Birch Log Pillow

The perfect accessory for any tree hugger or for anyone that wishes they could sleep with logs. These handmade pillows are made of wool felt and are screen printed to look like birch logs. Get your own cuddly log from myimaginaryboyfriend‘s Etsy shop. via Mostly Useless Things I Want

Vintage Norwegian Postcard

Here’s another piece of ephemera that I dug up. It’s a postcard from the M/S Skagen, a passenger and car ferry that traveled between Kristiansand (Norway) and Hirtshals (Denmark). If it’s not obvious from the interior design choices on this ship, this postcard is from the 60′s (1965 to be exact). Click on the image to see it full size.

Pinetti Modular Leather Baskets

Check out these modular leather baskets from Italian leather goods manufacturer Pinetti. They’re made of interlocking pieces of leather that give the appearance of being woven strips. No glue or adhesives, just good old fashioned leather. A great idea from a classy company. via NOTCOT

Outsider Typography

An interesting subset of the Outsider Art genre is Outsider Typography (aka Folk Typography). As you may guess, it’s typography that has been created by people that aren’t designers. The resulting type can be wildly successful or it can be physically painful to look it. Either way, outsider typography can be a valuable source of inspiration for a designer (if nothing else, it can show you what you shouldn’t be doing). Here are a few interesting examples from the Folk Typography group on flickr.

Change It Wall

This wall decoration by designer Amirko is a really innovative idea. Basically it’s a wall that’s made up of a bunch of triangles that have a different color on each of their three faces (black, white and “rainbow shade”). You turn the triangles around to expose a different color and create an endless variety of patterns. Goodbye tacky wallpaper, hello Change It Wall. via elmaaltshift

Vintage Map of Denmark

I recently found a map of Denmark from 1965 and really liked the illustration on the cover. Gotta hand it to the Scandinavians…they’ve known good design for a long time!

Knitted Dissections

These knitted dissections from CraftyHedgehog made my day. They bring back lots of memories from high school biology, without the caustic smell of formaldehyde.