concrete notebook

Alexis Oehler has a weakness for cool concrete and gives rise to his label, concrete products, the various products of this versatile material. The note concrete combines a small concrete block with 200 sheets for taking notes. Recorded by a conventional wing nut is part of the paper, even replaced, if it is time spent. Incidentally, there are also a lot of concrete products for concrete beautiful furniture in all imaginable variations. {via}

unpublished type treatments

Triboro Leftovers is a compilation of unpublished type treatments, photos, sketches, illustrations and logo explorations that we have created over the years. Rather than allow these to remain lost on our hard drives we decided to set them free. We mashed together elements from hundreds of different projects—and in the process—deliberately stripped the elements of their original context and meaning. The results are visual remixes which stand on their own. {via}

arrow hanger

While not functionally employed as a hanger, Arrow adorns the wall like an iconic graphic symbol. Gustav Hallén's design is both a clever contemporary hanger and a decorative interior design feature. When Arrow is folded there are three points from which you can hang things. This third point works well for coat hangers.

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DAILY DESIGN CHALLANGE, DAY 25

Pleated Star Clock

Pleated Star Clock by George Nelson & Associates
For the Howard Miller Clock Company, 1955
(estimated $2000 - $3000)

Prints by Jennifer Sanchez

"I use geometric patterns, improvised marks and vivid color to depict a state of flux. Opaque and transparent shapes mingle to create ambiguous spaces. Clashing colors create new harmonies that vibrate. I approach each painting with general ideas in mind, but I never know where they may lead. All preliminary marks, little catastrophes and drips are visible to show the experimentation and thought that goes into it. Through the marks make, I invite the viewer to see the process of painting."
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we are so good together

"I first put these words to paper through wood type and letterpress a couple years back, after a breakup. The print was just for myself—a half-hearted joke about the bond between a guy and the paper that hangs on his wall. It hung in my workspace in Brooklyn for some time.

One day, an incidental photograph of my studio with the print barely visible in the background was posted somewhere on the internet. That afternoon, I received an email from a young lady in Finland who wanted desperately to give the print to her fiance. I let her know that I would look for a proof and see what I could do. To my surprise, the emails have kept coming in and I have since produced and sent this print to folks all over the world.

The letterpress editions made for 20x200 mark the first time this print has been produced in a numbered edition. This is also the first time I've printed the type in a color other than blue. And, this is the last run for this print, ever."
by Dylan Fareed
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Hussein Chalayan for Puma

Designed by Hussein Chalayan for Puma and a selection from the Urban Mobility Line, Motus in Vaporous Gray is a modern sleek minimal quarter height dessert boot. Get them here.

Shavings Coffee Table

Shavings Coffee Table by Yoav Avinoam. From The Designer | By using sawdust waste from the Wood industry, as a response to the way we look at our usage and exploitation of materials in modern culture. The sawdust (taken from different kinds of woods) is being pressed with resin into a mold that already contains all of the object parts, the opportunity was exploring new ways of integration between the legs of the furniture and the sawdust through expansion of the joints, this and the way the sawdust crumbles toward the edges creates a new material esthetics to once destined to be waste material.