» Designers http://nothing-is-new.com Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:05:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 LA LA RAZA http://nothing-is-new.com/2012/01/08/la-la-raza/ http://nothing-is-new.com/2012/01/08/la-la-raza/#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 03:41:35 +0000 KellyR http://nothing-is-new.com/?p=8326

Silkscreen prints from La Raza community center, San Diego.
via OAC

 

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Work hard, study hard, weave hard, frolic hard at Black Mountain College, Black Mountain, North Carolina. via North Carolina State Archives

 

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This Halloween take lavender eyeliner for a whirl—thank you Blitz kid / fashion designer Melissa Caplan. Third pic is an short diddy on Melissa for I-D mag in the 1980s. Her advice: Don’t believe college lecturers when they say you’re terrible. Srsly. via Blitz Kids c/o Kokorokoko 

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Lion rugs & little girls. Judy Kepes in her nursery, 1949.
Daughter to designers, Juliet and Gyorgy.
See more pics of their wild Cape Cod nursery via LIFE.

 

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Susan Shepherd, 1982. Weaving wall lamp. Turn it on!

via VADS c/o Design Council Slide Collection 

 

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Shop til you drop in plastics.

1. Bamboo sunglasses, Oliver Goldsmith Eyewear, 1962
2. Table mat, Maryse Boxer, 1985
3. Carrier bag, Eric Schemilt Designs Ltd, 1978
4. Pair of ankle boots, Mary Quant, 1967
5. Pink Jelly XK200, Swatch, 1990

via V&A

 

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