Category: Design
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Happy New Year!
“What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now.”~~ Buddha Wishing you love, health, happiness and positive progress in 2013. <><><><><> p.s. I’m loving this Etsy shop that has the greatest typography poster prints. Check them out here:
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If I Could Have Time in a Bottle (or Box)
Andy Warhol was notorious for many things, but you may not know that one of them was his “Time Capsules”. The artist would collect ephemera, art, and other inspirational items used as source material for his work. The items were boxed, catalogued and archived for a subsequent unveiling. He began boxing these capsules in 1974,…
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Neiman Marcus x Target #Holiday24 Gift Guide
So, I go away to Hawaii and Ojai for a week and a 1/2 and come back to find out about this? The only thing Black about my Black Friday was my floppy sun hat, I pulled a “ctrl+alt+del” on Cyber Monday, but I have to admit this Target/Neiman Marcus #Holiday24 sale hooked me. Not sure…
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Target, Soup and Another “Happy Place”
Last year I wrote a post singing the praises of museum stores being my “Happy Place”. Well, a close second to museum stores is Target. I don’t know what it is about the place, but there’s something gratifying about going to Target after work to stock up on t-shirts, greeting cards, makeup bags, natural hair…
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Style Secrets from a Geriatric Starlet-the Incomparable Iris Apfel
Photo Credit: Vogue Italy Fantasy is powerful…everybody can’t handle it in big doses, but you can try little bits at a time.”-Iris Apfel @ the Met. I’m not one to follow starlets, but as a self-proclaimed “Geriatric Starlet”, Iris Apfel has such a unique, self-aware, no-nonsense point of view, I feel like I have found…
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DTLA Lunch @ Industriel
While I say I’m a “recovering Foodie”, I frequently find myself relapsing into old habits…like stalking new restaurants. In the months before Industriel opened I thought it was going to be a Gallery, but when I found out it was a restaurant I excitedly counted down until the opening-then completely forgot about the place and…
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Two to Tango
Tangerine Tango has arrived! It is the Pantone Color of 2012 and ever since they announced it in December, I have been captivated by this color. I choose to wear orange sparingly, but this shade is punched up with red and is so vibrant and full of energy, it’s like a Vitamin B-12 shot for…
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Chocolate Love
I have never been a huge fan of Valentine’s Day, but I will say the one thing I love about the occasion is the licence to enjoy CHOCOLATE with reckless abandon. My co-workers all know that at around 4:00 I must nosh on a single small bite of chocolate. You could set your watch to…
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The “BoomCase”
Behold the awesomeness of the “BoomCase“… If this doesn’t take the blahs outta your Monday nothing will. I spotted this today on the Warby Parker blog. I LOVE it! I want this so bad I’d be willing to design my home office around this piece. Hmm, my folks used to have this Samsonite Luggage in…
Colony Little, Culture Shock Art 