Charley Harper: An Illustrated Life

Set to be released next month Charley Harper:An Illustrated Life is a 420-page behemoth of an art book of illustrations published by AMMO Books. Spanning six decades, Harper's minimalistic style captures the natural world with broad strokes, leaving out the fine details while representing a whole that's greater than its parts. He's said to have famously remarked that when drawing a bird, he doesn't bother …

Oliveira Lar

Oliveira Lar is São Paulo–based designer Marcelo Sommer's cheeky line of housewares turning kitsch into a fashion statement. The motifs on the mugs, ashtrays, salad bowls, pillows and plates ring of holidays spent in the countryside hunting deer and frolicking in the countryside—an old but familiar pastime shared between many cultures and still synonymous with a time when leisure was no–fuss and came easy. The …

ICFF 2007

Attended by more than 20,000 design furniture devotees for the past two years, the ICFF now in its 19th year returned to Manhattan this month with top designs from more than 23,000 designers form 33 countries. We'll have a video on New York's biggest design event (with a little help from one of Holland's current renowned designers) later this week, but in the meantime here …