What’s On Your Desk? Artfully Arranged Color Combinations of Office Supplies
Shooting still life is no easy matter, especially when taking photos of typically overlooked everyday objects like office supplies. Swedish design trio Kontor Kontur are masters at arranging, styling, and shooting their studio office goods in artful compositions– their Color Chart print, which is the combination of all their styled supplies in a single shot,...
Pristine Natural Landscapes, Sculpted From Books
Artist Guy Laramee is a master at creating zen-like landscapes of mountains, caves, and valleys– he does an amazing job sculpting these pristine works out of books. Each sculpture perfectly mimics the curves and drops of nature’s familiar silhouettes, and the miniature scale of these mountains confuses the viewer with its blend of majesty in...
Nessie Pins: Creative Loch Ness Thumbtacks
These Nessie pins are killing me– they’re undeniably cute, and I want to own more than a couple packs! Designed by UK designer Duncan Shotton, each pack of thumbtacks inspired by the famed Scottish Loch Ness Monster comes with 6 heads, 12 body segments, and 6 tails. Even the packaging is really sweet– also, there...
The Call of Cthulhu (For Beginning Readers) and Other Seuss-Style Stories
Artist Richard John Ivankovic started a fascinating undertaking recently– he is adapting H. P. Lovecrafts famous book, the Call of Cthulhu, into a Seussian-style storybook “for beginning readers.” The sci-fi short story has captured the imaginations of many (read the Wikipedia article here to get a fuller picture of the aquatic horror) but this particular...
Pixelated Camera Collection, Now As Stickers
Designer Billy Brown has an entire website called The Camera Collection dedicated to nothing but pixelated cameras– everything from lomography to polaroids to disposable cameras are recreated in pixels, and best of all, they’re absolutely free to use, down to the original design file. PetaPixel then took Bill Brown up on his offer and transformed...
Papercraft Cover: Minimalist Paper Food Design
Artist and designer Sarah Illenberger created this beautiful cover for the Papercraft book, with the help of photographer Ragnar Schmuck– the perfectly crafted food is lined up quietly in the photo, with all sorts of kitchen goods replicated in nothing but paper. The precision of her craftsmanship makes the food instantly recognizable, but the nature...
Pie Chart Post-Its
These stickies are technically NOT Post-Its (they aren’t part of that company’s line), but its a concept that we’re all familiar with– small, uniform pieces of paper with adhesive backing. Present & Correct, however, have redesigned the typical square shape and bland yellow color into this set of Pie Chart Stickies, and I’m in love....
Easy-to-Open Envelopes Leave Trails of Smoke on Your Paper
This set of three envelopes from D-Bros features a clever way of opening them– each brightly colored envelope has a small print of a plane, train, or car on the top left hand corner, with an “open” tab behind each icon. When you pull the open tab, the paper rips along the top of the...
Blank NYC Walls To Draw On
The internet has concluded that pretty much anything designed by the. is perfect– and this Walls Notebook is no exception. The notebook features 80 different images of NYC walls on its pages, so that you can doodle, sketch, and draw on New York, in all of its grimy glory. There are 160 pages in the...
Two Innovative Bookmarks: Brilliant Redesigns of a Simple Object
We don’t put too much thought into bookmarks as objects, especially since any piece of paper or cardstock could easily be used as a bookmark on the fly. The following two bookmarks, however, have been carefully designed with the function in mind, by rethinking how we use books and bookmarks in our daily lives. Bookmark...
Mark Zuckerberg’s Personal Stationery
When designer Ben Barry worked at Facebook, he got to design personalized stationery for founder & CEO Mark Zuckerberg. It’s remarkably clean and logo-free, with the added plus of a Mark Zuckerberg seal of approval that gets embossed into the paper. Even the back of the letterhead and the inside of the envelopes are subtle...
Tapehook: Colorful and Cute Hooks for Home Decor
Japan-based design studio Torafu has a wonderful set of colorful hooks for your everyday objects– each hook is shaped like a piece of tape that curls up to hold your household items, such as keys and jewelry. According to Spoon and Tamago, this is made from a piece of plastic dipped in water, and then...
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