Nate Duval Rock Posters

by CH Contributor

by Julie Wolfson

While artist Nate Duval's online bio lists trip planning and de-fingerprinting his iPhone screen among his favorite activities, the bulk oh his interests relate to music. So it's no wonder that the fan of Neon India, The Band, Mulatu Astatke, Hacienda, Phoenix, Blind Pilot, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, among many, many other bands, has garnered quite a reputation in a short time for his gorgeously eccentric gig posters.

Ranging from hand-drawn graphics layered over patterns to more slick-looking vector art, his love for a variety of genres comes though in his aesthetic. An intricately detailed house in his new Decemberist poster sits in front of a wallpaper-style sky (below), while another for the same band depicts a glamorous leaf queen (pictured above right, click image for detail). The Fleet Foxes poster explodes with candy-hued geometric shapes. (See it and more after the jump.) In Duval's new Andrew Bird poster, perhaps his most delicate yet, a scrollwork frame depicts a man with an anemone for a head (click above image for detail).

Duval's site promises posters for Ra Ra Riot, Wilco, Monsters of Folks and more soon—we can't wait to see what the music inspires next.

For those in Chicago this weekend, Duval will be setting up shop at the Renegade Craft Fair in Wicker Park, showing his prints and posters. Otherwise, you can pick up his prints from his Etsy store or his site.

Viesso Hang & Paste Wallpaper

by Karen Day

Known for their brilliantly-easy customizable furniture, Viesso recently launched an equally successful wallpaper boutique, Hang & Paste.

With favorites like Cole & Son Fornasetti and independent illustrators proffering enticing motifs, Viesso brings an exciting atmosphere to a design element that has in recent years become considered outdated, making it welcome in any home. Navigable by brand, style or color, the site is an efficient and fun way to spruce up any interior.

Prices vary depending on style and size and can be purchased directly from the Hang & Paste site.

Julie Parker Black Jewls Collection

by CH Contributor

by Rebecca Harkins-Cross

For the Tin man and Scarecrow in all of us, Julie Parker's latest collection Black Jewls offers an exquisite range of anatomically-correct wearable human organs cast in solid sterling silver and strung on hand-finished chains. Packaged in glass test tubes with cork stoppers, the collection of bodily charms include hearts, brains, vertebrae, ribcages and livers.

By externalizing human internal organs, the Melbourne-based designer also highlights the physical and symbolic function they each perform, transforming them into objects of macabre beauty.

For example the livers "help detoxify our bodies of poisonous substances...like copious amounts of alcohol," brains "allow us to think what we think...and think we're getting smarter" and hearts "pump blood through our bodies...and make us fall in love."

Inspired by travel, tribes people, fantasy and roadkill, Parker has exhibited her work in several solo and group exhibitions throughout Melbourne since completing an advanced diploma in silversmithing and jewelery design in 2006.

Parker will customize any of the designs on consignment as rings, bracelets and cufflinks, as well as set with jewels such as rubies and sapphires. Prices start at A$175 and can be purchased online from the Black Jewls website, or in Melbourne at Wunderkamma, Corky Saint Clair and Martin Fella Vintage.

Mormor Tableware by Gry Fager

by Brian Fichtner

An intelligent riff on kitchen textiles, Gry Fager's Mormor collection of tableware for Normann Copenhagen combines modern form and traditional pattern with the most gratifying results. Mormor's distinct patterns—a graphic interpretation of the typical blue and white tea towel and a textural nod to the classic dish cloth—grace a variety of dining objects such as bowls, cups, platters, plates and decanters.

The collection manages to avoid the familiar trappings of appropriationist design, which tends toward irony and guile, largely because the simplicity of the shapes, textures and graphics are so well suited for one another. It's unmistakably Scandinavian and no small feat coming from so young a designer. Normann picked up Fager's design while she had yet to graduate from the Danish Design School last year and this is her first work to be put into production.

The Mormor Blue collection (as pictured top) can be ordered for $350 through the design store Scandinavian Grace. The entire series, which includes Mormor Ribbed and Mormor Square (above), will be available this November and can be purchased individually as well.

via Dezeen.