UNDER LINES

Sydney’s ANZAC bridge isn’t as famous as its more frequently photographed Sydney Harbour Bridge, but still shows off some fine lines when viewed from a car window.

APOLOGIES

If my blog postings have been few and far between during the last few weeks, it’s only because I’ve been in the southern hemisphere, where the pace of life is considerably less frantic than it is in New York.  Judging from this message on a wall, someone in the Sydney suburb of Newtown may have read my thoughts.

GOOD QUESTION

Suburban graffiti, Blue Mountains, Australia.

AUSTRALIAN OPEN

A charming wooden, stenciled store sign I came across yesterday in Katoomba, a town in the Blue Mountains of Australia.

OP ART

 

Fresh, Creative and Inspiring Photographs.  How about artful, sublime and thoroughly deflating (to pretenders like me)?

PERFECT TIMING

 

Continue Time is a “kinetic artwork and fully functional clock.”  Now, if only that pure and lovely, white Eames shell chair came along with it…

LETTER MAN

 

 

An example of the exquisite hand-lettering mastered by Alexander Girard, from the The Compound Restaurant in Santa Fe.

BOOK SMART

Forget those worn-out bookmarks.  These sticky page markers are considerably more memorable, courtesy of Bob’s Your Uncle.

ANIMAL FARM

An astoundingly beautiful, inventive, intelligent and humane solution for a petting farm in the Netherlands.  70F Architecture, who clearly don’t believe that architecture should benefit only people, are the designers.

IN CHARGE

The design studio Bluelounge is amassing an impressively-designed collection of organizational products for the perpetually-connected.  This sleek, Apple-esque box, presciently named, The Sanctuary, allows for a single port where phones, digital cameras, media players and most any device can be kept charged in orderly fashion. Not surprisingly, it recently garnered a 2009 I.D. Magazine design award.