just a quick reminder: today (at 10pm EST) is the last day to turn in your entries for the lena corwin “printing by hand” contest at d*s. if you have a cool space in your home that uses print and pattern well, send us a photo (via email right here- title: lena corwin contest) and you could win one of lena’s pillows and a signed copy of her new book, printing by hand. click here for more details and to enter. [images above and below submitted by michelle and rachel- stay tuned for more this week!]
stay tuned for a new sneak peek next! and click here to view yesterday’s fantastic sneak peek (which was tough to catch due to the horrible server crash we had yesterday)
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Rachel’s kitchen looks lovely here and I can say that it is beautiful in person as well. She has such good taste.
I noticed the same “Keep calm and carry on” poster in this room and in the bedroom of your last post. Where is it from?
I really like the fabric on the green pillows. Does anyone know what that is?
Hannah sfgirl by the bay sells those on etsy
I got mine at etsy:http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5244654
I was going to ask if anybody else was SICK TO DEATH of the Keep Calm posters… but I guess it’s just me.
Hannah – Barter books has them for about $7:
http://www.barterbooks.co.uk/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=32036
There are plenty of people online who sell these for significantly more money ($20+). The whole thing seems silly to me – the posters were initially designed to be displayed during WWII in public places in Great Britain. It seems a little strange to me to capitalize on the terrors experienced by others during a historically trying time, but c’est la vie. One man’s misery is another man’s cheap wall art.
I can definitely appreciate what you’re saying, Kyle. However, we live in a town of about 250 people in the frozen tundra of northern British Columbia where cheap wall art is the only wall art, so I don’t think anyone up here would really know the difference. Thanks for all the sources, everybody :)
Boy did I sound rude (my apologies!)
I have NO problem with cheap art, heck my apartment is chock full of cheap art as it’s all I can afford and there is plenty of great-looking affordable art out there. What gets under my skin is people making money off of the suffering of others, like if 50 years from now I decided to sell “cute” posters about the 9/11/2001 attack.
Kyle, I don’t think you need to apologize. I am sick of those posters, too. That’s the one and only curse for us design addicted folks. We see too much! And often it’s the same piece over and over…so yeah, I agree with you (not so much about the profiting from others suffering, but I’m tired of seeing it anyway).
The reason you are sick to death of seeing the poster everywhere is because people like it, its affordable and it says something to people. I don’t believe these posters profit from the misfortune of the british during WW2. The fact is the British public never saw these posters until many years after the war and it is in fact a British company that revived them. I have come across no public outcry from distressed Brit’s and in fact the ones I live with (who mind you own a copy of said poster) see it as something to be proud of, a nod to the Stoicism of her Majesties finest and also an excellent bit of design.
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