10 Sep

Hello, Smarty (looking) Pants!

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No matter what's to be found inside, the outside is a happy place.

Or diapers, anyway.

In my quest for the perfect diaper for the little sprout, I’ve suffered through terribly under-performing ones and —horror!— garish designs that have left my eyes sore.

Diaper makers out there: babies are rather impressionable little creatures; why subject them and their parents to such graphic mistreatment? I wouldn’t be surprised if some individuals’ poor design choices later in life could actually be derived from overexposure to diaper-inflicted visual pollution when they were in their tender infancy.

But not everything is bleak out there: enter Nature Babycare diapers. Well, I have to give it to the Scandinavian, they have a knack for beautiful, bare-bones design. Inside the bag with the little Swedish flag, I found these elegant, clean-looking, zen, white, pristine, beautiful —I’m I getting too excited here?— you get the idea. I’ll let the picture do the rest of the talking.

I still have to find out how they perform (fingers crossed).

31 Aug

Imagine life, organized

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A soup so methodical that is not even meant to be eaten. Where's the spoon?

Look around you. As humans, we systematically change our environment to satisfy our needs and desires. We could say our lives and artificially built surrounds are extremely organized. Ruled by mathematical design, orthogonal repetition, perfect parallel and perpendicular arrangements, endless cataloging: reason rules our lives. But how much reason and how much chaos, really? What’s the actual balance of each in our day to day?

It took one single look at Ursus Wehrli’s work to realize how the sweet measure of natural chaos and chance enlivens our existences. The Swiss artist gives us a fresh take on otherwise common-place scenarios by reinventing them through obsessive compulsive organization. Who would have thought it, but I found his fastidiousness surprisingly… refreshing? thought-provoking? colorful? novel? or all of the above!

Via fubiz.

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