These bags look pretty cool. Bring them with you when shopping, and never have to buy those silly plastic bags again.

BAGGU.

I stumbled upon Minihouse this morning, as I searched for small-house designs, and was taken by it straight away. I yearn for the day when we have a summerhouse with enough land to be able to put up a friggebod – and I certainly wouldn’t mind it being this one.

Wagell also designed this quirky little houseboat. Cute.

Jonas Wagell
Minihouse

Uppercase are putting out a magazine that I’ve decided to get my hands on.

It looks pretty as hell – sporting a cover by Blanca Gómez, and filled with eye candy and words for the “creative and curious”.

I caught word about it on Blanca’s blog. Turns out Uppercase are Canucks! How about that?

Needless to say, I ordered myself a copy, then went over to Blanca’s ETSY shop, and bought the print, used for the cover of the magazine, for Tilja.

She’s really into balloons these days.

Uppercase
Blanca Gómez

Telegramstop offers a pretty cool service for those with a leaning towards old school aesthetics, and paperworks; real-life telegrams. At least they look like the real thing. You punch in your email text on the site, they format it to look all old fashioned, it gets printed, and posted in a manila envelope.

Pretty cool.

I just got Meomi’s (design duo based in Vancouver and San Francisco, who produce wicked graphics, characters and books) book Color Cloud Seeding in the mail from their publisher Rojo.

It’s wall to wall rich color pattern, scenery and characters, and it’s a real eyeful.

I like. I like a lot.

This weekend, while we were out shopping – in Stockholm – for bigger winter boots for our daughter, and a calendar for my wife, I came across these new swedish design notepads and books.

Designed to be easier on the eyes, and environment – the grey paper is lined with white lines. 

I really like the series. Something about the grey paper is very calming, and the white lines very subtle. It’s all very classy, and hip – that orange is vibrant and cool.

Whitelines® – the new writing paper.

Very quirky, funny, and well formulated shorts about nearly everything under the sun, presented by a guy with far out hair.

My kinda guy.

I like the animations, by Benjamin Goldman, too:)

Great and Telling Tales
Benjamin Goldman

Stephen Colbert gives us a taste of his special take on the holiday season, complete with special guests and lots of songs. Start yourself off with his intro up there^.

Feist appears as a guest, sings a song too, but I liked this earlier appearance better. Dunno why I thought it was part of the christmas special, before I watched it – must have been the red tie:)

Swedish Matroshka also have a funky idea to organize all your need in a one room apartment. Split level, and a lot of rolling pieces this time – lots of spots to sit too!

Matroshka

I have a thing for very organized self-contained dwellings, and this looks brilliant.
I can just imagine an empty space in a corner of a loft, a very bare studio apartment or even a whole budget self-service hotel being decked out with these flatpack kits.

Just add some kind of plumbing, a toilet and a shower, and a few outlets, and boom, you’re set!

Maybe some chairs, a mattress, some drawers too?

I even like the prototypes – made in very thick cardboard.

Louwrien Kaptein