The Home Journal

Take a minute to head across to The Home-Journal sometime this week because it has a whole new look. And have a read of my article on CAPAS Furniture, a collection of furniture made from predominantly cardboard and paper.

The Home Journal

This week on The Home Journal get inspired by backyard rooms. These studios are to die for...

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Celeste Watson

Melbourne based graphic designer Celeste Watson has created this illustration as a means to point out the ridiculous cost printer ink. If you have bought an inkjet printer in the last few years you will have rejoiced in the amazingly low prices they are available for. However, you have probably quickly been shocked to find the price of the ink cartridge refills reaching almost the same cost of the printer itself. 

We're getting ripped off to say the least. According to a report made by The Guardian, the cost of printing ink is the lowest it has ever been, only a couple of dollars per litre. However, when we buy it in the form of print cartridges it is costing more than $4000 per litre, almost double the cost per litre of the world's most expensive perfumes. 

Watson has 're-branded' some Hewlett Packard Ink Cartridge packs in the form of Chanel No. 5 perfume bottles to highlight the devious sales tactics. Watson claims "I like throwing design back in the face of its expected audience, but in unexpected ways."

Isabel Lundah's Swedish home

This gorgeous Swedish home belongs to Isabel Lundah, marketing manager of Iittala and owner of clothing label RAH. The combination of old and new is carried out perfectly to create a warm and homey, yet artistic and contemporary feel. I love the mix of neutral colours with bright yellows as well!

Photos by Sara Svenningrud for Residence Magazine

Peter Jensen SS2014

If you know me at all you will know I like big t-shirt style dresses. I just like sleeves... And these designs by Peter Jensen are so so great. The Diana SS2014 collection is full of desirables...

Photos by Paul Bliss

Art-filled Chelsea Apartment

Allan Schwartzman, 54 is an art collector. Even before owning a space to that could display his art, Schwartzman amassed exactly the right pieces that he'd need one day in his dreamed-of New York apartment. He explains "before I started buying art I thought I'd collect it. I knew someday I would move, and just hoped it fit whatever place I moved to."

When Schwartzman found his luxury Chelsea high-rise 11th Avenue Residence designed by Jean Nouvel, he started over with all that he had in storage - modern Brazilian furniture and his collection of art. What was originally a three bedroom apartment was converted into what he calls "a deconstructed one-bedroom."

The windows within the apartment which are of various size and are strategically positioned offer a panoramic view of the Hudson River and cityscapes to the North and East. These windows dictate how the furniture and objects were placed.

Despite the density, the apartment is not the obstacle course that it first appears. Thanks to Schwartzman's installation skills, the eye can easily take in the whole or focus on one object without another intruding.

All photos by Jason Schmidt and found here.

The Non Program Pavilion

Located in the South of Spain, in Salobreña is this small pavilion, surrounded by a remarkable landscape. Designed by Jesús Torres García Architects, the Non Program Pavilion was created through the idea of disappearing in the landscape, attempting to erase the division between the intervention and the area. This concern of integration reaches the point where the landscape generates the architecture itself. 

Lumberjack candle holder

Danish designer Simon Legald designed these candle holders after being inspired by the silhouette formed in a tree trunk as lumberjacks slowly chop away to a trees centre. Each set of the Lumberjack candle holders are created from a single cylindrical piece of solid wood. The collection is sold through 

Normann Copenhagen.

Invisible Helmet

This is a crazy idea, but Swedish design students Anna and Terese have worked on creating an invisible bicycle helmet... Watch and be inspired!

Alexandra Raben

At only twenty-four years old, Danish designer Alexandra Raben has begun creating furniture and lighting to froth over. Her Intricate range of lighting underlines the need to make space for the fine, unique objects that require patience and fascinating craftsmanship. Inspiration was found in feathers, transparency and contrasts which led to the design of a steel framed pendant light with coiled wire and thread hand-woven through, forming a thin surface of patterns. From afar the range reminds me of stained glass windows which display similar characteristics of effecting light and shadows.

Converted Hat Factory in Brussels

This beautiful loft in the centre of Brussels, Belgium has a history as an old industrial building which was home to a hat factory. Transformed by owners Fatti & Pierre, the loft is styled through the combination of Fatti's feminine touch and Pierre's amateur architecture. The home results in a beautiful airy home with vintage and modern pieces. 

Photos from here

Hilary Thackway

Sydney creative Hilary Thackway is a bit of a wonder-girl when it comes to design. If you browse through her website you'll find she is a combination of stylist, graphic designer, illustrator, web designer and art director. My favourite of her designs are her pop-up wedding invites. A combination of relaxed, quirky illustrations with textured letterpress printed cards results in these gorgeous invites... 

March Studio

Winners of The Great Indoors Award in 2011, March Studio, an Australian architecture firm received a 5000Euro prize for their design of Aesop stores in both Melbourne and Paris. The Merci Paris store's installation, seen in photos below, consists of 4500 cardboard shippers and 40m2 of netting.

Karina Sharpe

Karina Sharpe is an Australian mum and creative who is just one of those people I aspire to be like. Her instagram feed is definitely worth a look as she shares her seemingly small creations that are subtle, quirky and beautiful. This little movie is a little insight into the type of work she creates. Her journal shares her discovery and thoughts about her creative process and life... "I will no longer create from the surface. I will create from the depths and move mountains with the subtlety of the difference."

Be inspired by this gorgeous short film.

Yoshiyuki Hibino

Japanese designer Yoshiyuki Hibino presented his range of incredible pendant lights at the recent Stockholm furniture fair. Simple form and functional ecological beauty are combined perfectly in his designs of hanging lamps. Two styles are available; the first an easy elastic shade that is rolled up in uncoated metal... the second is formed by the halved sheet of material being fixed at the top on both sides. The lamp when turned on creates a soft, diffused light due to the choice of materials used.

Foldboat

English designers Max Frommeld and Arno Mathies are the creators of the 'foldboat'. Designed as a seamless, hard shell, folding boat... it is fabricated from one single sheet of plastic. It is designed for flat water environments and features durable hinges allowing the 2.5m vessel to be opened out flat or into a small parcel. 

Daniel Emma

These two desk organisers are designed by Adelaide based creatives Daniel Emma. Originally produced for their D.E Desk range, the cork cone and magnetic tower are now produced by 'Wrong for Hay'.