[Steve Jobs Action Figure]

Mega-decorated surfaces that coruscate with lines and shapes and curves and closely-related color-values, and… oh, bother all that, what Amara Por Dios is all about is serious, post-psychedelic fun. It’s street art, brought indoors, cleaned up a bit, but never tamed.

Por Dios combines playful abstractions of faces, body parts, and… well, other stuff for a result that is both cartoonish and strangely meditative. She takes the idea of “crowd scene” to the next level.

It’s art you can look at, live with, or even wear. (And, sometimes, it’s art made from things she once wore.)

[Soulful Madness - Amara Por Dios]

Footwear Mats are made of a mix of concrete and fiberglass. These mats virtually turn wet boots and shoes into a work of art!

[Toma Concrete Footwear Mats]

[MiniWoouf Foam Music Series Beanbag]

Incase and A.P.C. have partnered to create a capsule collection that combines the nuanced look and feel of the finest selvage denim from Japan with superb device-driven design. These accessories have been designed especially for Apple users who appreciate refined fashion and relish the latest technology. The clean, minimalist design of the A.P.C. Book Jacket and A.P.C. Sleeve evoke the essence of simplicity, while premium denim and leather trim offer an exceptional look and feel.

[Incase x A.P.C.]

[Manual Photography Cheat Sheet Poster]
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Collecting sunshine sounds like something a Bond villain might do on his day off, but it’s actually something the charming little Sun Jar does every day. That’s because this traditional-looking frosted glass container houses a solar cell, battery and LED lights. The idea is to leave the Sun Jar near a window or under some decent artificial light so that it can collect energy throughout the day. Then when darkness falls it provides a warm, ambient glow.

[Sun Jar]

No, “The Savannah Rocker” is not an ode to southern R&B. It is an ode, though, in a literal sense, as its maker, Jolyon Yates, has named his design ODEchair.

This stunning rocking chair, with its fluid lines, Yates explains, is “an ode to the elements,” an invitation to slow down and enjoy the flow of life. Or, as we say in the South, “come in and set a spell.”

The Savannah Rocker (nicknamed “Breeze”) is sculpted from birch laminate, finished in a strong satin lacquer that hides none of the natural colors of the wood.

Loving this Mykea Machinist Pattern Malm Bed! Mykea is the creative way of covering up the nakedness of Ikea furniture.

[Mykea Machinist Pattern Malm Bed]

Everybody’s favorite notebook, Moleskine, has announced a new kind of social ecommerce platform that allows fans and consumers to purchase one-of-a-kind, customized notebooks, journals and planners directly from artists.

More than just another online store, the Moleskine Artist Marketplace is a centralized hub for sharing work, discovering new work, trading tips, and purchasing notebooks from favorite artists. Artistic techniques and mediums including embroidery, origami, oil paint, photography, even taxidermy are on display.

“[Moleskine notebooks] give me inspiration to create something new and unpredictable,” said Stella Sbilenca, an Italian illustrator who likes combining notebooks with cut and paste wizardry.

Brad Fisher is a mixed-media portrait artist who uses plain Moleskine notebooks to sketch his compositions. The new platform, he says, “provides an honest marriage between creativity and commerce.”

the artists at work, and their work

The Moleskine Artist Marketplace