Potter Lisa Jones wasn’t always holed up in ceramics studio. The owner and creative director of Pigeon Toe Ceramics actually started her professional life in graphic design and marketing before launching her much-loved company four years ago in Portland, Oregon. Jones focus on local craft and handmade sensibilities has earned kudos, as has her simple, modern-lined designs. The combination makes her wares unique and widely coveted. In today’s Designer Dailies, Jones takes us through a day of throwing pots, plus the thereafter.
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Jacob Bookcase comes from the creative group of Clark Art Center in Brazil. The group was inspired by the Jacob’s Ladder toy – you know, the one from childhood where wood blocks are held together by ribbon? Made from five square wood frames that are joined with nylon strips, the piece can be configured in more ways than you could imagine.
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April’s Designer Desktop is a Chinese proverb that artist Rafa Jenn has illustrated and interpreted as “A bird [An artist] doesn’t sing [create] because it has an answer, it sings [creates] because it [he/she] has a song.”
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Kirath Ghundoo is launching two new collections of wallpaper after her last really amazing collection called Mix ‘n’ Match made some waves.
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The following post is brought to you by Lost Crates. Our partners are hand-picked by the Design Milk team because they represent the best in design.
Last year, we introduced you to a stationery-subscription called Lost Crates. Since then, Lost Crates has added five more subscriptions to their lineup – Eco, Foodie, Found In, Housewares, and Jack’s Picks – but their goal hasn’t changed: delivering the best in designer goods to your doorstep.
Scouring the globe for the best design-inspired products from around the world, Lost Crates packages them up, and ships them to members’ doors – either monthly or quarterly. Imagine getting a personalized box of goodies on your doorstep every month!
While all of their crates are awesome, especially the Housewares Crate, I particularly like the idea of the Found In: _____ Crate.
The Found In Crate was created on the idea that design is everywhere, if you look for it. This crate contains design-inspired items that can be found in a certain locale, because Lost Crates believes that every village, town, and city harbors beautiful goods just begging to be discovered and shared. So far, they’ve featured Chicago, Brooklyn, and Seattle crates, which contained items ranging from candies and soap bars to notebooks and tote bags, designed to leave you feeling like you just visited each place. LOVE!
Lost Crates has a special Design Milk deal: use code DESIGNMILK10 for $10 off your first crate.
I know we’re a little late to the game on this one but we just had to post it.
From Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama comes The Obliteration Room, part of an exhibit at the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane, Australia. It’s one of the coolest (and most colorful!) interactive installations I’ve ever seen.
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I accidentally skipped highlighting last month’s Dog Milk posts (oops) so that means this month I’ve rounded up the top four posts from both February and March:
From top left, clockwise: Carli Davidson’s disable pet photography, recycled t-shirt toy, dog eye chart poster, container doghouse by Unleash Studio.
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I don’t know about you but we here at Design Milk are suckers for good fonts and this one is no exception. Hungarian designer Martzi Hegedus created the Frustro typeface that was inspired by the Penrose triangle. The Penrose triangle is what’s called an impossible object, or described by the mathematician that it’s named for as “impossibility in its purest form.” M.C. Escher used it a bunch in his work.
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Not Tom was approached by British bone china maker Buttercup China to create a stand at the Spring Fair 2012.
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The Los Angeles-based IDEA Office designed the Y-House, a home for a young family in a suburb of Tokyo, Japan. The clients wished for a house with privacy from closely packed neighbors while keeping it open and light-filled, in addition to as much outdoor space as possible. With three sides of the house surrounded by two-story structures in close proximity, this was a tough challenge.
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