because lately the roses and the wattle smell so good as i walk down my street.
Monday, March 30, 2009
Sunday, March 29, 2009
atelier bow-wow house tower
house tower by atelier bow-wow. the balloon chandelier, just brilliant.
designboom says here:
"they call their work 'da-me' (no good) architecture, strongly concerned about those urban spaces in tokyo that have been disregarded and considered unimportant or irrelevant, and have focussed their efforts on researching and designing small hybrid architectural structures which they define as 'pet architecture."
atelier bow-wow books:
all below images from atelier bow-wow site
Thursday, March 26, 2009
embroidery
my keibunsha book of the week this week has been number two in the mina perhonen series: embroidery. and this week via the two japan related blogs below, i have discovered amazing embroidery artists (and fall deeper enthralled with the blogging community and the beautiful artists it brings to all). so i thought i would complete the week on an embroidery note. or stitch.
thank you to love you big for the delightful discovery of megan whitmarsh (with original b0000000m.com post here)
all above works by megan whitmarsh
all below works by takashi iwasaki
(see links to websites in main text)
hina aoyama
this is beautiful. paper cutout work by hina aoyama.
the intricately delicate cutout sentences are sometimes autumn haiku by basho, sometimes lettre de voltaire.
hina aoyama's flickr
her book a lace KIRIE
her site
i first saw hina aoyama's work via school of interior design
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
just a (non-design and happiness but japan-related) note:
i am signed up to receive newsletters and notifications from amnesty international. to my understanding and experience, japan does not often receive the spotlight turned on them for human rights transgressions or abuse, which is a very good thing of course.
but this article on Hakamada Iwao caught my eye.
if you are interested in human rights or putting your voice to the call against death penalty in the world, please have a look.
i am signed up to receive newsletters and notifications from amnesty international. to my understanding and experience, japan does not often receive the spotlight turned on them for human rights transgressions or abuse, which is a very good thing of course.
but this article on Hakamada Iwao caught my eye.
if you are interested in human rights or putting your voice to the call against death penalty in the world, please have a look.
humourous desire
by far the best thing for me about this blog is tremendous discoveries of japan likemindedness. just to mention some of the local artists, designers and bloggers i have had the joy to discover in this way are the most amazing melbourne-based designfiles (to whom i thank for first mentioning little ii-ne-kore), hellosandwich, souzou (both of whom have recently done ever so lovely shoutouts to new blog friends) and lepetitflaneur - all of these people are part of what is to me a really wonderful local blogging community that writes, creates and posts with a distinct personal style which speaks to the sensibilities of fans (like me!) of japan-related art, design, craft and general deliciousness.i first saw a mention of the humour fashion site via a nautically-minded lepetitflaneur, and i am so very happy it is now firmly on my fashion radar. above is the bag from wakana koike that le petit flaneur was very fond of and first posted here. below are my picks from the range of fashionistas at humour. (i hope it is not too obvious that i am from melbourne, what with all the black and all.)
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