The Craft of Cupcakes

The humble cupcake is on the rise, and these by the fabulous hello-naomi are a show-stopper.

Dentist Chairs

A recent find, oobject claims to be a ‘billboard chart for gadgets’ but is more like a billboard guide to stuff, things – random but eye-grabbing. Here is the top eight for dentist chairs.

Revolutionary Posters

I have been writing an article about design and graphics in the year of revolutions, 1968, and in my technological wanderings, came across the posters of Atelier Populaire. For more examples, see here. Or to buy one, visit this shop.

Crocheting the Hyperbolic

The Institute of Figuring has been working on a crocheted version of the Great Barrier Reef, which is on exhibition at the Southbank Centre. [Article on the Institute and its work, a meeting of art and science, showing how craft can work in four dimensions.]

Taxidermy, Parisien style

Deyrolle.

All my hummingbirds have alibis

Max Ernst’s A Little Girls Dreams of Taking the Veil, a wonder of surreal collage and story. Includes the above phrase as a caption to one of the images.

e.e. cummings’ library

what do you read? which books do you keep? here, a snapshot of the contents of e.e. cummings’ library, with the entire collection here. (For other collections of dead people, see here.)

And so to bed …

Thierry Bouet has captured the fantastic in beds.

[Blogged via Kottke.]

Man Ray Chess

Just back from the Man Ray, Picabia and Duchamp exhibition at the Tate Modern, where amongst other things, the chess sets by Man Ray caught my eye. The three friends were played chess regularly {Duchamp was an excellent chess player} and there were a number of sets on display. I googled ‘Man Ray chess set’ and found images of the metallic versions (above – it appears the last one on the open market went for $12,000) but the wooden ones were really the ones I coveted. I will keep looking.

Small House

My idea of absolute heaven is a small house. For more modular houses, see here.