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Apples and Honey - A Fall Harvest Color Palette
For this week’s CMYLK we’ve created a Colourlovers palette of classic autumnal hues, inspired by the Jewish Holidays. There's Rosh Hashana, during which one dips apples in honey for a sweet New Year, and also Sukkot, which celebrates the harvest. So although the leaves may not be turning just yet, fall is in the air.
Illusion Table by Roberta Rampazzo
Brazilian designer Roberta Rampazzo is back with a new table that plays around with perspective. The Illusion Side Table is the result of studying the feet of tables and working with the angles of the legs. By angling two of the legs, the table remains stable but it changes the look completely.
Friday Five with Matt Eastvold
Today's Friday Five features Matt Eastvold of Eastvold Furniture, who started woodworking and welding at young age in his dad’s shop. He grew up on a farm in southern Minnesota, which fostered his passion for learning these trades. Eventually he headed to the city, in the thriving design community of Minneapolis, where he worked with a number of designers and architects on custom projects. Today he lives in a small college town in Minnesota called Northfield, where he and his wife Amanda grow their own food, kids, and a company that builds honest and sturdy furniture.
Bulb Fiction by KiBiSi
Bulb Fiction is a minimalist lighting fixture created by Scandinavian-based designer KiBiSi. The firm is now considered one of the most reputable design companies in Scandinavia. They have worked with various manufacturers - large and small - including Muuto and Hay. Their most recent creation, Bulb Fiction, is a pendant lamp inspired by the original incandescent light bulb.
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Big Hands Clock by Yenwen Tseng
The Big Hands Clock by Yenwen Tseng is a wall clock with the intention of exploring the perception of time. By adjusting the proportion and relative position of normal clock hands, hour and minute, the two hands interact inseparably and show various expressions of time at every moment.
A Visit to Cubeshops
This month's Design Store(y) is a tale of how a design-minded woman, Sakiko Ichihara, who originally moved to Toronto to attend university, translated her love of her native culture into a business. Her boutique, Cubeshops, tucked away amid restaurants in downtown Toronto, carries Japanese design objects, gifts, stationary, pens, and the like. It's a great blend of daily use, practical products and fun, design-y stuff you just want.
J Schatz Happening Curtain Captures the Sun
Jim Schatz is back with an indoor/outdoor hanging "curtain" made of translucent porcelain. Called Happening Curtains, these sun-capturing orbs would make a great porch hanging, but could also be used as a room divider, over the inside of a window, or even on a wall as art.
Modern Cremation Urns by Capsule Urn
Death. As much as we hate talking about it, we know it's inevitable. And if you've ever had to plan a service/funeral/memorial for anyone you know the choices are somewhat, well, same-y. The cremation choices are even fewer for both people and pets. You have your standard metal or porcelain jars and your wood boxes, but what if those just aren't your taste? Luckily modern design has hit the urn market and given us new options with companies like Capsule Urn.
Jason Lloyd Fletcher Turns Unwanted Materials into New Furniture
The Third Generation Furniture project is the ultimate in turning trash into treasure. Industrial designer Jason Lloyd Fletcher set out to turn unwanted materials into new, functional pieces of modern furniture. The two main goals were first, to avoid sending items with "functional value" to the landfill by reworking their components into new pieces and second, to promote the reuse of items that can alternatively find value elsewhere.