Woo hoo! New feature time! Check out Five for Friday at the end of every week— Design for Mankind will be featuring the thriftiest finds on the web— all under five bucks! Perfect for an early weekend mini-celebration, and won’t break the bank! Today’s Five for Friday is from Lertsis, available right here at Dawanda.
I met Elsa Mora (Elsita) through her lovely photos at Flickr and was instantly obsessed. Elsa has the most fabulous eye for all things beautiful, and I just love visiting her recent photos on a daily basis. Best part? She’s an INSANE artist. INSANE. And in my head, INSANE is sort of like calling someone
Just wanted to send a HUGE congratulations to my dear friend Lisa Solomon on her upcoming excerpt from Illustration Play, a FANTASTIC book published by Victionary Press. I’ll let Lisa explain the deets: Illustration Play explores new trends in handcrafted illustration, each of which lends a welcome departure from digitally generated graphics. In a bold
Shelly Leer (a.k.a. Upholstery GODDESS) just sent me over her most recent DIY project and I am LOVING the result. A boring Goodwill coffee table was given the ultimate makeover and is now a decorator’s dream bench! She was kind enough to write out step-by-step instructions for the textile-deficient (read: me). Thank you, Shelly—- FANTASTIC
“one little, two little, three little specimens…” $29 from Wondercabinet.
Plover’s already made the rounds via Irene and Victoria, but I had to put in my two cents, for what it’s worth: It just hit me that I’ve been on such an art kick lately (you know, for like eight months) that I’ve been neglecting my love affair with textiles. It’s quite unwarranted, really; I
Woo hoo! It’s fashion forward time! If you’re unfamiliar with this little Design for Mankind tradition, here’s the skinny:1. Cute outfit.2. Cute room.3. Cute outfit feeds cute room. Cute room feeds cute outfit.4. Room and outfit blue into total cuteness, together as one. Make sense? Good. Let’s play: Need a breakdown? Here goes: THE ROOM:
Gracious, this gal’s got talent. I’ve been eyeing Lindsay’s ‘Be My Guest’ print ever since she emailed me last week and introduced me to her lovely work. I just can’t get over how perfect it is. Lindsay’s art is equal parts cute and trendy. If you’re into that sort of thing, that is, and you