Karen LaMonte

While doing research on glass casting for a very special new design *shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!* i fell into the sometimes heinous, but sometimes take your face off melt your soul breathtaking world of contemporary cast glass art. While there, I discovered the calming and other worldly work of Karen LaMonte. Her life size glass casts sit illuminated like ghosts atop their pedestals and make me want to cry tears of pure magic.

You must go to her site and look at all her works.

You know... only if you're into ridiculously jaw dropping beauty...

www.karenlamonte.com

everything muse: bjork

while we're at it...

Ernst Haeckel

Ernst Haeckel was a German biologist, naturalist, philospher, physician, professor and artist. He discovered thousands of new species, mapped a genealogical tree linking all life forms, and coined terms such as ecology, phylum and the kingdom Protista. And in his down time, he made these.

...show off...

where to next.

I had a crazy dream last night that I was in a frantic search for the inspiration behind our next collection. I really want to design within a theme... and I am on the hunt. I ran into this blog The Day After you Die last night and it is chock full of amazing images. Here's some of ma faves...

Camila do Rosário

I was looking for color inspiration for these thread and chain necklaces i'm working on and ran into Camila do Rosário's work on a great blog called Color Collective, which if you are a designer and aren't hip to you should get so. Anyways... this just blew my mind... i'm in love. And so inspired...