This week’s pick comes from flickr member abbozzo. Abbozzo is also an architecture firm in Glasgow. I love this striking design for the Hyndland Afterschool Club that they shared in our Fresh New Spaces group:

By the way, abbozzo’s photostream is fantastic, I highly recommend checking it out here.

image from flickr member abbozzo

Drew just sent me a link to this website and I literally belly laughed as I read it. It’s called Unhappy Hipsters and it’s the most refreshing thing I’ve seen in awhile, even if I can see myself in the things the author mocks! Here are a few teasers. Check out the whole Tumblr blog here.

This one made me laugh the hardest!

so, images originally came from Dwell, witticisms from Unhappy Hipsters. I’ve got to keep reading and see if they have any hipster mustache mocking in there.

For some reason, I am now receiving Southern Living and Bon Appetit. Since I don’t cook, the latter goes straight tot the recycling bin. Oh, the reason I get so many random magazines I never asked for is because I subscribed to so many magazines that went under in their slaughters the past few years, this is what they have left to offer. Anyway, Southern Living was never usually my bag; I felt it was all about heavy damask and fried chicken recipes, but I have to admit that now I have been schooled!

The February issue absolutely rocked. After many years of suzani fever in the design world (I mean, my god, I think PB has some sort of faux Suzani thing going on right now, that completely defeats the purpose, esp. after you read what it means. It’s like calling the brand new piece of junk McMansion next door to me a “Craftsman”), I learned that “suzani” means “needle” in Persian. I learned about super cool places to travel to in Georgia (I mean, besides the ATL, where I live, we have beaches and mountains and old towns, YO!), I saw an article about Alabama Channin, a label that I love, and articles about interiors that I admired. Consider my opinion of Southern Living completely turned around!

The best thing I found out about was the Postcards on the Beach Inn, on St. Pete’s Beach in Florida. Before this, my knowledge of St. Pete’s consisted of the HILARIOUSLY decorated condo we rented for a wedding, and the HoJo’s Tiki Bar (which still rocks; we had many cheap frozen drinks, and we had a former American Idol contestant tell us all about how she got kicked off the show for smoking weed while we were there, then she rocked out a great song. Priceless.). Anyway, the Postcards on the Beach Inn seems like the coolest spot I’ve seen since The Surf Lodge, and it’s a LOT less expensive. I’m loving the current combination of surfboards, retro paneling, groovy Greg Brady beads with a wink towards Americana Route 66 motor lodges and a nod towards no-tell motels  beachy response to boutique hotels. Sorry for the bad sentence structure on that one. Anyway, the Inn’s website is really cool too, hence the taped-up, postcard-esque, crooked images below.

http://www.postcardinn.com/

Oh, and speaking of Modern Lincoln Logs, check out the new Vitra Museum building by Herzog & de Meuron. First we had a bunch of Jenga architecture, and now everywhere I look I see Lincoln Logs.

I spied this over at Modern House Notes, and they spied it over at Architecture Lab:

Yup, I’m just letting you all follow me around the web today. Of course there is usually a longer journey that would be funny to map, from Twitter to Tumblr to Facebook with a little break for Bedazzled Blitz along the way…Anyway, this picture makes me want to turn my dining room into a painting studio.

I love perusing Erik Johnson’s portfolio online, and this one in particular made my heart happy today. And you all know I don’t usually say goofy sweet things like that, so it must be true!

photo by Erik Johnson