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Category / Art & Design Awesomeness

And now, Silk Scarves inspired by Vintage Fruit Wrappers

You might have seen me complaining on this website before about why food packaging doesn’t look like this anymore. Beautiful vintage food labels oozing with creativity, attractive typography and artistic design– it’s an increasingly lost art. But as it turns out, someone else also happens to enjoy the art of vintage food labelling so much…

13 Things I’d Buy Purely for their Perfect Packaging

All good things come in awesomely designed packages. Isn’t that the saying? Okay so I’m a sucker for beautiful packaging and these 13 products had me at hello… 1. Art Deco Wine “Delphis Sauvignon Blanc and Delphis Syrah are made exclusively by Hamilton Russel for the Nimb Hotel, located in the Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen, Denmark.” Designed…

5 Vintage Design Ideas to Steal from this Nostalgic NYC Dream Loft

This incredible New York City loft just went on the market for $3,250,000. Personally, that’s a little out of my budget– and by a little, I mean a lot. Who would even give up such a place anyway? This is the Noho/ East Village home of actor Bradley Darryl “BD” Wong. You may remember him from…

The Himalayan Art of “Beware of the Dog” Signs: Saving a Subculture

As far a artistic subcultures go, this is probably one of the more awesomely obscure I’ve come across. We’re looking at hand-painted “beware of dog” metal signs, a unique Himalayan folk art which commonly adorns the private gates of homes in Nepal. They are a dying art form however. Hand-painted techniques around the world, even as…

The Giant Vintage Camera Café

All too often when I’m browsing Tumblr, I’ll find a photograph that I just have to know the story behind. Is it real? Can I go there? All that stuff. And then you look beneath the photo for some information and find a whole lot of nothing. No source, no name, no location, nada. But…

The Parisianer: A Dream Magazine

I returned to Paris early this morning after ten days of travelling in Sri Lanka, swapping a tropical climate and kaleidoscopic colours for crisp winds and grey rooftops. Unpacking my treasured souvenirs and island memories, I was admittedly feeling the blues in an apartment that seemed a little more gloomy than I had left it–…

An Online Vault of the most Awesome Cameras Ever Made

Today I stumbled upon an incredible collection of vintage cameras– an encyclopedic Aladdin’s cave on the internet. Assembled by a French guy the name of Sylvain Halgand, we don’t know much about him except that he has collected a lot of cameras. There are thousands of different models on his site sourced from all over the…

The Real-Life House of Oz

You could say Kat Wise has been to Oz and back– several times. Her story so far makes for an extraordinary tale of adventure and bizarre life events that sound almost like a modern-day sequel to Dorothy’s odyssey down the yellow brick road. In no particular order: she’s worked for Mother Teresa, trained as a baker,…

This Guy’s Job is to make Props for Boardwalk Empire & Hollywood Films

Ever wondered whose job it is to make all those fabricated newspapers, letters, photographs, posters or books used by characters on our favourite TV shows and in the movies? It’s a peculiar and curious career niche, but I’ve found someone that does exactly that for a living… Ross MacDonald never finished high school, nor did…

The Electric Art Deco Glamour of a Power Plant Unplugged

Power plants and glamour aren’t two things you’d normally put together in a sentence, but hey, I guess that’s what I’m here for. Just look at that thing– combining great hulking industrial power with the glamour, elegance and delicacy of art deco design! We’re looking at the former control room of the Kelenföld Power Plant…

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