Monthly Archives: October 2010

Release the Hounds

Here’s some pure Friday fun from U.K. photographer Tim Flach. We love the way he captures that unfettered canine spirit in these totally cool images from his new book, “Dogs Gods.” Sometimes he pulls in close – on a prize-winning English bulldog’s rear end, for instance (tell us we’re not the only ones who see [...]

Muhammad Ali, Bob Marley, and a coffee bar covered in bookshelves

We just discovered the ShortList, a freebie magazine, handed out in London’s tube stations every Thursday. And we like. We got pulled in by its coverage of New York’s D’Espresso, a coffee bar decorated by a room-sized sepia image of bookshelves gracing the floor, ceiling, and walls. Very Stanley Kubrick and we think, very Blurb. [...]

Book of the Week: Through the Lens of the Living: The Dia de los Muertos Project

Through the Lens of the Living by Left Coast Design Studio | Make Your Own Book Just in time for Day of the Dead, the holiday Mexicans celebrate with skulls made of sugar and outrageously baroque, incredibly cool handmade altars, comes this new book from Left Coast Design Studio. Treat yourself and check it out [...]

The Best Typography Around

Great typography can take your ideas to a whole new place. In fact, we really like to see type break free from the page and roam wild across a room like it does in these typographic interior designs, handpicked by the experts at Design Sponge. Whether it’s formed into actual words, random letters arranged in [...]