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 Colour | Striped Outfits on Hatfield Str - Cape Town, South Africa

Just spotted these guys outside the Engen on Orange in Cape Town.

Love these outfits, pretty fresh -could almost be a new South African dress-type! slash Missoni Meets Africa

(image: Renee Rossouw Cape Town 2012)

Like Object | Wooden Keyboard from Hacoa

from shop HACOA

found via Jeanne Botes Pinterest

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Like Idea | Make your own Plant + Herb Screen

This could be quite easy to make/build if you have a screen frame

( or make it yourself with timber). Use plastic bottles and fill it with small plants

or even herbs.

( Seen at Saloni Satellite Milan 2012 )

(photo from my iphone)

Like Idea + Colour | Zone one of the London underground map made from drinking straws

this is a cool idea by British Designer Kyle Bean (via designboom)

If you can find enough colour straws, go for it!

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IKEA PS 2012 collection at MILAN Furniture Fair

I visited the Milan Design Fair this year. 

One of the highlights was definitely the innovative IKEA PS 2012 exhibition

at Ventura Lambrate

Visit ELLE DECORATION to see my photos and info

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 Nature | Canvas Tents next to Lake

found via ffffound

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 Idea + Spaces | Around the World - Elle Decoration South Africa

One of my favourite shoots this year by Elle Decoration South Africa, is the Deco-Idea

Article, World Wide Walls. Freckin love the African Doll infront of the China Wall

or the Books on the Argentina Wall. Pretty much cooler than Amelie's Knome. That

thing is just freaky.

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 | Succulent Plants indoors in Wood - Organic vs Cut

ORGANIC

VS

CUT WOOD

?( reception desk via dezeen, organic scanned in H&L Mag)

Like Space | Marlene van der Westhuizen 's Kitchen , Elle Decoration #56

See Marlene's Cookbooks here at GOOD FOOD co za

Like Material | Malabar Hand Woven Eco Friendly Fabrics

MALABAR ( SHORES OF INDIA ) HAS BEEN PRODUCING ECO FRIENDLY FABRICS YEARS. DYED BY HAND. WOVEN BY HAND.ALL NATURAL FIBRES, SOME OF WHICH ARE ORGANIC.

THE COTTONS ARE CRAFTED IN KERALA, IN A CORNER OF THE TROPICAL MONSOON LANDS

OF SOUTH INDIA.

(scanned in from Living in the sun, May 2008 )

Like Idea | How to Origami titbits in the Visi Magazine #Interactive

a while ago Visi Magazine use to release these nice

origami pages. Plus they gave you the paper ( colour ones )

to do it with. So cool to have an interactive component in ?

a magazine, hello lunchtime hobby at the office

( VISI ISSUE 29, 32 )

Like Materials | Brick + Concrete + A little bit of paint Visi #39

scanned from Visi # 39

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Like Material | Pine Suspended Cabinet in Visi #30

Really like this strip pine suspended cabinet, found it in

Visi Issue 30, Rudolp Perold's flat.

Looks like an easy DIY project ( if you can do woodwork...)

plus might be really nice to have a strip from one side straight to the over

to tie the room together. Dear Rudolp, please remove the lame poster

Paper Lanterns in Colour Changes

have always liked paper lanterns?.

these are from the shop LOFT LIVING and

found it in the Conde Naste House & Garden April 2008

(122 Kloof Street, Gardens, Cape Town showroom: 021 4220088 )

and then i just wanted to photoshop a bit...

Like Graphic | Blue Tile Composition in Kalk Bay - Cape Town

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Love these Tiles just outside Olympia in Kalk Bay, Cape Town

The composition shows the Settlement of Kalk Bay, The Sea , The Mountain etc.

Read a Short History Of Kalk Bay

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( photos renee rossouw cape town 2011 )