Spring Etsy Picks
A few picks from Etsy to leave you with, it's been a fun week, finding things to post about, and I thank Emma for inviting me here. It truly was an honour.
I host an Etsy Pick of the Day on my blog each day and thought it would be fun to bring some of my latest finds here with a spring theme. Happy Spring!
pink orchid pillow by joom, making pictures painting by dkim, ocean fine art photograph by bueller, home sweet home cards by magic jelly, origami license plate paper butterfly and binocular tab by circa ceramics, waiting in pink ceramic wall piece by jasna
by Jan at Poppy
Winning Design Comes To Vancouver
Guest blogging here is rather timely so I found out when I received an email today from Emma, about the current exhibition, Design S - Award Winning Swedish Design being held here in Vancouver at the Pendulum Gallery, March 12 - March 31, 2007.
The Swedish Society of Crafts and Design, the Advertising Association of Sweden, and the Swedish Industrial Design Foundation created the Swedish Design Award to single out designers and companies who have contributed to today's advancements in the design field. The design projects in this exhibition ranged from industrial design to furniture, textiles and graphic design.
This touring exhibition aims to demonstrate that good design can lead to better communication, better business, better functionality and better sustainability.
I really must make a point of seeing these! Thanks for the tip Emma!
A few favorites:
Ava Table, Design, Märta Friman (mentioned before in Emmas blogg here, and the post is now translated)
Brio My First, Design, Camilla Lundsten/Puff Design, Product Development /Michael Heun, Lars Olsson, BRIO
Innovation C Chair for Blå Station, Design by Fredrik Mattson
Free Skiing Coffee Table Book/Instructions, Design by Frankenstein Stockholm
Bin - A Talkative Wastepaper Bin, Design, Front
Norrland Pillows for Klässbols, Design by Lena Bergström
by Jan at Poppy
New from MADE
Fresh from the "Come Up to My Room" exhibit that was held at the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto recently during the Toronto Interior Design Show, MADE, a canadian design company/store introduced "The Hybrid Stool". A combination of traditional furniture fused with bottle/milk crates.
I love how this company takes twists and turns to produce these "hybrids" as they put it. Brave and it works!
They are also carrying some new porcelain from Jennifer Graham who has started a really amazing new black and white porcelain series, she's stepping away from the colours a little (but not entirely).
MADE will be launching some outdoor products in early April which I'm really looking forward to seeing! You can check back at Poppy later this month for a sneak peek!
Spring Goods
Finally spring is in the air. The cherry blossoms are showing themselves here on the west coast, crocus and daffodils are sprouting and Easter is just around the corner which promises sunnier days, as the people from Mahar Dry Goods out of San Francisco just reminded me today.
And amongst all their regular goods, they've got some fun spring products to see, including these Meg Rooks Spring pails. And like they said in their email, "these pails would make swell Easter baskets and will also have a long life storing art supplies, toting around blocks, organizing diapering supplies by the changing table or holding rolled up hand towels by the bathroom sink!"
I am also rather smitten with their Suitcase Gift Packaging. What a great way to assemble a gift inside one of these! Offered in two colors: apple green with deep eggplant colored handle or sky blue with caramel. They even come with travel decals stuck to the sides! Click here for more fun spring-like products!
by Jan from Poppy
Poppy says hello, and posts about patch work ceramics
Greetings from Vancouver, Canada!
I want to firstly take this opportunity to thank Emma for asking me to guest blog here. It's an honour and I look forward to bringing a Canadian twist to things for the next week! I am a graphic designer here on the west coast of Canada and I like to blog mostly for inspiration and to stay fresh and current in the design realm. I post about art, papergoods, home decor, photography and the odd bit of street art. Mostly of things that really strike a chord.
So to start the week off I am going to introduce a Canadian ceramic artist, Rebecca Robbins. Her work reminds me of quilt work in a sense, patches of different designs and colours or slabs as she puts it. With almost a street art feel to it, her pieces are a collage of images, words, texture and design. As she states on her website, "The aesthetic and social expectations inherent in domestic objects and in domestic responsibilities are largely the subject of my work. The slab built forms are covered in images transferred from external and internal collections.
Any meaning is oblique - patched together from surface details and filtered through someone else's experiences. Like collage and graffiti, messages are coded in layering and often left ambiguous."
