leather necklace

via oh joy!

Vogue bikes

It's time for bicycle again. I found this round up for the best bike in 2009 from Vogue. I know it's a year old. I don't think there's an expiration date for chicness.

 Vanilla Commuter 

Gary Fisher Simple City 8 W  

 

Electra Amsterdam Sport 9D 

Abici Sveltina Donna 

 

Pashley Delibike  

images via vogue

Housing project in Helsingborg by Wilhelmson Arkitekter

 

pictures by peter thuvander and danyal taylan

via materialgirls

This by far is the most interesting looking project I ever seen. Stockholm architects Wilhelmson Arkitekter have designed a housing project with windows that look like gilded picture frames. Designed by professor Anders Wilhelmson, the project is to be built overlooking the sea in Helsingborg, Sweden.

Mint flavoured iceberg

looks like mint flavoured iceberg.

Photographed by Norwegian sailor Oyvind Tangen, 

on board a research ship around 1,700miles south of Cape Town 

and 660miles north of the Antarctic.

image from more

History of the Color Wheels

I recently came across this article about color wheels on colourlovers. 18th century color wheel designs look so marvelous. How did I forget what I've learned in 6th grand science class that Sir Isaac Newton has invented the first color wheel. He arranged red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet into a natural progression on a rotating disk. As the disk spins, the colors blur together so rapidly that the human eye sees white. From there the organization of color has taken many forms, from tables and charts, to triangles and wheels.

An Early 18th century color wheel

 

C.B. 1708

 Two color circles are included as illustrations in the 1708 edition of 

Traité de la peinture en mignature, 

an artist's manual attributed to "C.B."

(often assumed to be Claude Boutet, or the publisher, Christophe Ballard).

Ignaz Schiffermüller, 1772 & Goethe, 1810

 

 Richard Waller's, 1686

  

Schäffer's table

 Schäffer's principal colors were red, yellow, blue, white, black, brown, and green.

images from coluorlovers

Guppy love...

My all time favorite. I used to have many guppies in my aquarium when I was a kid. I just love the way they look. Especially the ones with big tails. They look like women in beautiful gowns.

images from iluvguppies
and aqua-fish

More gray rooms

Who said gray is boring. Gray has pretty cool effect if it's done on right material. I came across this post on apartmenttherapy the other day. And found these lovely gray rooms from Italian furniture company, Seven.

images via apartment therapy

Jon Macnair

Looking at Jon Macnair's portfolio makes me confused. These characters look so crazy! What are they doing? Can anyone tell me what is going on here?? It's just scary, crazy and funny in the same time. 

via society 6

some of these are also available for sale as Prints.

The hand-drawn animals of Nacho Gil

“The Animals” is a personal project of Nacho Gil. All hand-drawn!! “No programming or 3D or whatsoever,” was used to create these illustrations, claims Nacho Gil. It’s truly a peculiar project where the philosophy that lies beneath the sketches is the face of the animal which is designed with interconnected vectors. These vectors create a rather diamond or cubist-like image and make something as simple as the face of an animal so creative and so digital!

Images are Courtesy of Nacho Gil

story via yatzer

Crazy Hair

images via yatzer

Alexandria Chair

I'm in love with this French-inspired chair designed by Suzanne Kasler for Hickory Chair Furniture Company. It's feminine, whimsical and beautiful.

images via tobi fairley

Cuckoo Clocks | What I want now!

When I was a kid I was mesmerized by an idea of a little cuckoo bird that comes out from a little house. I remember seeing an original black forest cuckoo clock at my friend's place and coming home asking for my mom to get one for our living room. At the time cuckoo clocks were made from richly dark wood with elaborated designs, she didn't think that would look good in our plain and simple middle class home. She was probably right. Back then there were not that many cool modern designs to chose from. Not until recently that I found so many of these popping up everywhere.

Naoto Fukasawa's cuckoo clocks for isetan living

via designboom

The Bricchetto cuckoo clock is produced by Diamantini & Domeniconi

and was designed by the glass artist Raffaele Darra.

Raffaele has used Murano Glass to create this beautiful cuckoo clock.

via freshbump

Meridiana, contemporary house shaped metal cuckoo clock  

by Diamantini & Domeniconi £165.00

via rockettstgeorge

Modern Cuckoo Clock designed by Tobias Reischle, 

available at the SF MOMA store

The Arcoiris Cuckoo clock (Arcoiris means rainbow in Portuguese language) by Diamantini & Domeniconi