January 2010
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Shop: Present & Correct [UK]
Present & Correct is a fantastic online stationery store stocked with British and Korean gems (Korea being the mecca of stationery in my humble opinion).
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Felt flowers & fluoro thread
I would be lying if I said I particularly cared for wreaths, however I do love these photographs of creamy felt sewn with fluoro threads, especially some of the shapes sewn on top of each other that create almost a topographic map effect.
From The Purl Bee, via Bloesem
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Illustration: Claude Coates
I adore the gorgeous illustrations by Coats in this Golden Book edition of Lady and the Tramp by Ward Greene of Walt Disney.
The houses in particular are really charming!
These are all from the wonderful Golden Gems which I found via Karen’s fabulous blog Daily Design Discoveries.
(This is from a really large double-page spread which is now my desktop wallpaper)
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Julian Restaurant, Kansas [USA]
I am loving this very complete and polished identity for Kansas restaurant Julian by Brent Anderson + Nathaniel Cooper + Jordan Michael Gray from Bernstein-Rein. View the whole branding photo set on Flickr (via designworklife)
A brand identity and voice for a new neighborhood restaurant in Kansas City that features refined twists on familiar comfort food from James Beard award-winning chef...
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Where I'd rather be
(Calistoga Ranch in Napa)
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Loving Space
One of my favourite activities is thinking about space and feeling tiny.
This original image is from space.com.
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Émile Prisse d'Avesnes (d'Avennes) (1807-1879)
I was very taken by these gorgeous illustrations posted recently over at the indispensable BibliOdyssey. From BibliOdyssey:
Émile Prisse d’Avesnes (d’Avennes) (1807-1879) was an important mid-19th century French Egyptologist and something of a polymath. He was a soldier, engineer, writer, illustrator and talented linguist.
“When he returned to Paris in I860; Prisse brought 300...
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Karen's Whimsy
I am thoroughly fascinated by history (especially the Middle Ages) and I love to unashamedly indulge in the elaborate, romanticised version of Medieval history that appears in books, films and illustrations. For this reason, I was very excited to stumble upon Karen’s Whimsy, a website containing hundreds of public domain vintage images of everything from King Arthur of Camelot and Medieval...
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