LoftLife Magazine
LoftLife Magazine is a new magazine and online community dedicated to loft living. If you’re a loft dweller, you should definitely take a look. You can even sign up to get a free issue here.
http://www.loftlifemag.com
2modern Looking for Bloggers
Are you interested in design blogging? Well, here’s your chance!
2modern Design Talk is looking for design bloggers to add to their list of fantastic contributors.
If you’re interested, contact 2modern Design Talk here: http://2modern.blogs.com/2modern/contact.html
Happy 2008!
Here we are in 2008. Exciting! I’ve been thinking about the blog a lot on my little vacation. The blogosphere is saturated with blogs about everything and I’m always afraid my little blog will get lost (Technorati says there are 175,000 new blogs every day!) I was recently asked what’s the point of my blog if I am not really selling anything or being paid to post. My response was that I enjoy it and it makes me happy. That being said, I am going to continue doing what I’m doing. If you have any amazing ideas on how DM can be better, you know how to contact me.
I have been asked about my design-related New Year’s Resolutions, so here they are:
1) Post more stuff on DM
2) Buy an expensive piece of furniture or home decor and take pride in it
3) Work extra hard on Vitamin D(esign)
4) Meet more people in San Diego and online
5) Continue making art as often as possible
6) Not freak out when I turn 30 this year!!! OK, I will probably freak out, but I think that’s normal, right? (this one isn’t design-related, but its very important!)
What are your design resolutions?
Beat the Monday Blues
Every Monday on sfgirlbybay, Victoria will have a feature called Unexpected Guests, which she describes as “a behind the scenes look at the homes and studios of artists, crafters, bloggers and designers we’d hopefully all like to learn more about, kind of a ‘close-up-and-personal’ view.” Nice. I like these kinds of posts. Don’t expect me to be in there anytime soon - I’m a disaster right now.
http://sfgirlbybay.blogspot.com
Stylehive Post
I did a post for Stylehive on mobiles. Go check it out:
Coatracks, What?
Hell yes!
Check out this AT:NY post about the top 10 freestanding coatracks.
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ny/top-ten/top-10-modern-freestanding-coat-racks-032742
Fresh Milk
iggadigga suggested I use “Fresh Milk” for my news posts, so that’s what it shall be.
I am still sick, so this might be it for the day.
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Vote over at the Home Rejuvenation Blog to find out who the influential bloggers (blogs) in the design community are. Go here to nominate your favorite:
http://homerejuvenation.blogspot.com
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Indiecontests.com was launched this past week by my friend Sion Lee, the mastermind behind Indiepublic. Indiecontests is a great place to find contests, deals and sales offered by independent artists and designers, independent retailers, and bloggers.
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The imm 2007 proved to be a huge success for all involved, for you the exhibitors as well as for DESIGNSPOTTER.com. For January 2008 they plan to break all boundaries. Be part of the DESIGNSPOTTER-Exhibition on the International Furniture Fair imm cologne 2008.
From January 14th until 20th they are offering you, the designer, the great opportunity to present your product in the heart of the imm 2008 to a wide audience of experts and visitors.
Close your mouths and open your eyes because DESIGNSPOTTER.com @ imm 2008 means
+ ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND visitors
+ four-hundred-fifty sqm exhibition space
+ YOUR PRODUCT straight in the midst of it all
Take this unique chance and apply now as an exhibitor. All relevant informations about the DESIGNSPOTTER.com Exhibition can be found at:
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Behr has this cool new product where you can use your own photos of your home and see how different paint colors will look. This minimizes the problems I had with painting, which was: paint, scowl, repaint, grimace, sigh, repaint.
How to Work the Design Blogosphere
Article: How to Work the Design Blogosphere: Design Blog Editors Teach You How to Get Your Shit Published Online
I agree with pretty much everything in this lovely article.
http://www.core77.com/development/hack2school/bloggers.asp
Long Weekend
I am spending the weekend in New Jersey to attend a wedding and visit family and friends. Enjoy your weekend!
Here are some links to enjoy:
Maximizing Your Surroundings
You don’t have to spend $32472388956856 on furniture for it to be cool. Check out this post from Thomas Wold and this installation he did. His instructions don’t seem to difficult…it’s just a matter of spending the time to create and design your custom piece.
casasugar
Have you checked out the newest site from Sugar Publishing - you know, the folks that started PopSugar? It’s called Casasugar - home and garden. I like the Sugar sites because you can join TeamSugar and comment on all their sites. Best of all, their logo is awesome.
AT: Green
Good stuff. Go read here while I recover: http://green.apartmenttherapy.com
Unclutterer
Why didn’t anyone tell me about this blog? It’s like it was written for me.
Minimalist Blogging
Scott Wallick of plaintxt.org has created some minimalist Wordpress 2.0 blog themes that I am envious of, since I use Blogger. These themes are versatile and pleasing to the eye. After all, most blogs center on writing and what better focus that the text itself?
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