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TO MEET · 11/27/2013

To Meet: Emily Blincoe, Daniel Volland, and Cindy Loughridge

We enlisted some of our favorite Instagrammers— Emily Blincoe, Daniel Volland, and Cindy Loughridge—to interpret the coziness of our new Winter Collection frames. Freezing temperatures can’t get here fast enough. (We’ll regret saying that soon, we’re sure.)

We enlisted some of our favorite Instagrammers— Emily BlincoeDaniel Volland, and Cindy Loughridge—to interpret the coziness of our new Winter Collection frames. Freezing temperatures can’t get here fast enough. (We’ll regret saying that soon, we’re sure.)

We asked the photographers (Daniel’s also an optometrist!) about their favorite elements of the season—and their tricks for warming up.

Daniel Volland

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Watts in Newsprint Grey

Best cold-weather activity: Hiking through the snow
Best winter accessory: Crackling fireplace
Best way to warm up: Drinking a little whiskey with friends
Best read: Harry Potter
Favorite subject to photograph: portraits of people that mean a lot to me
Rank the following cold-season flavors from lowest opinion to highest opinion:
Eggnog, Gingerbread, Peppermint, Cinnamon, Spice
Rank the following cold-season materials from least-preferred to most-preferred:
Velvet, Fleece, Fur, Corduroy, Leather, Wool, Flannel

Emily Blincoe

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Welty in Plum Marblewood

Best cold-weather activity: It doesn’t get very cold in Austin, Texas, but when it does, I love to make a campfire in my backyard fire-pit.  I love the how the smell lingers on your clothing and S’mores are never a bad call.
Favorite winter accessory: I love scarves— those really big ones that could get mistaken for a blanket.
Trick for warming up: Layers!  Pile them on.
Best wintertime read: Sadly, I don’t get to cozy up with a book as much as I would like, but magazines are a nice substitution. Kinfolk magazine is awesome.
Best thing about winter is: family. My favorite family activity is going to the cabins in Bastrop State Park with my family.
Rank the following cold-season flavors from lowest opinion to highest opinion: Cinnamon, Pumpkin spice, Eggnog, Gingerbread, Peppermint
Rank the following cold-season materials from least-preferred to most-preferred: Well, I don’t buy leather or fur so: Fur (faux), Leather(faux), Wool, Fleece, Corduroy, Velvet, Flannel

Cindy Loughridge

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Nash in Greystone

Best cold-weather activity: Making a big pot of my chicken tortilla soup.
Best trick for warming up:  A spiced hot toddy. Add extra rum for additional warmth.
Best wintertime read: anything from Jonathan Carroll and my ever-growing stack of magazines.
My favorite subject to photograph is: people in their environment, pockets of light throughout my home, and the winter sunset at Ocean Beach.
Rank the following cold-season flavors from lowest opinion to highest opinion: Eggnog, Pumpkin spice, Peppermint, Gingerbread, Cinnamon
Rank the following cold-season materials from least-preferred to most-preferred: Corduroy, Leather, Velvet, Fur, Fleece, Flannel, Wool

 

Shop the Winter Collection here.

 

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TO BUY · 11/22/2013

Introducing our collaboration with Beck

When we heard Beck was releasing an album in sheet-music form, we were all eyes. The tracks (if that’s the right word) from his Song Reader has never been officially recorded—instead, they’re for all the world to interpret. It’s exactly the kind of tradition-skewing artistry that we love.

When we heard Beck was releasing an album in sheet-music form, we were all eyes. The tracks (if that’s the right word) from his Song Reader has never been officially recorded—instead, they’re for all the world to interpret. It’s exactly the kind of tradition-skewing artistry that we love.

As for the frames? We’ve teamed up with Beck on a limited-edition pair of frames that are equal parts eclectic and charming. And we’re not stopping with glasses. We’ll also be bringing this partnership to life in the liveliest way possible: a concert.

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Carmichael in Root Beer

This Sunday we’re hosting an evening at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. Allison and Tiffany Anders, Jack Black, Jon Brion, Merry Clayton, Jarvis Cocker, Childish Gambino, Jonathan Gold, Juanes, Josh Kun, Jenny Lewis, Roger Manning, Jr., Fred Martin & the Levite Camp, Tig Notaro, Van Dyke Parks, Randall Poster, John C. Reilly with Becky Stark and Tom Brosseau, and Moses Sumney join Beck onstage for an evening of storytelling and their musical translations of his Song Reader arrangements. (What a lineup.)

The Song Reader’s inclusivity and originality is what got us involved, and you can participate too. Take Beck’s compositions and make them your own at SongReader.net.

Stick around for more Beck. We’ll share more good stuff soon.

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Carmichael sunglasses in Crystal

Shop the collaboration online here and in stores starting Saturday, the 23rd.

 

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TO SEE · 11/07/2013

Daily Treasure

(Two things we’re enjoying while we work.)

(Two things we’re enjoying while we work.)

1. Lauren Gregory created this stunning video for Toro Y Moi’s “Rose Quartz” using stop-motion oil painting and sheets of glass.

2. Frankfurt-based Brazilian designer Andre Levy gives coinage a makeover in his made-for-Instagram project Tales You Lose.

 

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TO MEET · 11/05/2013

To Meet: Tina Roth Eisenberg

Designer Tina Roth Eisenberg wears so many hats these days you’d think she’d need to take a break now and then.

Designer Tina Roth Eisenberg wears so many hats these days you’d think she’d need to take a break now and then. On the contrary, it looks like her creative and entrepreneurial projects are only multiplying. Tina is the mind behind Tattly—which makes design-y temporary tattoos— and the founder of Creative Mornings, a monthly speaker series for creative types all over the world. She is known online as swissmiss, the moniker under which she pens one of the most popular design blogs on the web.

It’s no wonder she had invent her own web-based to-do list (the cleverly-named TeuxDeux app). And, naturally, she needed an amazing space to get all this work done, so Tina founded Studiomates, a co-working space in DUMBO, Brooklyn where programmers, artists, and entrepreneurs converge to work and share ideas. Did we mention she’s also a mom of two?

Tina invited us to the beautiful Studiomates space, where we chatted with the Swiss-turned-New-Yorker to find out her formula for maximum productivity.

 

You’ve got your hands in so many projects. What are the workspace essentials that keep you organized and focused?

Coffee, TeuxDeux—which I built for a reason— and my environment. Working here at Studiomates makes a huge difference. Knowing that I’m not surrounded by my own world at all times, knowing that I can sit down at lunch and hear about different projects or problems people may have. It gives me perspective. We all thrive on having different views, conversations, and opinions.

What’s your design pet peeve?

Center type drives me bananas. I can’t stand it. It gives me the heebie-jeebies.

What’s the weirdest Tattly design that never made it?

In the very beginning, when we thought it was a great idea to have open submissions (before my intellectual property lawyer said, “Oh my God, take that down!”), we had someone send us the worst drawing of an elephant farting a rainbow. We closed our submissions after that. It was a terrible drawing. But I’m pretty sure my daughter would have gotten a kick out of it.

How are temporary tattoos made? (not the design, but the actual ink—what makes it transferable?

There’s a glue between the vegetable-based ink and the paper that makes it stick to your skin. The glue seals the ink to your skin.

We actually get a lot of emails from people that say, “Don’t get me wrong, but how do I get it off?” They last a long time! And some look like real tattoos. I love the stories where people use them to freak out their spouses or whatever. I don’t have any tattoos. They’re too permanent. I have a hard time picking a couch and thinking that I have to live with it for 4-5 years…

Before you launched TeuxDeux, what did your to-do lists look like? Notes scribbled on paper? Post-its?

I had a paper version of the app on the front of my desk, and every day I would draw out a plan for the week. Then I realized—that’s silly. I’m a user interface designer, so I should build this.

It started over a lunch conversation with a former Studiomate. I went into a passionate rant about what a to-do list is and why it needs an element of time to it. He said, “Design it, I’ll build it.” 48 hours later, the app was done.

Imagine: You’ve got a Saturday off and no work to do. How do you spend the day?

I never work on Saturday! Weekends are off limits. That’s family time. We’d have friends over for a really nice brunch. I take brunch seriously; it always includes bacon. Then we’d probably visit the Natural History Museum and take a stroll in the park. It’s all about hanging out with the kids.

Who’s the person in your life who’s taught you the most?

My kids. I might not have learned from them, but through them. My daughter has actually been a career catalyst. Often times, people say that once they have kids, that’s it. But I took the bull by the horns and said, hey, I have all these dreams that I’ve never accomplished. I had never started my own design studio, and I was crazy enough to do it the day my daughter was born.

 Photo by Julia Robbs

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