the kurious kite

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

pantone plehora

As a designer, I've always enjoyed flipping through panetones color swatches. So it makes me very happy to see that other people are just as inspired as i am. I love all these new pantone products and designs i am seeing!

canisters

flight stool

I have to have this mug!

pantone stairs....brilliant!

pepper mills

Monday, October 5, 2009

beautiful Cakes...

Although this is not the first cake I've ever made, it is the first cake, at my new apartment with my very first cake tray!! I love this color of this cake tray, it really seems to accentuate baked goods, especially of the chocolate nature!!

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

art district .. in san diego??

Finally, a promising "arts district" may be formulating in San Diego's Barrio Logan. I moved away from San Diego and just recently came back after living in LA for 5 yrs. Its hard when you leave a city with a great art scene and come back to one that never really had one to begin with. But that seems to be changing. I was happy to discover that a less-traveled area on the outskirts of downtown has been occupied by some brave new artists. To get things going, The Guild restaurant made its appearance in mid 2007. I reall liked this place with it's urban gritty and gourmet style, but apparently it has not survived the recession.

The latest venture is the artist and design collective Glashaus, built out of an old glass factory by owners Greg Brotherton and Matt Devine, both sculptors. The space, an assortment of artist workspaces that complements the building’s stunning old bones.

Glashaus

The Guild

graphic bird addiction

I am not sure when it happened or how, but I've noticed lately that i have a slight obsession with birds done in a graphic or iconic design.

wayne pate

I also love these Vedel birds by Danish designer Kristian Vedel

Vedel brirds

This is a photograph I took in San Franscisco.

Charley Harper

Thursday, July 16, 2009

julius shulman 1911-2009

Julius Shulman, whose luminous photographs of homes and buildings brought fame to a number of mid-20th century Modernist architects and made him a household name in the architectural world, died Wednesday night. He was 98. Starting with Richard Neutra in 1936, Shulman's roster of clients read like a who's who of pioneering contemporary architecture: Rudolf M. Schindler, Gregory Ain, Frank Lloyd Wright, Charles Eames, Raphael S. Soriano, John Lautner, Eero Saarinen, Albert Frey, Pierre Koenig, Harwell Harris and many others. His work was contained in virtually every book published on Modernist architects.