McNally Jackson Books in NYC is graced by an invitingly smart cafe space compliments of the talented and literate peoples at Front Studio (their portfolio is worth a few long looks). Makes us want to order up a double capp and dive into a 300-pager.
Argentina-based design and architecture office Normal™ explores the extraordinary potential of ordinary objects in their site-specific Tender installations. Based on the ready-made, the installations feature clothespins repeated en masse to create a uniquely beautiful relationship with their spaces. See and read more at Yatzer.
Anish Kapoor’s Memory at the Guggenheim. 24 tons of core ten steel revealed only in fragments from vantages within the gallery. Extraordinary.
Check out this phenomenal tool, ONull. It’s a standalone application that’s written in Java and runs on the Processing graphic engine. You import and image that gets rasterized with vector pixels. Basically you can make a photograph composed of squares or circles or you can even upload your own vector that the program will use. Great tool and fun to play around with!
Nice little film on the craft of espresso, compliments of Intelligentsia. Part of “an ongoing series that documents our search for the ultimate tastemakers.” Tis impossible to over-geek on coffee…
Tap, tap, tap…a single writing session with what must be the first aesthetically beautiful word processing program will make clear just how deeply the ugliness of Word is affecting your work. Omm Writer envelopes your screen and your head in a soft blanket of image and sound, allowing you space to think and to write. Simple word processing tools provide exactly what you need and nothing more. Writing feels intimate and pleasurable again, and we are grateful, yes. (via The Post Family)
Tokyo-based Kengo Kuma’s retail space in Osaka for Lucien Pellat-Finet, French fashion designer known for cashmere and knits, expresses “the tenderness of cashmere fabrics by using an organic pattern surface on the plant in architecture.” Kuma’s fondness for transparency and natural materials is apparent in the wood honeycomb structure that flows throughout the building….beauty! (via Designboom)
Six and a half minutes of Off the Hook. Yes, yes, yes, yes.
