Pump Up The Volume

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The boys at Volume Inc.–Adam Brodsley, Eric Heiman and Zulu,

are old friends from San Francisco.

We love them and their work is wonderful too.

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Their design work for the Academy of Sciences

made complex ideas, accessible.

This isn’t easy.

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Other clients include: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Flora Grubb, Southern Exposure, Heath Ceramics, Chronicle Books, and McSweeney’s.

Read this just-published article about them here.

(middle photo via craftzine)




San Francisco based photographer, Leslie Williamson, didn’t quite set out to make a book.

She just wanted to see inside the homes of designers and artists she admires.

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Lucky for us, we’ll get to peek inside their homes too–as her inevitable book,

“Handcrafted Modern: At Home with Mid-century Designers,”  will be published by Rizzoli in October.

Until then, I’ll be savoring images like these in her daily posts here.

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Can you guess whose homes these are?

by Maria Moyer

Bow Ties Make Me Smile

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Shauna Alterio and Stephen Loidolt (of Something’s Hiding in Here) have created a neckwear collection called, “Forage”, based on the sartorial habits of their favorite designers like Charles Eames and Louis Kahn.

Bay Area People:

Forage is available at Curiosity Shoppe on Valencia, starting Friday July 27th.

Please go. I dare you not to smile.

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by Maria Moyer

things change

photos by Alejandra Laviada, from her series “Hotel Bamer.”

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Once in a while, I find something that’s so beautiful it hurts a little.

Today, it’s this work by Caroline Slotte.

Something created, from something broken.

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posted by Maria Moyer (via Erik Scollon)