Category: Inspiration

Inspiration: MoMA Visit 1

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Last Sunday, I visited MoMA and found lots of inspirations — will have couple more posts later, but here, I wanted to share some typographic inspirations from the walls. Love looking at museum walls besides the exhibition (of course) because it always has cool design and typography.

Bruce Nauman: Days (very interesting exhibition – “sound sculpture”)

A huge wall full of days. Monday through Sunday. Not in exact order. Caught my eye. (and makes sense for the exhibition, too)

Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront (also an interesting exhibition)

I liked the project description wall. Nicely designed.

and this was on the 2nd floor wall — I’m not sure if this is a work in progress or if this is it… I didn’t see any project caption or anything, but either way, it caught my eye.

What Home Means To Me (Pin it Forward)

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As I mentioned before, lovely Victoria from sfgirlbybay and pinterest team are launching an another great event called “pin it forward” today and I couldn’t be more proud to be the one of the first 10 bloggers to start!

and the theme is “What home means to me” — and here is my pinboard…

I realized since I moved to NYC and started my own freelance work, home became not only sleep, relax, cook and eat, but also work and create. Be inspired and imaginative. Be creative and innovative.

(Beci Orpin’s home via The Design Files)

(Craft nook via you are my fave)

Also, as I have lots of collection of things, which make me happy, think and remember, home means where I keep all my favorite things, display them in my own way and enjoy.

(Lisa Gongdon’s kitchen via design*sponge)

(Teapots and jugs via skinnylaminx)

(the gallery wall via sfgirlbybay)

and never ending quest to me… Always looking for the perfect something for the home… and I enjoy that process, and when you do find something that you love, how great the feeling is and you get to live with it!

(Go Quest via me)

and the list goes on and on… please see more at my pinboard! I think I will keep adding more since home means A LOT to me, I would never be done with my board… :)

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Please also check out all the awesome starter bloggers inspiration for what their home means to them including Erin of design for mankind, Sara of lost bird found, Joy of oh joy!, Christine of LAMA, Nicole of making it lovely, Jodi of a fresh start, Lori of automatism, Melissa of melissa loves, and of course, Victoria of sfgirlbybay.

and please let me introduce, Tina of scatterbox. She will be posting “what home means to her” tomorrow! Can’t wait to see her board.

Thank you so much, Victoria and Pinterest team for your hard work creating, organizing and launching this event! and thank you guys so much for letting me share my pinboards :) I hope you enjoyed!

Folded :: The Origami Collection :: Inspiration 2

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This project Folded :: The Origami Collection with Jack + Jenn and Jody from Brin & Nohl has been a bit put aside because of my move… but now we are all ready to finish creating and I just wanted to share my inspiration #2 before I share what I’ve been working and my final product.

From the first inspirational images we all gathered (see Jack + Jenn and Brin & Nohl inspirational images, too), I thought about creating a pop up card — I never seen a letterpressed pop up card and I thought it’d be fun to make and it’d be nice to see in 3D format. I also love the surprise / when the paper comes to life moment when you open the card, too…

so I went over to upon a fold (one of my favorite paper shops!) to get some more inspirations around the pop up cards….

Bloom Card:

This is so very cute! I love that it’s so small first and it opens like the flower’s blooming and the flower itself is a card with a message.

This is so awesome, I would hang it in my room forever!

Retro Balloon Card:

These are a bit more straightforward and simple (not simple to make, but it feels simple), but how pretty are they?

Popcard — Butterflies:

Popcard — Birdcage:

These are not pop up cards, but I love the idea of making pretty flowers out of re-used envelopes, books, lottery tickets, diaries, buttons and more… I do have lots of misprinted letterpress prints that I’ve been wanted to turn into something pretty rather than just throwing them away…

Handmade Flowers:

These come with double-sided tape on the back so you can attach to gifts… so cute.

(all the images are from upon a fold)

So fun!

Pin it Forward

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Lovely Victoria at sfgirlbybay is doing it again, this time, it is called “Pin it Forward“! If you participated/followed the 1st blogger mash up “blog it forward,” you would know how fun and inspiring that was (see my post here!), and this time it’s with pinterest — a visual bookmarking site, where you can save images you find while browsing the web and organize them into collections. I’m one of the lucky ones who get to try this from their early stages and I must admit that it is awesome!! See my pinboards here for example and I would suggest signing up to “pin it forward” right now!!! Spaces are very limited!!!

I hope that you do :)