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Craft Design Technology

By On June 18, 2009 In Design, Product With 1 Comment Permanent Link to Craft Design TechnologyPermalink

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The design work done for Craft Design Technology on the Winkreative website lead me to their website filled with office goods. I want my office outfitted in all of their products. Thank goodness I’m being frugal with my money or I would have purchased something before I published this post.

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They have leather products to carry or cover your office goods and lots of your typical objects that are unique.

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All of their items would make any creative graduate happy. Especially the Roll Pen Case in Leather. And since you’re shopping there supply them with some Craft Design Technology pencils and pens too.

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Fun with Tape

By On June 15, 2009 In Crafts, Design, Packaging, Product With No Comments Permanent Link to Fun with TapePermalink

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I’m not exactly sure what I want to do with these but I’ll definitely have fun wrapping gifts and slapping stickers on various envelopes when mailing out. I love when a package arrives and it’s filled with fun items such as these. From the oddly but lovely American Science & Surplus site.

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And a totally unrelated photo of my silly cat – Miss Kitty – yawning from her hard day of napping.

Flip & Tumble

By On May 28, 2009 In Product, Shopping With No Comments Permanent Link to Flip & TumblePermalink

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Ooh, I like these! I’ve been avoiding the plastic bags when food shopping and have been opting for my Target bought bags. But these bags are much more my style. Available at Flip & Tumble, these ripstop nylon bags are just the ticket for my weekly shopping trips.

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Advantages to these bags over other options? Let me list the ways:

  • It’s large enough for 3 half gallons of milk and then some
  • It crumbles up into a ball size of 3” or the size of a peach
  • It’s strong enough for a bowling ball or two
  • There’s a felt patch on the strap which keeps the bag on your shoulder
  • Plastic bags spared? 1,000+

‘Nuff said.

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They cost just $9 a bag and get less as you buy more. Can you find a better deal? I think not!

Jenny Lee-Katz, from Wales to Pennsylvania

By On May 15, 2009 In Design, Product With No Comments Permanent Link to Jenny Lee-Katz, from Wales to PennsylvaniaPermalink

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I love the patterns and products from Jenny Lee-Katz a resident of Pennsylvania. Can Jenny’s Welsh-inspired patterns and designs be any cuter? I really like the color combinations and the sea artwork. I’m thinking of that top pillow in the image above for my bedroom.

“With a true artist’s eye, she uses a vibrant palette of colors to create visual rhythms and sensations evocative of nature and its ever-changing beauty. The resulting artworks are not only visually striking but draw us into an exuberant world that is playful, quirky and optimistic.”

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And I REALLY like the Macrell designs (image above, bottom left)

Buy, Design, Vote and Change.

By On May 4, 2009 In Design, Product, Shopping, Web With No Comments Permanent Link to Buy, Design, Vote and Change.Permalink

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Social Designer, Goods for the Greater Good encourages the design community to create fun, socially-relevant graphics for goods and a percentage will go to charity. So you have several options; you can design and submit your goods, buy goods, or vote on goods. All good things to do, stimulate the economy, stretch your creative muscles, and help in some needy causes along the way. The site is brought to us from Design 21, a Social Design Network

Local Support

By On April 27, 2009 In Crafts, Handmade, Personal, Product, Shopping With No Comments Permanent Link to Local SupportPermalink

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The 3/50 Project encourages you to spend locally to support the independent brick & mortar businesses that have kept this country thriving. The idea? Pick three independently owned shops in your area and spend $50 a month with them. And just to be clear it’s not $50 at each store, it’s $50 total! Can it be any easier?

For every $100 spent in locally owned independent stores, $68 returns to the community through taxes, payroll, and other expenditures. If you spend that in a national chain, only $43 stays here. Spend it online and nothing comes home.

I’m just as guilty as the next gal when it comes to shopping online but it turns out, the reality of it is that most of the items I find online can be purchased in my hometown if I had the ability to find them. The internet just makes it so easy to search for something, and the Yellow Pages doesn’t cut it when it comes to usability. But I am more than happy to support my local fellow businesses. So below I’m listing a few of the stores that I can’t resist, and in all honesty no store online can compare.

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Telegram!

By On April 23, 2009 In Design, Paper, Product, Shopping With No Comments Permanent Link to Telegram!Permalink

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I love these official looking Telegram’s that arrive through snail mail. You can order your very own by going to the Telegram Stop website, fill out the message, preview, then pay & send.

Self-Promoting

By On April 22, 2009 In Art, Crafts, Design, Handmade, Product, Shopping, work With No Comments Permanent Link to Self-PromotingPermalink
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Yes, it’s a quick self-promotion post. I’m trying something new. I’ve created a limited edition piece of art of hand cut butterflies. See the full description on my Etsy shop. Thanks for supporting me in my creative efforts, more to come soon!

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Mona & Holly

By On April 20, 2009 In Design, Fashion, Product With No Comments Permanent Link to Mona & HollyPermalink

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Remember the stylish uniforms of the 40′s and 50′s? Well finally, someone has created a collection based on those uniforms that is tasteful, stylish, and you would want to wear them. That someone is the stylish Mona & Holly from New York. I can probably assume that the research was not only inspiring but fun

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The uniform inspired collection for 2009 was developed in homage to the buttoned-up aesthetic of “service” which has been modernized for the 21st century. Oh, and I just have to mention that I love that many of the pieces are elbow sleeves, I LOVE elbow sleeve lenth items.

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Thanks to SimpleSong

Slow Fashion

By On April 20, 2009 In Design, Home, Photography, Product With No Comments Permanent Link to Slow FashionPermalink

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Ooh, I love ruffles and this chair makes me love them even more. Fredrik Färg, a designer from Sweden is combining an admiration for classic menswear with seating. He removes the backrests from reclaimed chairs and replaces them with the new structure made of polyester felt and calls it “slow fashion” furniture. I don’t know about you, but I would run out and buy one of these, wouldn’t you? They’re sexy, comfortable-looking and are absolutely stylish!

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The project looks to the beauty of those shapes that do not always have to change. He has been inspired by classic menswear, such as suits and dinner jackets that never go out of style. -This is a lasting fashion; he says and refers to today’s trend wear which is often discarded before being worn out.

By regaining the chairs former conditions and removing the backrests of the chairs, replacing it with a new textile dress/structure of mouldable polyester felt, he makes new “slow fashion” -furniture.

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I couldn’t find too much information regarding his new furniture or who is responsible for the photography, but they have a great look going on for his furniture, don’t you think? These photos are all on Fredrik’s Picasa web album.

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