For Dummies Books
Last night we found out a friend of ours is writing a Dummies book. We've never really paid attention to the titles before. We guess it's the whole "dummies" thing that kind of turned us off. Anywa...
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Found Style by David and Amy Butler
Surfing around just now, we came upon a post about one of our favorite design books, Found Style. Although it was published in 2003, it's timeless. In it, David and Amy Butler show how to mix it up ...
For the Love of Light: A Tribute to the Art of Polaroid
Even though it's old news, we still have trouble visualizing a world without Polaroids. It just seems, well, wrong that the company's going to stop making the instant film. But as the day draws clos...
PSFK Snapshot - San Francisco
We often find ourselves playing host to out of town guests, and even more often being asked by visitors for recommendations of things to do when in the Bay Area for the first time. The next time this ...
Mandatory Water Rationing for the East Bay
Anyone out there get the call from EBMUD yesterday? It's official: mandatory water rationing begins August 1st. What are your top tips for conserving water? Check out some suggestions below the jump....
Best Fixer-Upper Housewarming Gifts
Eleven months ago we closed on our first home. Ten months ago we moved in to our work-in-progress from the tent in the backyard. The time has flown by at record speed and we can't quite believe that...
How To Videos at VideoJug
Instructions are only so helpful - sometimes a visual aid is needed to get us through steps 3-6. Enter VideoJug, a UK-based website with how-to videos on practically everything. Of course, the area we...
The Green Home Guide
The ultimate one stop source. This website offers pretty much everything you need to know to make sure your home is up to par - environmentally speaking, that is. ...
The Lost Art of Towel Origami by Alison Jenkins
When we check into a hotel and come upon a little towel sculpture — a swan or accordion flower, typically — at the foot of the bed, we must admit we're charmed. Until we learned about Alison...
Planning the Garden: Vegetables (and the Occasional Strawberry)!
Amidst the chaos of our backyard makeover, we're digging in and trying our hand at a vegetable garden. Again. Round 2. It's on. This time, we want to do it right so we've been doing a wee bit of res...
(Some) Design Books on Sale at Cody's
If you're anywhere near Fourth Street in Berkeley, we suggest you pop in to Cody's Books before they move to their new location on Shattuck later this month. We did yesterday, and left with two hea...
New Charley Harper Books
We, along with what seems like everyone else in the design community, have been completely smitten with Todd Oldham's Charley Harper: An Illustrated Life book. It's big, it's beautiful, but it's expe...
Jeu de Paume Books: Scandinavian Inspiration via Japan
(AT:SF friend AB Chao is back! Jump below for links to other AB-related posts.) This may be old news to our more well-traveled Internetters, but we've just discovered Jeu de Paume's books, and are...
3191, A Year of Mornings
Early in 2007, we discovered 3191, a lovely visual blog collaboration between Stephanie Congdon Barnes and Maria Alexandra Vettese (Mav). It was a treat to see the gorgeous photographs of their m...
Blogging &Home: The Writer's House
Japanese home magazines offer so much in the way of eye candy that we don't even know where to start. The December issue (Vol. 15) of &Home profiles the homes of three women, and it's the third, th...
Olle Eksell: Swedish Graphic Designer
Honestly, it's not as if we need more books, or more art -- what we actually need is to get some of our art framed -- but when we saw Victoria's post on Olle Eksell: Swedish Graphic Designer just no...
Best Design Books
We're unabashed booklovers. We're lucky that our friends and family are, too, because honestly, if we have to stand in line in a store while doing our last-minute holiday shopping, we'd rather be i...
Mundane Journeys: Field Guide to Color by Kate Pocrass
Slinks n. (slingks) Surreptitious web links to other good sites
Urban color. We carry the first little Mundane Journeys book around in our car. But we didn't know about this one that celebrates color in San Francisco until we read about it on Meg's blog. How p...
Restoration Home by Mark and Sally Bailey
Lovely salvage. The most interesting vintage items featured in LivingEtc are from Bailey's. Funky industrial metal cart, great Anglepoise lamp, apple crates as shelves... Mark and Sally Bailey hav...
The Principles of Uncertainty by Maira Kalman
Synchronicity. It's funny that AT:Chicago slinked to Maira Kalman's talk at TED today. We recently spent quite a bit of time at various and sundry bookstores looking for Kalman's newly published b...
RottenNeighbor
Both Leah and sfist blogged RottenNeighbor recently, causing immediate flashbacks to our former neighbor. Loud, selfish, inconsiderate, he made our lives hell, and drove two other tenants out at th...
The Space Planner by Meg Mateo Ilasco
We don't know how she does it. The Bay Areas Meg Mateo Ilasco designs a line of textiles, runs the Mod Economy sales and has written several fantastic books. With the AT:SF Fall Cure in full swing,...
Little House on a Small Planet by Shay Salomon and Nigel Valdez
We were immediately drawn to Little House on a Small Planet when we read the back cover: Live in less space but have more room to enjoy it. Does that sound like a contradiction? ...on the contrary, li...
The Way We Live In the City by Stafford Cliff
Walking through a bookstore last night, we stopped in our tracks when we spotted The Way We Live In the City. Stafford Cliff's newest offering had us drooling at the first page. Although it's about ...
Amy Butler's Projects for the Home
The current generation of crafters continues to find new ways to merge hobbies like knitting and sewing with the desire to decorate. Amy Butler stands out in this area as someone who is helping week...
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