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Visi house shaped magazine

This cool house shaped trim caught my eye at Magculture. To celebrate the 50th edition of the South African interiors magazine Visi, a limited edition run was produced with cropped corners to replicate the pitched roof of the cover photograph. What an ingenious and simple way of grabbing attention!

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Mr Coupland's spool artwork

As a hoarder of reels and reels of multi coloured thread, I fell instantly in love with this beautiful artwork by Mr. Coupland found on The Jealous Curator's blog. Featuring 143 hooks to hold random coloured spools of thread, this is one of many inspirational artworks found in the spectacular home of Canadian writer & artist Douglas Coupland via the New York Times.

Image © Douglas Coupland / New York Times all rights reserved 

Gilly Langton Jewellery

Scottish designer Gilly Langton uses coloured elastic complimented with a crisp matt silver to create these fun pieces of contemporary jewellery.

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Hexagon Ring By Caitlin Mociun

I love the simplicity of this beautiful hexagon ring by New York designer Caitlin Mociun available from Magpie and Rye.

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Loom Rugs

The 'Hepsi' by Loom Rugs is made from pieces of recycled carpet that are and overdyed and restitched to create a modern twist on the traditional rug.

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Alexa Meade

23 year old artist Alexa Meade's works using an innovative Trompe-L’Oeil painting technique which explores three-dimensional and two-dimensional space. Working across installation, painting, performance, photography, and video art, it is hard to believe that her work isn't a two-dimensional painting. To create these incredibly inspiring installations, Alexa coats her models with a mask of paint leaving just the eyes and hair as a clue to the real canvas.

Images © Alexa Meade all rights reserved

I heart it - Camila Drozd

Lovely self promotional mailer of a typographic bookmark by Pennsylvanian designer Camila Drozd. I would so love to receive this in my mailbox.

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Mac Book Chopping Board

Here's one for the apple fanboys...a chopping board that looks like an apple mac book. And check out that cheeky use of the apple logo chopped in two! Available to purchase from Design Spray. Super geeky but I want one :)

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Literary Jewels by Jeremy May

Jeremy May of Little Fly produces jewellery created entirely from recycled paper. Using a unique process of lamination each piece is carefully removed from the book, given a slick gloss finish, and the remaining paper is reused as a box where the finished jewellery is reinserted to the excavated space. Special commissions can even be created from your favourite book. As a carrier of text, illustration, history and emotion, I think that we can expect to see Jeremy's work become heirlooms of the future. 

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Best In Show by Muir & Osborne

I don't know about you guys, but in this fast paced internet dominated world my consumption of books and magazines has declined. I half heartedly fiick through magazines as generally speaking - I've seen it all before.

This Saturday I nearly choked on my coffee when Muir & Osborne's sweet knitted 'Best in Show' puppies barked for my attention from the pages of the Telegraph Magazine. Regular readers of this blog will know that I am a tad obsessed with dogs and these gorgeous knitted canines really hit the spot for me. I'm not a knitter, and this is a book chock-full of knitting patterns, that said I just had to make an immediate order on amazon!

Best in Show dogs are also available to buy online as kits or for the cash rich and time poor Osborne & Muir offer a highly exclusive knitted dog portraiture service - send them your dog photos and for £200 they will knit your dog. WOW! 

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