Casa da Laurets - Fashion

Last year I posted about Casa da Laurets, a cute house wear brand.

Now Laura Martins, fashion designer responsible for the brand, is into women's fashion too! The best thing is, the sizes are for real woman not top models, like many brands nowadays!

You can buy this beautiful dress and many more here.

Music Tuesday

Today I decided to post a collection of vids that I got from my friend Luke.

Enjoy!

Bloomsberry & Co

I just came across this fantastic New Zealand-based company, established in 2001 by graphic designer Giles Barker and his wife Vanessa Kettelwell, a trained cook.

Vanessa and Giles use a combination of sophisticated humour mixed with superior ingredients and really awesome design to sell their chocolate bars to the world.

Just love the flat pack chocolate egg. I'm just waiting for a Brazil retailer!!

PS. the web site is damn cute, it's worth checking the tourist range on the New Zealand website.

FriendsWithYou

FriendsWithYou is an artist collaborative founded by the two Miami-based artists, Sam Borkson and Arturo Sandoval III.
The idea of this project to promote the two artists common message of magic, luck and friendship, through its popular designer toy line, public art installations, new form playgrounds, published works, live performances,various animation, motion picture and multimedia projects.

Danger Mouse x David Lynch

Dark Night of the Soul is the infamous Danger Mouse album that was never released due to a copyright dispute. Thankfully they did release a beautiful limited edition booklet featuring 50 photographs by iconic filmmaker David Lynch which were put on display at Art Basel Miami.

Vans and the places where they were

Vans and the places where they were is a great project by photographer and filmmaker Joe Stevens. Since 1996, using 120mm film, he has been documenting surviving custom and conversion vans across the West.

found at kottke.

Speto

I just discovered this Brazilian artist and I really like his graffiti murals.

Unpackaged

How awesome is this place? Besides all organic veggies, beans & grains, Unpackaged - a north London grocery store - placed itself on the front line of the plastic bag revolution.
It works like this: you need to bring your own jar, pot or bag, choose the product and amount you want and voilà! Easy and simple!

via loveallthis

Dujour Magazine

After some hard times Dujour Magazine is back! You can subscribe and check the last issue here.

Cowparade

CowParade is the largest and most successful public art event in the world. These events have been staged in over 50 cities worldwide since 1999. Here in São Paulo, CowParade just started. For two months really colourful cows designed by different artists will decorate the city. I just love this project!
Here you can see all of them.

Jam Session 2.0

Eight people with five instruments from four continents speaking three languages in one song. Awesome!

Tip from Brivilati.

Augusto Alves da Silva

Augusto Alves da Silva is a great photographer from Portugal. If you are in Lisbon please check out his exhibition at Serralves Museum, but hurry up it ends on the February 16th.

ToGroundControl

Last year I had the pleasure of meeting this great atelier called ToGroundControl. The people behind this atelier are two cute and awesome girls, Juss and Vanessa Bá, who I can now call friends!
If you are in São Paulo please stop by at Rua dos Cariris, 421 - Pinheiros. Really worth a check!

PS. these photos were taken by Juss, who apparently besides being a fashion designer is a great photographer too!!

Edwin Rozendal

Edwin Rozendal is an art director and web designer from Holland. Caught my attention the photos he submited to TEN:15. I just love all of them!

Maria Celeste Chad

Maria Celeste Chad is the responsible for the Brazilian organization called Orientavida (freely translated as Lead life). The goal of this organization is to teach women from a village in São Paulo country side, to sew, to crochet and embroidery technique.
Those women produce really beautiful products such as bags, cushions, table cloths, towels and many other cute items.
I'm in love with these items above, you can get all of them on line here.