Repurposed Benches

Industrial fiberglass bins repurposed (or turned upside down) with cushion stencil as bench seating for a bar area at North Midtown Arts Center.

Small Bites #11

I've been saving up some nuggets for a while so here goes:

Here's a cool resource for Graphic Design from the 20s and 30s. It's mostly travel ephemera, but you can search by country and there are sections for advertising and design journals.

Most people use food processors and multitudes of kitchen gadgets these days. But occasionally you have a tedious and lengthy food prep like peeling and chopping apples or snapping the ends off beans where technology fails. And you'd like to watch TV or sit outside while you do it. The solution here from Tomas Kral.

Lots of interesting projects here from Nancy Wu, but if you click on "Humor" you can see her 100% Beef Jerky purse.

I don't often see headwear I like, but the hats and headbands from Muehlbauer are awesome.

If you asked me what Swedish cooking was all about, I wouldn't have a good answer. I'd maybe be embarrassed to say Swedish meatballs. But I recently saw an episode of New Scandinavian Cooking and Tina Nordstrom made some pretty great looking food. Haven't tried it yet, but the Sauteed Cabbage, homemade Mustard, and Apple cocktail with Absolut Vanilla are on my to do list.

Lastly, pictured above is a collage from Carl Kleiner's Everyday Geometry. They're deceptively simple and with beautiful color.

Snap And Dine

A classy-looking disposable three-course place setting from Demelza Hill.

My Swanky New Desk

My office recently moved locations and I wanted to get rid of as much of the gray modular furniture as possible. So, I conned Mr. Loaf somehow into making me this amazing desk. It's a hybrid of a couple things I saw online reinterpreted by him. It's a cypress top with a waxed finish. The rest is made with faced birch ply. The way it fits together, it can be taken apart and reassembled. My favorite part is the open shelf. The light green boxes are for storing small items.

no art required

One of my new fave designers is Sherwood Forlee. Well, he's not new, but certainly new to  me. Trained as an engineer with no formal art training (who really needs THAT), Forlee has designed everything from toilets to flipbooks to T-shirts. Really great stuff.

check it: 

http://www.skforlee.com/