the polls are open and today you can vote for your favorite contestant in the 2008 d*s scholarship! this year’s talent pool was really fantastic so i’ll be featuring some of the incredible designers that we unfortunately couldn’t fit into the final 12. thank you to everyone who entered and thank you to our incredible sponsors this year: 2modern.com, domino magazine, paper studio and set editions. voting will be open through 10pm next thursday so click here to place a vote. to see the finalists again, just follow these links: finalists 1-2, finalists 3-4, finalists 5-6, finalists 7-8, finalists 9-12.
[image above: new gift wrap from whigby]
i’m heading off to pick up some extra camera supplies for the shows this weekend so stay tuned on monday for coverage of this weekend’s shows! it’s going to be a busy 4 days. until then, here is a summary of this week’s highlights:
[top image above: hookmaker from designglut]
- new diy projects: kate’s recycled cake stands, jessica jones’ office supply makeover
- new product guide: patterned rugs part two
- new sneak peeks: joanna of looolo textiles, eleanor grosch, and johanna clark
- bklyn designs 2008: coverage part 1, part two and part three
- thank you to julia rothman for her incredible posts on the d*s guest blog this week!
- icff pre-show coverage: furniture from brastilo, lighting from lindsey adelman, lighting from niche modern, furniture from iannone design, reiko kaneko ceramics, showpony textiles and bags, wallpaper from flavor paper
- nss pre-show coverage: sub-studio notebooks, cat seto eco-calendars, alee and press
- new: transparent house concrete floor patterns
- interior inspiration: hell’s kitchen loft
- new: tea-time stationery from paper stories
- new: patterns from open face sandwich
- new: pattern design from argyle academy
- new: wallpaper designs from natalie wright