This week’s Friday Five centers around the world of fashion. Dallas native Mila Hermanovski, who attended RISD for apparel design, has worked in many facets of the business. She started her career at Calvin Klein, worked at a trend forecasting publication, as a visual merchandiser on Fifth Avenue, and with Hollywood costume designers. That said, you may best know her as a contestant on Project Runway Season 7, on which she placed in the top 3 and showed at the Fall 2010 Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in New York City. You may have also caught her on an episode of Project Runway All Stars this month. Hermanovski launched her own label, M.I.L.A. for Spring 2011 and also designs a capsule collection called M|R|C created from vintage and re-purposed cashmere. Her Friday Five picks perfectly encapsulates her aesthetic.
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So far, I’ve curated close to 150 prints for The Design Milk Dairy, my collection of Society6 artist prints and accessories… including some of your recommendations including artwork made by readers. If you’re an artist interested in being featured in the collection, join Society6 and leave a link to your S6 profile in the comments or email me. If not, swing on over to the collection of affordable prints and support the indie art community.
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This week I was inspired by our feathered friends, so I chose a few prints that took the oh-so-popular bird motif and put a fun spin on it.
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If you’re anything like me, you have tons of Polaroid pictures lying around and have nothing to do with them. Until now… The German design duo Lightboys developed the large-scale Polaboy® frame.
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The California Roll House is a futuristic concept design for a prefabricated house that Christopher Daniel of Violent Volumes has created. The house was designed with a desert setting in mind with its exterior wrapped in an energy-efficient material that reflects heat from the sun. The house appears rolled to form a tube-like shape with glass on either end that is controlled electronically to change the transparency for privacy and light control. The modular nature of the design makes for easy assembly and disassembly on site.
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The minimalist concrete work of Swedish company Forsberg Form is off the charts. The company, started as a hobby by Johan Forsberg 15 years ago, has grown into a full-fledged design business working with both residential and commercial clients.
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This jewelry collection utilizes USB memory sticks as the medium. Dubbe, “Empty Memory,” this collection is designed by London-based Logical Art. The company is founded by Hanhsi Chen and Yookyung Shin in 2011 after their graduation from the Royal College of Art. The pieces are cast from stainless steel, and are hand-finished in white, black, or pink gold. The inner USB contains a 4GB Samsung flash.
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London-based designer Phil Cuttance created a series of handmade black and white vases from discarded plastic, an extension of his Weld Furniture collection from 2009. Each vase is handcrafted and individually numbered and made using hot air welding that connects each plastic shape together. The ABS plastic that is used comes from discarded off-cut pieces from a local London fabricator.
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Move over Pratesi, Finnish designer Martina Carpelan has created embroidered bed linens of a wholly different kind. Carpelan’s Rise and Sigh sets to temporarily tattoo you with pithy sayings inspired by hotel room flings. They’re also available with customized embroidery if you wish to imprint your partner with your own sweet nothing.
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Are you cold? There’s an app for that.
Indoor/outdoor gas fireplace manufacturer Escea has just launched a new range of gas fireplaces that features the coolest thing ever: built-in WiFi connectivity. That means — you guessed it — the ability to control your fireplace with your smartphone.
This is actually something I’m very interested in for the Milk house because we have two drafty wood-burning fireplaces that could use some updating.
Let’s take a break from the kitchen project and talk about something equally as fun – shopping! For the past month, every day is like Christmas at our house. I’m pretty sure that Fab.com has my wallet held hostage and that the UPS and FedEx guys are ready to go on strike. Each day it seems that something arrives on our doorstep, so much so that our giant recycle trash bin has not been enough for all the cardboard shipping boxes.
I thought I’d share a sampling of stuff I recently bought for the house:
From top left, clockwise: Three Emeco 111 Navy Chairs for the kitchen to match my red one (this was a Mr. Design Milk decision), set of eight Fferrone water/wine glasses, a small wine rack for reds to place above the wine fridge, two counter stools for the kitchen island, Jim Flora print, Kumani ottoman (Mr. DM hates this but I love it), cowhide, Alexander Girard wood print, set of 12 graphic napkins from wolfum, two Gus*Modern Bishops tables in Macassar Ebony, and a set of nesting bowls. PHEW!
I also bought a sculpture, but after courting it for six months, it deserves its own post… so stay tuned.
