Things I Like(d) - Issue #40: Flower Power 💐
Maybe it's this past weekend's rain that got me thinking of flowers...maybe it's the promise of spring in a year where winter's got bigger things going on. Either way: flowers fit pretty much any occasion—so here's some of my favourite floral content from the past few years. 💐
Investigating the origin of design trends is almost always a fascinating endeavour. Read more in Vanity Fair's 2018 "How Publishing’s Floral-Print Trend Came to Rule the World’s Bookshelves."
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2018 continued to be a good year for flowers as proven by Kehinde Wiley's presidential portrait of Obama. Check the write-up for the symbolism of each flower pictured.
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London designer Sarah Helm's 2019 work for this project (seeking to turn the "sounds" of plants and flowers into music) is just about as fun and colourful as the experiment itself.
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Brian Kaspr's typography is always enjoyable...especially when it's framed like this.
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This is a shirt-dress from Dusen Dusen. And it is full-on.
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From the texture, to the arrangement, to the presentation, I'm still smitten with these 2019 "Forever Bouquets" from soft flirt.
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What's better than a bouquet of tulips? FIELDS of tulips seen from above! Check out these aerial photographs from 2013 of tulip fields in the Netherlands by Norman Szkop.
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BONUS/PUNS!!
The Father John Misty and Local Natives performance is alright, but it's Brandon Flowers' work with Dawes on this 2014 cover of Johnny Cash's "I Came to Believe" that really steals the show.
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From 2010, meet Herbie Flowers—the man behind the bass behind Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side."