+ Goin to california!

last week was my first time in san francisco. It was a wonderful, diverse trip with many exiting adventures. Muir beach, mission district with new friends, henry cowell redwoods, makers faire in san mateo, pool side in los altos. there will be lots more pictures coming over the next several days.

+ roost

+ An Anniversary: Brown Butter Strawberry Cake with Swiss Meringue Cream

+ lentil cakes

http://www.roostblog.com/

+ Ampersand

An ampersand is a logogram representing the conjunction word "and".


source: wiki

+ PEBO by Bodum

Using clear glass on the entire device allows you to see the whole process, as it happens. The heated water creates pressure within the lower chamber, pushing the water up to mingle with the coffee grounds. As it is removed from the heat, the pressure drives the coffee back down through a filter. The resultant rich black coffee resembles brews made with a French press. While the vacuum brewing concept has been around since 1958, Bodum has reintroduced this coffee maker with a more durable and elegant design.
designed to keep the aromatics completely intact in the glass globes as well as extracting all the oils from the beans throughout the brewing process.

text By Ian Mangiardi from gearpatrol.com and werd.com

+ Collage Wallets

Laminated collages folded and hand sewn as wallets. These are sturdy, easy to clean, and each one is different. I make them in various sizes, and a clutch version is in the making designed to hold your money, cards, and an iphone.

compact design





full bill design

+ stool fabrication project

it all started with an idea to use old metal and found pieces for a unique stool. A friend of mine let me dig through piles of scrap metal until i found some 1" square tubing and a big gear for the seat. The steam punk vision was already underway. Here is the chronological process of my chair from rusted tubing to its current appropriation on my back patio. this is my first solo welding project and although it didn't turn out exactly how i planned, I learned alot about the importance of measuring, and writing out a step by step process to keep me from getting a little mixed up. it feels good to create a finished piece i can use and will have around for years to come.

+ Wash Perk hoodie design

this is a hoodie I designed for the Perk depicting cups of coffee, latte art and cafe snacks. my wonderful model is Jonathan and his mom Nancy did our embroidering.

+ may is bike month

National Bike Month is officially here! With longer, milder days, May is a perfect time to recognize bicycling for the multitude of benefits it provides – improving our health, economy, and environment. Here are three ways to make the most of this year’s National Bike Month:

1) Go for a type of bike ride that you normally wouldn’t: If you’re a road rider, try a mountain bike ride. If you’ve never ridden your bike to work, give bike commuting a shot. And if the ride to work isn’t something you can tackle this year, ride your bike to run an errand you would normally do by car, even if it’s just a trip to the coffee shop or ice cream parlor. Remember—forty percent of trips Americans take are two miles or less, an easy bicycling distance.

2) Introduce one other person to bicycling. Whether it’s your partner, a coworker, a family member, or just a friend, help someone find a bike and go for a fun ride. Bicycling is a pretty amazing thing, right? Why not encourage someone else to discover the activity that brings you so much happiness.

3) Participate in one or more National Bike Month events. A list of community rides can be found at the League of American Bicyclists, and here are some key national events:

* National Bike to School Day (May 9)
* CycloFemme, the International Day of Women’s Bicycling (May 13)
* National Bike to Work Week (May 14-18)
* National Bike to Work Day (May 18)
* National Bike Challenge (May 1-August 31)

This May and this summer should be an amazing time for bicycling in America. An increasing percentage of our national leaders recognize bicycling as a simple solution for transportation challenges, jobs and economic development, and health and obesity issues. Communities are investing in bike lanes and paths more than ever, helping bicycling to become safer and stress-free. We encourage you to take advantage of these new places to ride by participating in National Bike Month!
Happy riding,
The PeopleForBikes.org crew

+ bic pen drawings

Artist Sarah Esteje



http://abadidabou.tumblr.com/

+ word of the day

Perigee.
Perigee is the point at which an object makes its closest approach to the Earth.[1] Often the term is used in a broader sense to define the point in an orbit where the orbiting body is closest to the body it orbits.[1] The opposite is the apogee, the farthest or highest point. A "supermoon" is the coincidence of a full moon (or a new moon) with the closest approach the Moon makes to the Earth on its elliptical orbit, or perigee.

+ wish list

200$. made in LA. castofvices.com

+ the Oaks

LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (Reuters) - Rosie Napravnik became the first woman jockey to win the Kentucky Oaks when she steered Believe You Can to victory in the 138th running of the three-year-old fillies' classic on Friday at Churchill Downs.

text: http://www.chicagotribune.com
pic from : http://sports.yahoo.com/rah/photo?slug=057875f13e67a1d99425df701b1b76bd-getty-143837052

+ beet box

at the Wash Perk, we get denvers best donuts delivered to us every week. these handmade, baked vegan donuts are delicious.

Where to Find them in denver:
Pablo’s Coffee, Wash Perk, Paris on the Platte, Sweet Action Ice Cream, The Queen Anne Bed & Breakfast, Fluid Coffee Bar, Crema Coffee House, Hooked on Colfax, Yellow Feather Coffee, Coffee at the Point, and Dragonfly Coffee and Tea.

for wholesale orders: (303) 332-7963.
www.beetboxdenver.com/

+ land art by Cornelia Konrads

German-based artist Cornelia Konrads creates incredible site specific installations using the materials naturally available to her at that particular location – be it branches, rocks or even snow.

The results are mind-blowing. Her pieces seem to defy the rules of gravity and create the illusion that things are starting to disintegrate before your eyes.

info sited: http: demilked.com/land-art-installations-cornelia-konrads/
artist website: cokonrads.de

+ Bregenz Festival

Seebühne (or floating stage), with 7,000 seats, is the location for large-scale opera or musical performances on a stage over water on the shores of Lake Constance in Bregenz, Austria. Bregenzer Festspiele (Bregenz Festival) is a performing arts festival which is held every July and August in Bregenz, Austria. The festival has become renowned for its unconventional staging of shows. Verdi’ s opera “A Masked Ball” performed at Seebühne in 1999 featured a giant book being read by a skeleton.



http://www.bregenzerfestspiele.com

+ chusen Tenugui

Chusen is a traditional japanese dying method and Tenugui is simply ‘a piece of dyed cotton cloth’.


factory workshop , a photo by sillyhancox on Flickr.

+ Hiroko Takahashi is a artist and designer who makes moern kimonos. she works with exceptional craftsmen to achieve uniquely dyed fabric, using an ancient japanese technique called chusen.


Tenugui by HIROCOLEDGE use the traditional dyeing method called “chusen,” where you pour the dye over the fabric.

Hiroko is actively involved in the manufacturing, and she even dyes some of the fabrics herself.
http://pingmag.jp/2008/12/12/hirocoledge/


+ this site illustrates the entire process in a factory in japan

http://spacetothinkdesign.wordpress.com/2010/04/28/the-making-of-‘chusen’-tenugui/

+ daily bunny

from timoneil on dailybunny.org

+ book binding

these are photos of some bookmaking tools i used in my process along with the pre binding of the book cover.

+ a Celebration of Bees

this is the finished book i made this month in 2D Design class. photos of the cover and introductory pages.