Design Your Life: The Pleasures and Perils of Everyday Things

Ellen Lupton's new book, Design Your Life: The Pleasures and Perils of Everyday Things is co-authored with her twin sister Julia. Design Your Life takes an irreverent and realistic look at everything from toasters, bras, and pillows to housekeeping and procrastination. Speaking to readers who are both design-conscious and consumer-wary, Design Your Life taps into the popular interest in design as well as peoples desire to make their own way through a mass-produced world.
watch her 35 min video here

Feel the Felt

A Palace Yurt Installation in the Museum Cooper-Hewitt in NYC on display this summer. Designed by Janice Arnold (American, b. 1953) and entirely made of versatile felt. Watch the video here

Best of Bollywood is from Colombo

This time the best of Bollywood is coming from Colombo Sri Lanka where Mahen Chanmugam paints the most delicious images of the Lord Ganesh.
The artist studied the postures and the iconography of the deity for more than 15 years and gave it a contemporary twist.
The picture above is a painting of the Vinâyakî, which is a feminine form of Lord Ganesh; she has an elephant head and the body of a female. See more of this beautifulMahen work on his website.
A book about his work is for sale for 15 US$
Mahen takes commissions and sells smaller versions of his work for smaller budgets.

Love Affair with Little People

Finally I have found a platform where I can make public my secret love affair with the Little People by London based artist SLINKACHU. I know nothing about this artists but the romantic little worlds he creates with his little people is made up of dreams and fantasy. I am not sure about what exactly but I feel transported to atime when I was little and everything seemed to hold a secret and there was a longing about living the life of a grown up. Something like that... I wish I could be one of Slinkachu's a little people. It probably has a lot to do with not being noticed. Many of us feel we are not being noticed, as much as we are not noticing many.

Street Art Paris

The street can be your museum as these image prove. Street art is free art and often of the more interesting. kOOii spotted this beautiful artwork (top) at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris.

These posters were spotted in the Metro:
and these at La Bonne Marche on the Left Bank: