Grateful for this link tip from David Murray to a fascinating Salon article. An incredible examination of the artist G. W. Mead's sketchbook, purchased bythe article's author 30 years ago.
"What you can learn from a sketchbook. These fascinating 19th-century drawings provide a unique insight into one artist's process."
LINK: Salon.com article
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Our friends at Kikkerland opened this ‘can’ booth at the ICFF attendees built out of almost 3000 cans of Campbell’s Tomato, Cream of Mushroom, and Chicken Noodle Soup. After the event the "building blocks" were donated to City Harvest.
Good job Kikkerland!
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Who: Lucy Hamblin, photographer and artist
What: “The elements of these pages were largely drawn
in the South of France, where I lived. They were drawn for an antique
dealer named Romain, in exchange for a pair of enormous turtle shells
he had given me. They are studies of Bugatti’s chairs; ornately carved
and decked with perishing fringe. The blue Polaroid was taken of a
Victorian mourning dress I made - the model’s face and hands speckled
with black ash in the South American funerary tradition.”
READ THE FULL INTERVIEW @ OTTO
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A beautiful remembrance of a batch of notebooks by Michael Beirut at Design Obserbver:
"On August 12, 1982, I took a 10 x 7 1/8 inch National Blank Book
Company composition book from the supply closet of my then employer,
Vignelli Associates. From that moment, I have never been without one. I
always have one at my desk. I take one with me to every meeting. I am
now in the middle of Notebook #85. It's in front of me right now.
Together, these well-worn books create a history of my working life
that spans three decades..."
Read the full article
(Photo: K. Samela).
A cool video by Violenn Simon, made for a school project at "ENSAAMA School of Visual Communication” in Paris. Music by The Doors.
NotCot paid a visit to Audrey Kawasaki's “THE DRAWING ROOM” curated by Audrey Kawasaki at Thinkspace.
"She basically recreated her studio in the window, like a dreamy lifesize diorama or creative goodness ~ filled with vintage finds and half finished sketches, it was like stepping into the world behind the works within the gallery, and it was beautiful!"
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Benjamin sent this link to an old notebook found in Russia.
"This one is the last example of pre-communist Russia organizers. Made in leather covers containing the full map of Russia and all other things that organizers have now, but it was 90 years ago...."
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Summer (yes, that's her name), sent us a link to this beautiful blog. The authors wrote:
"We are sitting in our cozy home studio listening to music and crafting beautiful things from paper. We are fascinated by the stranger parts of nature and use images from the natural world in the things we create. We are enamored with vintage ephemera and constantly hunting for “treasures.” We recycle whenever we can. Most of all, we are happy to be doing what we love..."
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