not knowing is most intimate

Dizang asked Fayan, "Where are you going?"

Fayan said, "Around on pilgrimage."

Dizang said, "What is the purpose of pilgrimage?"

Fayan said, "I don't know."

Dizang said, "Not knowing is most intimate."

Days With My Father

A record lovingly kept by Phillip Toledano. Beautiful.

Last time I was in London I made the usual pilgrimage to Magma Books on Clerkenwell Road. They had these really great postcard sets by Yellow Owl Workshop. A set of (4) designs, screen printed by hand on recycled cover stock, presented in a matchbook-style cover. I highly coveted the Analog set (above), but resisted the urge...

yeah

the road is hers

Amylin Loglisci is an artist and photographer with wanderlust.

When she's not on the road, she can be found in her home town of Istanbul.

now this topic is the only thing

Reza Abedini is a highly acclaimed Iranian designer and professor of graphic design and visual culture at Tehran University. Not enough good things can be said about the work that he does. A couple of years ago Reza edited the book, New Visual Culture of Modern Iran.

"I have been thinking about graphic design and visual identity for some years and its relevance to Persian graphic design. Now this topic is the only thing that keeps my mind busy. I have studied different ways and solutions for modern adaptations of Persian type and typography. I also studied Persian visual traditions and painting. But most important for me are Persian type and typography. I think Persian type has been almost ruined over the past years, although it has a glorious history. I hope I will be able to discover ways to use the Persian script in graphic design in the best possible way and bring it back to its glorious days and height. I believe that is the only way Persian graphic design can find its own true identity." -- Reza Abedini

hedi slimane

Just stumbled across this photograph by Hedi Slimane and it stopped me in my tracks. And if you don't already, know about him.

buddhist tendencies

My friend Robert is an architect and teaches architecture. He recently set his students the task of designing a structure for 'a buddhist with modern tendencies' - an assignment that kind of caught my fancy. Being more of a decorator than a designer, I'd be up for taking a shot at the interior/exterior, even though it's oh so difficult to avoid some of the cliches that are often associated with the practise. Needless to say, the materials would be eco-friendly and the home self-sustainable, incorporating recycled surfaces.

1. Corrugated apartment block 2. Suspended fireplace 3. Tiled hole in the wall 4. Girl cave 5. Outdoor bath tub 6. Bare plaster walls 7. Maui chairs by Terry Dwan for Riva 1920 8. Indoor shower with mosaic Bisazza tiles 9. Outdoor bath tub 10. Lamper Head in South Devon 11. Padded couch 12. Grass tiling 13. Stockholm Kallbadhus* 14. Love Changes Everything 15. Shaker weave & joints

*Stockholm Kallbadhus is a proposal for a public outdoor bath which is completely passive, iconic and sustainable (and located in the central harbour of the city).

Gocco art print by Orange Beautiful on Etsy.

1. Found sketch 2. Necklace by Elva Fields 3. YSL cuff

4. Brigitte Bardot & Jane Birkin

“Do not ask yourself what the world needs;

ask yourself what makes you come alive.

And then go and do that.

Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
~ Howard Thurman

A Woman's appetite is twice that of a man's;

her sexual desire, four times;

her intelligence, eight times."

~ Sanskrit Proverb

when the night comes

matchbook art

diving alongside

Polaroid art by Meghan Colson, currently studying studio art and advertising at Michigan State University.

look closer

Keri Smith's How To Be An Explorer Of The World

ka-boom

Never give a pretty girl a hand grenade...

Posted on For The Love Of Type ~ work for the Print Matters exhibition. A little bit of Hoefler Text Italic, ten illustrations and 3 hours worth of hand-sewn binding, it folds into a neat 150mm x 150mm book.

rark!

From Mrs Eaves' blog For The Love Of Type...