Paper thin armour // Morana Kranjex

I sometimes think that if I could change something about my wedding day, I would wear a paper dress instead. As much as I loved the frock I did adorn, a paper one would be perfectly fitting for a once-worn white coated affair don't you think?! It could be then hung up on the wall as a piece of art. (I comfort myself with the knowledge that the dress would probably be the cause of a million papercuts throughout the night and would end up a bloody mess... though perhaps these black masterpieces are the answer?!)

Morana Kranjec is a Croatian textile and fashion artist who creates incredible armour-like dresses from folded paper. Though they don't look all that comfortable they are intricately beautiful and are oh so striking. It's impossible to see where they begin and end.

loving these links

+ The 3-dimensional confetti DIY that could double as a wall display (above)

+ Amazing and mind boggling 'screengrab' video by Willie Witte. Ten team points if you can explain to me how it was done!

+ A new exhibit at MoMA, titled 'rain room' which simulates rain in all the areas of the room that you are not. So you can stand drip-free in your own private little cocoon. I'd like to sit there all day.

+ This cute and clever book vase from Japan

+ Another super cute video, this time showing a brief history of type. A must-see for students and type aficionados alike.

I'm looking forward to meeting and listening to some talented and friendly blog folks this weekend at the Voices of 2013 launch. I'll be honest, part of me is quite nervous, it's sometimes kind of scary stepping out from behind the screen into the big real world (please come and say hi if you're going too)

Hope you all have a super fabulous weekend whatever adventures you may be having.

Print of the day // Blink Designs

What could be better than a rainbow on your wall?
It's on my little ones wish list (by my recommendation obviously. hehe)

NSS fever // Uppercase Stationery Guide

If you love stationery, wish that you were going to the National Stationery Show or even (lucky duckies) are going to go, then you need to read the Uppercase Magazine Stationery Guide. It's available as a digital file and contains loads of good stuff - profiles of 50 companies, q&a's for those interested in getting into the business and other excerpts from their latest magazine (which is ace in its own right btw)

A few of my personal faves...

Pasta prints // Dawn Tan

These divine pasta-lovin prints were designed by super talented foodie illustrator Dawn Tan and printed at the Hungry Workshop studios. The process through her photos is gorgeous to watch and I share the enthusiasm when she speaks of the magic of letterpress. My kitchen wall demands that beauty of a blue one!

Happy Supermum Day

A very happy mothers day to all mums around the world. I feel so blessed to be part of the team. An extra specially HUGE hug for my amazing mum. Such an inspiration to me in so many ways and a more loving one I could not dream up!  thanks mumbo xxx

+ card by my mini genius (with a little help from his dad!)

National Stationery Show Teasers

As I start to see some trickles of goodness set for the National Stationery Show (19-22nd May), I turn a little bit green... but with a healthy serving of excitement on the side. These two sneaky peaky previews are already setting the bar pretty high.

Hammerpress's hand drawn badge series is all kinds of fabulous...



And as usual Hello Lucky! is cute and fun and pretty near perfect...



Looking forward to seeing more during and after the show from those lucky enough to be rolling in the papery aisles.



+ Hello Lucky! photos via Poppytalk. See more there if you like it here

kids coats // little goodall

I'm pretty excited about winter now and strangely a large part of that reason is that kids wear wooly, cuddly coats. There is something about miniature coats that just makes my cheeks dimple. Little hands poking out, hoods on little heads and all the more squeezable little bundles of warm! These coats by Little Goodall are possibly too ridiculously cute (can something be tooo cute?!) Incredible right?!



They don't come cheap though... so until I hit lotto, this little yellow fishermans coat will have to suffice for our little lion. I think he quite likes it too (I dont think I'll show him the other options!)

cardboard camera kit

The camera shown here is not infact a plastic fantastic/gun metal old school camera as you may initially think... but a fully functioning camera made completely of cardboard. It is a medium format style pinhole camera. I have only ever taken one photo with a pinhole camera (and it was far from brilliant) but it is probably my proudest photo. No trickery. No machinery. Just the sun, a film and some lucky guesswork. Pinhole photography is the home of the happy accident.



This project is by UK designer Kelly Angood and is now on the home straight to be a real life product thanks to many a keen bean camera buff via Kickstarter (such a damn tooting excellent way to fund an idea!). It has been designed, screenprinted and is soon available for sale as a flatpack shipped right to your door. It's not too late to pick yourself up one of the first ones by pledging 30 GB squids here.



A few fabulous looking photos I found via this pinhole flickr group.


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Long live the bookshelf (& the books)

A world without books would be a very sad place and a house without books is simply not a home. (That isn't a quote from a fancy old famous person. Just my head) The following images are from the fabulous Bookshelf Porn site... aren't these spaces just in-cred-ible!!!



Having an 18 month old bambino who can already operate an ipad on his own (yep, unlock it, swipe to the page with his trucks game on it and select a course. eek!) is really making me think about the future of print and how the world is going to be for him in 20 years time. I can't imagine a world without books (and thoroughly hope I never witness it) but maybe that makes me non-progressive?! I dream that the image below is going to be how my home looks to the outside world... when I'm a grumpy old bookaholic!