cozy

CARRIE: What's even cozier than tea? A tea cozy. I'm not entirely clear on what the purpose of a tea cozy is, but these seem fun to just have out in the kitchen anyway. These cuties are all from etsy.

jonathan adler does tea

MORGAN: ...Earl Gray tea towel, Chamomile tea towel, Darjeeling tea pot, English Breakfast tea towel, Ojai tea pot, & Okura tea caddy canisters all at jonathanadler.com! This is my kinda tea!

rainy day = perfect tea weather

CARRIE: This is just a little sampling of photos with tea as their subject. They make me want to grab a cup, climb into bed and read a book. Sources (top to bottom): flickr, luvluvluv, xanga, flickr, flickr, ffffound, flickr and ffffound.

drink manifesto

MORGAN: Although I don't necessarily agree, in fact, sometimes, I like it quite the opposite, I still love Frank Chimero's Drink Manifesto!

tea for two

CARRIE: tea time! tea pot from three potato four.

MORGAN: For the record, I'd just like to say that all the designers/illustrators we featured this week just make this styling look a lot easier than it actually is! Kudos to them! Anyway... i took this photo in Minneapolis just as we pulled into to town for the Kings of Leon show! I just played around with it in Photoshop to get the halftone pattern and solid color areas!

CARRIE: I took this photo of mannequins in a store window when I was in New York at Christmas a few years back. I just manipulated them and added some fun color and text and voila!

cool posters

CARRIE: These are all posters from the Aesthetic Apparatus 10th Anniversary auction. Sorry, the bidding is closed, but they are still fun inspiraiton.

little king

MORGAN: isn't this a great poster? i love the way it mixes really graphic, flat, line work and fill colors with the manipulated photograph of the bird! found at pablolobo.com

jell-O branding

MORGAN: Playful rebranding for Jell-O by Skinny Ships

33rpm

CARRIE: Some very cool stuff from Andrio Abero at 33rpmdesign.com.

Natsko Seki

MORGAN: I just can't stop staring at these mixed media illustrations by Tokyo-born, Natsko Seki! Every time I look at them I discover something completely new! Check our her website to see many more of her cheery, imaginary worlds!

photo collage

CARRIE: Photographic collages by Juan Marin at Visual Evasion.

Valero Doval

MORGAN: I just love the mixture of photographic imagery mixed with the solid, flat color in these illustrations by Valero Doval!