the beat that my heart skipped

the beat that my heart skipped  //  I like finding things that make me feel happy and I wanted a place to put all of the things that I find. I wanted a page to put all those cool things that you find - things you read, things you see, things that make you want to remember them and look at them again. So that's what my posterous page is for.

 
Apr 25 / 7:49pm

James Hance: Wookie The Chew

I love these prints so much, and Pete and I are toying with the idea of buying these three. Who on earth thinks of combining AA Milne with Star Wars? But it completely works, and these prints are genius. They'd make a really cool addition to a nursery, subverting the fact that everyone decorates their kid's room with Winnie The Pooh friezes. I have a sneaking suspicion these prints will be coming to live at our house. (Must find available wall space, we're running out.)

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Apr 5 / 10:18am

Coolhaus

It's probably because I've been on a healthy eating and exercise kick, but Coolhaus are really appealing to me right now. With a foodtruck, and some stores in the US as well, their menu is making my mouth water. The name is a wordplay - a combination of Bauhaus, Koolhaas and 'cool house' - because basically an ice cream sandwich is a cookie roof and floors with ice cream walls. 

I just want to devour some peanut butter ice cream sandwiched between two giant chocolate chip cookies. It's probably better for my scales that this is only based in the US, but I can have technicolor dreams about these killer snacks in the meantime. Noms.

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Filed under  //  Food   Travel   Websites  
 
Apr 4 / 2:24pm

Natural Wave: Byung-seok You

Am I radiator obsessed today? In my new house,  I don't have the old school radiators I used to have in my old house because these little beauties would have been perfect for this. I really like the idea of keeping my tea and toast warm on here. Oh, I am not as rock as I once was.

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Filed under  //  Interiors  
 
Apr 4 / 2:21pm

Steve Faletti: Radiant Floor Lamp

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Love this. Kind of wish it was an actual radiator as well as a light, but it's still a thing of beauty nonetheless.

 
Mar 13 / 4:07pm

How 30 Great Ads Were Made

Pete told me about this book that he'd seen on the Creative Review blog, and now we both kind of want it. Might be a browse once and never pick up again, but it does look intriguing. 

Creative Review said on their blog:

Published by Laurence King Publishers How 30 Great Ads Were Made: From Idea To Campaign is a new book by CR's Eliza Williams. The book takes readers behind the scenes of 30 of the last decade's most successful ad campaigns...

Featuring interviews with the key creatives, directors and clients for each campaign, the book offers an insight into how great ad campaigns get made, along with some surprising facts about some of the most popular ads of recent times: for example, did you know that the children's brows in the Cadbury's Eyebrows spot were manipulated by puppeteers rather than CGI? See the pic above for the proof.

Each campaign featured is illustrated with imagery showing the stages it went through in development – including sketches and early ideas that may have been abandoned, storyboards, animatics and photos from shoots, and shots of the final ad.



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Filed under  //  Advertising   Design   Literature  
 
Mar 13 / 3:49pm

National Lottery Good Causes


This advert stopped me in my tracks when it first aired and made me feel like crying. It's really powerful, and completely not what I expected from the National Lottery.
Filed under  //  Advertising  
 
Mar 13 / 2:55pm

Homework Table: Nika Zupanc

Home office desk by Slovenian designer Nika Zupanc - turning the little crank at the side lifts up an accordion of storage drawers for paperwork. A sweet idea to make something functional into something lovely. Why isn't my house big enough to fit all the things I admire into it? If someone would invent an expanding house that never looks cluttered but holds everything you love, I'd like that very much.

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Filed under  //  Design   Interiors  
 
Mar 4 / 11:08pm

Berndnaut Smilde: Nimbus

This is mental. Dutch artist Berndnaut Smilde installs miniature clouds in empty gallery spaces. Actual real clouds. Not something made to look like a cloud. I can't get my head round it. They're created using smoke, moisture and spot lighting, and they look mindblowing. I want to see one and touch it.

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Filed under  //  Art  
 
Mar 4 / 5:45pm

The Middle East: Blood

A song that gets better and better.

Filed under  //  Music  
 
Mar 4 / 5:42pm

Dead Man's Bones

Starting to think there is nothing that Ryan Gosling can't do.

Filed under  //  Music