Carl Kleiner's...

...photos are so beautiful. The top few are from his diary, but his main page is equally delightful showcasing pictures like the bottom one. Ethereal and dreamily surreal. Lovely. Plus I really really really want my whole house to be covered in colour co-ordinated bookcases.

http://www.carlkleiner.com

Sexy People

I don't care if it's old news! I hadn't been on the Sexy People blog in a while and the few minutes of renewed joy it gave me, as im so so nearly at the end of my essay but really not, were invaluable.

i want to paste my walls with these beauties

Faber & Faber

I've got my eye on a delightful hardback set of 6 poetry classics Faber & Faber have released for their 80th birthday, including Sylvia Plath and John Betjeman, each with a cover and end-paper created by a different printmaker; Paul Catherall, Peter Lawrence, Joe McLaren, Clare Curtis, Heaney Nick Morley and Mark Hearld.

They're all absoloutly gorgeous and i love that F&F are promoting works by these amazing artists. Nicely enough, i've found an article covering this on the creative review website with individual close ups of some of the books and their end-papers to whet your appetites.

http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2009/april/fabers-80th-anniversary-poetry-covers

picture courtesy of design sponge
http://www.designspongeonline.com/2009/06/faber-poetry-covers.html

i hate dogs

i feel a bit uncomfortable and at a bit of a loss. and increasingly nervous in case i get nearly attached by that twat of a dog. so this is what it has come to? great. and i could so nearly have got my mac today. what. the. fuck. what's a brother got to do? safe to say im in one of my moods again. Im listening to the Walkmen which although lovely, isn't really helping.

Obscure Shoreditch

first post of work for a while. this is for a identity project for one of the stations on the soon to be opened east london line. my concept was based around the obscure stories throughout history on my chosen station, shoreditch; the 207 year old man, links between shoreditch church, shakespeare and the nursery rhyme 'oranges and lemons' and the fake/black market trade (focusing on watches). i like the photo but im a bit sick of this project to be honest. 5 weeks is a long time. hopefully a couple of days of not looking at it while allow me to look at it with fresh eyes allowing me to do something halfway decent with it.

i need to snap out of this yo. over and out.

The Art of Looking Sideways

I got this lovely gem of a book for christmas and am still only a pitiful 35 pages into it.