I never tell enough about Le Plan B — a design company owned by my friend Damien Gires from Paris. During the Designer’s Days 2009, he made an installation called “urban seats”, made to question the use of urban elements such as those ugly metal posts that sprout all around Paris. Urban seat is a neon-yellow seat that can be stacked, moved around, and used to redefine the idea of a urban bench.


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Howdy everyone!
As ever, I was caught in a storm that fored me not to upload my pics on flick’R. Actually, my cat ate my USB wire. Errrr…. Then, here we go, for some random cool links.

Politically related :
The French internet is suffering from an intense political debate, intending to attack the privacy of web users. Firstly made to prevent illegal downloading, we’re now confonted to an insanely stupid law, which intends to cut your internet access for at least a year if you’re suspected of downloading illegaly. As we all know, knowing exactly who has been using P2Psystem is almost impossible. Of course, people in charge of this law have an an astronomical knowledge of the internet. Such as: ” if you download a file in Japan, it’ll take 3 days to come from there. The farthest, the longer the downloading…” (That was saif by Pascal Nègre, the actual president of Universal Music France.) Anyway, if you’d like to learn more about France becoming the democratic republic of China, give a read to this website.

Type-related :
Watches the watchmen. Ilovetypography published this link to an interesting interview of Corey Holms, the designer of th film logo. Interesting insight on the design process from original material to massive printed posters.
The art of ligatures, for type nerds only.
A letterpress-made gun. Beautiful.

Design related :
Cool books hooks. I could really use this.
The new Chanel bag is ace. Though Karl is a proven alien from transexual transylvania, I must admit he has somewhat of a talent tomake me want to become rich.

Creativity related :
My friend Samir posted an interesting blog post about spring-fling creativity. Be sure to check his other posts, as you might find valuable informations about creativity, and procrastination too (he’s as good as me at that game).

Nerdy related :
On a funnier side, an extract from Om Shanti Om, that I find particularly hilarious.
I’m learning hindi guys. Hence the bollywood complex. But I highly sugget you to take a look at the devanagari alphabet: a good load of headaches to come. Remind me when I started to have a look at Malay language, only to discover that they were counting with ananas and rocks. Why so complicated?!!

Have a great week everyone,
Time for a glass of milk and a good night of sleep.
Geez!
Zélia.

 I love those slightly disturbing plushes. 

Who couldn’t want a pink knitted sexy dominatrix outfit or a dead-by-carrot rabbit? Not only is this terribly cute, but it can also give a message to those you love (…) for X-mas. Ah, the joy of cheerful innocent grandma knits!!

I sooo wish I could knit right now. I’d do a fantastic dead black cat for my lover. With lot of inner bits. And blood.

Via Likecool, Via Gizmodo.

Weekly inspiration mashup.

 
It’s been quite while since my last inspiration post. Let’s say I was not inspired at all (or more probably that  I did have a lot of work, I don’t remember).
I hope you all had an exhilarating week, full of incredible encounters, fantastic moments and a lot of brilliant creativity. It is more likely that you had a regular week, but as you notice, I’m in a “positivity blog moment”.

• This week, I listened a lot to PJ Harvey & David Bowie.
• And I suddenly felt that I should have pink or blue hair again. After over 6 months of hair asceticism, Time has come to get a bit more edgy.
• I suspect it has something to do with Zoetica’s hair. 
• My boyfriend bought me a componibili. Design galore!
• I spent some time on FFFFound, looking for nice interiors.
• My bookshelves finally go up to the ceiling. And those photographs of fantastic libraries around the world makes me feel peaceful.
• Haute Macabre talked to my inner goth.
• I cringed over Tokidoki for Fornarina shoes, over and over again.
• Undrln seems a good infos sources about ads and design.  
• I started to explore twitter. I need to work it out a bit more.
• I started wondering about my next year resolutions. It seems that I’d prefer to do a list of things I’d like to do. That is far more inspiring.