surface we walk and act our comedy of life, and what is beneath is nothing to us. But it is out from that under-world, from the dead and the unknown, from the cold moist ground, that these green blades have sprung. -Richard Jeffries

We become what we behold. -mcluhan

Link: Monique Borsboom - Ontwerp || Voor ontwerp in de Product en Concept Vormgeving
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"McLuhan warned; ”We become what we behold.” Do we become what we behold? And how does that look like? Is it good or bad?

I tried to find examples of this statement. It looks like we all have an idol we look up to. A person (or thing) we would like to identify ourselves with. But how far can you go?

We accept a child who wants to be a football player, but Orlan transforming into Mona Lisa is still a point of discussion. Awareness in different levels. I like these examples of extremes, and the idea that we change our opinions about it all the time.

Tattoos were once a taboo. Now it is quite normal to have a tattoo. The same is happening with plastic surgery. The reason of who we are and what we all accept is an evolution. The reason we do certain things can also be seen in other places in this world. We decorate our body’s to give information about social status, gender, age, to mark a certain moment in life that is important to us or just for aesthetical reasons. This all is about things that fascinate me. And to reflect it back on me, I thought about how I see me in all of this in the future. (Keeping in mind that we accept more and more, and what seems strange to us is normal in other cultures.)

I chose scaring because it is not only communicating certain information to others, but it also marks an important moment in life. A scar can tell if I’m married or how many children I have. But to scar yourself, the pain you go through, stands for that important event in your life you got through. You entered another level of your life. You got stronger. I want this to be part of life. Something you carry with you. A tool you would use to scar with, like a knife or a piece of glass, which becomes an applicable jewel. Jewels are personal and keep their value all of your life (and even longer). Often there is a memory attached to the jewel. It stands for beauty, but can also tell more than that. The jewels I make consist of parts of material that you could scar with. Every time there is an important moment in life, you take away a part of the necklace. Not only the scar tells something, also every missing link in the jewel stands for a point in your life.

“Show me your jewellery and I’ll tell you who you are.” Monique Borsboom 2003"

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. -maya angelou

Link: exclusive choses: Karine Jollet. karine j ollet "pillows"

my first chandelier

Link: unsaleable.com.
"MY FIRST CHANDELIER is a lampshade for your bare and lonely light bulbs. Whenever you decorate your lonely bulbs with MY FIRST CHANDELIER you create the fantastic new chandelier. Just hang the 12 original crystals (every crystal is different and stands for a different period of the history in crystals glass) in the disk."

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. ~E.M. Forster

  Moonwalk Slowly, silently, now the moon / Walks the night in her silver shoon.
Walter de la Mare