WOW: check out more of gregoire alexandre’s beautiful photos here
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these were in opening ceremony’s windows for a while, just found the website. confetti system‘s handmade-in-brooklyn pinatas filled with handmade confetti. they’re so simple and beautiful! if i was rich, i’d buy a billion and smash one every day of the year for the rest of my life. like a gong to start the...
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the busy beaver button company just opened a new space in chicago. we missed the opening, but i have so many buttons laying around from their button-o-matic candy machines that i feel like i was there. bars and stores throughout the city have candy machines that feed you buttons designed by mostly local artists....
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also snuck some shots of my favorite pieces in the art institute when back in chicago in april. these are the pieces i always come back to. i have a history with them, a romance, one might say. they are my standbys, my rocks. they make me happy whenever i see them. it’s like...
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before i left for my big vacation, i helped my mother clean out my grandmother’s apartment and massive collection of junk. we found a ton of old reader’s digests (among boxes, bags, and other containers full of more stuff!), which have incredible cover patterns & illustrations. here’s a sample of some of my favorites:
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i’ve been traveling a lot lately, down from new york, all over the south, and im finally back in chicago at my mom’s place relaxing with my grandmother and enjoying what seems to be the mildest summer in chicago’s history! that includes a stop at the museum of contemporary art, which currently has a...
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here are some ethereal architectural photos from danish photographer kim høltermand. love the reflections and metropolis sets, the eerily still moments and textures she captures are quite amazing! check out more here
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kevin and i went to the brand new brandhorst museum in munich conveniently located near the rest of the pinakotheks in a sort of museum “complex” in schwabing, my old stomping ground. the building itself is quite nice, but what was really the best, among the mainly post-modern and contemporary collection, were these incredible,...
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i’m going to new york on thursday to visit a good friend of mine from high school, olivia! i’ve been trying to find some good shows and openings to go to, to get the real “new york experience” (what’s new york without a night that starts at a gallery opening??). the image above is...
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the icon of icons. i recently ran across some articles on the “mother of the mac trash can,” susan kare, a graphic artist that designed so many of the original mac icons and typefaces. they’re so simple, so pixelated, yet so memorable, effective, and witty! remember these? now her work, based of out sf,...
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