My love for archives: I can spend endless days browsing trough the Google Life archives… Above Lucy B. Johnson with Secret Service agent in her Corvette Sting Ray. [ Continue reading ]

Hermès teamed up with Designboom for ‘les cravates par Hermès‘. A competition to design a pattern that could be either a re-interpretation of the Hermès classic patterns or something completely different. The deadline is august 05, 2009. [ Continue reading ]

Wyssem Nochi is a designer and architect based in Beirut with some beautiful works in his portfolio. Pictured above is a project with five suitcases to lounge on at home or in long airport waits. It is inspired by the idea that you always have a suitcases packed… [ Continue reading ]

Some weeks ago I saw a mercedes oldtimer in shiny dark brown and I thought, this is going to be the replacement of the colour black in the luxury world. At James Spotting they’ve wrote down some similar thoughts about the colour black, and how it is fading. [ Continue reading ]

Forget the grey offices, Carpets for Buildings by Marcel Kronenburg creates fantastic colourful carpets. ‘With the use of computer-controlled carpet printing machines it is possible to create special visual and spheric effects for the building in combination with a carefully executed carpeting plan.’ Thanks t&t… [ Continue reading ]

We are honored to have Niels Shoe Meulman exhibiting in Tenue de Nîmes with his newest calligraffiti, Le Miroir Vivant. Shoe’s art and design shows us that words are images. His Calligraffiti pieces are as much about the form as the meaning of the words he… [ Continue reading ]

Beautiful new works by Ian Davis! ‘…It forms an absurdist theater in which little mysteries are enacted by large groups of men against the backdrops of anonymous institutions and forbidding landscapes…’ If you are in NY, you’ll have one week to visit Leslie Tonkonow Artworks & Projects at… [ Continue reading ]

‘Artists create to bring something into the world that couldn’t exist without them.’ Gino Orlandi contacted me to tell about his recently published eBook Fuel for Art. It counts 78 pages and it’s quite an interesting handbook about how to start a business with your creativity using the… [ Continue reading ]

Some nice illustrations by Virginie Garnier. [ Continue reading ]

A lovely video by Cool Hunting. They asked a little printing studio in São Paulo to make a poster for their 99% conference. Fantastic to see this craftsmanship and the love for the work on a 1929 German letterpress. [ Continue reading ]

Yesterday I came back from the New Talent Portfolio night and I was so happy to see so much new talent! It was a great mix of people with a huge amount of potential. They varied from being completely at the beginning of their career and creatives who already earned… [ Continue reading ]

The beautiful new commercial Flora by Guccy. Directed by Chris Cunningham. [ Continue reading ]

A beautiful solid oak storage system with high-quality leather bags to store your treasures. One of the new designs by Belgium designer Casimir. Thank you MoCo Loco for sharing. [ Continue reading ]

My good friend Luis Mendo participated in Jeansnow’s PauseTalk vol. 30. If you’re in Tokyo on May 11 be sure you’ll visit Cafe Pause for Vol. 31 …Too bad I’m not there…… [ Continue reading ]

Some of my inspirators in graphic design, art direction and illustration together in one post. Enjoy the beautiful works by Japanese duo Tomoyuki Yonezu & Erotyka, US based Mario Hugo and Johan Hjerpe from Sweden. [ Continue reading ]

My friends at Matte updated their website. Lovely work, great inspiration, fine aesthetics!… [ Continue reading ]

If you have read the 7 rules of mentorship and think you are the next big thing but want some mentorship and feedback on your portfolio, visit the new talent portfolio night by Blend & Streetlab. I’ll be there, together with Corriette Schoenaerts,… [ Continue reading ]

The beauty of the beast, the most aesthetic cockfight ever in Running with the Beast made by Roel Wouters for zZz. [ Continue reading ]

An interesting manifesto by Amsterdam based Platform 21 on repairing. It is interesting, but I think we need to ask ourselves one question at first. If we can buy something which is cheaper than the high quality products, are we still willing to repair it? And is it… [ Continue reading ]

If you’re in NY between April 4 and May 9 be sure you’ll visit the Josée Bienvenu Gallery. Justin McAllister is showing his paintings and drawings of fires that were set and documented by the artist in northeastern Pennsylvania during the summers of 2007 and 2008. [ Continue reading ]

I like the idea of re-arrange and re-edit found books and bound anew. The Infinite Library, a project by Daniel Gustav Cramer and Haris Epaminonda, does this with their expanding archive now shown online. [ Continue reading ]

I just found this interesting share on Issuu. It is one of the most comprehensive studies on luxury ever undertaken. Done by atelier. [ Continue reading ]

Cultures In Between made an update on their website and now bringing more fine and aesthetic news on fashion, design and photography. — Cultures In Between documents and observes contemporary culture with an open-minded, independent and inclusive perspective. Contemporary culture of Mode, Design and Photography are each… [ Continue reading ]

Tonight we’re Amongst Friends. If you’re in Amsterdam, get your hands on the last tickets. I’m curious which movie Nalden will show us tonight. See you there…… [ Continue reading ]