Meg Callahan Quilts

Meg Callahan's quilts are for some reason...awe-inspiring. The juxtaposition between simplicity and complexity make them just eye-popping. I love the geometry, simple colors, and historical influence.

I will be saving a spot on my wall for one of them (and in the meantime learning to make quilts). And now, I will let your eyes and minds explore these beautiful patterns.

Thanks to DesignSponge for the find!

Film: Objectified

Just got around to watching 'Objectified' last night, and I thought it was great. It really confirmed and fueled my newly uncovered interest in design (It's always been there, I've just never thought about it through the lens of 'design' until recently). It was made by Gary Hustwit (who also made 'Helvetica'...another really great documentary) in 2009. Again, it featured a soundtrack by group El Ten Eleven, one of my favorite loop machine-centric groups out there.

This film does a great job conveying the fact that everything man-made around us had to be designed by someone, and explores the motivation behind why things are designed the way they are. Check it out if you haven't already. It's currently streaming on Netflix and may, just may, be available at your local library.

Posters

I always love a good gig poster. They get you excited for upcoming shows/music/art, but without any doubt deserve their own recognition.

This poster (though, not actually a gig poster), by Methane Studios, is one of the selected works in the anual Poster Cabaret print set (check it out!) that caught my eye. I really like the symmetry, contrast, and colors.

More of Methane Studio's (actual) gig posters can be seen on their site. 

Shipping Container Homes

Though not the coziest of materials, these shipping container homes sure are nice lookin'. Container homes like these are becoming more and more popular, but never have they grabbed my attention like these. This is a great example of upcycling, saving these valuable resources from a scrap yard or a life of rusting in a lot somewhere. Though I'm not sure I'd like to live in one, I'd sure come over and visit!

Thanks to Design^Sprout for the find! Feel free to read more about it on their site.

Son of a Floor Board!

A Dutch Company,Bolefloor, makes floorboards that are inspired by wood's natural edges and lines. They use CAD/CAM software to optimize the cuts and fittings, avoiding the wood's imperfections, and boy is it beautiful. This process results in less wood waste than standard straight cuts and increases the output from a single tree.  

Thanks to Interior Design's 'Design Green' blog for the find.

Offerman Woodshop

The past few weeks I've been trying really hard to find a wood shop that I can start putting together some projects in. All of the public spaces (only have found two in San Francisco so far) are sort of expensive to work in, and the private ones, well, are private (goal now is to find an apprenticeship in one of them). But, I have found a lot of cool things in my searches, one of them being Nick Offerman's woodshop.

Nick Offerman most famously plays Ron Swanson on the TV Series Parks and Recreation...an all time favorite character of mine. I knew that he actually did woodworking, but had yet to see his work. Offermanwoodshop.com displays some of Nick's and his co-shopworker's projects and I decided to make a post displaying my favorites (my favorite being the dining table above).

A walnut breakfast table. I love the dovetails binding the crack.


A walnut sideboard that I want. I wish there were more places in a small house to keep sideboards!

And the shop offers slabs, handpicked by Nick.