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This made me smile today. Absolutely stunning.

I love the work of Finnish fashion illustrator Laura Laine. At 24 she has quite a respectable resume, as she has been making the pages of Páp Magazine, Fashion Forecast and Trendi …

Mark’s photographs depict woman in their most sensual and intimate settings…in bed. “It just feels right to do it in a bed,” says Mark. “I am interested in the idea of women photographing women in an erotic way. I try and build a comfort zone where women can be open and sexual.” Since her first shoot with Argento, Mark has shot Juliette Lewis, Sinead O’Connor, and many other lingerie-clad ladies. “In a way every picture is a self-portrait. They express who I am in a way I could not do myself.”

Svärmor Wallpaper

After the success of Familjen wallpaper Swedish designer Lisa Bengtsson has created another gorgeous design: Svärmor. This new wallpaper is a contribution to all shoe lovers out in the world! The graphic pattern is made out of singular shoes coming from different periods in the designer’s life.

There is something special about a pair of shoes. It’s an accessory we always need to wear, which changes its appearance depending on where we go. Each shoe breaths a history of our life - some of them stay forever, others leave only a footprint behind.

Adam’s Apple retells the story of God, Adam and Eve, with an interesting modern twist involving Apple, and its founder Steve Jobs.

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Paper Invaders: No amount of emoticons can give a text message the same style and flair as these fantastically designed notepads.

“We are both small-town guys who lived in the city and tried to establish an aesthetic point of view that was largely modernist and minimalist,” said Mr. Cheng, 40, a playwright and a publicist for the American Association of Advertising Agencies. “But when you become parents, you kind of have to throw that out the window.”

How true it is.

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An essential book for designers.

An Eye for Color features hundreds of stunning images from master artists, photographers, and designers, each selected for their exceptional use of color. The unique yet simple system in this book will show you how to use their inspiration to create your own distinctive color sense. Also included are perforated color palette cards to help you build you own color library.

The Ones We Love is a project highlighting young and talented photographers from around the world. Each artist contributed six photographs of the person(s) who is most important to them, taken outdoors in a natural setting. The goal of the website is to portray the people who are loved, cherished, and inspirational to these artists, and also showcase the differences and similarities in the photographs each of them took within the same guidelines.