After more than ten fulfilling, magical years beginning in the good old days of 2012, Hello Pretty is retiring and heading off to the beach with a drink with a tiny umbrella.
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I'm an impatient person. Like, flips out in traffic kind of impatient. And then I see something like this, which makes me want to be a better person.
Paul Roden and Valerie Lueth from Tugboat Printshop are two crazy talented humans, who undoubtedly tested the strength of their relationship during the two years that it took to carve this ah-MAZING forest landscape.
From BoredPanda:
"Paul Roden and Valerie Lueth, a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based artistic duo, has unveiled their “Overlook” woodcut print, an epic work of art that they spent the last 2 years (on and off) designing and making.
The dedicated duo, which runs the Tugboat print shop, painstakingly cut trees, leaves, grasses, rivers and mountains into a board measuring 28 in x 46 in (71 cm x 117 cm). The dizzyingly detailed vista is then printed with three colors. “A panoramic infinity will be suggested by the print’s ability to eventually meet itself seemlessly at the edges,” explain the artists, “expanding like an eternal ‘wallpaper’ into an ever stretching vista!”
The piece will be sold as a single piece, diptych, triptych, or as an endless wallpaper."
I mean. Incredible. Checkout the fantastic behind the scenes pics on their Instagram over here.
Industrial designer Chris Perron has been earmarked at the Hello Pretty headquarters as a designer to watch. Spotted at the Interior Design Show West in Vancouver (IDS West), this talented individual’s beautiful craftsmanship and attention to detail quickly grabbed our attention. I love his use of materials and the strong linear elements.
Not only is he a great designer, but he is also a talented artist - and to make me like (and maybe envy) him even more, is that it seems that he is still studying (well he was still studying in 2012, at least) - I am really excited to see what Chris will produce when he is unleashed upon the design world as a qualified professional, especially if the standard of his student work is this high.
On that note, I am now going to go stare at all of my school design assignments and promise myself to be better. There may or may not be brownies involved! ;)
Check out more of his work here: http://ctperron.wordpress.com/
I have fallen head over heels for these Tree Ring Lights by Judson Beaumont of Straight Line Designs. They look like they came straight out of a fairy tale, and I’m a sucker for a fairy tale.
According to www.thisiscolossal.com, the lights are made out of a beetle pine shell topped with mirrored Plexiglas that allows the embedded cool fluorescent light to shine through in the dark. Sturdy enough to be used as a stool or a table, the Tree Ring Lights look perfect for midnight picnics.
They were debuted in the Summer Lights show at the duthie gallery in Canada.
Now to find go find the perfect spot for them in my garden.
