You know how I always say that you can find design just about anywhere? Well, this artist Anders Clausen took it a step further and made a whole exhibition based off of the design he found right on his own desktop. I kinda like it, I need to make one of these for my own room!  (spotted via Today and Tomorrow)

My wife has a fascination with pillows. Despite how many pillows we have on our bed and sofas, she’s always looking at getting more for some reason. I’m ok with that I suppose. If she see’s something that could add a little character and color in our living spaces, I can live with that.

She has this quirky little habit of playing with pillow corners…which I would normally find pretty weird but I can’t say anything because I have a habit of peeling tissue paper into tiny bits. I figure if she can live with the tissue bits, I can live with the pillow corner rubbing.

Unfortunately most of our pillow options end up just coming from places like Pier 1 — which for some bizarre reason they have pillow styles these days that looks like they were grabbed out of some old haunted mansion.

This site I stumbled across today looks has some very nice pillows. Looks like it’s a couple of French designers who took it upon themselves to create all these funky pillow cases. Hmmm…I wouldn’t mind some of these. I hope the shipping charges from France don’t end up costing more than the cases themselves.

I thought this was a very interesting concept where psychology meets art meets interior design.

Artist Daniel Rybakken created this end-table that projects an illusion of sunlight coming through a window. You might think, “What’s the point of that?” But in practice, light can be shown to give a perception of expanded space. So if you’re stuck in a claustrophobic small window-less room, something like this might actually help.

Check out his other work, he seems to have several projects involving perception and light.

I had this site bookmarked for about a week intending to post it, but there was just too many distractions.

This website “Today and Tomorrow” is seems to be a pretty good collection of unusual artwork found by this guy in Berlin. Great browsing through there for inspiration.  I found these 2 things that caught my attention:

While it’s a bit like living in a giant Tupperware box, I like the fact that it’s almost 360 degrees of open window space in some areas. Yeah, I could live in a place like this. Only problem is that it looks like a siren call to every graffiti tagger in town. (Plastic Moon)

And then I goofed around on the site a bit and my eye landed on Claudia Schiffer with a broom up her ass.  “Uhhhhhhhh….ok” Can you imagine the balls on a photographer who could go up to a supermodel like Claudia Schiffer and say “Um, excuse me Ms. Schiffer…you see this broomstick?  Work with me on this one I have an idea….” (photographer: Erwin Wurm)

I think I’ve had recent days where I can relate to this to some degree.

I think if Batman wanted to do a little interior decorating to his Batcave, this sideboard would be one of the furniture items he would get. I like the shape of it closed. (David Keune; via Designboom)

I’m really tempted to get some of this comic book wall-art. This company in the UK, called Surface View, sells wall murals or prints of classic or vintage Marvel comic artwork like the one above. This might be perfect for my “wall of inspiration” above my desk where I’ve begun collecting prints that I like to look at. I used to love comic book artwork right around the point it got really popular – John Byrne was fading away and being replaced by Jim Lee and Todd McFarlane.  Unfortunately the artwork looked better and better at the expense of good storytelling. Or maybe I just got older?

Anyway, I’m not sure how much shipping might be to the States, but I think prices begin around $155 for wall murals. Not cheap, but not expensive at all as compared to fine art prints.

I wonder if my wife would mind me putting a picture of the Hulk above our bed?  RAAAWR!  Second thought…that’s way too much to live up to. Scratch that idea.

Hard to imagine these days that people have enough disposable income to buy a lighting fixture just for looks like this, but I still think it looks neat anyway. If I had this I’d put it up right next to my desk and stare at it numbly all day long. (I do that sometimes, I get fixated at laundry spinning round and round and I can stare at it for a while.  I digress)

Found out that Artemide made this.  Last christmas I bought myself an Artimide Tolomeo desk lamp which I just love. Probably the most I ever spend on a lighting fixture though. I put some natural light bulbs in it and the thing is so bright I think they can see my office from around the neighborhood. Termites are flocking to my window from across the island. (Artemide via Mocoloco via Gizmodo)

So I had some recent experience painting our new condo right?  I got “wild” with my office. When I say “wild” it’s just merlot color. Whoopdeedoo. No I didn’t paint polkadots or graffiti art on my walls. But when I bought that purple can of paint at the store I figured either it was going to be a hit or I just made a big mistake and my wife was going to kill me.

It turned out very nice actually and is my favorite part of my place. But our bedroom isn’t as spectacular. We used a color my wife calls “Doo doo brown” which was a big disappointment.  I think that will be a work-in-progress to make our bedroom as cool as I imagine it.

I stumbled across this cool painting idea on Blog: Like You Give a Damn. I like the ornamental touches using gloss and matte paint.  This cocoa brown is actually quite similar to the “Doo Doo Brown” in our bedroom, but we have this old brick tiling rough texture on the walls that made it look pretty unattractive.

This ornamental artwork would be neat to do in my own place but I don’t know if I have that much patience. Looks like a pain-in-the-butt stencil job. I can’t even get the initiative up to hang pictures up on my wall yet much less do cool stuff like this.