old pix /

l// love these old postcards from the past from Ireland. Photomechanical print: photochrom, colour (1890-1900). The hand colouring is ace.

belfast /

l// safely home from our adventures in Northern Ireland with bellies full of fifteen, (a lovely sweet treat with fifteen ingredients) heads full of new knowledge, (to do with the conflict between English Irish (Protestants) and Irish English (Catholics)), and legs full of scabs (fell over at the giants causeway and ripped my knee open). The only thing I would change would be to have had a belly full of fourteens.... does anybody like glazed cherries?!!!

reject /

m// this was a concept I presented during my work for SUM OF ITSELF, but didn't make it to the final stage. If you could think of the design process like giving birth..to an idea. this is like the rejected child...i thought it deserved some attention.

a splash of colour /

m// ...to brighten the day.

helmut smiths /

m// I love these quirky works by HELMUT SMITHS, a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. images are CMYK cordial / biro pen pinstriped shirt / rainbow windscreen wiper / I love NW t shirt. Go to his site to see more quirky and intelligent works..www.helmutsmits.nl

too cute /

m// ive had this sitting on my desktop for a while, to look at on shitty days. too cute for its own good!

i met the walrus /

l// this is why I love animation... perfection. This little viewer seems to cut the screen in half, so watch it here. Jerry Levitan / Josh Raskin / James Braithwaite / Alex Kurina.

this is root /

m// I love it when identities and business cards can be quirky like this! seriously business but still having fun! design by LONDON based studio ROOT/ www.thisisroot.co.uk

home SWEET home/

l// We went to the V & A again today to see Beatrix Potter exhibition, however what really caught my interest was the 'Architects build small spaces' exhibit. They had seven small structures sprinkled throughout the Museum, from architectural firms across the globe. You can check out the seven tiny wonders on this blog, though it's always hard to capture the beauty of a space on screen, something gets lost in the translation. Up the top there is The Ark by Rintala Eggertsson Architects (photo by Pasi Aalto), this was a tiny tower functioning as a library... the pages of the books (when lined up together) seemed like an extention of the timber. Next there are the Beetle's houses by Terunobu Fujimori, there was a similar structure built within the museum. The bottom one is just an image I found whilst searching for the others, they are called free spirit spheres by Tom Chudleigh. Seriously... I always daydream about living in a caravan but hanging from a tree.... yipeeeeee!!! If you are reading this and you know Thom please help me convince him that living in one of these is a great idea, so far it looks like I have a slight chance in 20 years time... boooo! Perhaps I will try for a beetle house...

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