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In a series of one sentence posts:

I'm making shoes these days. (I have a booklet coming with the most process pics you've ever seen)

This pear looks like a butt!

Where I've been and what I've done:

Dear Internet,

My apologies for the hiatus. I'll try to do my best to make it up to you.

With love,
martha

My perfect bag (or the closest i've come to it)

Read the story below...

Roma + the return of Marshmallow

My gluten free pizza came with a german flag on it?

I went to rome this weekend

And of course this animated gif has nothing to do with it... 

A DETAILED REPORT TO COME SOON!

(obsessed)

I made these:

Three hats in cotton.

Part III: Amsterdam

Finally, I apologize for taking my sweet time with this. Amsterdam:

Guess what color those lights are...

Wayyyy more pictures, read more please...

Whoops,

Looks like I spent yet another night knitting and watching freaks and geeks, and instructional videos about knitting... However today was unique in that I did not make/consume polenta for the first time in a week. Pictures of the newest hat tomorrow (its done!). 

But in the meantime, let me recommend you some wonderful instructional videos about knitting, narrated by a lovely british girl:

Wool And The Gang

My weekend:

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Mmmmhhmmm, but to my credit, I did do real things as well. Card night with quite a gang, found the best coffee shop in florence, vip treatment at 'space,' family dinner, heart-to-heart in the middle of the street, and amelie. I have a renewed urge to chop off all my hair, dye it black and start wearing clunky black shoes. We are already the same person, I'm just missing the look. The hat is in the color of caval nero. Not with this crap lighting though, got to love the glow of the computer screen off to the side. I am obsessed with knitting, but to my credit I started this one on friday.

Footwear Midterm: Design for Dominatrixes

I am pretty pleased with these two. Originally I had three designs draw up during the test, but two out of the three aint bad. Right now it's all about: colorblocking, bold/chunky/statement, and dominatrixes. It's funny though, beside the colorblocking, none of that is very typical style inspiration for me. Or at least its never in the front of my mind. Just sharing the shoe-love, enjoy! (click to see bigger images)

Part II: Eindhoven and Dutch Design Week

The next installment of my fall break adventures, dutch design week in Eindhoven (WARNING: super image heavy post):

Sunday School of Madness, this was a great exhibit.

This week in review: Part I

This is the first of what will hopefully be a whole slew of photo-posts from this past week. To say the least, I had a great fall break. From last weekend:

Happy saturday!

Umm, i was googling pictures of corgies... corgum? what is the plural of corgi, or should one never have more than one at the same time? this is the best ever. (from here..)

Comfort foods

Penguin will stop the death of print media

On my way home from class this afternoon I subconsciously decided to procrastinate by going to the bookstore. I say subconscious because I was fully aware that I had work to do, but hadn't the vaguest idea of its expanse. In other words, I really was planning on making a quick stop, churning out a paper and getting to sleep. Well the bookstore was more than just a quick stop, of course. I went in with a purpose, to buy a design book I have been thinking about since I first saw it three weeks ago (see, a thoroughly considered purchase, also it's italy-specific, so therefore counts as a souvenir). After finding the intended book I decided to wander up a level, just-because-you-know I had never been up there. Hello Penguin 'Great Ideas,' goodbye homework. Whoops. Please click through to the link. It's beautiful. What the Penguin publishing housing is doing with graphic design will save books. There is no circumstance that would make me choose an ebook version of any other these over their hard copies. They are a pleasure to hold, look at, and of course read. Judge the book. Judge the cover. They are beautiful. The great ideas series, which of course is not available in the states, brilliantly packages classic essays and works on philosophy in clean, fresh, unintimidating paper backs. I want to own (and read) them all. Too bad the collection in entirety will set you back over seven hundred dollars. Whoops.

lolz

hahahaahha… best email title line all year.

Green Packaging Design

This is what I should be learning about in that class. Too damn cool. Replacing styrofoam with mushrooms.

It has been too long.

(purposeful)

Because I am lazy, and I promise I will update soon. (via)

Last week(end): before the next one gets ahead of me!

Chestnut flour crepe anyone?

things i have learned in my life so far

Inspired by mr. sagmeister himself (please click on it to view large):

and here, more directly:

via-ish, http://www.thingsihavelearnedinmylife.com/