LOVE

Of course the english have always had an eccentric bold streak along with their very traditional british ways. So to perfectly keep in line with that thought Conde Nast's new fashion celeb mag LOVE just hit the newsstands this week with a fabulous and voluptuous cover of Beth Ditto in the nude.
(which reminds of an amazing ad campaign the Body Shop did years ago of Barbie)

valentine

yes, it takes a lot of love! The super Vanessa inspires me again with her energy, love and beauty. All those amazing cookies!

design by the book

the work created by the featured artists was both beautiful and extremely well thought out which you can view here on design sponge. I was also quite taken by the patterns I saw that evening as you can see above.

design by the book

Heading over to Grace's "design by the book" at the NYC public library tonight... more to come.

sunny day

These beautiful children's illustrations found via flickr's vintage children book pool are just giving me the needed warmth on this exceptionally cold day. 

design related

Met the wonderful designer Cristina Ottolini (who used to work at Mucca) this weekend at a friend's dinner who recommend the networking site design related. Finally a site worth spending time on!

and Maria's mountains have arrived

another brilliant and inspiring installment of Maira Kaldman's illustrations, thoughts, reflections... I'll never forget how when I was working for a certain "big corporate" client, access to her site, was blocked due to "explicit and political content".