Archive for the 'Art' Category
DIY Art & Coasters
I wrote a while back that I was in the market for some coasters. Well…I took a lunch break and popped over to Patina in NE Mpls and came across this Charley Harper Memory Game that consisted of small 2″x2″ tiles of different Harper prints and paintings. I thought to myself, “Putting the tiles together [...]
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Tags: art, charley harper, coasters
SUSHI: Last night Frank took me to Koyi Sushi Too, and it was good sushi, you know, for the Midwest. Really good Gyoza. The interior looked sort of LA-ish but had these kitschy little items like fake rice in a mini bowl and random porcelain cats scattered throughout the restaurant. And they had Frank Sinatra [...]
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Make! Paper Craft Elephant
Thank you to How About Orange for posting, and Curiosity in Portland Oregon for making. Watch the video “From Flat to Flight” and download your very own easy-to-assemble-highly-cool elephant (download on the right hand side). He looked a bit lonely, so I added in the zebra from the back of the latest Anthropologie catalog.
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It’s that time of year for those of us in the Twin Cities to go see the Walker Art Center’s screening of the 2009 British Television Advertising Awards. Working at a design agency, and growing up in an artistic climate with a love for art, going to this every year has become a tradition for [...]
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Tags: British_Ad_Awards_2009, Star Tribune, Walker_Art_Center
Your Handwriting as a Font
Font Capture allows you to capture your handwriting as a font to install on your computer. It was effortless and took only 5 minutes.
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2010 Planner – Free Download
Design Evolution designed a 2010 planner and has posted it as a free download.
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Jewelry!
My fantastically chic friend from college, Ms. Elisabeth Carr, is writing a fashion blog, mission:closet, and turned me onto some great jewelry finds lately, in particular Molly M Designs and a variety of jewelers from Renegade Handmade. This got me thinking about another college friend of mine, Irene Woods, and the beautiful jewelry she’s making [...]
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One of the more fascinating aspects of my Art History education was 19th C. art, particularly The Salon – the paintings exhibited, who attended, the controversies and drama. Great Stuff. In popular culture today we see the “Salon Style” quite a bit in terms of your at-home framing and hanging ideas, made popular by IKEA [...]
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Tags: Hanging_Art, The_Salon, Walker_Art_Center
