Daily Poetics

...And here the last words your fingers wrote, Scrawled in broad characters across a page In this brown book I gave you.

Link: Secret Leaves paperworks Home.

"We are sitting in our cozy home studio listening to music and crafting beautiful things from paper.  We are fascinated by the stranger parts of nature and use images from the natural world in the things we create. We are enamored with vintage ephemera and constantly hunting for "treasures". We recycle whenever we can.

Most of all, we are happy to be doing what we love. "  -Secret Leaves Paperworks

Title Quote: Edna St. Vincent Millay

In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are empty.

Link: Somersaults Life Archives.

Somersaults™ Life Archives
your life – full circle

"The genuine little details of everyday experiences when collected and curated add up to the eternal essence of our loved ones’ lives. Hand-me-down moments with the click of a shutter become frozen in time and our hearts. Sand between our toes. Tears of joy at the alter. That certain aroma from the back seat three days into the trip. The impossibly soft strip of satin on that tiny blanket. Fresh cut grass filling our every breath. The nervous first kiss and lingering last dance. Our dreams, loves, fears, triumphs and defeats captured in sights, sounds and words to be relived for generations. Somersaults™ Life Archives collects and protects all of your moments and memories in artfully produced products designed to make sure your loved ones’ lives come full circle." -somersaults

Design by Eric Kass, Funnel
Title Quote: Robert Aris Willmott

We must risk delight.

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Title Quote - Jack Gilbert

No Maps ...

Link: Keep Calm Ltd » Get Lost.

"Each of these stunning prints have been hand letterpressed by Doug, directly onto old maps of the UK! The diversity of these maps and the printing method combined means that each print is truly unique."

"And all the names of the tribes, the nomads of faith who walked in the monotone of the desert and saw brightness and faith and colour. The way a stone or found metal box or bone can become loved and turn eternal in a prayer. Such glory of this country she enters now and becomes part of. We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves. I wish for all this to be marked on my body when I am dead. I believe in such cartography-to be marked by nature, not just to label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience. All I desired was to walk upon such an earth that had no maps." -Michael Ondaatje

He goes by the brand, yet imagines he goes by the flavor.

Link: TheDieline.com: The Leading Package Design Blog: Sugart iTea Wand .

"Sugart's innovative iTea wand is a single serving tea package with a built in filter system. It is designed to just drop into hot water and brew. The filtration system allows the tea leaves' flavor carrying fats and oils to be dispersed into hot water, allowing a more intense flavor than traditional oil absorbing tea bags."

Title Quote: Mark Twain

No matter where I run, I meet myself there.

Link: Flickr: Art of the Luggage Label .

"...image stream and information resource devoted to the art of luggage labels and related travel ephemera. Luggage labels are fascinating bits of hotel history from the golden age of travel, roughly the 1900's to 1960's. During this time these labels were used by hotels as advertising and eagerly applied to steamer trunks, suitcases and all sorts of luggage by hotel staff, mainly bellhops."

Title Quote: Dorothy Fields

 

There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternally new now that builds and creates itself out of the Best as the past withdraws.

Link: Domestic ®.

"Romain Chevalé lives and works in London. He is a designer and an illustrator. Connecting divergent temporalities, most of his work suggests the articulation of multiple stories. However, their meanings and/or their functionalities link up in one main purpose : the emotional longing for the past."

Title Quote: Goethe

The notes are right, but if I listened they would be wrong.

Link: altered objects | celia richards.

"Sheet music with the notes removed"

Title Quote: Eugene Ormandy

Wine is bottled poetry.

Link: Buccella Wines :: Registration.

Title Quote: Robert Louis Stevenson

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely, aware.

Link: ondesign olav jünke, hamburg - studio for corporate design, logo development and brand communication.

designer messages from around the world

"Francalma Nieddu and Olav Jünke, ondesign, invited designer friends to create wine labels – their personal message on the bottle.

At the Istituto Italiano di Cultura ondesign explained the project together with Dr. Chiara Vigo who presented her book "Art and Wine: The artist label as an image of taste".

Title Quote: Henry Miller