AU Maison, Denmark

If you are crazy over pillows, you have to take a look at AU Maison collection. With tons of pretty patterns and designs, plus 100 % made in Denmark, I'm sure it'll be easy for you to pick your favorites there. To find out if their products are available in your country, click here. Happy Browsing!

p.s. Plastisock baby clothing is now available in Australia, with worldwide shipping! Thanks, Helen. :)

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!

We don't really celebrate Thanksgiving in Singapore, but I know some of you who do. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family! :)

TIOGRUPPEN

I searched for 10 Swedish Designers's site after seeing their book, Ten Swedish Designers – Printed Patterns over at biotope (an AMAZING japanese design shop, btw).

As I expected from the book, 10 Swedish Designers offer numerous products with their big, bold, and strong patterns. I heart that ironing board cover! and do you see that dog's leash and collar? love it. Too bad, we don't have dogs. :(

Away

I'll be away for a short trip and I'll be back next week. Meanwhile, please check out the following links:

• Mary's Finds -- brilliant finds for christmas gifts, all for under USD 100.


• Mina Perhonen via Dear Ada


• Crafty Synergy -- tons of inspiring interviews with creative women.


• Mini kit Apple Tree by a4adesign via Pan-Dan


• more links on my sidebar -->

For those who missed my excitement earlier this month, or new to this blog, here's a gentle and shameless reminder. :) Please help to vote for my pillow designs at the Inhabit's contest. Cast your vote for # 4, okay? ;-)

Take care now, I'll see you in a week's time. Cheers.

Woohoo! New Stores!

Two of my favorite photographers, Maditi (Germany) and Anneli (Sweden) have just opened their shops! I've known them for quite a while now, each has their own unique photography style. I'm sure you will be hooked to see more and more of their photos once you see their work. Check out their blogs and you'll know what I mean.

Maditi has opened an etsy store filled with her Polaroids prints, and you can find Anneli's shop, Cosas, filled with Scandinavian goodies.

Congratulations to Maditi and Anneli! Now GO and SHOP!

Kadossimo

Although it might sound like Italian, Kadossimo is very much French. All are written in french with no english text available. But that never stops me from browsing for visual delights, like this and this. If you're a fan of the french cartoon series Barbapapa, you might like this and this, too. Enjoy!

Tralalart, France

Tralalart is the brainchild of Marie Leveque, a graduate in Decorative Arts, who has passion for photography and graphics. Above are my favorites. Check out the rest of her collections here. I guess if you're crazy over plates as much as I am, you'll be seeing more and more of them here. :)

Home Couture

Home Couture is an online shop based in New South Wales, Australia, catered for the well dressed home (their tag line says so). I wonder if they had a brick and mortar business, or it's really just an online shop with a huuuuge warehouse. I'm amazed with the number of products they have there. Take a look at their brands drop down list on the site, it's just so unbelievably long!

I couldn't possibly browse through every single brand they carry, but at least I've found some favorites there, like Reisenthel, Alex Liddy, and S&P. Click here for a fun browsing experience. Enjoy! :)

Hooray!

I'm so happy to find out the Inhabit's Great Pillow Design Competition finalists announcement page is finally up! Thanks to Grace!

I was informed by Inhabit two weeks ago on being one of the finalists, but you know, until it's announced on their site, I couldn't really keep my hope high. Now, it's official, I can start begging for votes. haha! :) You have to scroll down to see my pillow designs, I'm the finalist # 4. Vote for me okay? please, please, please ... :) Thanks beforehand.

Retro 20th Century Design

This is one of the greatest mid century design shops I've ever seen on the net. Retro 20th Century Design is a design shop specializing in selling and buying scandinavian 20th century designers items, located in Helsingborg, Sweden. You could find Stig Lindberg, Mari Simmulson, Erik Hoglund, Bengt Berglund, Arne Jacobsen, Lisa Larsson, Steen Ostergaard, Broderna Bjerring, and more. They even offer the classical reproductions of selected iconic furniture designs. I could spend hours browsing their collections. It's a real heaven for mid century design lovers. And guess what.. they ship worldwide!! :)

Irene Klar

When I was at the printmaking studio, I saw this book, "Common Threads: The Etchings of Irene Klar" on the shelves. It was a real visual treat looking at her etchings. Soon after the workshop ended, I searched for more information on Irene Klar, and I found her studio here. To my surprise, she offers more than just etchings and serigraphs. She has her artworks on posters, magnets, note cards, coasters, mousepads, bookmarks, and tapestries. Her subjects are mostly women wrapped in gorgeous textiles with big, bold, and strong colors/patterns.


Here are some of my favorites, with the black-and-white "Moussem" ranks the top. But most of the artworks available on the site are rather small in sizes though. I wonder if she had them in bigger sizes. Hmmm..... I can imagine the much bigger version of "Moussem" in a middle of Kelly Wearstler style living room. ah perfect! ;-)


You could purchase Irene Klar's artworks, tapestries, gift items, or the book I mentioned above at her site, she has all the details there. Or you can find her watercolours at selected galleries in Canada and U.S. Enjoy!

Lollipop Tree

I took a short 2-day course on Reduction Color Linocut few weeks ago. It was just for fun really. I picked up the prints I made last Thursday, and here's half of them. I got a chance to make eight prints actually, but I only have four presentable prints to show off here. The other four are complete disasters. :)

Natassja called it Lollipop Tree once, when I was carving the lino plate at home. And I thought it's a pretty nice name, so Lollipop Tree, it is. My first linocut.

Linocut is definitely harder than I thought it would be. I really had to control the tools in order to get the exact drawn lines carved onto the lino, which I was not very good at. Plus, I have shaky hands, so this doesn't do any good on registering the color either. But my instructor was encouraging enough to say that sometimes mistakes can add characters to the print. Hmm, really? I know she's just being nice. :) Nonetheless, I enjoyed it very much, and next, I'll be introduced to etchings. I can't wait!

Plastisock

Plastisock is an infant/toddler apparel company based in Malmo, Sweden. Their clean, bold & monochrome patterns won me over. Available in Australia, UK & Europe.

O.I.C.

ORGANISATION of ILLUSTRATORS COUNCIL (O.I.C.) is a Singapore based entity, newly founded by a group of illustrators for illustrators to showcase and discuss their work. They are continuously inviting illustrators to join, in time, you'll see more and more great artworks by our local talents. Hurrah!

Go and check them out here. I've found my favorites already, but I'm not telling. ;-)

Thanks for the tip, FLEE!

It's Boontje. Tord Boontje at Target!

Look! decor8 mentioned the super find of the century from Happy Mundane! Being the biggest fan of Tord Boontje's work, this found has made me jumped for joy. I just have to spread the word today!

Target is really becoming a fantastic place to shop nowadays. During my years in the states, I could barely find designer goods there. Well, that was nine years ago. Now, you could find numerous famous designers designing goods for Target. Check out Tord Boontje collection at Target Red Hot Shop. It's time to use your vpost account folks! ;-)