Love the deranged surrealism of these pieces and the use of color by the recent OCAD grad. Follow for more images and a link to her portfolio site.

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Intelligentsia Chemex Brewing Guide from Intelligentsia Coffee on Vimeo.

The coffee maestros at Intelligentsia have always been fervent supporters of the Chemex brewing system developed in the 1940s by German inventor, Dr. Peter Schlumbohm. The device is essentially “part chemist’s funnel, part Erlenmeyer flask, with a blond leather band in the middle corseting its hourglass curves.” Where the spectacular coffee comes from is the unique multi-layered paper funnel used to filter the coffee, trapping more of the “undesired” oils that they say kill the coffee’s flavor. After having finally tried this method, consider me a convert — the coffee was noticeably less bitter and layered with a more complex taste.

Crippled only by its painful price-tag, this long-heralded cookbook by Heston Blumenthal, one of the UK’s most celebrated chefs — in its new edition, is finally priced for mass enjoyment. What set this book beyond most culinary publications was the joint pairing of acclaimed visual artist Dave McKean. This new edition of the Fat Duck Cookbook will be released 10/13. With the Momofuku cookbook coming out a few weeks afterward, October is looking like a good month for foodies.


[via Eat Me Daily]

While mainstream movies are more market-driven than ever before,one area of filmmaking is still enjoying an artistic resurgence that began in the 1990s. Let’s hear it for the title sequences

Refreshing a good one over at Creative Review where they look at some of their favorite title sequences put together for the celluloid screen, some which are undoubtedly better than the movies they were made for.

[Best Film Titles]

Blake Hicks’s series of portraits of characters from the HBO series, The Wire. You know, that one show everyone tells you is “THE BEST TV SHOW EVER” (It’s true).

[Blake Hicks via Laughing Squid]

The premise behind Surtido de Mutaciones is pretty interesting…Basically that IKEA is actually a supplier of raw materials, rather than of finished products. They challenged 35 designers to go to IKEA and to come up with new products that used existing IKEA parts. Everything used in their products had to come from IKEA, including screws, seats, screens, etc.

They range from simple reinventions to elaborate light fixtures. Seeing these really inspires one to get out and try their hand at recombining pieces, because at Ikea prices, what’s stopping you anyway?

[Surtido via Sub-studio]

KN’s series of wallpapers where guest designers contribute their offerings is once again updated. This latest work is by Tom Keegan. Check it out as there are numerous offerings to refresh your monitor’s real estate with something new.

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Taking still captures from cinematic titles all the way back from the 20’s to the present, it’s an interesting chance to view the changing aesthetic of typography and imagery throughout the decades.

[The Movie Title Stills Collection]