Best of New York, Vinyl Wall Lettering
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
New York Magazine's "Best of New York" issue has just been released and this year, like in the past, the magazine has invited several artists/designers to submit proposals for the special edition of this cover. This year's proposed artists included Brooklyn-based street artist KAWS, book-jacket designer Evan Gaffney, Stefanie Barth and Julie Hirschfeld, from Stiletto NYC, Mother Design, from the ad agency Mother, and magazine and book designer Tom Brown.Eventually, the Kaws cover got green-lighted.
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Construction slated to begin in 2010, the Federal Aviation Administration has approved the expenditure of funds from airline passenger ticket taxes to pay for the design and engineering drawings of the first phase of the planned modernization project at Chicago's O'Hare Airport (ORD).
O'Hare Modernization Project includes replacing four runways, decommissioning three runways, and extending two runways. The reconfiguration of the airport is estimated to increase the airport's capacity to over 3800 operations daily and cut delays by 79%, according to Airport-Technology reports.
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Anna Holdaway is an interior designer who specializes in creative home decor, and often times uses vinyl lettering, sometimes referred to as wall words, to achieve breathtaking designs for her clients.
Some may be asking, Why add wall words, or wall lettering to the walls our home or apartment? The answer is simple; Wall Words can create an inspiring, calming, or uplifting effect to any room in your home. They also give your home a touch of personality, and can bring your own personal charm into your decorating.
Once you've seen some examples of how wall words can enhance the look and atmosphere of your home, you'll be hooked! You can see examples of Wall Words at vinylwalllettering.com, or vinylcraftlettering.com.
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Lord of Design has some amusing clip art for you to grab up. These are all about hand gestures and yes my friends, some of them are crude.
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Please do not miss out on the downloads and freebies offered by LollyChops. Everything from tags to stationery and cut out decors are offered for those of you who enjoy paper crafty goodness.
Labels: architecture, clipart, interior design, magazine, paper art, typography, wall lettering
Color palettes, interior designs and fun stuff
Friday, February 27, 2009
CSS Drive has launched the new Image to Colors Palette Generator! To get start you'll need to upload an image or submit an image URL to generate a color palette based on the image's primary colors.The extra benefits you can get from this handy Image to Colors Palette Generator:
- It supports various image file format: .PNG, .GIF, .JPG and JPEG
- Instantly generates Photoshop swatches (.ACO) and CSS stylesheet (.CSS) as you can download these files for further design process.
- Click on one of the color on the palette will show you the Hex code of that related color. You can compare between the Selected color and the Current color, as the Current color swatch will dynamically changes the color and hexa when your cursor is moving on the color palette.
- It produces 4 different palettes for efficient use of extracted colors, which are: Light Color Palette, Medium Color Palette, Dark Color Palette and Complete Color Palette.
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The new Chicago-based interior design business Kelly + Olive is offering a giveaway to How About Orange readers! (You don't have to live in Chicago to take advantage.) If you've been helplessly wondering what to do with that blah room in your house or apartment, the "young, professional, modern, whimsical, pragmatic, ecclectic, and thrifty" pair from Kelly + Olive will help you solve your decorating dilemma.
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Could these be the 20 Most Interesting jQuery plugins? AjaxLine.com seems to think they've got a great collection of plugins, including the Ajax Fancy Captcha that helps you protect your web pages from boys and spammers.
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And I simply love this little chair. Covered down to the legs with fabric, the chair appears to be dressed in a pantskirt.
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Twelve-year-old Max Wallack of Natick spent a day last week being followed around by television cameras, hanging out with engineers and building a model of his latest invention: A shelter for the homeless made from plastic, wire and packing peanuts.
The folks at the WGBH show "Design Squad" selected Wallack's idea from more than 1,000 entries for their Trash to Treasure contest. As the grand prize winner, he will receive $10,000 from the Intel Foundation and a laptop computer.
Labels: chairs, color theory, concepts, css, interior design, jquery
Time After Time
Friday, October 19, 2007
Let me tell you just how frustrating it is to me in a room without a clock. It is! But it happens often, especially in a new office or house. I mean I have the clock on my PC of course but sometimes it is nice to look up and see the time clearly. Let's meander on over to the ClocksBlog. Oh yes there is one. =o) Now I was looking through to find something for my desk at work and I ended up liking a lot of the mantel clocks. So I decided it doesn't need to just be for a mantel and I think it would look sophisticated and professional in the office. The Seth Thomas Napoleon Mantel Clock in particular is quite classy. It is considered a modern mantel clock. The natural-finish alderwood case would go perfectly with my desk. But it is the rotating gold tone pendulum and the classic Roman dial and filigreed hands that won me over.
Very interested in unique designs I dove further into the site looking for something even more intricate. I came across the Howard Miller Visible Pyramid Table Clock and thought of my brother right away. This looks like something he would absolutely love. The open style of the clock offers a clear view of the finished skeleton movement. There is an oval dial which consists of an open, satin brass finished numeral ring with black Roman numerals and hands, and a separate seconds track. The Howard Miller clocks are definitely something he would appreciate.Click here for more beautiful clocks.
Labels: clocks, interior design
Summertime house fix-ups
Tuesday, July 3, 2007What is one thing you can do to instantly cheer up a room?
Turn the light on, right?
So perhaps my summer project will be to upgrade my home lighting, or my parent's home lighting. I have absolutely always loved light rails that run along the ceiling. They provide a nice glowing ambiance while staying out of the way, plus having the light come down on you is more like being outside in the sun. Provided you get natural light bulbs, you'd be all set for those rainy days when you need to cheer up a room.
You can buy light rails from 3 to 8 lights. For me, I really like the 6 Light Monorail Kit by George Kovacs. It's so modern looking, and it has enough bulbs to provide a good amount of light. Plus, you have the opportunity to move the lamps in any direction you wish. Wouldn't that be great for a library room? It would be the perfect way to spotlight different shelves.
Disclosure:
This post has been sponsored.
Labels: house fix-ups, interior design
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