Always taking the same approach will yield the same results. The Inspiration Pad helps breakthrough ideas come from nothing more than a change of style. For those experiencing a case of writer’s block, the classic blue lines of this notebook are warped, jumbled, twisted and swirled for a fresh take on classic loose leaf, created by Brussels-based Art Director Marc Thomasset.
A group of young furniture and product designers based in Milan named their collective “Memphis” when their record needle stuck on Bob Dylan’s crooning line, “Memphis blues again,” on radical designer Ettore Sottsass’s record player. The post-modern movement, which incorporates unconventional industrial materials, gaudy colors, blatant kitsch and disregard for the rules of balance is well represented in this beautiful compilation by Barbara Radice, which …
British designer Sarah Thirlwell works in sustainably sourced wood and colored acrylics to create handsome asymmetrical vessels. Fitted with a test tube to hold flower stems, the award-winning design plays “on juxtapositions of synthetic and natural, light and opaque.”