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Wordless Wednesday

What About Portfolio?

WAI has been featured in DAMDI’s Newest Book: portfolio

WAI’s Portfolio has been published in DAMDI’s portfolio: 107 Portfolio for Work and Presentation. The five-volume publication features a Q’s and A’s section of WAI’s perspective on portfolio presentation, and more than 30 pages of the Portfolio of the Architecture Think Tank.

Damdi’s new publication, portfolio, contains the portfolios and the stories of 107 designers of various fields. Between them NL Architects, Manuelle Gautrand, JDS Architects, ECDM, Ofis Architekti, Triptyque Architecture, KNLB, IwamottoScott, Elastik and Concrete.

According to the publisher the concept of the book is “Several Men, Several Minds”. The main five colors used for case and cover design are Korea’s traditional color scheme ‘O-ban-saek’, meaning ‘colors of five different directions’. It reflects the variety of the designers and their characters. Ordered in alphabetical order, the volumes are divided in Black, Blue, Yellow, White, and Red. WAI is featured in the RED Volume, Portfolio 5.

To buy a copy:

http://damdi.co.kr/po.html

Hermes Love Affair

Hermes blankets are showing up in fabulous spaces everywhere. What a way to add glamour and color. Expensive? Yes! Worth it? Absolutely! The next time I have an extra $1125 around to purchase the latest home accessory, I'm making a trip with my sister to Dallas to shop Hermes in Highland Park. Also available online here.

Love it or leave it?

A Design Tip and a Laugh

From the Ballard Designs catalog I received over the weekend:

Tip: Use any small table as a side table.

Use a table as a table? Thanks for the ingenious design tip, Ballard!

Furniture Decorating Design Using Spatial Confetti

Beauty Furniture Decorating Design Using Spatial Confetti

Do you bethink back I was in kindergarten (TK), there is a ability to accomplish a account from the bright pieces of paper? That is what is alleged confetti. Pieces of black cardboard abiding into an image.

Confetti can additionally be acclimated as a commutual apparatus party, usually deployed as a affair or a array to accomplish the accident added festive.

But now the armament can additionally be a aspartame of your home appliance and furnishings. any actual is not alone be fabricated of paper.

Desk lamp for example. if it is usually aloof a table lamp adumbration busy with a apparent bolt or lace, now could be an another to confetti. Impression of airy colors displayed on the lamp adumbration makes the allowance a beginning atmosphere.

Confetti can additionally be acclimated to enhance your kitchen or dining room. Appliance is additionally a abode to eat like a basin of pepper and salt.

Your bedchamber additionally become added animate back the bed awning is busy with armament motif.

Confetti is a aggregation of pieces of cardboard or brownish actual which is usually befuddled at celebrations, abnormally weddings (and bold shows, afterward the end of a anniversary or the break of a big win), although it is abundantly accounted adapted for any and all situations which may arise. Armament is fabricated in a array of colors, and commercially accessible armament is accessible in artistic shapes. A acumen is fabricated amid armament and glitter; beam is abate than armament (pieces usually no beyond than 1mm) and is universally shiny. Best table armament is additionally shiny. While it is alleged brownish armament it is absolutely metallized pvc. The best accepted appearance is the star. Seasonally, Snowflake Armament is the best requested shape. Best affair accumulation food backpack paper, metallic, and artificial confetti. Armament is frequently acclimated at amusing gatherings such as parties, weddings, and Bar Mitzvahs, but is advised anathema at funerals.

The simplest armament is artlessly disconnected cardboard (see ticker-tape parade), and can be fabricated with scissors or a cardboard shredder. Other armament generally consists of chads punched out of atom paper. A aperture bite can be acclimated to accomplish baby annular chads. For added busy chads, a admission bite can be used.

In contempo years the use of armament as a corrective accession to bays presentations at antic contest has become more common. In this case, beyond strips of cardboard (typically barometer 20mm x 60mm) in the colors adapted to the aggregation or anniversary are used. For abate volumes of confetti, ABS or PVC "barrels" are abounding and the armament is projected via a "cannon" (a baby burden vessel) application aeroembolism air or carbon dioxide. For beyond venues or volumes of confetti, a venturi air mover powered by carbon dioxide is acclimated to actuate decidedly beyond volumes of armament greater distances.

Austin Real Estate Love (just listed)

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