These are bowls and a vase. But who are we kidding, they are actually sculptures. Patiently and delicately carved gorgeous porcelain sculptures by Isabelle Abramson.

So pretty I could faint.

Some fonts are just not an obvious choice in pretty much all situations. As statements tho, they can indeed be perfect.

Sky is the limit and you know it.

Adamas is a free font (personal and commercial) by Colorblind, and you can get it here.

Washable Kraft paper everyday use objects? Yes ma’am!

Sidonie Yang explores this material like no other, and it totally works! Paired usually with felt, it’s texture clash heaven!

And so, prepare to sport a stylish paper bag ladies, cause these are just so cool looking! :)

I love it when sculpture surprises me. Lauren Clay definitely does it for me! Especially her paper pieces, which don’t really look like paper at all!

Via } Design For Mankind

Weirdly enough, I’ve been missing graphic design a little these past fest weeks. I say “weirdly” because when I stopped doing it in 2008, I never looked back, and never regretted the decision, not even one second. And I still don’t.

But, there is some precise things I do miss about it, and one of them is layout design. The other thing is typography. I used to do a lot of magazine design, catalog design, brochure design. Printed documents, containing plenty of text to play around with. It was kind of my specialty, I guess, and it was what I loved to do… That is, if you forget about the ridiculous “for yesterday” deadlines, and the always so many constraints, and some (definitely not all) know-it-all-that-don’t-know-anything clients, and yadayadayada, those things that made me not want to do graphic design anymore.

Anyway. I spent some time yesterday looking at the Grafika 2012 results (Quebec province’s annual graphic design competition). And spent some time unwillingly noticing this design desire coming back slowly.

Honestly, I don’t know what to actually DO with it all.

I’m kinda… simmering. Simmering thoughts and ideas. On, perhaps, how to bloom that little need into something I’ll actually enjoy doing. Something that has freedom and joy attached to it, ya know?

Rambling: OFF.
Simmer: ON.

Driftwood. Planning. Assembly…

Equals driftwood shelves by The Moss Woodshop. Such beauty in letting the main material speak for itself.

Thank goodness I don’t “need” a shelf right now, because I couldn’t be able to choose between all these one of a kind pieces.

After yesterday’s tape post, got me thinking about Max Zorn again, that stunningly talented street artist. His weapon of choice: TAPE.

And he just rocks it. Make sure you check out the video below, just insaneeee! :)

I recently bought this tape from Petty Tape, and fell in love with it! It was hard to keep myself from buying a dozen, so I’m sharing! :)

Also loving these little chevron paper bags! How cool!

One of the skills that always amaze me is papercutting. I mean, the amount of patience and precision that is needed to do this is is remarkable to me!

And so, Joe is one patient (and talented) man.

Ohhhh, I’m such a sweets lover! Hence, I ain’t got nothing against hard candy.

Years back (this is like 2006), I had discovered this sweet little seller on Etsy making her own hard candy, and her blueberry and pomegranate flavors were addictive! Her shop stopped existing one day, to my sweet tooth’s sadness, but to my wallet’s joy (no joke, I bought & ate way too much of those in such a short period of time! haha).

Anyway, this is why it’s SO hard for me to resist to VonDulce right this second. The pear and honeydew and sour smooch flavors are sooooo tempting.

Must. Control. Self.

Yeah, right. LOL! :P