I popped in to Heath Ceramics in Sausalito on the way to visit family. Founded by Edith Heath in the mid 1940’s I grew up in a family of big fans. It is amazing to walk through the showroom attached to the studio and take in all the amazing colors and tectures. Sadly the only camera I had handy was my iPhone but there is a great book you can check out if your are interested (but not interested enough to drop everything and fly to California)
Have a designfully sumptuous Thanksgiving.
amy armato of armato design & press has bunches of delightful letterpressed cards for the holidays and everyday. she does custom letterpress, will be at no coast craft-o-rama in december and is a truly great person too (really, i know these things, i went to college with her). the portable mistletoe card (above) is so much fun. just imagine the possibilities!
Yaaaaaay. Monsters. Yaaay. yay.
I thought these were cute. Six more monsters at Original Hamsters.
Waiter, There's a High Definition Interactive Menu In My Soup
Blacksheep’s Inamo Pan Asian Restaurant in London’s Soho. Interactive menus and designs projected down onto the tables. A nice hook complemented with a beautiful space and environmental graphics. See all the photos and more about the designers at Yatzer and Blacksheep.
Kenspeckle Letterpress _ Duluth, MN
We went up to Duluth, the Paris of the North, and stood in line for 3 hours to see a big boat. Then we cruised the lakeshore and went to dinner and God bless restaurants who hand out those little blinky coaster buzzers because we would have never bummed around the neighboring shops and would have never seen the window display for Kenspeckle Letterpress, the place I’d been trying to track down after seeing a documentary on the publishing of The First Chinook on Duluth’s PBS Eight.
And there it was. And here it is. So-hooo buying the book.
in need of some design inspiration? look no further than designer oliver munday’s site.
consider yourself inspired.
Jiyeon Song's One Day Poem Pavilion
When I heard the rumor that the city was planning to plop a 35W bridge memorial on the only wiffle ball whappin, frisbee whippin patch of grass in the warehouse district, I got a little irked. I felt irksome. Full of irk. Until I came across Jiyeon Song’s One Day Poem Pavilion. Aside from being a bitchin’ fantastic idea that could be placed in any context, the concept fits perfectly with memorial, as the whole point of the installation is that it would depend not on the remembrance of the event but a literal returning to the time of the event for people to fully understand it. Whoa. Heavy stuff.
Anyhoo, if the rumor is true, it would be nice to get this idea in front of the committee. And thanks once again to Yatzer for the post that begat this post.