It's Nice That Lamp

Does your lamp look like a boring relic from your granny's attic? If so it's time to change that!

 Cat Lamp by Walking-Things, Vienna-based design team and boutique, www.walking-things.com

Mason Jars Rustic Chandelier - BootsNGus

Cloud Light by Infinite Inspiration

Chandelier made out of over 3,000 hand-cast acrylic gummy bears by Kevin Champeny

Broom Lamp by Pēteris Zilbers and Mārtiņš Straupe

Facebook Woman

Sheryl Sandberg
 photo Vogue

Sheryl Sandberg is the first woman on Facebook's board of directors who brought changes into the tech-heavy, boys-populated environment. She has been mentioned by the Times Magazine as one of the most influential people on the planet. As the Facebook shares went on sales in May, let's hear some of the Sandberg's thoughts on life:
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'I walk out of my office every day at 5.30 so I'm home for dinner with my kids. I've been doing that since I had children but it's not until the last year that I've been brave enough to talk about it publicly.'
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'There is no such thing as work-life balance. There's work, and there's life, and there's no balance'.
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'I want to tell any young girl out there who is a geek that I was a really serious geek in high school. It works out. Study harder.'
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I am a geek. And I know many smart girls who are geeks, too. Let's hope it works out for us as well with a bit of an inspiration from Sandberg.
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via Stylist UK

Butterfly Emerging From Chaos

Illustrations
Stina Persson, Sweden
www.stinapersson.com

Illustration by Stina Persson,
stinapersson.com

Stina Persson is not my sister. She is a Swedish illustrator.
I love the way she joins casual watercolours' energy and its' random composition with detailed hand drawing and precisely but naturally outlined elements. It looks like a beautiful image comming out of chaos, a butterfly emerging from a stain of paint or ink. Perfect execution of a design. It seems simple, but is very difficult to achieve.


Illustration by Stina Persson,
stinapersson.com

Stina worked for renown clients such as Absolut Vodka, Blue Note Records or DKNY. She is most deffinitely some kind of an artistic excample for me to follow, like an older sister. More at www.stinapersson.com.

Illustration by Stina Persson,
stinapersson.com

ICONS' DESIGN - Jojo Mendoza

When You click on Mozilla, mailbox, Flash or Word icon on Your computer, You rarely think that somebody has designed them. Somebody has really created those icons and is their author. Also when You see popular cartoon images in computer games or on internet, you rarely wonder about the designer.

All artworks in this post by Jojo Mendoza,
via www.deleket.com

Jojo Mendoza also known as Deleket is a visual artist and a designer living in the Philippines. Deleket designs icons, logos and creates companies' visual identity as well as images for computer games. You might have already seen some of the images somewhere, but didn't think of their author. Now You know that it was Jojo and may it make you proud of the gifted designer.

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Jojo is a very nice, open-hearted person. Feel free to visit the website and have a look at the portfolio:
http://www.deleket.com/
http://deleket.deviantart.com/