Cre8tivegirl

WARNING: Photo-based post ahead. If you don’t like looking at awesome things, shield your eyes! :)It’s almost a very long weekend (3 days for us folks who get Memorial Day off). I couldn’t be more excited, and you know why? Because I’m going to Sin City this weekend for Punk Rock Bowling. I would te

Sitting on a roof top of Wieden & Kennedy, drinking a beer one late Friday afternoon, I got a little glimpse into the world of Lloyd Winter IV. It was all very casual and listening to him I had this sense that even though he has so many irons in the fire (an always had), this guy clearly knows what

This looks like fun! LEAP MotionSay goodbye to your mouse and keyboard.Leap represents an entirely new way to interact with your computers. It’s more accurate than a mouse, as reliable as a keyboard and more sensitive than a touchscreen.  For the first time, you can control a computer in three dimen

Dieter Rams was strongly influenced by the presence of his grandfather, a carpenter. Rams trained as an architect before joining electronics manufacture Braun in 1955. In the more than 40 years that he spent working at Braun, Dieter Rams established himself as one of the most influential designers o

Joss Whedon’s Avengers made a gagillion dollars ($1,042,513,047 worldwide, to be exact). The movie was absolutely awesome, as I love anything Whedon touches. Including Dollhouse. You know who else loves The Avengers? Australian fashion design duo, RomanceWasBorn. They scored an exclusive, kick-ass d

Oh I had such a fun time last night at the WeMake Discovery Workshop with Grove.Grove handcrafts lovely, lovely iphone cases and ipad covers from bamboo and felt. The wonderful thing about the Grove collections, is that they are crafted from beautiful bamboo, fine leather and felt. Then they are las

Ok, I know, this must seem like a theme this month, but I had to share this! Designer Garth Britzman of Lincoln, Nebraska used recycled bottles filled with colored water to create this very lovely canopy.The effect creates a simple transparent environment where “one can explore the surface qualities

Artist Daniel Buren has a wonderful installation exhibiting at the Grand Palais in Paris right now. He has created these giant circles of colored plastic that overlap and form a colorful canopy inside the beautiful building. Depending on the weather and light, shadows and reflections are cast to cre

There’s nothing that makes me happier than putting on a post-punk record and drifting back to a few years before I was born. There’s no point in saying I wish I was born twenty years earlier, but I’ll say it anyway. I’ve never felt a stronger musical connection with any era than with the ‘70s punk a

I have always loved Maurice Sendack, his illustrations and stories have a permanent home with my inner child as well as my heart. When I was a kid his work delighted and inspired me and when I had kids it was his books (and Shell Silverstein) who's pages got worn from reading over and over again. We