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Let's Get Lost by Shaun Sundholm.

Shaun says "This project is the firstborn child conceived from a life-long love affair with photography and typography. The photo series was shot at an abandoned (and rumored to be haunted) ranch in central Oregon and the type was inspired by my early days as a screen-printer. These pieces complete the sentences that the pictures and the words could never quite say on their own."

sparks & stars

Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party from William Castleman on Vimeo. How much does this make you want to hit the road and head for somewhere in the middle of nowhere tonight, to just lay flat on your back and gaze upwards until the early hours? It's a time lapse video of the night sky as it passes over the 2009 Texas Star Party in Fort Davis, Texas. The galactic core of Milky Way is brightly displayed. Images were taken with a 15mm fisheye lens.

tagged

The New York Stationery Show is under way... here are a some of the wares on offer... mini gift tags by Sesame Letterpress.

everything's okay

Everything's Okay from Natalie Perkins's drawing set.

michael fragstein

I am a big fan of Michael Fragstein's work. Here's a music video he made for the band Hitboutique from Stuttgart. I think you know the song. Michael Born was born in Poland, studied architecture and design in Stuttgart and Lisbon, and co-founded Büro Achter April in Stuttgart.

milan design week 0*9

Dutch design studio Muurbloem decorated the streets of the Tortona area of Milan with sand during the last day of the Milan Furniture Fair to highlight its work in pattern-making and wall art.

For Moooi, the all-women Front Design team digitized a Royal Delft vase with three-dimensional software and distorted it so that it looks like it's blowing away in a gust of wind.

Teresa Sapey Lights Via Monte Napoleone With Her Paper Lantern...

poet laureate

Today Carol Ann Duffy became the first woman poet laureate of Great Britain, and the first openly gay poet laureate. I celebrate this day, and I celebrate her wonderful body of work. I am a better woman myself for having read and digested her words. Here's her poem Valentine:

Not a red rose or a satin heart.
I give you an onion.
It is a moon wrapped in brown paper.
It promises light
like the careful undressing of love.
Here.
It will blind you with tears
like a lover.
It will make your reflection
a wobbling photo of grief.
I am trying to be truthful.
Not a cute card or a kissogram.
I give you an onion.
Its fierce kiss will stay on your lips,
possessive and faithful
as we are,
for as long as we are.
Take it.
Its platinum loops shrink to a wedding-ring,
if you like.
Lethal.
Its scent will cling to your fingers,
cling to your knife.