PH stationery

 

the wonderful papierlabo has collaborated with high tide to create PH stationery line.

o-check

they have popped up around about the place a little bit, but i still can't resist asking the question: how much do i like these o-check hot air balloon gift cards?

this much

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i am inspired to send hellos to people far away and close to home.

via the designfiles competition. available in australia here, which was featured on insideout here. and this wonderful hello sandwich post brings it all together!

melisande's tessellations

i have been meaning to show melisande's origami tessellations for a long time now. amazing.
sorry, i am sure i first saw these somewhere but i really can't remember where.
also see a previous post on ee-tee's beautiful origami.

i find myself a bit busy and mildly unmotivated...hmmm....that must mean i have started classes again:)

paper love

papier laboです。

and the papier labo blog, it is wonderful. art of paper. letterpress, font and typography heaven. (this is where i found community garden zine.)

and as a strong believer in animal rights, i like this papier labo postcard collaboration with mike mills' 'humans' project. that link also has a nice summary of who papier labo are. and mike mills is just incredibly great all round.

and 8tokyo has some photos of inside their sendagaya shop.

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i really admire the blog of gotasalviento, to me every post shows a truly beautiful aesthetic.

above via gotasalviento the joys of james d. griffoen photography (top) and mike mills fashion with photos by takashi homma (bottom). and more gotasalviento selects below.

(also have a look see at an imaginary band)

via lovely japanese online store quico

above: works of noriko ambe

above: drawings and photographs by gotasalviento
andreas gefeller

carl kleiner. via fffound.

above three: images from hasisi park. her blog. her site.

space house via designboom

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

mobile inspiration

brainforest. 2004. 21st century museum of modern art, kanagawa japan

i caught the final day of the gerda steiner and jorg lenzlinger waterhole installation at acca in melbourne on sunday. it was amazing. the most beautiful part for me was lying on the bed under the suspended mobile made of  sticks and collected plants and recycled bits. it was so peaceful to watch it slowly, slowly spin above me while the intricately fragile shadows played on the ceiling and walls, as if moved by my own breath.

and so i look to mobiles. on etsy of course. 

acca installation

 above from etsy seller lilimandrill

etsy seller pukapuka

etsy seller beckaboo

also i like these origami animal cards by etsy seller georgiafox

cibi wonder

oh me oh my.

cibi brings a little bit of the best parts of japan to the backstreets of collingwood, and for that i am so very thankful. tasty, homestyle set menu breakfast and lunch plates with grilled salmon for those inclined toward meat, or kabocha nibitashi (pumpkin cooked in a broth seasoned with soy and sugar) and tamogoyaki (rolled omlette) for the herbivores. a beautiful daikon, wakame and cucumber tsukemono flavoured with shiso (see the glossary there on the side bar for the english versions of these) was a taste sensation and the miso soup so hearty.

and then there is the sun pouring through the massive warehouse windows in the semi-industrial space. and to top it all off, the artisan japanese items for sale in the rear. one discovery amongst the carefully edited items on sale was cochae. cochae are an 'origami graphic trio' whose collage origami i really like. they also have wonderful works in printed design and their flyer designs are great. in a serendipitous spotting when looking through their graphic works, i saw they did a flyer for a tenniscoats gig in japan; tenniscoats are a japanese duo who recently played in melbourne at the toff, and they were wonderful.

happy days.