December 24th, 2010
Well it’s here at last! I’m saying Happy Christmas today as it’s Christmas Eve and as a Pole I celebrate Christmas Eve rather than Christmas Day – this works very well in the Milo/Andrews household as we get to have two Christmases – a Polish one on the 24th and an Irish one on the 25th and we meet in the middle by opening our presents at midnight tonight. I can’t wait.
December 24th, 2010
This year I’ve been giving out lots of the glass stars I made in my stained glass nightclass – all made from scraps of glass too small for main projects. I’ve handed them out to friends and asked them all to make a wish upon each star this Christmas… We’ve got one hanging up in the living room and tonight I made my wish…
December 17th, 2010
This is so lovely – bike tyres with a love heart pattern that would create playful love-filled tracks on the city streets. By Hamed Kohan from Iran, this is one of the shortlisted design entries from more than 3000 participants in the recent designboom competition, ‘Seoul Cycle Design 2010′, organized in collaboration with Seoul Design Foundation.
December 10th, 2010
I used to one of those people who would fold down the corners of pages within books to remember the page I’d got to – but no more. Ever since I started making my origami bookmarks, I’ve stopped the nasty folding habit. Today, I’d like to share with you a few other ideas for bookmarks – these are all so cool and so cute.
December 3rd, 2010
I absolutely love these chairs made from suitcase by the very talented Katie Thompson. She has a flair for transforming the ordinary to the extraordinary. Hop on over to her site www.recreate.za.net to see what else she makes.
November 26th, 2010
This is a really elegant solution to a common old problem. How to store your bike when space is limited.
We always intended to rig up some sort of pulley system so that bikes could be suspended from our high ceilings, but never got round to implementing anything. Then we invested in some of those long arm hooks that look sleek and simple, but we’ve never got round to putting them up either.
November 19th, 2010
I found this on Flickr and thought it was amazing – would love to see it in real life to get a better sense of the scale of the work. I tracked down the artists website here, so go and check out what else he does, but I think this is my favourite.
November 12th, 2010
What a fabulous design solution from Klaas Kuiken. Simple and stylish, a lovely place to nest…
November 5th, 2010
Nina Lindgren is the artist behind the tower cardboard art installation known as Cardboard Heaven.
Cardboard Heaven is a large sculpture made up of small individual cardboard houses that together stand an impressive 177 inches (almost 15 feet) tall. All the individual elements of Cardboard Heaven stack one on top of the other to form a large self supporting cardboard community – but there don’t seem to be any doors – only windows. These are lit up to give the impression that Cardboard Heaven is occupied, but by whom?
October 29th, 2010
Colin sent me this link today and I thought this was such a great idea, I had to post it up on my blog. A set of 5 jam jar tops that screw onto your old glass jars to give them a new lease of life. You can then pour, shake, sprinkle and drizzle with a little bit of a smug smile on your face in the knowledge that you’ve done you eco task for the day – recycling creatively!
September 24th, 2010
Anna-Wili Highfield is a Sydney based artist currently making sculptures of animals from torn paper and from copper pipe. I particularly love the paper sculptures which are created from archival cotton paper, that is painted, then torn and sewn together, to create the figure of an animal.
September 17th, 2010
I visited Gallery O website today – a gallery that focuses on miniature art and I discovered the work of Dalton Ghetti a Brazilian artist living in Bridgeport Connecticut who carves the tiniest sculptures made entirely from the graphite lead at the tip of a pencil.
September 10th, 2010
I’m about to book a place on a jewellery workshop [I hope there are still places available] happening at St Andrews Museum on Saturday 25th September run by jewellers Jane Gowans and Hannah Livingston. It’s come about because of the Causing Chaos exhibition at the museum curated by artist Claire Barclay for Fife Contemporary Art & Craft. The exhibition looks at “how art objects may reference functional things but subvert function through ambiguity of use and meaning” and features the jewellery and metalwork of Shari Pearce.
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