Interiors Exteriors

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Saw these recycled leather belt floor tiles by Ting London over at Haute*Nature. Assuming the tiles can withstand traffic, they would make for a gorgeous and interesting floor! The tiles super expensive, though - running at $75 a square foot.

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Style for Less Dough

It’s that wonderful time of year again, when giving is just as gratifying as getting. But what to do during a recession when your friends are style-savy? We’ve scoured our favorite vendors and found gifts that don’t feel like a Recession Special, but secretly is… There’s something for everyone, and nothing over $100!

Gifts Around $10

Beaded [...]

Fashion & Beauty

THE BLOOD-RED GEMINI: CRISS CROSSED, DOUBLE PERSONALITY. Doing Sexual Favors For Your Husband then Ball-Busting the Next Minute? Here’s the Shoe For You!

Carlos by Carlos Santana Believe 2 - Women’s Heel
Demand attention when you step out wearing this stunning peep toe heel. Features an adjustable strap and criss-crossing straps. Fit: [...]

Cool Websites

Read article at Vandelay Website Design
Many e-commerce sites aren’t the most attractive websites. There’s often a lot of clutter with little to distinguish the design from any other site. Of course, selling products is more important to an e-commerce site than having a pretty design, but these 50 examples show that some e-commerce sites display [...]

Product & Merch

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What do I need these for? I have no idea. But the Star Wars Stack ‘Ems have an irresistible pull on me either way. They’re $10 each and blind-boxed, so you don’t know which character you’ll get, and they’re not totally useless — you can use them as key chains or just get really [...]

Style Trend Forcasting

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Charles Pictet Architecte designed this house in Frontenex, France as an addition to an original building. I love how the new structure is visually integrated into the old through the use of concrete.
Personally, the interiors are a little too stark for me to imagine living in them, but it is a beautiful project!
Via Arch [...]

Gadget Garage

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Mystery Skateboards is a company that has a very strict color palette: black and white only. This translates into everything from boards to wheels to t-shirts to wax. Even their video footage is done in b&w. With graphic trends changing so frequently, props to them for keeping it simple and doing more with less. [...]

Home & Room Tours

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Name: Vanessa and Simon
Location: Gramercy Park
Size: 500 sqft., 2-bdrm. rental
Favorite Element: Light
>> See Slideshow!
Vanessa, a web designer, draws a parallel between organizing her belongings and designing web sites. She finds they both present the same challenge — how to accommodate a lot of stuff into a small amount of space…

>> See Slideshow!
When Vanessa [...]

Green Me Baby!

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Saw these recycled leather belt floor tiles by Ting London over at Haute*Nature. Assuming the tiles can withstand traffic, they would make for a gorgeous and interesting floor! The tiles super expensive, though - running at $75 a square foot.

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Architecture

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Charles Pictet Architecte designed this house in Frontenex, France as an addition to an original building. I love how the new structure is visually integrated into the old through the use of concrete.
Personally, the interiors are a little too stark for me to imagine living in them, but it is a beautiful project!
Via Arch [...]

Retro Modern

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Refined is the creation of Kathryn Ivey and Anna Applegate, who share a love of reviving vintage items with their creativity and great eye for design. Their pieces are fresh and chic and priced extremely well. A pair of these pillows in a pretty Manuel Canovas fabric are only $60. They remind [...]

Featured

MorphineDoll-stock makes gorgeous vector art for use with Photoshop.  Since I’m on a Gimp roll at the moment, I asked permission to make brushes from this set of hers:
As per her terms:
*These images are MY property so the brushes you make from them should be for your personal use ONLY - NO REDISTRIBUTION!!!
*Please link back [...]

Web Design

MorphineDoll-stock makes gorgeous vector art for use with Photoshop.  Since I’m on a Gimp roll at the moment, I asked permission to make brushes from this set of hers:
As per her terms:
*These images are MY property so the brushes you make from them should be for your personal use ONLY - NO REDISTRIBUTION!!!
*Please link back [...]

General

MorphineDoll-stock makes gorgeous vector art for use with Photoshop.  Since I’m on a Gimp roll at the moment, I asked permission to make brushes from this set of hers:
As per her terms:
*These images are MY property so the brushes you make from them should be for your personal use ONLY - NO REDISTRIBUTION!!!
*Please link back [...]

Techie News

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With the rise of social networking, many of us have hundreds if not thousands of online contacts. But how many of them do we actually keep up with? Probably not many. That’s the problem Zentact attempts to solve through a new service that keeps track of all your contacts across email [...]

Resources

Read article at Vandelay Website Design
Many e-commerce sites aren’t the most attractive websites. There’s often a lot of clutter with little to distinguish the design from any other site. Of course, selling products is more important to an e-commerce site than having a pretty design, but these 50 examples show that some e-commerce sites display [...]

Trend Forcasting

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Nice packaging for Bomba Energy by Valentine Associates. From the website:
New Austrian energy drink Bomba needed a unique packaging solution to launch in Australia’s competitive marketplace. The packaging needed to attract a young, fashion conscious market while conveying the product’s natural energetic qualities.
Via Dieline.

Design & Graphics

MorphineDoll-stock makes gorgeous vector art for use with Photoshop.  Since I’m on a Gimp roll at the moment, I asked permission to make brushes from this set of hers:
As per her terms:
*These images are MY property so the brushes you make from them should be for your personal use ONLY - NO REDISTRIBUTION!!!
*Please link back [...]

Freebies

MorphineDoll-stock makes gorgeous vector art for use with Photoshop.  Since I’m on a Gimp roll at the moment, I asked permission to make brushes from this set of hers:
As per her terms:
*These images are MY property so the brushes you make from them should be for your personal use ONLY - NO REDISTRIBUTION!!!
*Please link back [...]

DIY Junkies

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I made this chair from a wheelbarrow a couple weeks ago. Like Indians using every scrap of the bison for something, I saved the wheel for some unspecified future project. It eventually struck me that the tire could make a nice stool. Unfortunately, I thought of the idea on the way [...]

Cool Websites

Read article at Vandelay Website Design
Many e-commerce sites aren’t the most attractive websites. There’s often a lot of clutter with little to distinguish the design from any other site. Of course, selling products is more important to an e-commerce site than having a pretty design, but these 50 examples show that some e-commerce sites display [...]

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SHOP DESIGN SHRINE

Eco-friendly throw pillows that will give your room natural pop and class (around $60.00):

BL - Blush
Modern Pillows for your modern home! All pillows are constructed with a hidden zipper for easy removal and cleaning!

FL - Flown
Modern Pillows for your modern home! All pillows are constructed with a hidden zipper for easy removal and cleaning!

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Flickr Files

I’m a smoker - I admit it. What I remember most about growing up were the cool ashtrays of the 60s that my father used to have. With so few people smoking nowadays, I thought it would be a good “green” idea to recycle these beautiful pieces into other things like catchalls or fruit bowls. [...]