After organising their bookshelf almost a year ago, Sean Ohlenkamp & Lisa Blonder Ohlenkamp decided to take it to the next level. They spent many sleepless nights moving, stacking, and animating books at Type bookstore in Toronto.

PurelyGadgets are pleased to announce that they have added the Vaja leather case range to their website.

Vaja produce some of the best handcrafted and stylish cases money can buy, they follow the perfect balance of form, function and fashion. Each one of Vaja’s products is handcrafted with extreme care and attention to the smallest detail and only by the most skilled leather artisans, using the highest quality Argentine leather.

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I am completely mesmerized by these works of art by Issac Salazar. Fantastic.

Grace Bonney, force behind the blog Design*Sponge, just came out with a book called Design*Sponge at Home. (Available as a digital version as well.)

The book includes tours of 70 real-life interiors featuring artists and designers, DIY projects, step-by-step tutorials, Before & After makeovers submitted by her readers and essential tips on modern flower arranging.

Designed by Monocle’s art team, their Stationary notebooks ($25-$50) are a collaboration with Brandbook.de and feature paper sourced from mills in Japan and Sweden. Hard and soft linen covers in a selection of colors will be available and you can choose from lined, plain, or graphing paper. Link

Phaidon publishes a thorough monograph on Dieter Rams, with a foreword from famed Apple designer, Jonny Ive.

“Dieter Rams is one of the most influential product designers of the twentieth century. Even if you don’t immediately recognize his name, you have almost certainly used one of the radios, clocks, lighters, juicers, shelves or hundreds of other products he designed. He is famous not only for this vast array of well-formed products, but for his remarkably prescient ideas about the correct function of design in the messy, out-of-control world we inhabit today. These ideas are summed up in his ‘ten principles’ of good design: good design is innovative, useful, and aesthetic. Good design should be make a product easily understood. Good design is unobtrusive, honest, durable, thorough, and concerned with the environment. Most of all, good design is as little design as possible.

In that spirit, this monograph is as little book as possible. It is a clear, comprehensive and beautiful presentation of Dieter Rams’ life and his work. It is a must-have book for anyone interested in Rams’ work, his legacy, and his ideas about how to live.”

Link

Karl Lagerfeld’s bookshelf system is crazy impressive (and big!) It’s an older shot by Selby, who just came out with Edible Selby.