The Man Who Invented the Future

These illustrations are from a 1960's book by Jules Verne called 'The Man Who Invented the Future', the beautiful illustrations are by Peter P. Plasencia.

I'm generally a sucker for all things colourful but there's something so lovely about these grey scale gouache illustrations.

I simply adore them!  

Danielle

Festival of Dance, UK

These posters were designed by Amy Rodchester for the Newcastle Festival of Dance in the UK. 

I adore the simple muted pastel colour palettes she's chosen and of course the whole collage thing she's got going on using the same shape repeated with different images of dancing feet inside.

So simple, yet so effective. 

Love. It.

Love Danielle x

Prada Spring / Summer 2012

Totally loooooving the styling on Prada's current Spring/Summer 2012 advertorial campaign for print. 

It's this whole Über modern, highly polished woman meets rockabilly at the local 50's style gas station - complete with hot rods and all! 

"Bathed in sunlight. Fuelled by optimism.

Girls and cars stop and stare at the future in the technicolour mise-en-scene of desire" 

That's Prada's little sum up of the campaign. Either way it's stunning! 

 I couldn't find who styled it but it was shot by Steven Meisel, I love the use of low angles looking up at these glamours that are so preened you could almost mistake them for mannequins! 

Oh and aren't the shoes with the little flames just to die for...

Love Danielle

William Miller's Polaroids

William Miller is a photojournalist out to show the world what he is capable of shooting with an old, semi broken Polaroid SX-70 that he picked up at a local flea market.

Miller claims that ever since his first use of the camera, it malfunctioned... Spitting out two polaroids at a time, producing blurry abstract images and such.

Miller fell in love with the results, and refused to return the camera and instead chose to treasure both the camera and the artworks that it popped out with every click! 

The photographs are completely abstract yet dream like and completely hypnotising. It feels like you've taken acid and are watching some spectacular sun rise/ set in some kind of melting, Technicolor utopia.

More of William's photographs can be found on 

www.williammillerphoto.com

Love Dan xx

Lego Land

Yes that's right, it's a table made from Lego... 

Not entirely though! 

Parisienne design team Munchausen were looking to design a one of a kind piece to fit their very own kitchen. So off they went to Ikea where they purchased your average Ikea standard kitchen island, and then they went to town, covering it in 20,000 pieces of Lego and well they came up with one very cool looking kitchen bench, that you sure as hell ain't gonna find at your friends house. 

Love Dan x

Eight Hour Day

I've had this sweet little image bookmarked for ages and have finally got my butt around to researching the talent behind it, Katie Kirk.

Katie Kirk is one half San Francisco based design / illustration team otherwise known as Eight Hour Day, which she runs with her husband Nathan Strandberg. 

They do a load of vintage inspired designs and patterns for numerous uses; cards, books, websites, advertising and the list just goes on. 

I could harp on and on about how gorgeous they all are, but i'll let the pictures do the talking this time!

Oh and don't forget to check out all their other goodies at

www.eighthourday.com

Amor, Dani x x