Jonesport Mood Board

As pre­vi­ously men­tioned, this week I’ve taken off to the Outer Banks for a much-needed vaca­tion. And lucky for me, I’ve got some great blog­ger friends who agreed to guest post while I’m gone. The last blog­ger you’ll be hear­ing from is Dylan of OK Great.

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I’m very recently engaged and my fiancé and I have been spend­ing most of our free time caught in the typhoon that is wed­ding plan­ning.  The ini­tial stage, we’ve found, mostly con­sists of mak­ing phone call after phone call.  So, we were both super excited when we got the chance to take a break from the grind to make our first mood boards for the wedding.

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Kristy and I got engaged while on vaca­tion at an old fam­ily home in Downeast Maine, so we decided to for­goe the nor­mal route and use the col­ors we found on the rocky shores and at the lob­ster pounds as our inspi­ra­tion.  These are some of our favorites.  You just can’t beat sum­mer­time in north­ern Maine.

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I wanted to fin­ish up with some­thing sweet, per­sonal and hope­fully use­ful.  Maybe this’ll inspire you to make your own sum­mer­time palette!

I hope every­one enjoyed the posts; it’s been fun!  Keep read­ing Design Work Life and come visit me at OK Great sometime!

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July 31, 2009 – 10:00 am | By Dylan | Posted in Design | Comments (1)

Shine a Light

As pre­vi­ously men­tioned, this week I’ve taken off to the Outer Banks for a much-needed vaca­tion. And lucky for me, I’ve got some great blog­ger friends who agreed to guest post while I’m gone. The last blog­ger you’ll be hear­ing from is Dylan of OK Great.

I have a seri­ous aver­sion to floor lamps-don’t ask me why, they just bother me.  So, I’m always on thhunt for an inter­est­ing table lamp.  One of our read­ers from Rezon in Tokyo sent in some shots of a new lamp series they’ve released and mmm, mmm, I’m into it.

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The lamps are painted with one image on the inte­rior and a dif­fer­ent image on the exte­rior.  When the lamp is turned off, only the exte­rior image is vis­i­ble.  Flip the switch and, sur­prise, the exte­rior + inte­rior images com­bine to reveal each lamp’s glow­ing secret.

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Little, geo­met­ric lamps and secrets?  Yes, Please.

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July 31, 2009 – 9:00 am | By Dylan | Posted in Interior Design, Products | Comments (1)

Argumentativa

As pre­vi­ously men­tioned, this week I’ve taken off to the Outer Banks for a much-needed vaca­tion. And lucky for me, I’ve got some great blog­ger friends who agreed to guest post while I’m gone. The last blog­ger you’ll be hear­ing from is Dylan of OK Great.

Hello!  My name is Dylan and I’m part of the OK Great crew. I’m a recent trans­plant to middle-of-nowhere in NC and I spend 9 – 5 at Flywheel Design in Durham. Design Work Life has been an every­day read for a long time now, so when Courtney asked me to guest for a day, I jumped at the chance! Let’s get to it…

Meet Miguel Arias a Cuban + Puerto Rican illus­tra­tor liv­ing and work­ing in San Fransisco.

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There’s a clear dan­ger present in a lot of the dreamy, oth­er­wordly illus­tra­tion work that’s been pep­per­ing the inter­net lately, and that’s cross­ing the line between being child­like and, well, child­ish.  Miguel mas­ter­fully tip­toes just barely on the right side of the line and I think the result is that much more charming.

Miguel, you’re awesome.

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July 31, 2009 – 8:39 am | By Dylan | Posted in Art | Comments (0)