For those citydwellers who wish for a little green spot to call their own but don’t have a backyard, check out this video on how to create a rooftop garden.  It’s simple, economical, and easy enough for those who don’t have much gardening skills.  And don’t miss it - they’ve installed a bamboo fence around [...]

What a creative, savvy group designers are.
Give them a lousy economy, and they’ll find a way to make it work for them, whether it’s by jumping into the internet or coming up with new ways to sell their skills.
We were so encouraged by this article in the New York Times that we had to [...]

How do we measure the passage of time? digital numbers changing, hands on a clock turning, shadow on a sundial?
How about ink spilling forth from a bottle?
Get a load of this “Ink Calendar” by Oscar Diaz. He is really one of the most inventive, interesting designer/artists we’ve encountered lately. He’s in London.
Here is his own [...]

One of the great jewelry designers we mentioned recently has two shows coming up: Emanuela Duca will be at the Craft Expo 2009 at the Guilford Art Center in Connecticut July 16, 17 and 18, and then she’ll skedaddle to Seattle (well, to Bellevue, Washington, but “Bellevue” doesn’t rhyme with “skedaddle” ) to the arts [...]

If you’re going to San Francisco….before next weekend, schedule in a stop at the Metropolitan Home “Modern By Design” show house in Pacific Heights.

Several designers, each of whom was assigned a different area of the house, will show off their work in the  historic 7,000 square feet home. Proceeds will go to the San Francisco [...]

Continuing the theme of art and wood from the previous post, at the Uptown Art Stroll this weekend, the Stylehound came upon the work of Michelle Bernard, who makes jewelry out of ceramic and colored stone, and sometimes wire, too. The necklaces are big, strong, earthy pieces. It’s unique, eye-catching stuff that seems to have [...]

In nosing around for wallpaper ideas, your faithful Stylehound found that the Janovic website has before and after photos of “success stories.” Here’s the current one:
http://janovic.com/inspiration/successstory/

Summertime and a designer’s thoughts turn to….green design! here on the East Coast of the U.S. the problem of global warming hasn’t seemed terribly apparent, as temps stay low, but we have to remember it isn’t simply the planet heating up we’re worried about—it’s climate CHANGE. And change isn’t always for the best.

And what can [...]

This just in from The Sheffield School of Design’s own wedding planner, Wedding Belle: the site of Emanuela Duca has an amazing range of styles, each distinctive, interesting. Wedding Belle likes this one best, the Musica Engagement Ring:

And The Stylehound loves this funky, twisty tied up metal ring, which makes her think of twisty branches [...]

From the beginning of the 20th century to the end of the 1980s, Finnish design had a fascinating evolution that designers still learn from today. If you’re planning to be near Helsinki between June 10 and September 6 of this year, check out the exhibit at the Suomen Rakennustaiteen Museo. For details, see http://www.mfa.fi/frontpage