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Series of 20 sculptures created by <a href="http://www.rongilad.com/">Ron Gilad </a>(<a href="http://www.designfenzider.com/">Designfenzider</a>) entitled </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Each house has been shipped off and sold to his friends, but I just love looking at them all together. Forming an abstract village filled with the people that you love. Today, I am going to think of 20 people that I would include in my village.</span></div>
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Card Trellis - for displaying all those things you just can't seem to throw away and keeping them forever in sight. Designed by <span class="fam_text">
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It is the first day of spring! Let's celebrate! </div>the A + Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07080190826821432055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6381470786611721270.post-4273121201741317682012-03-20T07:00:00.000-05:002012-03-20T07:00:00.286-05:00Martijn Maas<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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TSTO created this for <a href="http://www.grafia.fi/in_english/the_best_of_the_year_competition">Vuoden Huiput</a> (VH) 2010. VH is Finland's yearly design awards for best in advertising and graphics.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Best if I let them describe the process of creating this:</span> "<span style="font-size: x-small;">Together with a programmer we created an application that transformed
any written word or sentence into a rebus, an allusional device that
uses pictures to represent words or parts of words. In English, a rebus
often uses homonyms, as seen in the classic IBM logo consisting of a
picture of an eye, a picture of a bee and the letter M. However,
homonyms are rare in Finnish language, therefore a rebus was constructed
from a list of some 5000 words with the most used syllables and matched
with an image search result from Google." Interesting, huh?</span></div>
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<a href="http://leftloft.com/projects/documenta-13-100-notes-100-thoughts/">Documenta Series 100 Thoughts 100 Notebooks</a>. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Documenta is an international art exhibition that occurs every 5 years and spans 100 days and is filled with contemporary art of all mediums including sculpture, painting, photography and research. Webdesign for the event by </span><a href="http://leftloft.com/projects/documenta13-website/" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Leftloft</a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> and is filled with lots of previews and hours of "looking". Notebooks available at </span><a href="http://www.hatjecantz.de/documenta13/" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hatjecantz</a>.the A + Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07080190826821432055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6381470786611721270.post-61541076529273448452012-03-15T15:00:00.000-05:002012-03-18T21:17:09.442-05:00Czech Republic<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://bohemialiving.cz/"></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There happens to be a new online interior decoration magazine from the Czech Republic called </span><a href="http://bohemialiving.cz/" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Bohemia Living</a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">. I got an email notification that the first issue is out, so I will be checking it out later today. Renata from </span><a href="http://kokino-home.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Kokino Home Blog</a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> is one of the contributors and not only does she have a great blog, but she is such a nice woman as well. Good luck!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is the only picture I have when we were in the Czech Republic. I guess since we were there for only 1 day, 1 picture will suffice. We were able to spend the night at someone's house (which is </span><u style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">always</u><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> nice.....how come Europe has such good manners?). In the morning, everyone left to walk into town and I opted to stay in and gets some peace and quiet. This is the pic I took. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I am in serious need of more book space. Last weekend the <a href="http://mam.org/">Milwaukee Art Museum</a> (to my surprise!) was having their book sale from their private library and this book sale only happens every 2 or 3 years....so, I was in real luck for being there. The books were cheap and plentiful...so that meant buying all the books to your hearts content while trying to remember how you were going to carry these back to the car! Well 30 books later......and I am in need of some space. I just wanted to let USM how beautiful their bookcases are and that I would be great representation of their company! Smile.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How excited I was to see these pictures from </span><a href="http://www.anaserrano.com/index.php?/about-this-site/" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ana Serrano's</a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> installation at Rice Gallery in Houston. Entitled Salon of Beauty, she has recreated her urban environment for all of us to enjoy. I like how her work continually builds on each other. Remember </span><a href="http://www.anaserrano.com/index.php?/projects/cartonlandia/" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cartonlandia</a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">? ..........I was so in awe of that series but to now see her creations in full scale form is even more great!</span></div>
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Mountain top restaurant at ski resort <a href="http://www.ramundberget.se/vinter/">Ramundberget</a>/Sweden.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I love when I can share with you local artists in the community that I live. These antlers were made by </span><a href="http://cassandra-smith.com/" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cassandra Smith</a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">. I am really liking the matte and metallic finish on these! They are cruelty-free shed antlers and are available through her </span><a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/MadeByCassandraSmith?ref=seller_info" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Etsy store</a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> and select stores across the country. Cassandra Smith is also the co-founder of </span><a href="http://www.finelinemag.com/home.html" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Fine Line</a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">, which is an international fine art magazine</span>. <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Check it out!</span></span><br />
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April. Every year the process begins again and each year their rack,
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<i>The duo <a href="http://www.fredericksandmae.com/">Fredericks & Mae</a> (Jolie Mae Signorile and Gabriel Fredericks Cohen) have a knack for taking my favorite materials and making them into little objects of beauty. Using thread, feathers, beads, paint and wood, their projects are humble and beautiful! </i></div>
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