If you’ve been following me on twitter you are well aware of what I’ve been up to the past few weeks. Today I’m launching another (mini) blog called Daily Design Bits. This blog will feature frequent short posts of all the ’shiny things I find on and off the interwebs’. Hop on over there and explore (and grab the feed so you don’t miss anything)! You can also submit cool things that you find if you want them to be featured!

Daily Design Bits is powered by Tumblr – which so far has been an AWESOME platform to work with! I’ve got some great content queued up for your viewing pleasure! I’m still tweaking things and setting things up – so if you find something that’s broken shoot me an email and let me know!

Thanks for reading and let me know what you think!

This weekend I wandered out to south Boston with Sarah to see Tara Donovan’s show at the ICA. All I can say is that Tara’s art is freaking sweet. She takes everyday objects and goes off the deep end with repetition. Her installations are amazing and they trick the senses.

Its interesting how she creates something so amazing with simple everyday objects. It makes me think of how we as designers create logos and designs out of simple words and images.

Styrofoam Cups

Plastic Cups

Paper Plates

Toothpicks

Kim Rugg

This is another artist that I have recently been inspired by. I have not seen her art for myself, but I still find it fascinating. Kim Rugg takes newspapers, cuts them up and rearranges every single character in alphabetical order in their respective articles and headlines. How crazy and obsessive compulsive is that? It makes you look at everyday text in a different way!

What artists are you inspired by?

Leave a comment and let me know!

I admit it...halloween is my most favorite holiday of holidays. When else can I consume more alcohol than I should while wearing a silly costume? Last year I was ketchup and sarah was mustard, however I had a severe toothache (which resulted in a root canal…YAY!) So this idea for a costume is very appropriate.

Images and awesome costumes by Riitta Ikonen.

Korean artist Yong Ho Ji makes sculptures from recycled tires. His work ranges in form from animal, to human, to some combination of both, evoking the ancient Egyptian tradition of creating mythological sculptures that are half-human and half-animal. Ji calls his variations “mutants” to refer to both their hybrid forms and the mutation of media that their creation requires. Sizes vary from an eleven-inch-high dog, to a wild goat with horns that is five-feet-tall to a 10-foot-long Hammerhead shark.

Simply amazing!

Totally spawned by boredom and frustration with work today: Post-Its on crack via flickr.

This is how i feel today

Screw the iPhone, I want a Sheep-a-phone! Heck, I want a whole heard of them! (sometimes I dont know how, or where I find things on the internets)

Food that takes the shape of its container - a look at what food has become in our society of convenience and instant gratification. A lovely flickr set of photos.

via swissmiss

So its official. Sarah and I are moving to Boston. We should find out soon (todayish) if we get the apartment we wanted, which is in a SWEET location.

Hopefully I’ll find a job out there soon. But until then I will try to remain calm, amidst so much uncertainty and excitement.

Sarah will be going to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (SMFA), where she will continue to make amazing art.

Trees are good for something other than paper (and growing money)!

A series of drawings produced using drawing implements attached to the tips of tree branches, the wind’s effects on the tree, recorded on paper. Like signatures each drawing reveals the different qualities and characteristics of each tree.

http://www.timknowles.co.uk/Work/TreeDrawings/tabid/265/Default.aspx

Sarah has been making some really interesting installation art lately: