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Great Use of a Website To Promote A Book




Author Miranda July has created a charming interactive site to promote her latest book. It moves quickly and is good for a giggle. Great use of the web to sell another medium.

I could post a few stills, but they don't do it justice. Go to the site yourself and click away!

Miranda July is a filmmaker, performing artist and writer. She grew up in Berkeley, California where she began her career by writing plays and staging them at the local punk club. July’s videos, performances, and web-based projects have been presented at sites such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum and in the 2002 and 2004 Whitney Biennials.

Her short fiction has been published in The Paris Review, Zoetrope All-Story, and The New Yorker, and a collection of stories is forthcoming from Scribner in spring 2007. July created the participatory website, learningtoloveyoumore, with artist Harrell Fletcher and a companion book will be published by Prestel in fall 2007. She wrote, directed and starred in her first feature-length film, Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005), which won a special jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival and four prizes at the Cannes Film Festival, including the Camera d’Or. July is currently working on a new performance. She lives in Los Angeles.

http://noonebelongsheremorethanyou.com

Modern Sanctuary in Czech Republic: St. Bartholomew


Above: St. Bartholomew's Church exterior

Working with designer Jakub Berdych under the Qubus Studio banner, the interior of St. Bartholomew’s Church features Verner Panton chairs customized with a punched-out crucifix, Persian rugs and chandeliers of rough-cut crystal.





An absolutely stunning combination of old and new: St. Bartholomew’s Church by Maxim Velcovsky

More Carpet Artistry: Meet Reuber & Henning




I've posted some stories on rugs and rug designers (see previous post on Amazed, Ltd) that are nothing short of art. And yet, here's another!

In January, the first Reuber Henning Collection 2007 was presented at [d3] Design Talents IMM Cologne.

Meet Reuber & Henning.

above:Franziska Henning & Thorsten Reuber

The following is reprinted from their website:
TRIM DOWN TO THE ESSENTIALS: BEAUTIFUL, GOOD RUGS

We come from two different worlds: Franziska Henning studied painting and has been designing artistic rugs for several years. (www.galerie-roehr-ripken.de)

Thorsten Reuber learned something about marketing and sales in the music and new media business.

Once he had caught her infectious passion for the beauty of color and material, it was only natural for them to decide to join forces and create beautiful rugs together: Reuber Henning was born.

Franziska Henning calls her carpets "Poetic Images" - images that "have been inspired by a wide variety of regions, periods and moods."
The designs of our first collection are partly based on German 19th-century silhouette cutouts and traditional Japanese woodcuts.



Our rugs are knotted from fine Himalaya wool and chinese silk following ancient Tibetan handicraft traditions.

We want to create rugs that belong to people, beautiful rugs in the very best quality, which will keep creating a special atmosphere a whole life long, and whose beauty and character only grow stronger with the passing years.


We are newcomers. We want to develop further, make lots of new things and lots of things better - please join us and give us your suggestions and ideas!

Franziska Henning & Thorsten Reuber




Reuber Henning: This is where Franziska Henning, Maker of artistic carpets, and Thorsten Reuber, a Marketing and Sales Manager, join forces: A Label for aesthetical, clear, natural, graphical, poetical, for - beautiful rugs!

*High quality materials, handcrafted under fair conditions
*In all sizes and colours
*Available at selected retail, and here on www.reuberhenning.com

Erica Wakerly Fabrics And Wallpaper - Young Designer 2007



ERICA WAKERLY has been named as 'Young Designer 2007' at the Homes and Gardens Classic Design Awards. The award was presented at the Victoria & Albert museum, London, for wallpaper Collection 01.

Wallpaper designs:






Below: Close-up of houses wallpaper



ERICA WAKERLY's printed blinds and Japanese screens have been launched in collaboration with Eclectics at the Design Interiors show in Birmingham, including 'SPIRAL' and two new designs, 'HOOP' and 'BANGLE'. For more information please contact Eclectics t.01843 608789.

ERICA graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2005 (MA Printed Textiles), specialising in surface design for interiors. Her designs are aesthetically innovative, exploring unconventional motifs and ideas of contrast through a combination of the hand drawn and graphic line. Her background in illustration and graphic design has provided her with a unique outlook on print design, with a degree in illustration from the University of Brighton. During her time at the RCA she was awarded 1st prize in the Graham & Brown Wallpaper Design competition, and joint 1st prize for the Dorma Textile Design award.

Printed fabrics:




Below: close-up of her homes fabric


Alongside designing print for wallpaper and textiles, ERICA also works on a variety of freelance design projects and commissions.

Illustrations:







ERICA WAKERLY Collection 01 was launched in 2006, at ICFF, New York and at 100% Design in London, for which she was awarded the 100% Design Bursary, and shortlisted for the 100% Blueprint best newcomer award.

You can buy these fabulous wallpapers and fabrics by clicking here.

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