The Winning Card
Date: July 6, 2010 | Category: Art, Cards & Stationary, Lifestyle
There are winners and there are champions. Company name aside, Brooklyn-based enormouschampion is a clear leader in the cool-cards-plus-great-tea-towels-plus-more-fun-stuff category (and all while being incredibly sustainable, mind you). From our first sighting of the cetacean study limited edition print to our subsequent swooning over the entire line of greeting cards (check out babylove, a mis-tape, and post script), we knew we’d stumbled on something special. (more…)
Beneath the Trees
Date: May 24, 2010 | Category: Art, Cards & Stationary, Lifestyle
Fresh designs + sustainable methods + vintage charm = Sycamore Street Press, a boutique letterpress company based in Heber City, Utah, with an eye for the unique and a passion for preserving the clean air, blue skies and beautiful mountains that surround the eco-friendly studio. (more…)
Slide on Over
Date: April 19, 2010 | Category: Art, Holiday & Gift, Home Furnishings, Kitchen, The Home
Design school duo Scott Scoggin and Jacqui Savisky joined forces after graduation to form the creative studio, Slide Sideways. Filling the desire to create with their hands, the team uses all different mediums to make beautiful things that inspire and capture the imagination. From tea towels to t-shirts, posters to pencil pouches, journals and cards, Scoggin and Savisky have two hands in the entire process. (more…)
The Art of Dumpster Diving
Date: January 21, 2010 | Category: Art, Events, Lifestyle, Media
Cast aside any previous notions you had about digging through the trash. The Recology SF (San Francisco’s re-branded waste management system) Artist in Residence program is revolutionizing the way this city’s inhabitants view their castaways. By providing local artists with work space, a monthly stipend, and unlimited access to materials (namely in the form of recycled goods and found items at “the dump”), this innovative program is offering inspiration and education to the community. (more…)
Oil is History
Date: October 1, 2009 | Category: Art, Events, Home Furnishings, Lifestyle, Media
Art can take on many forms, from Pollock’s chaotic splatters on canvas to large scale light installations. What’s rare, though, is hearing about pieces made with low VOC paints, energy-efficient bulbs, or sustainable materials. But an upcoming exhibit at artist Louise A. Marler’s stylish L.A. Marler Studio has turned art into environmental commentary. From staging to printing, the photographs in Marler’s “Oil is History” series send a direct message about transportation, pollution, and how both affect our surroundings. (more…)
From Refuse to Rembrandt
Date: June 23, 2009 | Category: Art, Events, Featured, Home Furnishings, Lifestyle, Stores & Resources
Careening down the palm-lined streets of Los Angeles, visual distractions abound, mainly in the form of billboards advertising everything from premium liqueurs to summer blockbusters. Sadly, these oversized vinyl creations meet an end that is often far from sustainable, creating bundles of waste whose final destination is the local landfill. (more…)
Renaissance Woman
Date: June 15, 2009 | Category: Art, Home Furnishings, Lifestyle, Media
Florentine genius Leonardo da Vinci once said, “Art is never finished, only abandoned.” While this poetic observation bears a degree of truth, work by Sage Raval proves, in some ways, just the opposite. Collecting castoff mailing and packaging materials, discarded wrapping, and other items deemed mere scraps, she repurposes them as artwork, hand-stitching the various elements together. (more…)
Vinyl Visionaries
Date: April 2, 2008 | Category: Art, Events, Lifestyle
The Bay Area is always a great place to be on Earth Day, and this year ReVisions/SF will be displaying motivational environmental messages from an unlikely place: billboards. ReVisions/SF is a drive-by public art project, conceived by Peter Schulberg, a non-profit art gallery founder and artist who repurposes recovered materials into functional art. After learning that billboard advertising frequently ends up at the dump, Schulberg was determined to find a way to re-use the vinyl billboards as canvases for new artists. Following a successful run with millions of viewers in LA, ReVisions/SF’s Earth Day unveiling will include 10 original artworks designed to inspire Bay Area citizens as well as a gallery opening at the Thoreau Center for Sustainability featuring smaller works on vinyl (an otherwise unpopular material with enviros). And if you happen to have any budding Bay Area artists in your home between the ages of 12 and 18, encourage them to submit to the “Gimme Shelter Art!” contest with works themed appropriately, “The World As I See It/World As I Hope It To Be.” Your young Picasso’s artwork could be featured in local bus shelters, spreading messages of hope for a greener future. For more info, check out the Revisions site.
This Table Will Self-Destruct
Date: March 25, 2008 | Category: Art, Green Building, Home Furnishings, Lifestyle
Studio 1a.m. in Chicago is both eco-innovative and conceptually imaginative. Take the post-modern This Table Will Self-Destruct, each time this table is constructed an additional “pixel” is removed from the design, where the tabletop is considered the “grid.” And they’ll keep building the table until they’ve removed too many pixels for it to be of practical use. Talk about getting in on a limited edition, artistic endeavor. Each one-of-a-kind creation is made from a concrete blend using slag and fly ash – industrial byproducts. The base is made from reclaimed Walnut. So far, 25 pixels have been removed. If it is your thing, you better act fast. 26 seems slightly smarter than 62!
