Whats your dream character? Small and curvy? Tall and strong? Whatever your type, you’ll see the most attractive glyphs in this typographic beauty contest. The ampersand is every typography addict’s favourite ligature, but which font has the best? I searched the world’s font foundries to create a showcase of the most beautiful ampersands, find the one that takes your fancy.

Originally a ligature that combined the letters E and T of the Latin word ‘et’, the ampersand is now a common replacement for the word ‘and’. Its form has evolved over centuries from the more script-like ‘et’ ligature where the letters are clearly visible, to the more stylised character we recognise on our keyboards today. I browsed through 100s of typefaces to find the font with the most unique and flamboyant ampersand designs. Which one is your favourite?

Eloquent JF Pro

Eloquent is a digital revival of the old classic Pistilli Roman. Many regard Pistilli as having the best ampersand of all time with its elegant swashes. You can actually find a free replica of Pistilli which also contains this alternate ampersand glyph under the  character.

Caslon No 337

Some of the most elegant ampersands come from the script era of old style typefaces. Caslon is a great example with its flowing swooshes and strokes.

Baskerville Italic

Baskerville Italic is the go-to ampersand when you want to add a touch of class to your designs. All the hipster typographers either use this glyph as their logo, or have it tattooed on their wrist!

Carmen Fiesta

Carmen Fiesta is a display typeface that looks like it has come straight from the circus, but within the glyph set of wild ornaments and fleurons is a pretty ampersand with elegant ball terminals.

Mastadoni

With a name that combines masthead and didone you know that Mastadoni is going to feature some ultra modern characters. Its ampersand has extra high contrast with some sharp swashes. Be sure to also take a peek at its ugly sister in the italic font.

Campton

Most of the typefaces in this showcase are serifs, but that’s not to say sans-serifs aren’t beautiful. Campton features a minimalist ampersand with some interesting negative space, almost like a broken heart!

Caslon Graphique

Caslon Graphique is a classic originating from 1725 that was ahead of its time. Does anyone else think this ampersand looks like the witch from Snow White, hunched over and offering a poisoned apple? “Go on, take a bite!”

Hera Big

The stylish curves of the Hera Big ampersand look great in all its weights. Bold is shown here, but it also looks gorgeous in ExtraThin.

Miller Display Italic

Like Baskerville, this gem of an ampersand can only be found in the Italic fonts of Miller. There’s also a Small Caps variant that tightens up the proportions.

Reina

Reina’s ornamental swashes give its ampersand a distinctive appearance compared to the usual ball terminals on modern serifs. Check out the engraved variant that almost confuses the eye with harsh black and white shapes.

Fette Fraktur

For a scary blackletter typeface Fette Fraktur has quite a camp looking ampersand! The rest of the font is characterised by hard lines and sharp points, but this character proudly strikes a sassy pose.

Clarendon

Clarendon’s ampersand has the typographic equivalent of the hollywood jawline with its solid slab serif presence and perfectly balanced measurements.

My Darling

The extremely high contrast of My Darling almost breaks this ampersand up into four separate pieces, but the result is a curvaceous design without a single straight line.

Tom’s Roman

The sophisticated script like appearance of Tom’s Roman sends your eyes wandering as you follow the curves right the way around its body.

Thorowgood

If Thorowgood was in human form it would be breaking the Internet every day with that butt!

Milano

Milano’s ampersand is cute and dainty, but also strong and confident. It has that classic chic style that never goes out of fashion.

Chino Display

It’s unusual to see the early ‘et’ style ampersand with such a modern style with broad brush strokes, but it works so well with soft and cuddly Chino Display Ultra.

Carousel

Carousel provides the perfect contrast between broad and thin strokes to give it balanced shape.

Kings Caslon

Kings Caslon is a very similar ampersand to the related Caslon No 337 typeface featured above, but its noble roots make it tall and proud.

Clearface

The Clearface ampersand uses a terminal where the others loop to form a bowl. The result is a trendy character that dares to be different.

Bodoni

Bodoni is a timeless classic that’s smart and professional in its regular format, but can pull off the casual look in italic.

Lust

The seductive curves of Lust make it quite a risqué ampersand. Described by its designer as having the leggy body of a Brazilian supermodel.

Sahara Bodini

Sahara Bodoni is the Pamela Anderson of the typographic world. This is what happens when you take the naturally beautiful Bodoni and go OTT on the cosmetic surgery.

Manhattan

Manhattan’s ampersand is an Art Deco work of art. It prioritises form over function but it’s an interesting sculpture to admire.

Domani CP

The original ‘et’ ligature can be clearly seen in Domani’s ampersand, which is a strange combination of historic script and didone style.

Avia

Avia is a size zero supermodel ampersand. Incredibly beautiful but so thin it looks like its going to break.

Port Vintage

As an experimental didone typeface Port Vintage has multiple experimental ampersands, 7 to be exact. They’re all just as crazy as this one too.

Perla

Perla’s ampersand has such thick and luscious curves it creates even more flowing shapes in the negative space.

Model 4F

The multi-lingual Model 4F typeface has some extravagant characteristics that gives an exotic foreign appearance.

Brenta

Brenta’s ampersand has a classic style with a prominent serif, but its Italic font’s unusual pose really catches the eye with a leg like descender dangling below the baseline.

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Located in Barcelona, Spain, the Tyche Apartment serves as a holiday residence for an Italian family. Designed by CaSA Colombo and Serboli Architecture in collaboration with Margherita Serbol, the property is housed within an Art Nouveau building in Barcelona’s Eixample district. The renovation rendered the original layout’s issue of too many small, separated spaces, isolating both ends of the apartment. The result is a colorful, relaxing home complete with three bedrooms and historical details intact.

In order to make the most of the natural light, the apartment’s layout was completely reconfigured into more usable rooms. Light floods the living room, eating area, and kitchen which has white walls and restored original windows. False ceilings were removed to reveal the Catalan vaults that are a terracotta finish.

Buildings of this era typically had hydraulic tile and the homeowners wanted to reintroduce it after removing the synthetic parquet floors. The new floors have a hexagonal pattern in the center portion of the room in fun, contemporary colors that match the decor.

Overall, the palette throughout is white mixed with soft pastels giving a relaxing vibe.

The pink in the floors matches the pink walls of the kitchen and hallway.

Such a happy kitchen!

Two white bedrooms accented with the same pink line the hallway.

At the end of the hallway, hidden behind a pine facade, is the main bathroom.

A bright sunny yellow is paired with white in the bathroom.

Beyond the sliding door is the master suite which is highlighted by natural wood.

Photos by Roberto Ruiz.

Studio BA designed the new Gartner Innovation Center in Tel Aviv with a young startup feel. The office is located in a 100 year old building which lent itself to the employees working in a fairly open environment with some smaller, more private areas for concentration.

They brought in new, innovative ideas to the traditional space to coincide with the company itself. Parts of the original structure are kept and merged along with newer furnishings, like lighting, 3D printed objects, and geometric design elements.

Bright colors and quirky elements were incorporated, like old bicycles becoming a table base.

While most employees will spend their time at their desk, they included things like chairs with high backs and sides for more privacy.

One of the smaller spaces designed for collaboration between a few employees.

And then this awesome place to work privately!

In London, developers are planning on building a 10-storey high translucent pool that acts both as a bridge between two luxury apartments and as an agoraphobic’s worst nightmare.

Called the ‘Sky Pool’, it comes with protective 8-inch glass and lets swimmers enjoy views from 115-feet up. The world-first structure will be part of the Embassy Gardens development in Nine Elms, where two thousand homes are up for sale. Construction is set to begin next year, with the first turnover of homes expected to be in 2018.

‘My vision for the Sky Pool stemmed from a desire to push the boundaries in the capability of construction and engineering’, said Ballymore Group CEO Sean Mulryan. ‘I wanted to do something that had never been done before’.

‘The experience of the pool will be truly unique; it will feel like floating through the air in central London’, he added.

No need to worry about falling off this spectacular pool though, as we probably won’t even be able to access it anyway with apartment prices start at £602,000 ($940,279). Whew! Good thing we can’t afford scary features like this!

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While many miniature figurine photo projects are quite charming and innocent, Parisian photographer Vincent Bousserez likes to take things to another level, adding a little darkness, nudity and humour to his miniature worlds.

Bousserez, who lives and works in Paris, began his 'Plastic Life' series simply for his own entertainment but he soon grabbed the attention of many admiring fan, and began to exhibit his unusual work at galleries throughout Europe.

From setting up seemingly innocent scenes around nude bottoms and nipples, to planting miniature figurines in the most random of places, doing the darkest of things – you'll enjoy browsing through his photographs of tiny people, all supposedly based on human vices. Plastic Life now enjoys a global cult following, and you can become part of that following by visiting www.vincentbousserez.com.

If you're proud of your home city and you fancy parading that local pride around with you, then Sheffield graphic designer Alex Szabo-Haslam has created a series of unique t-shirts perfect for you.

Citee is a Kickstarter campaign featuring 80 hand-finished t-shirts showing intricately crafted maps of cities all over the world. From Brighton to Berlin, Norwich to New York, there's a t-shirt for you.

Alex explains his thinking behind the project: "I love maps. Whether they show huge cities, small towns, or rural villages, there's something wonderful about maps – the rivers, roads and buildings look beautiful. I've always wanted a set of map t-shirts, but could never quite find the right thing, so I've spent months obsessively creating my own."

Fancy getting your mitts on your home city t-shirt? Check out the list of those featured on Citee t-shirts, and watch this space for the official launch of Alex's new venture – as the Kickstarter campaign was a huge success, and so is going ahead.

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Singapore-based artist Izziyana Suhaimi introduces embroidered accents to her carefully rendered pencil and watercolor illustrations. Patterns of flowers unfold much like a tapestry across the paper canvas creating pieces she refers to as “evidence of the hand and of time.” For her series The Looms in Our Bones Suhaimi focuses mostly on fashion acessories where scarves, hats, and other clothing is depicted in thread, while she also uses the same techniques for more abstract shapes and designs. From her artist statement:

Embroidery for me is a quiet and still act, where each stitch represents a moment passed. The building of stitches then becomes a representation of time passing and the final work is like a physical manifestation of time – a time object. Each stitch is also a recording of the maker’s thoughts and emotions. I enjoy the duality of embroidery, in its movements of stabbing, cutting, covering, building, repairing, taking apart. Every stitch made seems to unfold a story and withhold it at the same time.

You can see much more of Suhaimi’s work here. (via Fubiz)

Way back in 2000 I downloaded a screensaver designed by Yugo Nakamura called DropClock that tied in with your systems’ internal time to create a functional clock face depicting Helvetica numbers dropping into water in slow motion. It was mesmerizing to watch and I kept it running for years. Designer Zelf Koelman took the idea of merging time and liquid a step further by creating Ferrolic, a self-contained clock that literally displays time with liquid. It’s almost exactly what would happen if a digital clock and a lava lamp had a baby.

Ferrolic utilizes ferrofluid—a liquid that becomes strongly magnetized in the presence of a magnetic field—to display recognizable shapes in response to magnets embedded inside the clock’s aluminum frame. The moving blobs look almost alive, a fact not lost on Koelman who refers to them as “creatures.” He shares:

Ferrolic was designed from a strong fascination for the magical material Ferro Fluid. The natural dynamics of this fluid makes that this display bridges the gap between everyday digital screens and tangible reality.

Because the fluid behaves in a unpredictable way, it is possible to give the bodies perceived in the Ferrolic display a strong reference to living creatures. It is this lively hood that enables Ferrolic to show a meaningful narrative like for instance having the creatures play tag. In addition the natural flow of the material, it can be used to form recognisable shapes and characters. Ferrolic uses these both layers in parallel in order to display scenes and transitions in an poetic, almost dance like, choreographed way.

The clocks are a bit of a prototype so far, only 24 of the devices are available at a price of about $8,000 each, making it much more of a limited edition art piece than a consumer-grade alarm clock. You can learn more here. (via Boing Boing, Fast Company)

Producing work since 1974, Japanese artist and jeweler Shinji Nakaba infuses all matter of anatomical forms, skulls, and flowers into what he describes as “wearable sculptures.” The pieces come in all shapes and sizes, but his most prolific series involves human and animal skulls carved from oyster pearls and attached to rings, necklaces, and brooches. In addition to selling pieces through his online shop, Nakaba’s work has been shown at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Museum of Arts & Design in New York, as well as several galleries and museums around Japan. You can see more of his jewelry designs and pearl carvings on his website. (via Colossal Submissions)

A Japanese artist is placing a modern spin on a centuries-old technique, animating Japanese woodblock prints in the style typically reserved for TV show recaps and continuously looping memes. The artist, who who goes by Segawa thirty-seven, uses Adobe Photoshop and After Effects to alter the static images and inlay elements of sci-fi and modern culture—bringing in Segways and alien spaceships into the fixed landscapes-turned-gifs.

Other gifs produced by the artist are far more subtle, one in particular showing a crowded street of people lit by moonlight, their shadows traveling from the right to the left side of the screen as the moon travels through the sky. Another shows a scene of people gazing out the window as a high speed train endlessly rushes by.

You can see more of Segawa thirty-seven’s woodblock print animations on his Twitter. (via Spoon & Tamago) 

Behnisch Architekten took on the radical renovation of a 1930’s traditional home in Stuttgart, Germany and transformed it into a modern, open residence. The project involved blending the original home with a new, modern structure on the second floor which blends seamlessly.

Originally, the house had a double-pitched roof, which Behnisch removed, along with dividing walls to give the interior a more open feel. The 2nd story facade was taken down to make way for the new exterior.

The 2nd story looks to be like a transparent glass box with its floor-to-ceiling windows.

Sustainability was a primary concern with the renovation. To reduce the carbon footprint, they used prefabricated laminated wood and geothermal heat pumps to reduce energy usage.

They also installed triple glazed windows to keep the heat from transferring.

A metal mesh shutter system was used on the top floor to help reduce the amount of UV rays that entered the home and to aid in regulating the temperature inside.

A photos © David Matthiessen for Behnisch Architekten.

Picture this: You’re at work, or hanging out with friends, when you suddenly smell something. And with a flash of panic, you realize… IT’S YOU. Everyone has gone through this, am I right? That horrifying moment when you realize you forgot to wear deodorant.

Well, I just learned a crazy trick: Hand sanitizer will save the day.… Read more

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Innovative outdoor brand Kammok designs really clever, well-made gear for all the adventurers out there. The company takes a look at flora and fauna when it comes to the design of their products in hopes that it reminds us to appreciate the planet’s natural resources and all they have to offer.

Roo + Koala + Firebelly

Besides making cool gear, they’re focused on being socially-conscious as well. They’re a 1% For the Planet member and a certified B-Corp.

Koala

The Koala is a quilt that goes under your hammock bringing you warmth where you might have forgotten about. It’s outfitted with the most advanced heat retention and insulation technologies to keep your warm in the wild.

Roo

Forget sleeping on the ground! Roo is their camping hammock that was inspired by a kangaroo. The design keeps you off the ground and gives you a safe place to rest.

Roo

Roo

Firebelly

Firebelly is a trail quilt that brings you cozy comfort and functionality while you’re in the great outdoors. It’s featherlight making it the perfect blanket to bring when you’re heading out.

Firebelly

Firebelly

Firebelly

If you love all things kawaii and can’t get enough of the Japanese pop culture then the Kawaii Monster Café is sure to fill a gap in your life. Popping up in the fashionable Tokyo district of Harajuku, the café explodes with bright colours, craziness and a large dose of kawaii appeal.

Designed by Japanese visual artist Sebastian Masuda, the café is split into four different zones, each offering their own theme – Mushroom Disco, Milk Stand, Mel-Tea Room and Jellyfish Bar Experiment, with the Sweets-Go-Round as the focal point of the whole café.

As if the cake themed decorations, oversized baby bottle light fixtures and melting macaroon towers weren’t enough, the staff that make up the Monster Girl gang even dress the part. And as for the menu, you can expect to order all kinds of sweet or ‘poison’ delights, rainbow pasta and a monster BLT. The café definitely ticks all the boxes for an immersive Japanese pop culture experience.

Via Design Boom

Mushroom Disco booths

Mushroom Disco booths

Giant milk bottles hang from the ceiling as lights in the Milk Stand zone

Milk Stand

Mel Tea-Room

Melting macaroon tower stands in the corner of the Mel Tea-Room

The Jellyfish Bar Experiment is encased in a glowing ray of jellyfish tentacles

Jellyfish Bar-Experiment

Monster Girls: Baby, Dolly, Candy, Nasty, Crazy

A selection of the rainbow treats

We’ve shared our love of Swedish brand BAUX and their acoustic wall tiles and panels, for not only their sound absorbing qualities but also the really cool and colorful geometric patterns you can create. With forests aplenty in Sweden, it’s only natural that Swedish designers look to them for inspiration and that’s just what the group who formed BAUX did. They felt building materials should be both functional and beautiful without compromising environmental standards. The idea for BAUX tiles and panels came together when they began working with Träullit, a family business that uses cement and wood wool (wood shavings) to make boards and panels. Those two simple materials are the backbone for these environmentally-friendly acoustic components. Let’s have a look at the process in this month’s Deconstruction.

The wood is collected outside the factory in Småland, Sweden. This way, we can minimize the environmental effect since it is local.

The spruce wood is stacked and dried outside the factory.

The spruce is cut into smaller pieces and ground down into wood wool.

The spruce wood wool is then ready to be blended with water and cement.

Water is added.

Cement is added.

The blend of wood wool, water, and cement is poured into molds. The molds are stacked and stored to dry.

Dried wood wool cement is then cut into smaller pieces and geometric shapes.

Baux Acoustic Tiles in the Hexagon shape are waiting to be spray painted in one of the many colors that are offered.

The much larger Baux Acoustic Panels are milled to create interesting patterns on each one.

By combining shapes and colours, you can create any pattern with Baux Acoustic Tiles.

Baux Acoustic Panels can be used to rejuvenate the largest of spaces.

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First, we mustache you what facial hair you prefer.

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If none of those are appealing, perhaps you'd like a famous 'stache.

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In celebration of same-sex marriage legalization all over the US, hobbyist Antzy Carmasaic decided that it wasn’t enough to turn his Facebook profile picture into a rainbow – he had to include everything else as well!

Enter the Rainbow Roller, a DIY tool that efficiently paints violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, and red. To make it, Carmasaic used a little bit of ingenuity, a sponge, acrylic sheets, paint, and glue. The result is a one-of-a-kind paint roller that celebrates equality and love.

‘One day while just surfing around on the internet, I came across the nyan cat GIF leaving a trail of rainbow in its wake’, he wrote. ‘That got me thinking about how to do the same in the real world. After a bit of trial and experimentation with different types of sponges and paints, I managed to create the rainbow roller as I had imagined it’.

See the step-by-step instructions for the DIY project here.

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Inside the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C, Brooklyn-based studio Snarkitecture filled a 10,000-square foot space with 1 million plastic balls, creating what is probably heaven here on earth: an insanely huge ball pit.

Called ‘The BEACH’ the interactive installation features a seaside-like setting, complete with a ‘shoreline’ lined with beach chairs, umbrellas, a snack bar, and a pier for visitors to walk through. And instead of water, people wade through a sea of recyclable plastic balls! It’s basically a beach, but without sunburn and sharks.

According to the studio, the immersive installation ‘encourages exploration and interaction with one’s surroundings, and offers an unexpected and memorable landscape for visitors to relax and socialize within’. The BEACH will be on display until September 7.

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This Opera Singer Ring Holder made me laugh.

I don’t need these Ceramic Donut Plates. But I want them.

When one guy got himself a brand new car, he wanted it to be absolutely theft-proof. But rather than installing fancy security systems, he came up with a cheaper alternative: he covered it in rust.

Enlisting the help of UK-based vinyl wrap shop ‘Clyde Wraps’, the man covered his top-of-the-line 2014 Volkswagen T5 Sportline with full-body decals featuring rust stains and cracked fenders. The hideous façade would not only turn away would-be thieves, but also anyone looking to borrow his car. Genius!

‘It goes without saying the van stands out in a crowd and our customer had great pleasure in telling us later that it only took 3 days for the police to pull him over to ask what was going on with all the rust’, said Clyde Wraps.

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There are many artists that have dabbled with miniatures to create humorous scenes but ensuring he stays at the top of our lists Tatsuya Tanaka has created a ‘Miniature Calendar’. The project has been running since 2011 with the Japanese creative bringing a new pocket-sized scene to life every day.

His funny scenes depict all sorts of things, including climbing a giant donut ‘rock’ face, ironing out a creased post-it note and showering under a toothbrush jet. Now having made more than 1000 scenes, Tanaka never ceases to inspire us. He explains his project, saying: “The theme is ‘the interest of likening one thing to another’. In doing so, you can see how everyday things can become more fun when imagined in a different way”. Read the full interview with the artist on Design Boom.

Via Design Boom

All images provided by Jane Long Photography

Australian artist Jane Long transforms cracked and faded black and white photographs into colorful works of fantasy, giving the subjects a new, and entirely surreal context. The images she uses for her series, Dancing with Costica, were captured over a half century ago by Costică Acsinte a Romanian war photographer who documented WWI.

The glass-plate photographs by Costica capture the straight faces and intense eyes of the subjects taken long before smiling was common in images. “I wanted to change the context of the images,” says Long. “Photographic practices at the time meant people rarely smiled in photos but that doesn’t mean they didn’t laugh and love. I wanted to introduce that to the images.”

By altering the images Long imagines the subjects as characters, letting the audience decide whether they are bad or good. These colorful transformations have been a source of controversy as some viewers have felt it improper to alter images of those she doesn’t know. In response to these accusations the artist stands by her work and explains, “I wanted people to see these figures as real people, more than just an old photograph. Adding colour completely changes our perception of images.”

Long’s series Dancing with Costica will be exhibited from August 22nd to September 20th as part of the Ballarat International Photo Biennale. You can see more work by Long on her Facebook page here. (via My Modern Met)

Our fascination with motion is not a new one. And the human eye’s demand to see what we cannot is at the centre of many ongoing experiments. Canada-based photographer Stephen Orlando answers the questions that we never dreamed possible, giving us an insight into what music and movement actually looks like.

Exploring the movements of athletes and musicians, Orlando uses LED lights and long exposures to record even the slightest of motions, producing colourful waves of light. We can’t help but marvel at the stunning results.

He explains: “I’m fascinated with capturing motion through time and space into a single photograph. Using LED lights with custom colour patterns and long exposure photography, I’m able to tell the story of movement. This technique reveals beautiful light trails created by paths of familiar objects. These light trails have not been artificially created with Photoshop and represent the actual paths of the objects.”

Via The Inspiration Grid

It’s hard to appreciate the giant street art projects of duo Ella & Pitr when you have your feet on the ground, but look from the air and the works come to life. The large-scale artworks scattered on roads, rooftops and empty car parks each tell their own story, depicting various sleeping characters. From the peaceful, innocent sleep of children to the exhausted student collapsing over books, and the relaxed sunbather to the huddled homeless man, the creative duo explore people from all walks of life, depicting a city brimming with very different personalities.

Via Faith Is Torment

Traversing the streets of New York, photographer François Van Bastelaer captures double moments with the reflections of windows in cars and buildings.

Van Bastelaer presents the reality as something that is unusual, different and sometimes almost surrealist, showing us multiple worlds merged as one. The perfectly angled perspective documents a specific moment in time, whether it’s the fleeting glimpse in a shop window or a woman knelt over a table, appearing almost to hug the passing traffic.

Via Lens Culture

Bringing the colourful world of carnivals to film, photographer Roger Vail captures extraordinary long exposure shots of the rides at night. The bright glow of the rides against the dark sky casts a kaleidoscopic projection, looking eerily futuristic.

Vail explains: “There was no initial inspiration, just an experiment. I went to a carnival to shoot the facades. While there I decided to see what would happen if I made a time exposure of the Ferris wheel. First sight of the negative was thrilling so I decided to make more. Most of the fun was in not knowing what the end result would look like.” His work is currently on display at Joseph Bellows Gallery in California until 22nd August.

Via Junk Culture

Last week this little family adopted a rescue cat from an ASPCA shelter in Manhattan. While we are still trying to figure out a name (most difficult process in history) the cat is super happy and so are my kids. And I have discovered pet accessories. What a huge market! Can we talk about this felted cat bed. Made me smile.

I just spent an eternity clicking through the insanely big archive of Duvet Cover Designs over Society 6. Below are some of the ones that made m look and that I would totally put on my bed or use in my kids room. Anyone know how they hold up after a few cycles in the washing machine?