It’s not every day that a 62 year-old female director makes the cover of Time magazine, and rarer still for a memorable piece of copy to find its way there. But this week’s Time goes arty and literary (though I really, really wish they had let that excellent headline stand alone).
Must hand it to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Diffusing the gravitas and reverence of the great Vincent’s public image is no easy feat. But they’ve cleverly managed it with the subtle humor of this ad campaign for the museum cafe–which features a still life image that’s, well, almost perfect.
The plus sign-shaped slot on this piggy bank caught my attention. The matte white and abstracted form are quite fine, too.
Turkey, bacon, gruyere cheese, tomato, iceberg lettuce, and dijon mayonnaise. Sounds like a New Yorker to me. The sandwich, that is, being offered by the London cafe chain, Benugo, which has just undergone a branding makeover that includes cute visuals, like this poster.
Bicycle handlebar grips were the inspiration for these LED torches (flashlights) designed by the British designer Alexander Taylor. And Yves Klein blue (and a variety of other vibrant hues) will stand out nicely in a sea of generic tools.
A new twist on a traditional rosary: wooden beads strung on a leather cord, from Méchant Design.
Dwell Studio bills this Pinwheel rug as kids’ stuff, but grown-up me wouldn’t one bit mind having its graphic cheeriness underfoot.
This hand-crafted steel floor lamp by the French manufacturer Jielde is worthy of a slot on any design enthusiast’s bucket list. It’s on mine, in any case.
The New York Times seems to be getting bigger–and better, I say–lately. They gave uncharacteristically large prominence to a Barbara Kruger text piece a few weeks back, and yesterday Anthony Burrill got the two-page spread treatment.
