Daily Poetics

Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still."

CMYK (tableware)

"The tableware "CMYK" converts failures and adversities that happen in everyday life into a poetic moment. It consist of a coloured ceramic that is covert by a white glaze. If the tableware breaks due to daily usage, the colour in the inside occurs. Due this patina the tableware can develop a personal meaning for the user."

via kisd.de

These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.

Clementine Art  

Title Quote: George Eliot

via www.clementineart.com

He sometimes ran a purple ribbon through his typewriter and gushed where he should have dammed.

Link: chosil kil.
examining the language of the color purple...

Title Quote: TE Kalem

You can't be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope to do, and it will probably be color.

"What would one color be without 499 others?

Introducing 500 Colored Pencils: the only set in the world that matches the span and wonder of human creativity.

Express whatever you dream, with beautiful visual precision.

Each pencil is its own story. A unique hue with an inventive name to inspire the far corners of your creativity.

Together, the colors suggest infinite possibilities." -Social Designer

Title Quote: Vincent Van Gogh

via 500pencils.socialdesigner.com

Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night

VISIONAIRE | HOME.

In this new issue of VISIONAIRE *Solar* ... It uses new print technology the images transform from black and white indoors, to vivid colors in the sunlight...

Title Quote: Rilke

Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.

Jean Shin.
(I am crazy for this.)  

"unraveling"
Title Quote: Jean Cocteau

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

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky...

Link: Multicolr Search Lab - Idée Inc..

Title Quote: Rumi

This shaking keeps me steady. I should know. What falls away is always. And is near. I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I learn by going where I have to go.

Link: sub-studio design blog: Loyal Loot - Log Bowls.

"Loyal Loot's Log Bowls - a mixture of organic and man-made with their natural bases and high-gloss, painted interiors. Each bowl is handmade using locally reclaimed trees and finished with a water-based, furniture grade finish."

Title Quote: Theodore Roethke

In describing someone’s character, I reveal my own.

Link: Dezeen » Blog Archive » Color Rings by Itay Ohaly.

"Color Rings by Israeli designer Itay Ohaly are pieces of jewellery carved from layers of coloured paint applied to a wooden table.

Ohaly spends months applying a layer of acrylic paint per day, then slices through the thick surface to create the raw material for the rings.

The rings often include slices of timber from the table beneath the paintwork." -dezeen

Title Quote: Mason Cooley

I am moved by fancies that are curled around these images, .... and cling. The notion of some ...infinitely gentle infinitely suffering thing.

Link: Artwork by Jennifer Khoshbin - The Book Project 1: Digging for the Truth .

The Book Project 1: Digging for the Truth

Title Quote: T.S. Eliot

A lively understandable spirit / Once entertained you. / It will come again. / Be still. / Wait.

Link: flexibility - renewable clothing by fernando brízio.

"flexibility - design in a fast changing society
ex carceri 'le nuove', turin
june 29 - october12
http://www.torinoworlddesigncapital.it/

'flexibility - design in a fast-changing society'  is one of the many events taking place in turin this year in conjunction with the city being named the 'design world capital for 2008'. the show consists of nine projects by international designers installed at a former prison ex carceri 'le nuove'.

 

renewable clothing by fernando brízio

by placing colored felt-tip pens in the pockets of the dress its appearance changes over time. within an hour - to one and a half hours the colored ink bleeds into the fabric and creates a one-off design for each occasion. the owner can then clean the dress and color it in a different way for each time they wear it."

... I stand before you...Color of the mountains Colossal...Wrapped so deliciously within my own joy and misery Feathers of my wings paralyzed by the distance of my mind Here I stand before you, the color of the night Frozen by the potential of me...

Link: Etsy :: tinarice :: mega wings by tina rice.

mega wings by tina rice

Title Quote: Will Smith

amazement of things - even the last particle!

Link: Sienna Gallery - specializing in artists creating one a of a kind studio jewelry.

"A 2006 graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, Lina Peterson has alreday exhibited in many international group shows including ALCHEMY: Contemporary Jewellery from Britain. Peterson creates intriguing and bold pieces of jewellery that play with boundaries, be it the relationship between garments and jewellery or the juxtaposition of different materials.  Peterson draws inspiration from the construction of garments, the intimate feeling of the inside of a cardigan or the diffused back of a piece of embroidery.  Pieces such as her ‘Collaged’ and ‘Stitched’ brooches bring such fragmented suggestions of garments into pieces of jewellery, often together with elements that are more closely identifiable as pieces of jewellery, such as silhouettes of beads. The main focus of Peterson’s work lies within the exploration of material qualities and combinations, allowing room for playfulness to enter the work.  Another outcome of her investigations is the ‘Crocheted’ jewellery where the language of crocheting is mimicked in metal and the metal forms are then extended with actual crocheting using colourful yarns."

Title Quote: Walt Whitman

The thing we long for, that we are for one transcendant moment.

Link: Fendi - Paint-Your-Own Baguette Tote - eLUXURY.

Fendi Paint-Your-Own Baguette Tote

Title Quote: Lowell

Surprise me, as a seed surprises itself.

Link: rescue beauty lounge :: Nail Polish :: Drop Dead Gorgeous :: Recycle Nail Polish.

"This deep blackish emerald green turns your nails into an accessory, as important as a piece of jewelry. Go green " rbl

Title Quote: G. Herbert

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Link: heli hietala.  (via notcot)

The COLOURS are crayons which can be used for drawing and characters shaped as small human beings which can be used as tools for communication. It intends to show the results of involvement between characters. The results of the communication can be softening, stimulating, balancing or dirtying. It all depents of the character which is chosen. The interaction can become visible or invisible. The user makes the choice of characters and tests which way they react to each other. And what is left of the one which is used as a disposable product?

There are about 100 crayons and they are packed in 10 boxes in 10pcs each.

Title Quote: Albert Schweitzer

If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

Link: Shoyeido Japanese Incense - Premium Incense.

Quote: George Eliot

 

Link: tanya bonakdar gallery :: artists.

Rivane Neuenschwander I Wish Your Wish 2003 Silkscreen on ribbons Dimensions variable; installation view, Museu de Arte Moderna Aluisio Magalhaes, Recife

"hard skin on the underside of trembling / jello cold in the bowl ..." -poemcrazy

Link: Wunderwurks Design: Everything Normal Vase.

Materials: EVA plastic (hot glue).

"Inspired by the natural formations of marble, the Callisto vessels come in both warm and cool colors."

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery. -annie dillard

Link: August Highland - Alphanumeric Sequencing - Genre-Splicing.

"This online gallery of art by August Highland contains a samples from a few bodies of work which can be viewed by browsing the menu on the left. There are many other works, both earlier and more recent. August Highland's stylistic range is broad, including contemplative, minimalistic, hard-edged, romantic, whimsical, decorative, spiritual, provocative and expressive works. Every compositional element in Highland's visual work is language - either a sentence, part of a sentence, a word, part of a word, a letter or a part of a letter. Calling his work "Alphanumeric Painting," August Highland has been asked to exhibit across the United States, Western and Eastern Europe, Japan, Thailand and Russia. His shows have received exceptional critical reviews in national and international art journals and newspapers. Highland also has been asked to present talks about his innovative and inspiring work at art and literary conferences and at universities including Harvard."

Design Observer:

Link: Design Observer: writings about design & culture.

"In other cases, time is the reason for a book's placement, with older books piling up a dark corner of my studio while newer books are proudly displayed on my coffee table. (Though there is some method to my madness, I still take solace in Terry Belanger's aptly-named Lunacy and the Arrangement of Books, which profiles several of my predecessors.) The central issue, as Perec warms us, is that "None of these classifications systems is satisfactory by itself," and he is right. But one idea from his list, "ordering by color," seems to be gathering a small following of late, particularly among the visually-inclined. Recently, I stopped by a design studio in my building called Thumb to see my friend Luke Bulman. He'd just reorganized his books by color, and I asked him why he did it. A few reasons that resonated with me, and helped to illuminate his logic. For one, books he's purchased or received as gifts are books he knows and often loves, and the color of these books is a major part of the experience of interacting with them. He's not the only one. When I glance at my own bookshelf, I immediately react to..."

She rises from the sea, foams of bubbles at her feetAnd floats towards the sands ; And breathes a breath so sweet ...

Link: Welcome to Jelly Pong Pong.  

"Jelly Pong Pong places an ardent emphasis on creating products which evoke the dreamer in you & which clearly defines what it means to be passionate about cosmetics. With such pride in our creation comes a focus on product integrity & efficacy.great-quality products that work. Inspired by the wonderment of a magical fairytale, we have created a secret enclave of all things delightful. Let your hair free and run through the secret garden that is yours alone, filled with mythical colours and products that will entice and enchant you. Venus is a precious jar of pearls. Brush over their surface for an ethereal colour to highlight & shadow. Crush one pearl to release a second hue. Blend both for the magic to begin..."

I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind. -emily bronte

Link: Tsé & Tsé ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.The "Colour Notebook offers a wide range of dense, concentrated colours on thin paper.  A wet paintbrush is all you need to apply them to whatever surface is available (a paper tablecloth, for example ?), and to let your imagination run free."

By poetry we mean the art of employing of words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination; the art of doing by means of words, what the painter does by means of colors -thomas macaulay

Link: Charles Patrick American Painter.

Color Poems

"Color Poems are performance art works that were filmed by the National Endowment for the Arts through a special projects grant in 1980. Artist Charles Patrick performed and exhibited these art works at galleries, museums and universities in the United States and Europe, (See listing in Who's Who in American Art). Performances with Color Poems are talks given by the artist, based on his conceptual paintings and poetry. Through activities performed by the artist, the audience members participate by expressing their feelings and thoughts concerning the paintings presented. The activities themselves encourage creative expression by allowing each individual to express his or her own interpretation of the color compositions presented, and to experience individually, and as a group, the feeling that takes place in the writing of poetry."

running in a circle

Link: Andrew Kreps Gallery.

Ricci Albenda

"Cyclidrome continues the development of his COLOR-I-ME TRY alphabetic colorization system. The original COLOR-I-ME- TRY system maps the alphabet onto the natural spectrum and uses magenta, a nonspectral color, to represent numbers and punctuation and to create a color wheel. Every word represented using this system then has its own distinct color pattern. For Cyclidrome, Albenda has taken this full color system, which he sees as largely utopian, and expanded its functionality to accommodate real-world media. He has developed it into a series of monochromatic palettes that correspond to his vowel hues in the basic system; a – red, e – orange, i – yellow, o – green, u – blue, and (sometimes) y – purple. Each new palette retains the original hue identities of the basic COLOR-I-ME-TRY system, albeit through a color filter of that palette's defining hue. The term cyclidrome is one coined by the artist, and is an analog to the term palindrome. Literally translating as "running in a circle" (palindrome: "running again"), the cyclidrome is manifest in the pattern of each painting: the letters run around the color wheel either clockwise of counterclockwise, with somewhat even spacing. (The cyclidrome is a far more subjective phenomenon than the palindrome, and relies on the experience of its color pattern.) The installation as a whole is itself also a cyclidrome. The paintings are arranged in a circuit that represents the color wheel. Albenda's word paintings have always relied on the power of the familiar. The harmonies wrought into these works seem to capture the platonic essence of their subjects. This essence, not so much eternal as generated by experience, is currently limited to the colorless forms of letters and words. COLOR-I-ME-TRY in universal use would introduce familiar color patterns in association with each word, making every word more like a picture, giving more richness to the act of reading and a stronger visceral connection to the written word. Initially conceived as a utopian fantasy, Albenda's COLOR-I-ME-TRY is increasingly motivated by an earnest vision of its implementation..."

Mankind are my subjects, all, all, all!

Link: Mintd : Shop Style Sell : tiered rose petal neck piece.

"Beautiful long tiered necklace in gold plated chain, with crimson red and pale lemon backed rose petals and rose leaves. Rose colour will change slightly with time, but preserved to keep colourful and dry. A one-off unique piece that will be sure to turn heads!"

your favorite color ...

Link: day-lab.com.

"Favorite Color Card $3.00

This What Your Favorite Color Reveals About You Card measures 7.5" x 4.5" and comes with an envelope.

Your favorite color is an extrenal expression of your true character and personality..

Inside you will find a little guide that give you insights into your self and others based on a favorite color choice.

A super fun and unique card great for any occasion."

Link: http://www.sophiecuvelier.com.
"The fabulous garlands of sophie cuvelier"

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people. -Vincent Van Gogh

Link: Jet Mous - Keramiek.

colorful ceramic bottles ... thread (spool) necklace and bracelet