Taxiyarny? Maybe not.
Wow these anatomically-correct yarn animals by British artist Shauna Richardson are pretty neat. It’s always nice to see disparate craft traditions mashed up - even if her term “crochetdermy” isn’t exactly the most effortless portmanteau. You can’t win ‘em all.
One warning: if, like us, you have had it up to here with the Mounted Deer Heads Made Out of Non-Deer Materials trend, you are going to want to avoid numbers 2, 3, and 4 on her website. Now that that’s out of the way, go enjoy yourself some yarnmonkeys! Or see more after the jump.
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Feb 18.10 /
Vernacular Fancy / by
Andrew
Leech Plug: Tell Your Electronics When to Stop Sucking
RISD student Conor Klein (who, as mentioned previously, has great legs) designed this deceptively minimal plug off of the behavior of leeches. Just as a leech simply drops from its host when it is full of blood, so too does this plug physically disconnect the attached electronic device when it is filled with electricity. A great solution for the vampire transformers that draw energy even when charging nothing.
More pics after the jump!
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Feb 14.10 /
Dreamhouse, Kids These Days / by
Andrew
Opening Tonight! New Painthings @Nudashank
Alert! Remember when we told you all about that group show CHROMATOSE that was happening at Nudashank in Baltimore, and how it featured Smarties Tatiana Berg and Ted Gahl? Well they evidently stole the show and Nudashank has given them their own show to say “thanks” and also “you are fucking awesome.”
Opening tonight, New Painthings: Tatiana Berg/Ted Gahl
Reception 6-10pm
Friday, February 12
Nudashank Gallery
405 W. Franklin St.
3rd Floor
Baltimore, MD
more info at nudashank.com
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Feb 12.10 /
BFFs, Heck Yes, Real life / by
Andrew
We Hearties 2.10.10
This guy Gregoire Alexandre is just super duper
BIID for the furniture world: chairs that have been given decorative glass prostheses.
Check out the disposable & painful-looking sunglasses-on-a-roll
This cabinet just looks so lovely and horribly frustrating
Louis Vuitton again wins the prize for most vaguely-offensive handbag
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Feb 10.10 /
We Hearties / by
Andrew
Know Arties: Fiona Shaw
My Discomfort Is Evident But I Am Unsure Of The Cause (Prelude To An Unfinished Narrative), 2010
Really dig the work of UK artist Fiona Shaw. We are suckers for text work and chairs in things, and boy howdy does she have both in excess. Yeah!
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Feb 08.10 /
Vernacular Fancy / by
Andrew
Alert! Dan Golden started a blog!
No Smarties’ newest BFF and all-around wonderful man Dan Golden has become a fellow bloggeur! His recently revamped site includes not only his fucking great designed objects but also Sad But Beautiful, his holla at yo’ journalism. You might want to subscribe to that shit. If you don’t know who Dan is you can go over and read this interview he did with Design Glut.
Bonus: Check out this old drawing he dug up and sent over. Love that guy.
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Feb 07.10 /
BFFs / by
Andrew
Icy Hot
Wowow check out the beautiful photographs of Kevin Cooley.
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Feb 07.10 /
Glowing / by
Andrew
Congorock!
Love the Jungle-Book-meets-Seventh-Seal vibe of this new video for Babylon by Congorock, directed by No Smarties BFF Pomp&Clout.
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Jan 31.10 /
BFFs / by
Andrew
Lighthouse!
The ethereal indoor/outdoor Lighthouse by Swedish architect Thomas Sandell just looks fucking good. Look at it! It’s the type of thing that works equally well amongst clutter or clean. It’s a moment of calm - whether in the lunar landscape above, or your sock-and-beer-can-strewn living room.
And plus it’s totally the shape of houses that children draw, which to varying degrees is the scale by which I judge things. Holla to your iconography!
It is available for a weirdly unknown price from this Swedish lighting store. If anyone’s adventurous enough to call them and buy this thing please send pictures! And then invite me to come live with you. thx.
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Jan 30.10 /
Dreamhouse, Glowing / by
Andrew
Join the club
You don't view the club chairs, you are viewed BY the club chairs. Or something
French artist Olivier Bardin installed this gaggle of chesterfield club chairs in the Tate Modern for their exhibition, The Fifth Floor: Ideas Taking Space. It is (they are?) a performance. What happens is this: you look at the club chairs, then you look at the people in the club chairs, then you become the people in the club chairs, and then other people look at you. Bam!
Point is, given our affinity for things chesterfield, No Smarties will be moving offices to this room faster than you can say “brandy snifter.”
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Jan 25.10 /
Heck Yes, Vernacular Fancy / by
Andrew
