Working from my dinning table
I´m currently working from my dinning table – due to all the deadlines in my designstudio. Working from home makes it a little more pleasent to work day and night for a while. So here are a few photos of lovely and inspiring dinning tables from my inspiration folder – hope they will inspire you too! I´m trying to find out where the photos are from – the top photo is from Rum magazine, for the second I need help – maybe from Decor8?. The last photo is from this home shot by Katrine Martensen-Larsen via Stylefiles
Book Cover Inspiration #2
It´s been raining for the last 2 weeks now – so why not curl up with a good book and pretend it´s actually autumn, while we wait for the summer to come back? Or you can also just have a look at The Book Cover Archive which is an archive of book cover design and designers. It´s a place where you can easily spend way to much time browsing books – the only thing missing is the lovely smell of books and paper. This time I picked these blue and red covers – because it´s always a great match – and with some cream colours added – it´s even more delicious. Do you judge a book by it´s cover?
Owls & Fashion Vermin
I found this spread from the book “Like I Give a Frock” Fashion Forecast and Meaningless Misguidance , by Michi Girl – over here. It caught my eye because of the cute owl sketches – eventhough I still love owls and always will – I´m so fed up with them right now. And the text on the spread describes precisely how I feel about owls at the moment – owls have followed deers and have simply become fashion vermin!
Fashion vermin. noun. a once-cute animal that has become far too popular for its own good by infiltrating everything from T-shirts, earrings, brooches, knickers, logos, leggings, and every other conceivable piece of fashion fodder. Recent additions to the not- so-endangered spieces list include bluebirds, owls, squirrels, bunnies ….
Inspirationboards by Mav
As you might have noticed I´m a sucker for great mood- and inspirationboards. I often make them when I start working on a new project – and think they are such a great visual tool. So I just have to share these inspirationboard & still life vignettes created by the supertalented and always inspiring Maria Alexandra Vettese. You MUST check out her new website and all her wonderful projects.
Geneology
Besides all the design jobs in the studio, the goodbye parties for Nanna in the Kindergarten and all the kitchen planning lately – I´ve also spend some time putting together a small book about my mothers side of the family – The Johansen Family. My aunt has collected lots of photos and clippings and written a little about both my grandparents & my great grandparents. It´s been so nice and touching to see all the photos and to read about their lives. I made the photo book via Iphoto, and also made a family tree via Geni.com – and I really recommend both services. My great grandparents had 5 children – but only my grandfather and his older brother who emigrated to the U.S had kids – and right now 3 of those ” kids” (my mom, my aunt and their cousin) are reunited in California together with their daughters and grandchildren. It´s such a nice thought and it warms my heart – and I´m thinking so much of them all right now and wonder if my interest in geneology is a clear sign that I´m getting old!!
Above is my maternal great grandmother, my grandfather, my paternal great grandmother, my grandmother and my paternal great grandfather – all chilling in the backyard!
More Black & white
Maybe you can tell thay my interior decorating side is very much alive these days – cause here´s some more black and white inspiration – from RosenbergCph´s website. RosenbergCph is a danish company that design and produce articles for the home, and clothes for women and children. I think their patterns are modern classics – and enjoyed seeing their products in situ at their press page – and the pillows are of course on my wishlist!
Black & white kitchens
This weekend we tore down most of our old kitchen in the summerhouse. We took down the upper cabinets which will be replaced with open shelves instead – and already now the room looks so much brighter and bigger – and I can´t wait for the final result! The pictures above are from my inspiration folder - I´m not sure where I found the photos apart from the bottom left, which is from Made a Mano´s website – I just love those big ceramic tiles! I took a lot of “before” pictures and plan to share the final result after the summerholidays.
Airy Summer drawings
I just saw these airy drawings by US artist Aidan Koch via Housemartin – and they really insprired me to sit down and doodle with my watercolours during our summerholiday. Maybe they will inspire you to doodle too.
Jurianne Matter
I´m still here – and still very busy before my summerholidays – so meanwhile I´ll just share this lovely moodboard and the cute paper flowers of the dutch designer Jurianne Matter. She is a freelance designer and product stylist who designs her own paperwork, but also design patterns for other companies.
Cutest teapot ever!
Yesterday I spotted some ceramic pieces from a collaboration between ceramist Louise Gaardmann & illustrator Anders Anhøj from Venom Yum. And their teapot has to be the custest teapot ever! Also check out their Brushies. It´s all on my wishlist! And now back to work – I have so many great projects to finnish before the summerholiday and I´m working day & night right now – so my shop will be updated later…
