Speaking of Design

ceramics for breakfast: a design competition organized by designboom

One of the entries

name of design : the ring

design by : joung myung lee from germany

(click on above picture for more pictures of "the ring")

designer's own words: Hang your fruit on the wall. "The Ring" is an urusual fruitbowl made of porcelain. It is not placed on a dining table or on kitchen unit but hangs on the wall. The concept is between art and design. It is to be hang on the wall, like a decorative piece of art, a mordern version of still life fruit paintings. Yet, as a fruitbowl, the ring is a useful design object, shape and openings are a new and interesting unit for a fruitbowl. The fruit is put into the opening at the top and can be taken out at the bottom. At both sides opening are located to show the amount of remaining fruit. Due to it´s perviousness to air and it´s eco-friendliness, porcelain is particularly suitable as a fruitbowl. In small kitchen, space is precious on table, but walls are often left bare. So the ring, decorative design, hang on the wall, make it easier to plan your space.

Next up...

The Winning Design

name of design : glide

design by : george watson from uk

(click on above picture for more pictures of "glide")

designer's own words: There has been little development of the toaster since the start of the century, whilst other appliances have developed and improved incorporating new technologies and thinking, toaster have remained relatively untouched. When the toaster was first invented eating toast was a social activity that took place on the breakfast table, these days toasters have been relegated to cheap plastic objects hidden away in the kitchen landscape. This toaster is designed to engage the user, re-invigorating the social context of toasting by questioning everything about what we toast with today. I was also keen to make playful object to be proud of having on your breakfast table. Slip moulded bone china allowed me create this intricate and sculptural form, but also provided the material longevity that I required. This is a toaster that brings life and joy to a stagnant domestic appliance, and iconic object for the home.

See more entries and competition information here.

Adornment: Earings!

To complement my fresh cut I've been looking at earings. The last pair that were in my ears were 4 guage stainless steel tunnels. I always thought that I'd try to stretch my earlobes to 0 (zero) guage or 00 (double zero) guage but now I'm not sure. I might restretch my currently unadorned earlobes back to fit my 4 guage tunnels, but instead of leaving the tunnels/stretchings "empty" I'd like to start wearing earings going through the tunnels in addition the the stretching jewelry.

The earing designs below caught my eye. They are all from the ever-popular Anthtropoligie.com. I think each of the styles below would fit into a few of the looks I tend to incorporate into my personal "style". Click onto the individual images below to find out more about each pair of earings (I'd elaborate on why I like each of them, but I'm tired, and besides the distinctive beauty of each pair IMO speaks for each of the designs themselves.)

The first pair, "mystic earings", is the pair I'm really taken with, but with a price tag of $658 US, I doubt they will reach my longing earlobes. Maybe I'll just have to recreate my own personal knock-off of this pair! (with my own design twist, of course)

Another head band and new asymetrical hair cut

Before haircut...

Machine knitted headband made by me with button cluster accent on one side.

New haircut! (on a windy day)

Wind-blown hair with extra hair showing from behind me (it's dh bending down).

Longer right side.

Shorter left side view.

New shades, new hair, sun, and something to listen/look at

Look.



Big glasses on a sunny warm Friday - $2, Value Village this past Friday. Rosy bliss!

Listen/Look.

Thank you Thom. It's great to have some audio/visual variety in one's life.

Link: http://www.vapourbrothers.com/

Hair.

I lucked out and met Alex at my local hair cutting salon. He is awesome! And also says things like "perfect" while he is cutting. He's officially my new stylist. He slipped me his card for his main gig at this Kitsilano salon, MarkusJ. Hopefully, I can visit him once more before he makes a break from the mountain.

I've got a thing for knitting headbands

A few creations made by me. The bottom photo is the handknit knitty calorimetry pattern and the top photo is of a headscarf that was intended to be a bonnet but after machine knitting this (I modified the knitty pattern here) I decided that bonnets don't look very good on me and so a covering for my (then) outgrown hairstyle came about.

Bjork!! Live!!

I am delighted because we are planning on going to the Bjork concert that will be happening at Deer Lake Park this May 23.

The last time I saw Bjork perform live was at the Hummingbird Centre in Toronto in October of 2001 (details).

So stoked! We are even taking all the kids since it's an outdoor early evening event. Event details here.