trend-right.

though i haven't shown really any of my own work on here yet, it does in reality exist! check out my newest trend research project below and feel free to let me know your thoughts:

(tech note: apologies for the craptastic quality, since the file was so large, i had to take screenshots of each :/)

want to see more? shoot me a note! 

tick tick tock.

with the cooling weather and the start of a new season comes new obsessions over staple pieces to update current wardrobe duds. This season, my lust is over large, rose and chocolate gold watches. Here are a few of my favorites that you can help me hone in on:

michael kors love:

 marcey-marc jacobs:

dkny:

 fossil:





scrubadub

it seems that my home is always under bathroom construction. there's dust everywhere. tile cutters in my laundry room, sheetrock in my hallways. so, when i come across a pretty bathroom makeover, i can't help but to appreciate all of the messiness and fighting that went on mere weeks before the final pictures are posted. and when i come across a REALLY spiffy looking bathroom, i can't help but post it. 


here is a bathroom by graphic designer and illustrator Anile Prakash as seen on design sponge:  

the before, unlustworthy shot:

and, perfection:

 

love this bathroom more at designsponge.

scratch that.

while still avoiding the fact that my blog has been neglected, i was checking out new found and not-yet-neglected website fab.com. it calls itself a site that offers daily design inspirations... a sort of ruelala for edgy and smartly produced home furnishings/lighting/jewelry. what they showcased for today is back-to-basics unique and cute... removable tattoos for adults by Brooklyn designer Tina Roth Eisenberg (aka super-popular design blogger Swiss Miss). Her line is called Tattly, a temporary tattoo design store that provides cool, typographic fake ink created by a line-up of all-star designers.

even more ador-affordable than they are erasable:

 

snag more design thrills at fab.com

marky-mark.

while perusing through my local barnes & noble bookstore (yes, i am avoiding the subject that i haven't blogged in months. stay with the story, please!), i came across a quite delightful lil magazine. this may not be new news, as i have a bit of tunnel vision when it comes to vogue/ellehome/anythingtrashy magazines, but i think that i am in love! between oprah and architectual digest, i found mark. mark had all of the key components of being fabulous- a typographically-sturdy exterior, pretty modern shapes, and a excellent use of contrasting colors. only after opening the cover did i find out that this pretty exterior had brains and substance as well as compelling uses of the grid + type. my heart is still pitterpatter. 

look for yourself and remember to share mark with me: 

added bonus- download mark online. 

be green while saving green at:

http://www.mark-magazine.com/home

graphic!

I never said that I would be good|faithful at keeping up with this blog... So, to make up for my wandering, here are some lust-worthy pictures to gaze upon: 

Now we're even ;)

Find Jesus and more at:

http://www.typographicposters.com/

oui, merci!

Beloved parisian design icon, Hermes, came out with a rather handy-dandy how-to on the art of scarf-tying. Art?! I figure around the time that galleries started selling urinals as contemporary art was about the time that people started dropping $385 (starting) per loverly Hermes silk scarf- and one cries art far louder than the other. Check out my favorite forms and then my favorite scarves:

and the scarves that make the magic:

joie. 

Playtime scarf ideas at: 

http://usa.hermes.com/wcsstore/ConsumerDirectStorefrontAssetStore/files/playtime/playtime_hermes_scarf.pdf

Scarves at:

http://usa.hermes.com

in the paint.

One of my favorite painters, Jackson Pollock, once said that "every good painter paints what he is". However, trying to decipher a Pollock painting into what the artist is would require a few stiff drinks and a serious Magic 8 Ball. Interpretation aside, I love the organized chaos that Pollock brings to his work and in my search of a colorful addition for my living room, I happened upon the new 2011 art from Room & Board. In addition to a few Pollock pieces worth salivating over (see below), I was surprised to also find a broader range of unique art in limited quantities at serious deals. 

Here are the limited quantity pieces worthy of snagging up: 

Above and below- the De Profundis series created by New York City design studio KleinReid and silk-screened on Italian archival paper:

Lovers' Oak Leaf:

and the notsolimited, but equally desirable new art works: 

 Typography at its finest and most primal state:

 

and, the loverly Mr. Pollock, of course:

  Leave the Magic 8 Ball at home and find the above inspiration and more from $95-$1,199 at R&B