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maps / doilies

Ellie — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:21:41 +0000

I’m quite enamored with these cut out maps from studiokmo – they make me think of spiders webs or a really modern version of a doily… The time and craft that’s gone into them is stunning.found via designverb

dead line

Ellie — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:51:50 +0000

Its all over twitter at the moment, a great uni project in postit animation

Park Stories

Ellie — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:41:29 +0000

How lovely are these park stories published by Royal Parks? There’s one for each on London’s Royal Parks, and there perfect for a quick read in your lunch hour. The covers designs have a lovely paper cut feel to them. They would be a bargin at £2 each, if i didn’t feel compelled to buy the whole set! There’s some readings coming up in each of the parks.

Don’t Forget

Ellie — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:07:40 +0000

What makes the little reminders from To Do so good is as much to do with where they are placed as what they say. Lots of things there that i need to remember….

leafy

Ellie — Thu, 21 May 2009 16:19:59 +0000

I think i’m in love with this album artwork for benjamin gibbard, i stumbled across in this book. It’s awesome.

origami, maths and breafast

Ellie — Wed, 06 May 2009 08:33:33 +0000

I knew this would happen, there was no way i could keep on top of blogging our breakfast club!
But last week saw Matt lead a brilliant breafast, and got us all doing a spot of origami.
Whilst we were trying to sort out our valley folds from our pockets folds we learnt about a guy call Robert Lang, who has studied the maths behind origami and uses a program called Treemaker, that can create folding patterns form any 3d model. The results are complex and pretty amazing.
Whilst we’re on the subject, check out these tiny weeny paper cranes on etsy, i may have to make some!

tweenbots

Ellie — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:58:32 +0000

It may be a little late to blogs these, since they already appeared in the metro last week, but who could resist these little helpless robotsand their smiley cardboard faces?

Tweenbots is the brain child of Kacie Kinzer. Each bot can only travel in one direction, and have their desired destination written on a flag. They can only navigate the city with the help of pedestrians they encounter.

I wonder if They would get as far in London as they did in New York?

I look forward to hearing from the next generationof lost robots.

Found

Ellie — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:21:15 +0000

The fascination with hand written and randomly found things continued – fueled by being introduced to this blog by this chap.
Found is all about letters, photos, and hand scribbled notes – carelessly left out and about for people to find and spread all over the internet. There’s some real gems in there.

Happiness

Ellie — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:31:16 +0000

As i’ve mentioned, i like the idea of postcrossing – but you have to give in order to receive!
So, i got the details of a lady who would like a postcard, and a little of idea of what she’s into:

“I love warm weather and summertime. I collect Fortunes from Fortune Cookies!! I have about 500. I love cool colors and Bold colors I love cats, dogs, and other animals. I collect all kinds of postcards, no matter how weird. Please no bugs.”

So, i abandoned the idea of just posting some bugs and set to work thinking about fortunes. This was my favorite fortune i found after a quick google – i hope she sees good things through it.

there’s a lot of it about…

Ellie — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:30:43 +0000

…but i like it. I know that the tactile graphic trend is everywhere, but hey, lets enjoy it while we can. Two lovely things i saw in the gym this morning

This audi ad with plinky plonky folk music

And also this rex the dog music video (love the little puddle of puke)