spring fever

"It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want - oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!" ~ Mark Twain

''Go after her. Fuck, don't sit there and wait for her to call, go after her because that's what you should do if you love someone, don't wait for them to give you a sign cause it might never come, don't let people happen to you, don't let me happen to you, or her, she's not a fucking television show or tornado. There are people I might have loved had they gotten on the airplane or run down the street after me or called me up drunk at four in the morning because they need to tell me right now and because they cannot regret this and I always thought I'd be the only one doing crazy things for people who would never give enough of a fuck to do it back or to act like idiots or be entirely vulnerable and honest and making someone fall in love with you is easy and flying 3000 miles on four days notice because you can't just sit there and do nothing and breathe into telephones is not everyone's idea of love but it is the way I can recognize it because that is what I do. Go scream it and be with her in meaningful ways because that is beautiful and that is generous and that is what loving someone is, that is raw and that is unguarded, and that is all that is worth anything, really.''

"The love that we will never make together is the most beautiful, the most violent, the most pure, the most heady."

(Serge Gainsbourg)

lehel kovacs

Just stumbled across Lehel Kovacs work. Lehel is a freelance illustrator based in Budapest, and his hand-drawn line works are usually combined with digitally created colors (he also makes screen prints). In one online interview, when asked how he got started in design, Lehel answers "When I was a kid I just loved the taste of pencils, so that was a first impression which made me fall in love with it and it's still my favorite medium to work with."

Illustrated with technical pen, frame by frame. Created by Parkour, a graphic design degree student living in Singapore.

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.