EAT ME: Appetite for design

I know I made a "photo a day" post about this book, but I felt like that photo with 4 segments showing the book just didn't do it enough justice! I mean seriously, I don't know what blows me away more; the cover of the book or the content. Okay, probably the content, but the cover is amazing too. 

Day 54: Colour Mania

Here's another inspiration book that I reference quite often when I'm designing. This is another awesome book by graphic design books publisher Victionary, the same publisher for "Eat Me". Each chapter is filled with a color of the spectrum and proceeds with pages of vibrant design works in that respective color. It's an amazing reference book for ideas based on specific colors. They also delve into black and white and the full rainbow spectrum. It's a good way to think of how colors compliment a design piece, as every single design piece has a lot of thought put into it. As most of you know, colors are important in design because they reflect certain moods and feelings. And every good design piece uses careful consideration in choosing the right colors to convey the right meaning.

53/365: Shittier phone, better camera.

This was my old phone, the HTC Rhyme, I had it for two years before I switched over to my current Galaxy S3. And even though this phone sucked a$$, I still think it had one of the better cameras on a phone. For a 5mp phone, this thing took some sharp photographs! One of the things I noticed is that HTC tends to focus on shutter speed a bit, so that photos get snapped quickly, which results in less blurry photos. I didn't have much trouble with blurry photos. On my Galaxy S3, even though it's a much more technologically advanced phone, has a slower snap so that movement is always captured as a blur. I don't know if I'm explaining this right, but it sucks that I can never have the best of both worlds with phones. I still love my G3 wayyyy more than I do this HTC, but it did have a nice camera at least. 

52/365: Arm Party

This is actually my friend Christina's arm. I love the edgy jewels she has going on, and I love how everything fits together. The center piece is actually a bracelet that I made and gave her the first time I saw her at Exchange LA. It's made with a gunmetal chain and a Swarovski crystal flatback. I love the idea of raver's giving out kandi as a way to remember good times and promote love and peace. Even though my bracelet isn't "kandi", I think it served the same purpose. :)

Day 51: Apothecary jars

I finally found the perfect jar to store my nail polishes! The taller on on the right is where I stashed all my China Glaze polishes. I haven't found a proper use for the small mason jar on the left yet, so for now I just stashed some of my Lime Crime polishes in there. They're so cute and pastel! Some people were asking me if it was a hassle to get colors out of the jar when I wanted it, but when I do my nails, I usually take a bit to decide what I want to do. So I usually end up just putting all the polishes on my bed anyway. The jars just give them an aesthetic to my living space and I really love it because they're so colorful and pretty.

It's the details that make a living space fun and joyful. For me, I love putting pretty much anything on display for me to look at. Even if it's not the most convenient of things, it doesn't matter to me as long as it looks pretty.