Pierced ceramic basket, by Guillaume Delvigne and Ionna Vautrin
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How cool are these ceramic baskets! I wonder if you could do a similar thing with regular weaved baskets painted white?
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Something different: we spend a lot of time looking for ‘cool’ stuff here at Tidings & Things, so for a change we thought we’d share this fun post from Flavorwire on Bad Covers for Classics Books.
They have a, er, ‘good’ selection of 20 bad covers from different publishers, but the prize for worst design must go to the ‘Great Classic Series’ above, which seem to specialise in either literal yet stylistically totally inappropriate interpretations, or utterly unrelated and still stylistically totally inappropriate interpretations, of the original titles.
Fighter planes in the Wizard of Oz? Headphone-wearing cyborgs in Cranford? We must have missed them. We also particularly like the use of a screen font designed for use on early Apple Macs and iPods as the series title font. One man’s poison is another man’s pleasure, however, these may prove to be the classics of the future!
We like this new colourful online video for Lacoste’s 80 year anniversary and its iconic L.12.12. Polo shirt. The video is playful and shows off the shirt through the ages with icons such as the Rubik’s cube, psychedelia and computer game Pong.
Not really feeling the whole wallpaper thing – have you seen these new patterned paint rollers? Available in numerous different designs they allow much more creativity than wallpaper and can be used on anything, from walls to fabric, tables to gift wrap.
Just remember the surface needs to be flat, absolutely matt and rollered in an upright position.
These lovely designs are from The Painted House.
Wow! How you seen Pae White’s colourful typographic exhibition at the South London Gallery?
A mesmerising installation in which vast quantities of coloured yarn span and criss-cross the room to create supergraphics spelling out words that can only be deciphered by navigating the space. (South London Gallery)
Marketers say that a good logo should be attractive, memorable and communicate the core message of the business. The above examples are a perfect example of companies achieving all of the above through the clever use of negative space.
Brew anyone? It’s that time of day when all you fancy is a nice cuppa!
There’s a lot of excellent design coming out of this sector of the market. Here are a few of our favourites.
Clockwise right to left: Ritual designed by Ani Bijoyan, Dovely Tea designed by YIU studio: “The package is hand made, using letterpress, silkscreen and stamping techniques and then hand assembled including the origami tea bags.” Delilah tea designed by Lun Yau, Teapee designed by Sophie Pépin, Tea People designed by Grain Creative.
Looking outside and seeing the birds pecking about in the cold weather and snow has made us think about installing some bird houses and feeders, but not just any old ones! here are a few cool and interesting houses and feeders that we’d like to hang in our gardens.
Vintage camper birdhouse by Jumahl
Bell bird feeder from B&Q
Modern Bird seed designer feeder from The Random Shop
Mr & Mrs Birdee Flatpack Bird Boxes from Two Red Trees
and finally the Bird hotel! High density Bird houses in the grounds of Clumber Park, created by London Fieldworks
We love these matchbox label designs collected by Mariad Design, a small design studio based in York in the UK. The vast collection is mainly of 50s and 60s Eastern European designs, with subjects which seem to cover everything from animals to propaganda and advertising. Part of the fun is working out what they might be about! Take a look at their flickr collection as there are loads to enjoy!
We were wowed by AJ Fosik’s awesome painted wooden masks, more of which can be seen on the website for the gallery in which they are exhibited. They are fabulous constructions (if a little scary) but we think it’s the colours that make them.
