ABC Museum, Illustration and Design Centre | Madrid, Spain.Well you certainly can’t say that I post about commercial buildings all that often here on yellowtrace. If ever. That’s probably because most of them leave me feeling flat and fairly unexcited. It’s quite a different...
Embroidery Love.I have a little confession. There was a time when I considered embroidery to be just too traditional, old and boring (insert rolling eyes, pimply face and mouth wide open while chewing bubble gum). You get the picture, right? I was in my...
Design Free Thursday | Censorship Tells The Wrong Story.This is just so damn clever and friggin' hilarious! Ad agency Memac Ogilvy & Mather Dubai created these images for Reporters Without Borders, a non-profit organization that defends freedom of information. Such a cunning way to...
Rural City | EVOL.Blow me down with a feather, why don't you?! German street artist EVOL is famous for building stencils in the most unlikely places - this time he created an underground city in a shape of an “X”. This installation is located in a field...
Stable Acre | Norfolk, England.Hello y'all, and welcome to the month of August! Holy crap, where did this year go? It's madness! I just spent another absolutely beautiful weekend in the country with the family, so it feel quite appropriate to kick off the week with this...
Design Free Thursday | Where Children Sleep.Photographer James Mollison had a idea for a book - with a title "Bedrooms" in his mind, he set out on a five year assignment crisscrossing the world and photographing kids where they live. He quickly discovered that every child's...
Vitra Miniatures Chandelier | Paola Pivi.The 'Nice Ball' (funny name) by Italian artist Paola Pivi, is a chandelier containing 80 iconic design furniture miniatures which are attached to an aluminum structure. Each light measures approximately 700 mm (28") in diameter, made from...
There Are No Circles | Lionel Estève.Delicately beautiful art installation titled 'There are no circles' recently took place at Fondation D'Enerprise Hermès in Brussels. It was created by French-born Brussels-based artist Lionel Estève, who worked with minimal materials and...
Home of Maurizio Zucchi | Italy.Wowee! Extreme love alert. This amazing place belongs to Maurizio Zucchi of Italian lifestyle company Zucchi. Concrete floors and white walls provide a perfect backdrop for the rich colours of the plants and vintage pieces of furniture,...