Flat when not in use, this ‘piano hanger’ features wooden ‘keys’ that can be pulled out at different heights to hang as much or as little as you may need.
The English Group has always kept a scrapbook of resources that we find inspiring. We now include this within our website in the form of a blog and, from now on, will add to it on an ongoing basis. The directory showcases graphic design, art, books, magazines, film and music, photography, portraits, fashion, architecture, interiors, hotels and travel, products & toys - alongside The English Group's own categories, ‘Travelling’ and 'Our Work' (‘Our Print’ and ‘Our Websites’), which illustrate the team's own travels and a full chronological listing of the agency's creative work.
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— Grains of sand
Grains of sand magnified 250 times.
via annieatkins
— Magazine house
A very neat idea for a magazine rack – store your mags inside the ‘house’ and rest the one you’re currently reading on top.
via swissmiss
— 70 lightning strikes
A very, very long exposure photograph of a thunderstorm by Chris Kotsiopoulos.
via @brainpicker
— A bridge is born
Great photographs at nytimes.com by Jamey Stillings of the construction of the Hoover Dam Bypass bridge, Colorado.
via @brainpicker
— Embroidered portraits
Lovely embroidered portraits by Daniel Kornstrumpf.
See more at dangerousminds.net
via swissmiss
— Playing Cards
An interesting little collection of playing card designs at www.brainpickings.org. Most intriguing is the Mayan-inspired deck from Soviet Russia.
— Senna
A brilliantly edited, sobering and quite moving documentary from Asif Kapadia on Ayrton Senna’s Formula 1 career, also the last decade of his life.
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— Dear Photograph
Take a picture of a picture from the past in the present. That’s the idea behind this tumblr, which invites people to submit photos from their past, re-photographed in the same place. Some are mawkish, some are really quite sweet.
via Quipsologies
— House made of bookcases
Kazuya Morita Architecture Studio designed this bookshelf-lined house in Osaka for a collector of books on Islamic history, designing a structure where books could line every surface.
via boingboing
— Dear Marty
A letter to Martin Scorsese from his idol Michael Powell, describing his feelings towards the Goodfellas script.
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— The High Line
New York City’s High Line added a second section recently, which now makes the park – created from a neglected 1.45 mile-long elevated railway on the west side of Manhattan – span three neighbourhoods, becoming the most visited tourist destination in NYC.
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