We both consider ourselves creative to some degree, but our crafting skills were really tested with this wedding. Nate is a designer and created our wedding invitations with some of my concepts collected from religiously following blogs. We spent many nights scouring vendors for paper, cheesecloth, envelopes, etc for the invites. We ended up using an incredible husband and wife team based in Oakland to letterpress the veneer and pre-wedding BBQ pages. We screen printed our logo on the cheese cloth bags for the invites as well as the welcome bags for guests, which included some yummies, a night light, Kleenex, a Big Sur postcard, and a “Details” trifold with all the information on the weekend festivities for our guests, which Nate also designed.
As for other DIY projects:
• My mom made the table runners and beautiful napkins, which have all been sent as thank you gifts to our family and friends who helped out a ton with the wedding. They were one of the biggest labors of love.
• We made the ceremony programs and tied rusty old bells on each one (sourced from eBay) that each guest rang when the ceremony wrapped up.
• Stir sticks for the signature cocktail and lemonade with our logo.
• We ordered flowers online and created centerpieces and bouquets the day before.
• Thumbprint Wedding Tree; idea came from other weddings. Nate made it ours.• We printed each guest’s first name on canvas then attached them to stamped wood tags for table assignments.
My cousin is a chef in Southern California and ordered the desserts from a vendor of her restaurants’ the Tuesday before the wedding. The desserts were a HUGE hit and they looked pretty too! Our caterer was wonderful to work with and provided a delicious meal for all 80 guests, who are still talking about how great the food was.
My wedding dress is from the Vineyard Collection, Priscilla of Boston. Sweater is from Anthopologie. Bridesmaid dresses are from JCrew. Groomsmen’s suits are from H&M. Groom’s Suit is Ted Baker.
Kelty, from Steep Street did a perfect job capturing everything about the day. Our photographers were with us the entire day and really felt like long time friends from the moment we met. In fact, they were truly the key witnesses to all the special intimate moments we had throughout the day and I think they really captured our excitement and love for each other.
To see more images from this beautiful wedding, check out Steep Street’s blog right here.
Published on August 3, 2010 1:49 pm.
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2010 / Mixed paint and used computer disks on wood.
Available at the forthcoming ‘Untagged’ group show at the Adam Lister Gallery
www.adamlistergallery.com/gallery.html
Published on August 3, 2010 1:45 pm.
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‘One+’ by Add-A-Room
Lars Frank Nielsen architect and founder of the Danish practice ONEN Design has designed this modular architectural system for the Swedish company Add-A-Room. The houses can be ordered in different modules with specific functions and be composed according to the user’s requirements. They are prefabricated in Sweden in collaboration with mainly Scandinavian companies and with the use of local materials.
‘One+’ by Add-A-Room
‘ONE+’ by Add-A-Room
The smallest unit with 15 sqm, ‘ONE+’ by Add-A-Room
Two units with an outdoor cooking module
Two units, arranged long ways, connected through the outdoor cooking module
to the Add-A-Room website
seen @ Dagens Design
Published on August 3, 2010 1:39 pm.
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Brand van Egmond combines digital photos with lighting to create easily customizable chandeliers that are a reflection of the user.
The frames each contain 1 Gb of internal memory and are combined with glass frames to create two different sizes of chandelier.
Annet van Egmond and William Brand were inspired by photography while working on their book, Lighting Sculptures, and applied this to the creation of Digital Dreams.
The La Vie en Rose system of lighting is based on the creation of a bouquet of roses. From a single rose to a full bunch, the blooms can be chosen at will to create a chandelier or wall sconce of as many components as desired. The flowers can be dressed up further with crystals.
Annet van Egmond and William Brand have just celebrated twenty years of designing lighting sculptures together.
Published on August 3, 2010 1:36 pm.
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Published on July 30, 2010 1:40 am.
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Designed by Niklas Hessman | Country: Sweden
“A kind of taste pack for oatmeal. This package contains the right amount of oatmeal with added sugar and salt. You break your BREAK FAST pack over a bowl, add water and cook in the microwave. Then you can tentatively serve with cold milk. The idea is to target a new audience that otherwise would not eat oatmeal, but also to those who are usually in a hurry in the morning and tend to skip today’s most important meal, breakfast. Break it fast and have a BREAK FAST!”
Published on July 30, 2010 1:38 am.
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Ny design av glödlampa i form av en diamant. Det är vad
Eric Therner gjort i snyggaste retro feeling.
Den svenske Eric studerade även bildesign i Milano och jobbat med design inom inredning, produktdesign, transportmedel m.m. Bl.a för ADDI. Han står bl.a bakom produkter som “Our biggest fan” som är en fläkt samt ”Stick to me” som är en klädhängare. Se mer på hans webbsida.
“Dimond lights” är en halogenlampa, vilket är miljövänligt, och har då en brinntid på 2000 timmar.
Kostar 29 Euro och säljs via hans webshop och även på Designtorget.
Gillar skarpt!!
Fotograf: Jesper Lindström
Published on July 30, 2010 1:27 am.
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‘Fall 2009′ is a brochure created by Changzhi Lee for Ice Age Publication Design that aims to raise awareness on the effects of Global Warming towards the habitats of Polar Bears.
‘Lee creatively folded the brochure up like an iceberg, as you unfold the pages, you melt the ice and destroy the polar bears’ habitat…‘
a+. changzhi lee
Published on July 30, 2010 1:24 am.
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Children of today are so lucky. Life is so much more fun than when we were kids. A great example is this Slide – Eat table by Studio Klass. You can climb to your seat to eat your lunch and then slide back to your toys. So Cool!
Posted by Keren Fathi-Poor at 28 July, 2010
Published on July 30, 2010 1:19 am.
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Great business card for Tamiya, the Japanese model-kit company. Card is made of plastic and the elements of the card can be broken apart and once snap you them together, you can either end up with a robot/aircraft/ship/car.
Designed by: CreativeJuice Bangkok http://www.creativejuicebangkok.com/
Designed for: Tamiya http://www.tamiya.com/
Published on July 30, 2010 1:16 am.
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