The Design Ark

Wonderful work from Sagmiester & Walsh.

The one, the only, the giant monograph about Ashley Bickerton, the eclectic visual artist living on the island of Bali: Throughout 400 pages this book presents a comprehensive visual survey of his entire career interwoven with the artist’s own commentary, an essay by fellow artist Jake Chapman and an interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist presented in the form of a comic strip.

We also designed a limited edition version featuring a hand carved foredge as well as a rather elaborate teak and mother of pearl slip case.

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Original papercut illustrations from Sarah Trumbauer. Beautiful.

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Artist iO Tillett Wright has photographed 2,000 people who consider themselves somewhere on the LBGTQ spectrum and asked many of them: Can you assign a percentage to how gay or straight you are? Most people, it turns out, consider themselves to exist in the gray areas of sexuality, not 100% gay or straight. Which presents a real problem when it comes to discrimination: Where do you draw the line?

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Time Lags by artist Robert Proch.

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Floating in a peaceful lake in the Shiqiao Garden just northwest of Shanghai, the Bamboo Courtyard Teahouse designed be architect Sun Wei of HWCD exemplifies ancient Chinese cultural and architectural traditions interpreted tastefully in contemporary times.

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Les Classiques is a collection of beautifully carved wooden handlebars by design studio F&Y. The Canadian studio is ran by Frédérique Beaubien and Yannic Ryan, each handlebar is individually handcrafted and made from wood, aluminum and brass. Thumbs up.

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This 2-story Swedish apartment has a super nice interior. I’d have no problem living here.

(via Desire to Inspire)

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