Mondo Cane and Partners & Spade present an exhibition of children's furniture: Kids Chairs! with over 50 examples of the form from the years 1890-1990. Exhibit is on view at Partners and Spa...
TOP: "Airbrush Floral Colored Origami Paper II - 5 Colors 80 Sheets - great for crane, flower folding." Beautiful. Along the same lines are: MIDDLE + BOTTOM: Circle Paintings by Kenneth Nol...
I happened on this blog late last night: Mini-Eco by Kate Lilley, also a mother of two little boys. Her approach to crafts and kid friendly projects is fresh and clean and unlike any other I've ...
This New Year's card by Walter Marti reads (on the bottom) “Wishing you a happy 1960.” I love the play on the typographic "bowls" in the numbers 1-9-6-0. Check out this design, among o...
Sometimes I am surprised where I find design inspiration. These happen to be packages of gum from the supermarket. Although these are not the best example of gum packaging, the color pairings and the...
"How many can you count -- arms on a starfish, toes on two feet, hours on a clock, flowers in a bunch, raindrops in the sky?" Numbers is a book by John J. Reiss. It was published by Bradbur...
The National Maritime Museum has over 1000 flags including two large collections of house flags, used to identify shipping lines, or owners of vessels. Here are a few I selected from the collection. ...
These packages of Caramel Corn came from that big, awesome, Japanese grocery store in Edgewater, NJ. I couldn't pass these up. The stencil typeface, the happy/cute/goofy faces, and the glossy pa...
I bought this Macmillan Dictionary for Children (Copyright 1975) in February at an estate sale near my parents' home in the California Bay Area. About 2.5" thick, its pages are full of anim...
I visited the Marimekko NYC flagship store on Fifth Avenue last week. In the store windows was this Easter inspired textile (approx. 5 feet wide) Designed by Maija Louekari for Marimekko, it is 100% ...
A.P.C. Children is now available in "unisex clothes, from 2 to 12 years, 100% cotton, featuring stripes and a parrot." You can outfit your petit enfant in a "blouse, t-shirt, jeans, be...
The Uline catalog is bananas. And, it's HUGE. There are hundreds of pages of office supplies: Custom tape, kraft stay flats, colored plastic bags, tape dispensers. I've been ordering from t...
On Saturday, I picked up these four New York Times Historic Puzzles (Parker Brothers, 1968) at an estate sale in NJ. The whole lot was only $2! The puzzles were down in the home's basement stack...
String art has its origins in the 'curve stitch' activities invented by Mary Everest Boole at the end of the 19th Century to make mathematical ideas more accessible to children. It was popu...
Amazing. These two sisters, for a fee, will custom embroider your own initials. They call themselves "makers of things assorted" and have "an unusual obsession with paper and patterns,...
Bradford Shellhammer, the cofounder of FAB, made these collages when his "obsession and collection of design objects deepened and expanded, into the world of art." So he took the logical ne...
This was a fun wedding project. I was fortunate to work with Alix, who is so lovely and nice. She was familiar with my handwriting/doodling (from our days working together on Madewell Musings) which ...
These came in a lot of Creative Playthings toys I won on Ebay. Included were two sets of the rocking horse and see-saw, as well as a swing set similar to this one. We sent the duplicate set out west ...
This partial sheet of dog stickers was tucked between the pages of my 2-year-old's sketch book. He had stuck some transparent, color-coding, circle labels over the heads of the dogs. Not unlike ...
These maps are from Graphis Diagrams a wonderful book on the "graphic visualization of abstract data." The first map was taken from Plan for New York City, designed by Don Page and Frank Wi...
While perusing the READ section at Present & Correct, I came across this book: SHAPES by John J. Reiss: "a riot of geometric illustrations and bright acid colours. Follow Mr Fox as he explor...
Recently, while visiting my parents in Northern California, I spotted dozens of these large cans on a shelf tucked behind their basement stairs. These are food storage cans circa 1970 (definitely exp...
This striped quilt was inspired by Mary & Matt's post on John Nixon's stripe paintings. I based the design on one of his Polychrome Paintings from a series he did in 2007. Machine piece...
"Paper Zoo: The delightful paper-folding kit comprising a 12-page booklet and 36 pre-scored sheets of colourful paper to fold a variety of beautiful exotic and domestic animals. A highly enterta...
Following tradition, I made a quilt in anticipation of the birth of my second son (now 6 months old). As the tradition goes, my kind mother finished the binding while I was in Manhattan recovering in...
Last week, I visited the Japanese superstore Mitsuwa in Edgewater, NJ (a graphic designer's heaven with Japanese candy, books, and sundries). Most of my time there was spent scanning the interes...
In 2007, Brooklyn artist Iviva Olenick (who started sewing around the same time she learned to make sock puppets in kindergarten) began embroidering anecdotes from her dating escapades, juxtaposing i...
Mary & Matt are creative geniuses. Their "freshly made Valentine Editions are now available, featuring the popular Salted Dark Bar. Each bar is wrapped in its own handmade marbleized paper w...
Studio Lin teamed up with their favorite newspaper printers to create a 2012 calendar made up of 12 poster sized months featuring a different spot color and paper and doubling as a great kit for desi...
There's a sweet lot of four vintage Creative Playthings wooden vehicles up on eBay: dump truck, bus, truck, and auto. We have a few of these wooden cars/trucks for our two-year-old. He loves to ...
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