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Neatly Organised Things

A little OCD it may be, but a neatly organised collection is a beautiful thing. The 'Things Organised Neatly' blog has made finding neat things it's business, http://thingsorganizedneatly.tumblr.com (thanks to Jez D for the link). Also see the IKEA 'Art of Cooking' video series and 'Homemade is Best' Cook Book for award winning neatness http://kathykavan.com/ikea-the-art-of-cooking-video-series

via http://www.fastcodesign.com/1663537/a-symphony-played-by-200-old-household-ap...

Other references:
http://www.kontorkontur.se/
http://sushipot.blogspot.com/2011/02/bits-bobs.html
http://ginwallpaper.tumblr.com/archive
http://www.behance.net/gallery/Found/749159
http://www.chinesecontemporary.com/hong_hao_cv.htm
http://buckets-and-spades.blogspot.com/2011/03/need-to-get-organised.html

Optical Illusions & Visual Phenomena

My eyes, my eyes! These are just the tip of the iceberg, from the excellent site by Michael Bach - http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/index.html

The Enigma
"Stare at the centre of the figure for a while. Some ‘scintillating’ activity will build up in the violet and blue annuli. Some observers also report a circular rotation within these regions; things will begin to “run around in circles”. This image “The Enigma” is by Isia Leviant (1981), Palais de la Découverte, Paris."

Source: http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/mot_enigma/index.html

Rotating Snake Illusion
Source: http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/mot_rotsnake/index.html and http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/rotsnake.gif

 Stereokinetic Phenomenon
"Rotation of adequate figures creates a three-dimensional illusion. It can take some time until the percept emerges. In the example on the right, envisaging a rotating crater may help.  The kinetic depth effect (KDE) is a similar related phenomenon." Source: http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/mot_ske/index.html#

 

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Patterns to brighten your day | Helen Dardik

I like the patterns of Canadian based illustrator Helen Dardik. They have a cute Japanese feel, lovely palettes and make you happy when you look at them, what more could you ask for? Found in the pattern sections at http://www.oneluckyhelen.com/index.html and her blog's here http://orangeyoulucky.blogspot.com/ - oh, if you want to buy any then visit her Etsy Shop here http://www.etsy.com/shop/helendardik?ref=pr_shop_more

The Bauhaus Textiles of Gunta Stölzl & Anni Albers

Gunta Stolzl

"Gunta Stölzl (5 March 1897 – 22 April 1983) was a German textile artist  who played a fundamental role in the development of the Bauhaus school’s weaving workshop. As the Bauhaus’s only female master she created enormous change within the weaving department as it transitioned from individual pictorial works to modern industrial designs. She joined the Bauhaus as a student in 1920, became a junior master in 1927 and a full master the next year. She was dismissed for political reasons in 1931, a year before the Bauhaus closed under pressure from the Nazis.  The textile department was a neglected part of the Bauhaus when Ms. Stölzl began her career, and its active masters were weak on the technical aspects of textile production. She soon became a mentor to other students and reopened the Bauhaus dye studios in 1921. After a brief departure, Stölzl became the school's weaving director in 1925 when it relocated from Weimar to Dessau and expanded the department to increase its weaving and dyeing facilities. She applied ideas from modern art to weaving, experimented with synthetic materials, and improved the department's technical instruction to include courses in mathematics. The Bauhaus weaving workshop became one of its most successful facilities under her direction."  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunta_St%C3%B6lzl

http://www.guntastolzl.org
http://theinternetwork.com.au/gunta-stolzl/
http://carlagrbac.blogspot.com/2010/09/gunta-stolzl.html
http://fannybostromscuriosities.blogspot.com/2009/08/gunta-stolzl.html
http://portalenportalen.blogspot.com/2009/12/gunta-stolzl.html

Anni Albers
Gallery of her Bauhaus texiles and some examples of later pattern work

"At Walter Gropius's Bauhaus she began her first year under Georg Muche and then Johannes Itten. Women were barred from certain disciplines taught at the school, especially architecture, and during her second year, unable to get into a glass workshop with future husband Josef Albers, Anni Albers deferred reluctantly to weaving. With her instructor Gunta Stölzl, however, Albers soon learned to love weaving's tactile construction challenges." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anni_Albers

http://www.albersfoundation.org/Home.php

Also, see my previous post on 'The Bauhaus Style' http://kathykavan.com/the-bauhaus-style-modernism-design