REEL LIFE

 

 

F.  Ron Miller eloquently captures the black-and-white desolation of the 1971 film, The Last Picture Show, on packaging for Criterion Collection.

TIME WARP

 

 

Arthur Getz’ 1955 cover of The New Yorker.

RED ALERT

 

 

This oh-so-cleverly manipulated image by Christian Beirle González has been making the rounds. Maybe I’m not the only one looking for a bit of architectural magic in the guise of a straight line.

CROSS REFERENCE

 

 

Pia Wallen’s fixation with the cross form (this is a wool pot mat) may match my own.

NATURAL HISTORY

 

Barbara Gallucci gives Robert Indiana’s LOVE a green makeover.

WORDY

 

A 1988 photograph by the Parisian photographer Bettina Rheims.

BOWL MOVE

The Japanese industrial designer, Sori Yanagi, who died this week, attained design immortality with his 1956 plywood Butterfly Stool, now a staple of museum design collections. But he made other, more humble objects, too. Like this simple, white porcelain rice bowl.

CHEMICAL REACTION

 

 

Has neon ever been this exquisitely rendered?  And who could resist the pitch-perfect blue–and air of defiance–in this work by the Belgian designer, Rizon Parein?

SWEEPING CHANGE

 

There’s not much innovation to be applied to a broom and dustpan. But then there’s this: the statuesque, dressed-to-the-nines Eva Solo Sweep Up, with extra long handles (no bending required), extra long bristles (gets to all those corners) and the narrowest footprint (the hollow broom handle slides over the dustpan handle).

 

FRESH CROP

 

A beautifully cropped Instagram composition from Swiss designer, Nadja Haldimann.