Felty Goodness

Stephanie Metz creates intricate, biological skulls, baby animals, and people. Gorgeous to the extreme.

Thanks to boingboing.

Amy Sedaris is a Goddess

I adore Amy Sedaris and her baking bunnies. I'll stick with Adobe Illustrator for all my design needs though... 

From Veer.

Lighting the Time Away

This sexy clock and information display is at Heathrow. The link is from TROIKART.

But pointed out by the good folks a Veer. (Because I can't afford to fly away.)

1,000 True Fans

This article by Kevin Kelly intrigued me. From boing boing.

Elsewhere Residency

I want to do a residency at Elsewhere. It's really rather brilliant.

Emily again originally.

Handmade Nation - the Doc

I can't wait to see Handmade Nation when it is released. So super interested. I also bought a raffle ticket to help fund the indie filmmaking. Wish I could have bought more than one.

From Whip Up.

New Zine on the Scene - DIY CITY

This online Zine, DIY CITY MAG, is very NY based. It's chock full of goodness. I wish it was a paper magazine so I could carry it in my bag and take it out and oooh and ahhh, and make people jealous.

From Handmade Nation.

Burrowing Owls

I'm addicted to these little owls. Too bad my kitties would eat them in real life. You can buy this owl at Magic Pony. It was created by Tania Sanhueza.

The link is from Magpie & Cake.

Tricot Machine

The lovely Emily tipped me on this amazing video by Quebec group Tricot (Knitting) Machine. I'm sure I've watched it a dozen times. I want a knitting machine now. Desperately.

From Yarn-A-Go-Go!

Skirt Mayhem

Alison Willoughby makes skirts. I'm super inspired for my own skirt projects. Article on Whip Up about a current show of skirts is here.

Dream Shell

I want to live in a shell.

From dvice. Tipped off by boing boing.

Type Animals

Jeremy Pettis has created a fonts for 26 animals based on their characteristics. OH my gosh!

Hint from Drawn!

Walking Street Machine Puppets

More wondrous French creations have been circulating the blogosphere. I wish we had some wooly mammoths running in the streets here in Alberta. This elephant is from Les Machines de l'Ile. I really can't get enough of these circus street puppets.

2006 in Paris I saw an exhibition of La Machine and Royal de Luxe. This is a a link to an English website for those who can not read french.

I was prompted by boing boing.

Cat Mazza is My Hero

Ecstatic about the interview with Cat Mazza on we make money not art.

New media and craft do exist in the same plane of existence.

Crazy amazing new media fibre artist - Otto von Busch . I spent hours perusing this website. I'm super-inspired.

From we make money not art.

If I could choose a reality...

It be this one. Concept for floating resort shaped like a whale.

My friend Jim posted this and immediately caused brain happiness. He found it on Supertouch.

Illustration Book

Illustration Play, a book about hand-made, non-traditional illustration. Collage and stitch work included. Available from nucleus.

Discovered through my folk lover.

New Favorite Blog

This blog is full of some of the most gorgeous stuff. I'm going to spend weeks exploring all the links and luscious pictures. Print & Pattern

Discovered via Whip Up!

Bedding for the Birds

Dwell makes the most lovely patterned sheets for kids and grown-ups. ( Is it wrong to want kid's sheets for my own bed?) I aspire to a design lifestyle outside of my wallet range.

Turned on by print & pattern.

More Adhesive Beauty

Flickr has a new Mid Century Modern - Sticker, Label & Stamp Club. This image is apparently from a polish matchbox. I would have taken up smoking to carry these around.

Directed to design loveliness by Drawn!

Year of the Rat

Arrived in the mail yesterday. I think I'm going to mat and frame them. Delightful rat stamps are from Canada Post.

Carol also likes rat stamps.

Indian Mind-blow

This is an accordion style book of Indian Fireworks advertising. It looks luscious. I'm adding it to my amazon wishlist right now. Cock is the name of an Indian Fireworks Company. How delightful.

Amazon.com
Another good thing from boing boing.

Beauteous Pattern

This silkscreened paper called Systema from Jamie Zollars makes me tingle inside - narwhales, zebracorns and owls are all combined in one gorgeous pattern. I wish it was fabric because then I'd make bed sheets and sleep in it naked. Pretend you didn't read that.

Plates for Your Wall

Hilde Tempelman is dutch. I can't understand most of her website. (Just noticed the english flag for english translation. duh!) She has taken thrift store plates and delightful doodled all over them. Tempel

Found while endlessly searching for the perfect balance of useful and beautiful in a wallet. I'm concerned that it doesn't exist. But I did find this so my surfing time was not wasted.

Cool Things Come From Iceland

Vik Prjonsdottir seems to be the coolest fibre design place on the planet. Not only are their products practical and beautiful but they are based on Icelandic legends.

Hint came from Veer.

Design Advice Posters

Advice to Sink in Slowly:
The University College Falmouth (UCF) asked graduates to create posters with advice for first years. The project has grown and there are some awesome posters with some awesome advice (not just for first years.) Some people have such excellent ideas. I'd buy them all.

Words Are Not Enough by Ellie Cryer (Her portfolio site is luscious!)

As seen on Drawn!

Owls Light up the Night

I desperately want one of these lamps. Desperately.
Designed by Rick Lee. Discovered through Inhabitat.

Wearable Map Gloves

These are on display at at the Chicago Field Museum's Maps: Finding Our Place in the World exhibition. I think they are beautiful and wish I had maps on my gloves.

Tip off from Boing Boing.

Happy New Year!

New blog... Clean slate!