Category: Inspiration

Influencers

Influencers is “a short documentary written and directed by Paul Rojanathara and Davis Johnson.  The film is a Polaroid snapshot of New York influential creatives (advertising, design, fashion and entertainment) who are shaping today’s pop culture.”  It’s not a masterpiece, but it has some interesting ideas, and if you love New York as much as I do, you’ll enjoy the drool-worthy shots of the city and its neighbourhoods.

If you have 1.5 minutes, watch the trailer below.

If you have 5 minutes, play around on the film’s website.  It’s one of the best Flash websites I’ve seen in a while (and I don’t usually like Flash websites).  http://www.influencersfilm.com

If you have 13 minutes, watch the actual film in its entirety: http://www.influencersfilm.com/#/Film

INFLUENCERS TRAILER from R+I creative on Vimeo.

Font Day at Design*Sponge

Swoon!  It’s “font day” over at Design*Sponge.  Check out these typography-inspired posts:

Interviews with type designers Jesse Ragan, Louise Fili and Jessica Hische

Grace’s favourite fonts

Best of: Fonts in Homes

And my favourite, Typographic Home Decor

I heartily encourage you to slack off for a few minutes and check this stuff out.

[img: Type art in home of Fossil art director Shay Ometz. From the Fonts in Homes post]

Favourite Things: Uppercase Mag

I have a bit of a problem with magazines.  I’m kind of obsessed.  I have subscriptions to 8 magazines that are delivered to the house (Oprah, Chatelaine, Toronto Life, Fashion, Wired, Spacing, Canadian House & Home, and Uppercase), and when I’m out, I’ll often pick up others on the newsstand (The New Yorker, Budget Travel, Vanity Fair, Ready Made, Dwell, Style at Home and New York Magazine are often found lying around here).  Oh, and don’t even get me started on the online magazines I read.

But without a doubt, my favourite magazine right now is Uppercase.  Uppercase is a gorgeous, award-winning, proudly Canadian magazine about design, illustration, and a bunch of other creative stuff.  I love the content of most magazines, but the design is also very important to me.  Uppercase is a perfect mix of gorgeous layout and design.  Even the paper it’s printed on is spectacular.

I used to get HOW magazine (subject: print design) for creative inspiration, but Uppercase inspires me more.  And I used to get Domino magazine (before it went under), and Uppercase has interviews and showcases of quirky people and their interiors, filling the void left by Domino.

Uppercase Issue 7 just came out (there are 4 annually) and I should get my copy in the mail any day now.  I’m really excited…

Wallpaper Picks & Resources

The wallpaper trend in interior design is still going strong, and my desire to do a “feature wall” with wallpaper is pretty high.  But what room?  What wall?  What pattern?  What colour?  These wallpaper picks and resources from Canadian House and Home and Design*Sponge (plus this special roundup of wallpapers under $100) might help me pick…

[image above of Feather wallpaper from Fern Living]

Domino Archives Online

Do you miss Domino magazine as much as I do?  I read other quirky lifestyle/design magazines online and in print, but none of them seem to fill the void left by Domino.  I have a few issues that I saved, but definitely not all of them, so I was thrilled to read that you can find 25 great Domino articles archived online on the Brides.com website.  Click here to see the list of available articles.

October Desktop Wallpaper

What wallpaper is on your computer desktop?  I like to change mine up at least once a month.  I usually check to see what’s available over at Smashing Magazine (their wallpapers for October can be found here) or the featured monthly wallpaper at Design*Sponge.  This month though, I’m going in a different direction, and trying to choose between:

1. A photo I took of Laguna Beach on our recent holiday

2. A hilarious and relevant tidbit from Good Fucking Design Advice

3. My friend and design-partner Kinnon Elliott’s original illustration for October (pictured above)

Maybe I’ll go with all three, and change ’em up when I feel like it…

Kitchens to Drool Over

Ian and I are in the first stages of planning a massive kitchen reno in our house (many more details about that to come).  So I’ve had kitchens on the brain, and when I saw this roundup of Michael Robinson’s photography on Desire To Inspire, my jaw dropped.  He photographs lots of different interiors, but his kitchen photographs are amazing.  Give yourself a 10 minute break and check out Robinson’s portfolio of images on his website.  You’ll be house-jealous and inspired, I guarantee.

Tiny Super Awesome Model World

For the new Chillout Sessions album (version 12), Australia-based Collider created a tiny super awesome model that they call “a homage to Frank Lloyd Wright and Neutra and the lifestyles their buildings accommodated, Chillout Sessions XII takes us to a fusion of time periods somewhere between the 50s and the 80s in the filtered light of California.”

I want to play with it.  And live inside it.