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Last set of links for the year! :D

+ Earth's permanent lights at night time.

+ Paperclips + string = earrings.

+ Deadline; a post-it stop motion.

+ Peppermint stack cake looks yummeh.

+ Rapunzel, by Claire Keane.

+ The best and worst brand identities of 2011.

+ Tiny apartment transforms into 24 rooms.

+ Wishlisted.

+ Stamp carving is something I want to try out in the new year. Here's a tutorial that I found.

+ Also this one from one of my favourite bloggers, Geninne:

Stamp Carving from Geninne D. Zlatkis on Vimeo.

+ Oldie but goodie: Vellum Mobiles. Doable for New Years' Party?

Edit: Whoops! Seems like I'd forgotten to include the last two links. They're now updated, and an extra one added! :-)

Pinterest

Psst! I'm Pinteresting! If anyone who's reading this is on it, let me know! :-)

My Pepper Heart

This is one of those moments where I go, why didn't I think of this?!

currently reading...

+ A pile of really good typography books (I'll post the list up here in the new year so I can refer back to it whenever I like, and also for anyone who's reading this!).

+ Pilot Magazine. This issue concentrates on our galaxy, planets, constellations and signs of outer life!

+ The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne.

Image © Pilot Magazine 

Google Maps

1. Go to Google Maps.

2. Click on Get directions.

3. In "A", type "The Shire", and in "B", type "Mordor".

4. Click on the walking man (to get walking directions).

5. Be amazed! :D

(Found this trick thanks to G. Dada)

Here's to the crazy ones

via SwissMiss

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+ SO inspiring.

+ Le sigh. I really should start Pinteresting.

+ Life is beautiful.

+ The Year in Middletons.

+ Type portraits.

+ Disney princesses as cover models. Hah!

+ Artists in Miniature (free downloadable magazine)

+ Do you have the Facebook Timeline? You could revamp it like this!

+ So you need a typeface.

gold + gift wrap

This tutorial has such pretty results, I couldn't not share!

All photos and tutorial © 100 Layer Cake.

A history of glitter

Finally, the explanation for our obsession with glitter and all things sparkly! How crazy cool would it be to work in a glitter manufacturing company?! :O

All That Glitters: The History of Shiny Things from Etsy on Vimeo.

The Hobbit trailer

Take a look at the trailer for "The Hobbit"! Doesn't it look amazing?!

I have only read half of "The Hobbit"... well I do have a year to catch up on my reading (the movie opens December 14th 2012)!

Other movies to look forward to: Sherlock Holmes 2, The Dark Knight Rises, and Hugo. Yay for movies!

p.s.: If you click on the link, it'll take you to the official website/trailer, which has amazing clarity.

p.p.s.: Note to self: Stop saying amazing.

Happy almost Christmas!

Christmas in the BIG little City from Carte Blanche & Co on Vimeo.

Google Zeitgeist

The Google Zeitgeist is up! No mention of the Rugby World Cup! :O

Graduation!

Bachelor of Design in Graphic Design

Paper Roses

Crafting with le Grandma. We're making a wreath. Inspired by this.

Happy Monday!

Posted late today 'cause I was out picking up graduation regalia! :D

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Cool and interesting tidbits on the Internet this week:

+ Check out this field of light blooms. Totally magical!

+ 10 ways to make a garland! I'm bookmarking this for the New Years' Eve party! :-)

+ Typography by Alex Robbins.

+ How to make the perfect gift bow.

+ Cheese, with edible gold bits. Anyone else find this weird?

+ Pretty. :-)

+ :O

+ :O :O

+ A Personal Apology. (Thanks, Corinne!)

+ Old Loves.

disney inspiration

Edit: .gif, y u no work properly in Blogger?!

via Mickey and Minnie

Happy Monday!

Just some of the loveliest, sweetest smelling flowers I have ever bought. Happy Monday! :-)

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It's December! Summer's heeeeere!

+ Om nom nom!

+ Who wants this?!

+ Necklaces made out of Barbie parts. :S

+ Have you seen Colleen Jordan's wearable planters?

+ End Times. By Jill Greenberg.

+ Creepy, but beautiful?

+ Check out some really cool projects/design work here!

+ Dear Louis Vuitton.

+ How to hack your Facebook profile picture.

+ Dreamy photography by Roberto Rubalcava.

p.s.: Yes, I'm still experimenting with Courier (this typeface). I really like the look of it. It makes me want to write more. Plus it makes my posts look longer ;)

facepalm moment.

from here.

Post-It Love

Aww, isn't this the cutest short film ever? :-) Also check out other videos by the same channel (futureshorts).

Happy Monday!

Juuust some pretty flowers to help cure Mondayitis.

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Happy weekend, y'all! (Did you notice my new favicon? :D )

+ Build 3D letters from a font!

+ 25 ways to wear a scarf! I have a collection of summer scarves that I can't wait to try this on!

+ Paper-cut diorama artists.

+ Interesting and strange: How would it be, if typefaces could be tasted?

+ NASA goes pink.

+ Artist Kyle Bean's portraits made out of pencil shavings.

+ I'll have this (and especially this) for the holidays, thank you.

+ Their Good Morning/Good Night poster is quite brilliant! 

+ The difference between the United Kingdom, Great Britain, and England. Also watch: Copyright, explained.

+ Take a look at Shinichi Maruyama's amaazing photographs!

Spartan Golf Club

Pretty smart, hey?

Dunno who designed it.

Imaginawesome

Kids' imagination + a little bit of help = imaginAWESOME.

Photo from Imaginawesome.

Miles of Light

Take a look at this project here. A Study in Flora, by Miles of Light, is a recording of dried, lifeless flowers. Isn't it stunning? I'm sure the reason I'm attracted to it is none other than my own dabblings in drying flowers. 

Still. I saw her sun-flower-dyeing tutorial, and I'm hooked. I'm definitely following her blog, Miles of Light. So inspiring. :')

p.s.: I don't know why, but her work reminds me of my favourite new textile designer, Rosemary Milner!

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Thank you, Ponciks, for following the blog! :-)

+ Bracelets made out of dental brace parts. Um. Ew?

+ Oh wait, that's not Frodo Baggins!

+ What a fun house to live in!

+ The trick to applying nail polish.

+ Overheard on the Titanic.

+ The magic behind the magic: a tumblr full of Disney concepts (they've stopped posting now, but they have an amazing library of concepts)!

+ Egg Watchers: to get the perfectly boiled egg. This is actually really useful!

+ Loving this Etsy shop!

+ I need this: A clock designed to help procrastinators.

+ This is super: Pick your own pendants! I'm planning to make something similar... it's part of my personal campaign to get away from the computer!

Bean Boozled

I warn you. This is a post on jelly beans.

My friend Libby and I visited an awesome candy store last Friday. I was feelin' brave and bought a pack of Jelly Belly beans called "Bean Boozled". It has some crazy flavours. And I mean Bertie Botts' Every Flavour Beans crazy. Booger, Rotten Egg, Mouldy Cheese, and Vomit are just some of them. Here is what I thought of the gross/weird ones:

Booger: Almost tasteless. A little sweet-and-salty, though. Really weird flavour.

Toothpaste: Mmm, very nice, felt like I'd brushed my teeth. Haha. I would eat this jelly bean again.

Rotten Egg: Yuck. Sulphuric and sweet (what the what what!?).

Buttered Popcorn: Felt like I was at the movies! Haha, it really did taste like popcorn. Wonder how they make all these flavours!

Vomit: Stomach-churning-ly repulsive. Euck! I got the acidic (don't really know how else to explain it) taste of vomit, and I had to spit it out. I'm dreading eating one again.

Mouldy Cheese: Oh God. I could almost smell the mould. :S

Black Pepper: The jelly bean contained black pepper. 'twas alright.

Baby Wipes (?!): Imagine smelling baby powder. Then imagine eating it.

Pencil Shavings: Alas! I didn't get this flavour in my pack. Maybe next time?

Test

Juuust testing out this typeface. After years of using Trebuchet, I think I'm now leaning towards using Courier for this blog. I don't know. You really don't have to read this, because I'm just writing to fill up some text space.

Gosh golly, isn't it a nice day? This here is a photo of Muir Woods, from the U S of A. Why is this photo here? Well, just because.

And, as I've never actually been to Muir Woods, there is no way that that photo is mine. I took it. From here.

p.s.: Did I really post this post at exactly 11:11AM? Well, no. No, I didn't. Did I schedule this post? Why yes. I sure did.

Constellation bedroom

I want this room.

Drying Flowers

Drying flowers for the first time... let's see how this goes!

The first bouquet has roses, gerberas, and some purply pink flowers that I cannot identify. Edit: They are Statice flowers.

I love how this one looks as if they're levitating(!):

The other day, while wandering, I saw a bunch of these gorgeous antique pink roses at a dairy. 

They came home with me, and are now hanging in my closet:

I've hung the pink roses for two days now, and the outer petals are starting to go brown. I had hoped the pink would stay. :-(

11.11.11

Pssst. It's 11:11pm on 11.11.11. Awesome!

+ RAW is still on (till tomorrow)! Are you visiting?

+ Take a look at this beautiful light calligraphy.

+ Things 90s kids realise. I stumbled across Full House episodes earlier this year, and I fell in love with them! Then my friend Morgan told me about Danny Tanner. :-\

+ Love this list: 20 Things I Wish I'd known at 20. (I turned 22 last month, and I think I still have time to pay attention to this list)

+ Typography inspiration!

+ A library of Victorian scraps!

+ Life is too short (campaign).

+ I can't sew to save my life, but if I could, I would sew this.

Miniature food

Recently, while blog-hopping, I came across this amaaazingly talented artist, Shay Aaron. 

Shay Aaron makes miniature food. Like. Doll-house sized. The food is so realistic, that I wanted to gobble up all the breads and the cakes. And when I found out from the photos that he starts making his tomatoes and bananas from the inside out (creating teeny tiny seeds first, then the flesh, then the skin, and so on), I cried a little.

Then I found out that there's this whole new world of miniature foodstuff. Some people use them for doll-houses, others use slices of fruits and veges as decoration on nails. All mind-blowing stuff. (To be honest, I don't have the patience to make miniatures, so I'll just look for now. :-) )

My friend Chloe, knowing my newfound obsession for miniature food, send me the link to this ingenious ring:

So anyway. This post is just to record this awesomeness in the blog. So I can come back and click on the link and goggle at all the talent again. And again. And again.

p.s.: Comment, please, okay? It literally makes my day. :D

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Not a heap of links today.

+ All Blacks making snow angels after they won the Rugby World Cup.

+ This was surprising: behind-the-scene visual effects from popular tv shows.

+ Luke Williams' typography

i don't really know how to title this.

So. Is this shiny gold balloon the tent of the future? I'd say it looks pretty cool.

AUT Grad Exhibition

We're almost there. The AUT final year exhibition is in a week! We're all busy with preparing the rooms, sending invitations, and creating our work, of course! I'd been to the AUT graduation exhibitions since before I started my degree, and I'd taken it all in with awe. And now, it's my turn to be part of it! It's almost unreal.

The student exhibition is open from the 10th of November till the 12th of November, from 10am—7pm. It's an exhibition of not just Graphic Design work, but Digital, Fashion, Product, Spatial, Textiles and Visual Arts also.

If you are in Auckland, do come. It will be amazing. :-)

Wingardium Leviosa; a typeface

Can it be? A beautiful typeface named Wingardium Leviosa?! Oh joy!

:D

All Blacks Haka

What a Rugby World Cup final it was! When the All Blacks won, people were jumping around, high-fiving each other on streets, singing, dancing... ohh the horn honking cars! I've never heard so much honking in Auckland!

Here is the All Blacks Haka from the momentous day:

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Rugby World Cup final this Sunday! GO THE ALL BLACKS!! Woohoo!

+ Hogwarts + treehouse = awesometastic.

+ Is it a cheese, or a font?

+ Embroidered x-rays.

+ Found this while blog-hopping: Chocolate-chip cooke recipe.

+ Leigh Wells' awesome type illustrations.

+ Read this book, and a free meal will be donated to pet shelters!

+ Miniature books on necklaces and rings! Ahh! Wishlisted!!

+ Learn colour-styling!

Disney sweatshirts!

Waaant! :D (from Forever21)

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Half of October has gone by! This year is whooshing past so quickly! :(

+ Apple pie cookies! EEP! SO CUTE.

+ Minimal movie posters.

+ A very addictive game for typographers: Kern type (seriously, I had no idea there're so many graphic design games out there!)

+ Disney girls, runway style!

+ There's oodles of inspiration at this tumblr!

+ All of a Heap—a Youth Art Committee launch, taking place tomorrow!

+ Typewriter art! O.O

+ This blog is so. super. sweet.

+ Photoshop yourself a Halloween pumpkin.

+ Take a look at these fun Halloween recipes!

A whole new world

My favourite song from my favourite Disney movie:

Watched this with a big smile on my face! :D

Ariel vs Helvetica

High-five to those who got it!

Ruler of the Universe

Ah! How smart is this ruler concept?! It folds out, and you can measure up to one metre! Need. to. get. cool. ruler.

From Typo.

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Whoo! Handed in my last graphic design assignment for the whole course! Feeling happy+sad at the same time. Now I can start worrying about Professional Practice (another paper, where we go out in the industry to find work experience and report about it).

Here is the usual cluster of links:

+ When the fairy tale ends, real life begins.

+ 100 years of London street style.

+ Beautiful food styling.

+ Paper+Typography.

+ Can you tell your Helvetica from your Arial?

+ I didn't realise candy floss grew on trees :P

+ Wishlisted. :D

+ Yay, I'm not the only one obsessed with everything gold and glitter. 

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Here is this weeks cluster of links:

+ Teeny origami! So adorable!

+ These holidays, I want to try my hand at marbling (watch the video, it's super).

+ Newest blog love: Mickey and Minnie.

+ This is super cool: Draw a Stickman! (Thanks for the link, Morgana!)

+ Inspiration galore! Does everyone want to make wall murals now?

+ Redesigned Harry Potter covers!

+ Photoshop in real life.

+ How to make typographic string art. Totally keen to try this out in the hols, too.

+ Reinterpreting Disney Princess costumes through a historical lens.

+ 5 smells that can change your life. I was really surprised about Vanilla!

Famous Five!

I've been a Famous Five fan since I first started reading them in primary school. I always wanted to be George! Sometimes, when I'm designing late at night (especially as due dates loom near), I keep playing some episodes of the Famous Five in the background. I suppose it's my guilty pleasure. But the voices make me feel less lonely. Haha. And I can brush up on my English accent ;)

p.s.: Just this week I happened to come across a short clip (can't embed here, sorry!) from a version that was recorded in 1957! Wow!

Live the language

Remember that beautiful Paris video? Well, EF (Education First) has three brand new cities to gawk at, and fall in love with. I absolutely love the style of typography in these videos... vintage-inspired, and very pretty.

Live the language - Sydney from EF Intl. Language Centers on Vimeo.

Thanks for the heads up, Yagmur! :)

Earth Cam

Um. Okay. 

I just happened to find a website called Earth Cam that shows live views of NYC. Maybe this isn't new to many of you. But at 12:40am, I sit here, procrastinating while doing my assignment, and I can gawk at a city that's waking up (about 7:40am in NYC right now).

I'm not sure whether I find this incredibly awesome, or incredibly creepy. Maybe my tired mind should just get back to my assignment.

Dana Tanamachi

Have you seen Dana Tanamachi's wonderful chalk illustrations?! Such a great mix of Victorian style with a contemporary outlook! 

All photos © Dana Tanamachi

Frodo and Bilbo Baggins,

Garo arad-o-onnad 'elir!

Image source

Google Doodle

Todays Google Doodle is definitely one of my favourites!

p.s.: Attempting orange vanilla spice cookies later on! :D

RWC 2011

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Happy weekend!

+ faxblog

+ Hmmm. Teeth tattoos?! Yikes.

+ Harry Potter posters! :D

+ Christian Louboutin Fall 2010 Lookbook. One day, I will take photos like that.

+ Beautiful.

+ Cross-stitched Helvetica.

+ Another one for type nerds: Helveticons!

+ Witty posters.

+ Marc Johns makes sticky note drawings!

+ This.

p.s.: Crazy day today here in little old Auckland. Rugby World Cup and all!

Vintage Advertisements

My final assignment for university (eek! How did I get here so fast!?) requires me to design Victorian-style logotypes for contemporary companies such as Apple, or Facebook (I haven't decided which one yet). 

I came across these vintage-style advertisements for Facebook, Skype, Youtube, Twitter while researching. Pretty cool, huh?

Re-reading Harry

Just a random fact, but starting from the 1st of September*, I have started re-reading a chapter of Harry Potter every day. I want to find out if I pick up things differently (I'm sure I will) now that I know the whole story. I hadn't read the books since Deathly Hallows came out. 

p.s.: Humm, yes, I meant to read the LotR before reading Harry Potter, and well, I got through half of the Fellowship of the Ring, and the rest, uhh it's just not happening at the moment. Maybe I'll pick it up in the hols.

*September 1st because it's the start of the new school year for "Hogwartians".

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Kinda, sorta, unbelievable. :D

p.s.: Thanks for following, Marie!

"500 posts" visual designed by The Graphic Bee, please do not copy.

Gilded Glass

Okay so I have a slight obsession with shiny metallic gold things, and when I saw these, I wanted them very much (but had absolutely no need for them):

And guess what. Today I came across a Martha Stewart tutorial to get the same gilded glass effect. Yay! It's not as shiny looking as the one in the photo, but I'm not complaining. Bookmarking it as a holiday project. I need time to work on my assignment for now. :-)

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I am back with the cluster of links again :-)

+ The sweetest prints from Sasha Hearts Paper.

+ This is ah-mazing. I could play forever.

+ Haha, Harry Potter inspired books.

+ And, while we're on the subject. 10 things you probably didn't know about Harry Potter. (I knew 8 out of 10 :P )

+ THIS. is. very. COOL.

+ Loving these illustrations!

+ What is with me and e-magazines?! Here are three that I read: Papier Mache, Adore, Maché.

+ Do we agree that these are the most beautiful vegetables ever?

+ Vintage underwater photography. Enough said.

+ Hummingbird Cupcakes. Beautiful! :')

Psst! Auckland peeps! Are you attending We Can Create next week? I sure am!!

Design Sandbox

Hey there, please check out Design Sandbox, it's a blog I co-author as part of my work experience and partly for our university.

I've also linked to it on the right-hand side (under "Creative Bees"), lest you lose it ;)

3D Printer. :O

Oh my goodness, okay, wow. Mind blown.

Imagine having access to this printer... holy mackerel!!

Primulas

I think I'll have to get some Primula's for my bedroom... I had them when we first moved here, and I found having plants in my bedroom tremendously calming and just very nice. I felt less lonely while cooped up in my room doing assignments, and watering them was so therapeutic!

Here's a photo of my Primula's:

Hot pink washi tape,

you are mine :D

p.s.: It does make for a rather peculiar pen stand!! Hehehe!

Archer.

Let's revel in some Archerness.

Gilded

Check out the "Gold Edition" line by ban.do!

And.. how about these funky gilded nails?! Crazy! I don't think I could ever wear this colour!

p.s.: Ooh, newest purchase! (not the skirt, the top!)

p.p.s.: Holy post #492!!