Tiny Origami by Anja Markiewicz

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Sarah Turner - Twitter Ball

562 reused plastic bottles, hundreds of LED lights and live Twitter feed are the ingredients for this Christmas holiday installation. Working with design company Sennep, this giant tweet-reactive bauble, flashes different colours when selected words from Cohn&Wolfe's holiday message are tweeted. 
by Sarah Turner. 

Licoreese

Few days ago Anna Pięta sent me a couple of pics encouraging  me to visit her site licoreese.com. It's a mix of things designed by Anna (the lovely hair bands above) as well as her friends (whom I'll mention in another post). Licoreese also sells rare design items found at flea markets. It may seem like a random collection of things at first, but then you start to see a pattern in this madness. Everything you find on the site is unique.

Nicole Gastonguay

My cousin sent me a link to the Nicole Gastonguay's crocheted objects. My favourite: jar of pickles and the Holy Bible.

Ścinki - Fabric Scraps

Before I get to post a couple more things from my random collection of items in the apartment, here's a little inspiration of what you can do with scraps and leftovers and a little imagination. All of these were decorated with bits of pieces of fabric found at flea markets, dug out from closets, stolen from aunts and grandmothers (...I imagine). By ścinki.

Miniature Food Jewelry by Stéphanie Kilgast

OK. I have to admit I have not written in a while. I feel guity if any of you have visited Say Hi! to see what's new while there was obviously nothing new being published. But I'll get back to the usual schedule this week, at least I hope so! Things got busy at work as my boss went to Turkey, to sizzle on a beach, and someone has to have a little control over what's going on at the studio :)

For a good start of the week a perfect combination - food with no calories and a beautiful treat to the eye. The miniture food jewelry by Stéphanie Kilgast stole my heart recently. She makes rings and earrings and broches being 1/12 of the size of regular sweets such as cupcakes and donuts and cookies. They are decorated just like the regular food, with the difference everything is just so adorably tiny...

Crocheted Carpet by OOdesign

HOW it works: 8 hexagons connected in a tricky way so that you can lay them flat to form a carpet or pile them to use as a sitting cushion. WHAT it is made of: old clothes (T-shirts, fleeces etc) cut into stripes and then crocheted. By OOdesign.

Patka Smirnow - Eco Bags

My visit at arena design in Poznan is a fruitful one and I'm truly delighted to be here. The fair was opened by Karim Rashid, as I mentioned earlier on this week, and I have to tell you a few words about his lecture, but I need to come back home first and get hold of my own computer (rather than my brother's). Polish designers featured at arena design will pop up at the site for sure in the upcoming weeks so do come back to see it!

For now I'm going to leave you with another Polish designer, Patrycja Smirnow, also known as Patka Smirnow, who creates amazing hand bags out of used plastic bags. I was going to buy one of them at the recent Etnodizajn festival in Krakow, but unfortunately run out of money minutes before I reached Patka's stall. I'll make it up to myself next time I get to see her work!

Pleciuga - Dowry Chest

Last Saturday I attended the Ethnodesign / Etnodizajn festival in Krakow, which I really (really) enjoyed. Most of the teams featured at the fair presented objects inspired by folk culture or made out of sustainable materials. I will feature most of them when I finally have a bit more time to sit down and go through all the photos I made and check out the business cards I brought in a big bag. For now then a truly amazing standing chest by Proteindesign, woven out of used magazines strings. It's based on a dowry chest given to the bride in the traditional Polish villages, so you can order one if you're planning a weeding sometime soon... :)

Sweet Handbags by Not To Repeat

Beautiful collection of handmade handbags by Not To Repeat. via Stukupuku.

Peter Callesen And The Bodies Exhibition

Have you seen The Bodies Exhibition? I have. We went to see it with my ex, during our stay in New York this summer. My feelings about it were mixed, to say the least. Even though it is advertised as your chance to see the real human bodies, stripped to bones and flesh, nothing there seemed like human body to me. More like plastic, unnatural figures from a strange version of Madame Tussauds. Anyways, I was just thinking about it while looking at Peter Callesen papergraphics. They move me and make me think about the nature of human bodies much much more.

Ventricle Vessel by Eva Milinkovic

My journey on the bus this morning was very inspiring. Doing my usual morning design-blog rounds on the iphone, I found this beautiful piece of glass art at playmedesign. Shaped as heart, combined of amazing colours, intriguing... The Ventricle Vessel vase by Eva Milinkovic made me smile and think positive despite the foggy and grey morning. Continue reading to see more examples of work by Tsunami Glassworks.

Peter Callesen

Couple of posts below I wrote about papergraphics by Zim And Zou. Searching for more examples of work based on paper, I found the amazing works by a Danish artist Peter Callesen. Callesen creates his papercuts from a single sheet of paper and all shapes are glued or folded from the scraps he cut out of that one sheet. Three dimensional figures seem to come to live from two dimensional, flat surfaces of the paper, sometimes they are accompanied by modest use of colours or sketches.

Cat Davison - Vintage Records Jewellery

Made from 100% recycled vintage records, our new Heat The Beat collection manages to be both original and sustainable. Playing with concepts around the material - from its colour and texture to its previous incarnation as a purveyor of music - the collection combines retro sensibilities with a contemporary aesthetic, something key to all Cat Davison Jewellery.

Visual Poems

Amazing idea of picturing the words by Peter Pavlov...

The poem "Days" speaks about the people from the working class in Macedonia and describes their hard life. Each morning they hear the rooster’s wake-up call and start working till the sun doesn’t fall.

The poem "Lenka" speaks about a woman who works at a tobacco monopoly. She lost her life because of her exhausting job, and left her linen blouse unwoven. The lyrics are handembroidered over the seams and the mannequin is handmade out of a copper coil. A light is inserted inside to accentuate the lyrics and cast a wireframe shadow over the linen blouse.

Sea Life

There's always something interesting, pretty and colourful to admire on Etsy. This particular is a screen print by beethings. Can't say I recognize all of the animals featured, but they look so good together.

Knit Your Food

If you can't eat your food, you can always take it with you and carry it in your purse. IF... well, if it's knitted.

Leaf Silhouette Portrait

Forget photosynthesis. Leaves are for photo-projects-thesis!
Grab a photo and a leaf, and in few simple steps you can turn everyday foliage into a unique silhouette portrait of someone you love. Simple and elegant, leaf silhouettes look great in a frame or on a book or a card.

Follow the instructions on how to make your Leaf Silhouette Portrait on Photojojo.

Yulia Brodskaya's PAPERgraphics

Yulia Brodskaya is a Russian designer living in the UK. She's mostly known for her incredible "papergraphic" designs - illustrations cut out of paper. She loves to "experiment and explore ways of bringing together all the things she likes most: typography, paper, and highly detailed hand-made craft objects". Her work is full of intricate details, beautiful colours and somehow always puts me in a better mood. I hope it works the same for you.

Speaking of hand-writing. I'd love to find something as gorgeous as this, in my mailbox...

From top: an amazing calligrapher Jenna Hein from Brooklyn, NY (which is where I'm headed next week!), hand-made jewlery from Etsy and a photo by Alexandra Grablewski.