Like Colour | Polka Dot Pattern Public Space + London Olympics 2012

The Central Park bridge is a Multicoloured rubber deck & cool colour and graphic Intervention  by Heneghan Peng Architects . The colours are inspired by the London 2012 olympic colours and the rubber surface is only temporary but made of recycled running shoes!

More info here + here

Like object | muji meets lego (Blog By Mobile)

My sister brought me back this set from germany, been eyeing it for a while!
Photos of it built coming soon . dankie lo!

DWELL May 2012 - Pattern Diary Feature - Renee Rossouw

My ceramic project , Pattern Diary, made a feature in last month's DWELL magazine

in an article called 'The New Guard'. Thank you for the selection DWELL

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Like Idea | How to Buy New Tech + Green Apps for Android

Found this in the South African Stuff Magazine #26, Jan-Feb 2012

Some pretty useful info + that Carbon Meter  Free App for Android sounds like a great tool for

awareness ( plus probably shock factor! )

( scanned in from Stuff Magazine Issue 26, also visit Stuff.co.za )

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Like Idea | Textured Textile Trend at Design Indaba 2012 for Elle Decoration Online

I did a photo-blog post on current knitting & DIY trend that was strong at this year's

Design Indaba Exhibition in Cape Town for Elle Decoration Online

View thephotos + story HERE

(photos : renee rossouw cape town 2012)

Like Space | Spazio Hayon 2012 at Milan

Although not yet revealed, Im pretty excited to see Jaime Hayon's Spazio Hayon installation

at this year's Ventura Lambrate / Milan set up.  Def worth seeing all the different projects/processes he has

undertaken in his quite prolific design career.

( image via email press release )

Like Idea | Top of Frame Little Still Lives

I love making these little still lives around my place - I really dont want pack my things away where

i wont be able to see them

  

(photo renee rossouw 2012)

Like Idea in The Times

A huge surprise was finding out that Like Idea was featured

in an article in the Times Newspaper recently about local design blogs - Thank you !

 Other South African Blogs featured was, Lar Leslie, Miss Moss, Elle Decoration, I Want That and

the Gardening Blog. 

Like Book + Illustrations | The Great Paper Caper by Oliver Jeffers

 

scanned in from the book

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Like Idea | Wood Shutters as Ceiling Boards

I saw this pizzeria on Dezeen yesterday, done in Athens by Greek

Architects K-Studio. Immediately quite fascinated by the wood-shutters

that bend around to form a ceiling

I also think, it reminds me of South African Cape Dutch Architecture, so

even though its Greek design, for me its Afrikaans. I like me some Afrikaans anything

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(images via Dezeen)

Like Objects | Wood Dinnerware by MUHS HOME

cara wood | kakudo wood | kakudo walnut | kami wood | kakudo maple 

MUHS HOME

all images via MUHS HOME

Like Idea | Baby Mobiles as Normal Objects - Simple Shapes and Geometries

Baby Mobiles are great looking room additions, as long as its beautiful and simple.
I would like to hang one in my entrance hallway. 

A Few  I like :

This Canadian Flock of Birds Mobile: 

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These Simple Colourful ones by Australian Mobile Online Shop Puka Puka

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This wonderful Calder-looking ( is it a calder ?) one

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Okay this is just because its a little bit one the sweet side, A Hedgehog family, but still simplistic forms

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And really like the spatial impact of this one - mixes matching colours with bigger forms

and becomes a combination of mobile+chandelier+ room-focus point

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Like Object | Lego Man Evolution

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Lego Men have come a long way since the days I 

bough them in the 80ties ( well technically i didnt BUY it, more like received )

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And this definately has to be one of my favourites, although

its actually not a real man, but a hand-made sculpture by Jason Freeny .

( I dont see why LEGO cant make these ...for educational purposes )

See a before/process photo here 

(via design you trust )

Alas, There is still some time (or never) before humans turn into Lego Men.

hehe. But what a cool costume

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Like Graphics | d[x]i magazine - Cultura & Post-diseno #43, September-Dec 2011

Im quite lucky that the previous tenant of my flat subscribed to this

spanish little design newspaper, so now I get a bit of surprise post  - a few pages scanned in...

They have a pretty cool website too

CHECK IT OUT