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Good Fucking Design Advice Poster

Available now from the Good Fucking Design Advice Store. (via this isn’t happiness)

By Christopher on October 26, 2010 • inspiration posters and prints profanity

Thread Installations by Sébastien Preschoux

Sébastien Preschoux creates intricate installations in natural environments using hundreds of feet of multi-colored string. A quote from Preschoux from trendland:

Nowadays, the new generation disposes of images as a industrial rapidity and they are not asking themselves about where these things are coming from. Is it handmade or is it an electronic work? When they are faced with creating handmade work, they realize the labor and time it takes. The result is way more important than a printed work that is, easily reproduced. In my opinion, art makes sense if it is the result of the human hand.

Learn more and see many more installations via his web site Man vs Machine. (via bumbumbum)

By Christopher on October 26, 2010 • color installation nature sculpture

Alphabet Shelf by Lincoln Kayiwa

The Aakkoset shelf (aakkoset = alphabet in Finnish) by Finland-based Lincoln Kayiwa comes in 8 different colors. Though it might be slightly out of reach for the typical IKEA-going crowd at $21,000. (via sub-studio)

By Christopher on October 25, 2010 • abecedarian furniture home kids

2011 Moon Phase Calendar by Irwin Glusker

Moon phase wall calendar by Irwin Glusker exclusively for MoMa. Only $17.

By Christopher on October 25, 2010 • astronomy calendars infographics moon posters and prints

Heath Ceramics

Heath Ceramics tea summer home ceramics

This may be the first and the last iced tea set that makes it onto Colossal, but we have a thing for ceramics so deal. (via annelinnting)

By Christopher on October 25, 2010 • ceramics home summer tea

Spectacles of Environments by Phoebe Washburn

Enormous and intricate installations by New York artist Phoebe Washburn

[...] Washburn has moved on to newsprint and scrap wood, but what her massive, room-size architectural sculptures all share is that they’re built from the scavenged bits of the urban world in which she lives. She prizes the castoff and mass-produced—the pencils, crates and day-old newspapers that none of us much cares about—and then sorts, layers and transforms them into what she calls “spectacles of environments.”

Many more great photos on flickr. (via the function key)

By Christopher on October 25, 2010 • installation recycling sculpture wood

Writing Without Words by Stefanie Posavec

This image by Stefanie Posavec represents all of the sentences in On the Road by Jack Kerouac. Each line is organized according to the number of words per sentence, and the sentences are color-coded according to theme. This is only one of many killer infographics in Posavec’s Writing Without Words series in which she attempts to visually organize the language of books. Prints available. (via we find wildness)