AFFIRMATIVE

Most irritating to find myself on the wrong side of the Atlantic (again) from Build’s pop-up shop, where Yes, another in their Word Power series of typographic prints will be on sale May 9.

PET PROJECT

Being mindful of animal cruelty is neither obsessive nor compulsive, but I have to applaud  “100% vegan and cruelty-free” Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics  for broaching a serious issue (or two?) with humor. And this color is nice, too.

Light Meal

The UK fashion and housewares designer/retailer Toast, has made its name with a carefully curated selection of high-quality, low-flash products–like this homemade, preservative-free marmalade and its equally unassuming label.

SHOW BOAT

 

It should be called Ark, but this boat-shaped bench (or table, I’d think) is called Arc, and whilst everything about it–from its reductive beauty to its pale wood (oak), to the sheepskin rug–says it’s Scandinavian, it’s the masterwork of the Dutch furniture designer Bertjan Pot.

Seeing Eye

Making use of both Ben-Day dots and the tactile dots of braille, an amazing–and amazingly subtle–postage stamp issued by Ireland in 2009, commemorating the 200th birthday of Louis Braille.

Afterglow

Oh, to have an extra $60,000 on hand to buy this fiery red neon text work by the French artist and filmmaker, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster. It’s glowingly on sale right now at Artspace.

UMBRELLA PLAN

Surely Javier Jaen Benavides must have known that his gem of an illustration for the The New York Times (accompanying the review of a book entitled Umbrella, fittingly enough) was bound to make an appearance on this site.

ADDED COLOR

A ceramic trivet from the Australian retailer, Country Road. Pretty yellow.

REVELATION

A lovely illustration for the Washington Post Magazine’s 2012 year-end issue, which recounted the lives of 6 recently deceased local citizens, by the Berlin-based studio, Ariane Spanier Design.

 

TABLE FOR 6

 

Must Say this is a sumptuous number 6, screened onto a porcelain plate at Do, the shop at Tokyo’s Hotel Claska.