Posts Tagged ‘blog’
Friday, November 11th, 2011
The photo above has been reblogged on tumblr 296 times. According to its tags it was taken in Istanbul. You’re lucky to find out even that much on tumblr, even if you follow the chain of rebloggings back to the original posting. I guess that’s why they call it tumblr. Don’t even get me started.
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Tags: blog, decontextualization, malteada, Mexican, photography, tumblr, Turkey
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Tuesday, December 14th, 2010
Morgan at The Brick House made this beautiful bench from some old fence posts and a pair table legs salvaged from worn vintage side tables. Utterly clever. Entirely recycled.
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Tags: blog, DIY, recycling, The Brick House
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Wednesday, October 6th, 2010
Often the “before” shot is better than the “after,” but not here. Above is a nice use of nearly black paint on an old plaster wall in this Hemet, California midcentury cinderblock house. Via the blog The Brick House. Read the entertaining FAQ, in which the homeowners talk about buying nothing for more than $100 (except the house of course).
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Tags: before and after, blog, California, cinderblock, exterior, Hemet, MCM, midcentury modern, modern, modernist, renovation, The Brick House, wall, wooden
Posted in architecture, design, DIY, interiors | 3 Comments »
Monday, June 21st, 2010
Calder with his self-designed BMW. His face too is a good design.
Via the always interesting Wary Meyers, authors of the fun Wary Meyers’ Tossed & Found: Unconventional Design from Cast-offs.
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Tags: Alexander Calder, blog, car, favourite, Tossed & Found, Wary Meyers
Posted in art, book, design, favourite, green | 3 Comments »
Sunday, April 18th, 2010
This is one of the few instances when I actually hit the “Approve” button on a spam comment. (See original post here.)
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The other godlike pleasure in owning a blog is deleting comments even when they’re not spam. The moderator of Decorno deletes any comment with “LOL” in it.
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Tags: blog, Decorno, God, internet, LOL, Mammon, spam, water coolers
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Saturday, March 20th, 2010
Does letterhead design reveal anything about the owner? Was Elvis himself responsible for that cool but unexpected minimal design (and if so, the terrible kerning of his name, too)? These are all from the blog Letterheady which collects letterhead stationery from an a wildly divergent group of people, organizations and eras.
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Tags: blog, Dada, Elvis, favourite, Frank Lloyd Wright, Frank Zappa, graphic design, Jim Henson, Letterhead, letterheady, Mouvement Dada, Neil Diamond, Pixelflix, Playboy, Rolling Stones, stationery, WC Fields
Posted in design | 2 Comments »