How rad are these.  This Swiss Code-X boat (which is currently available to order):

…which reminds me of this photo of the 80’s Citroën Karin concept car.

(via two separate posts here)

Erin is someone I discovered while searching through Etsy.  She is working on an MFA in fibers at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, PA.  Her shop contains beautifully woven scarves and this dress which I adore.

I was then led to her site which contains the most beautiful and rather heartbreaking woven tapestries, frequently dealing with car accidents, trauma and death.  I’m so glad to have stumbled across her work.

Such beauty and intricacy.

(via here)

Machine Project is a small, local not-for-profit gallery in Los Angeles…  my husband used to do design for them from time to time, and we still keep up on their goings on.  This most recent installation is pretty awesome.  Christy McCaffrey and Sara Newey turned the Machine Project space into a mini forest.  Can’t wait to check it out…

They turned this:

Into this:

Check out the Machine Project flickr set for more photos…  (btw, how lame is it that when I look at this, aside from thinking “Awesome!” my second thought is, “Have fun cleaning it up!”).

Makers of fine porcelain objets d’art, Grandey and Byers have a very fine little Etsy shop filled with fun things.

There are few people who can pull off an outfit like Tilda Swinton.  She rarely does any wrong in my book (though she gets a lot of flack from the Fug girls).  She has such an unearthly beauty that even creations like this seem perfectly suited to her.  I’ve featured the sculptural knits of Sandra Backlund before, and on Tilda they seem even more fantastical and beautiful than ever before.

(from the beautiful photos of Craig McDean in the most recent issue of Another Magazine)

I like this piece by Keetra Dean Dixon; the layers of wax perfectly echo the layers of a geode.

(via here)

Wow.  I would say that Karl has outdone himself, but I feel that hairstylist Katsuya Kamo deserves the glory here.  According to Women’s Wear Daily, he and his assistants used only two packets of 11 x 17 paper to create the beautiful headpieces worn in the Spring couture show.  They are amazing, as is the collection itself.  The paper headpieces lent themselves perfectly to this black and white show, reflecting “the new modesty” that Chanel is adopting… for now anyway.

Nice portfolio.  While everything in her portfolio is pretty noteworthy, I smiled at these pieces below, photographed for Neon Magazine… looks like they were fun to make!  Very much a throwback to Jan Svankmajer’s Dimensions of Dialogue.

I love mobiles.  Perhaps this will be my next project.  Here are a few that I’ve been inspired by lately:

Joanna Bean

Jen Seifert