How can you not smile when you see a bunch of realistic little birds with party hats made out of flowers and leaves on their heads? Vicki Sawyer's playfully illustrated bird party cards, placemats, place cards and even a coloring book with Nashville based company, Hester & Cook. In addition to birds, you'll find lots of other creatures from dogs to sheep to pigs and more with, of course fun hats and accessories. Check out more of her products on Hester & Cook.

This is nothing but interesting in this series of creative and surreal images show animals doing twisted yoga poses. Creative artworks of wild animals was done by Paris based artist Bruno Pontirol.  Check out more of his work on his Instagram.

This concept mouse is something I would have in my home computer setup. It was inspired by the iconic design of the Eames Lounge Chair, Shane Chen's lounge mouse elevates the humble input device. True to the original, the base is formed from bent plywood with a cutout on the bottom for a black plastic plate housing the battery, optical sensor, and power switch. The top surface is appropriately covered with black leather, save for the scroll wheel, providing a luxurious feel fitting for its inspiration. While it remains a concept, there isn't yet any plans for a real-world example but I'm hoping it does!

First, before I start telling you the reason for the new design let me welcome you to TCL's New Design and layout!! So now onward,  let's get into a little bit of the design and the reason for the change.

So here we are 4 years later since the last update in 2014  and I felt that it was time for a makeover. The Collective Loop is a place where art, design, music, technology and more collectively loop, but that doesn't mean the design can't.  After contemplating, I decided that I wanted to change the layout to look more professional, interactive and all around still have a minimal feel. I also wanted a site where it would look amazing on portable devices and be more responsive.  I was able to find all this with the new design.

Here are some of the new changes:

• Responsive Layout for all devices 
• Clean Minimalist Design
• Font Awesome – Retina ready icons
• Responsive Sidebar
• Social Share

So tell me what you think of the new design? Look around and see all the new changes.

New TCL Design






TCL Old Design

This gorgeously photographed volume celebrates the most influential floral designers today. In Full Flower ($45.00) is a compilation of a new wave in contemporary floral design. It features artists who combine traditional techniques with an organic, free-form, “back-to-nature” styles. This colorful book provides budding inspiration for all and would stand out in any room as a eye catching center piece for any coffee table.

Archive Rentals caught my eye the other day with tons of interior/exterior design inspiration that you can rent. They offer ideas and rentals for holiday party inspiration, farmhouse table rentals, and of course for the ladies the bohemian chic wedding. That is not all that they offer, however you will need to check out their site for further information.

From first inspiration to installation, our Award-Winning Design Team is ready to create your vision

The Archive Rentals site is an added aspect of this company that I quite enjoyed. I almost wanted to go on a Pinterest binge. I just can't get enough of the vintage style photography of their designs. I have a soft heart when it comes to vintage design. They also make it easy to find inspiration for furniture, lighting, accessories, wow factor and more with a nice interface to find what you're looking for. So, contact them today and get started on your next event.



Source: Photography via Archive Rentals

This bookshelf table was designed by Endri Hoxha for people who love to read when they drink their morning coffee. This beautiful wooden coffee table features integrated shelves for books and magazines. I would highly recommend though that you add glass over top the table just in case you do spill something on the table. You don't want to ruin your books or magazines. Each items is hand crafted so you would have email the designer to get a price.

Stumbled upon Kevin Dart's Science and Nature collection today and I'm glad that I did. His style is interesting with the fact that it's such a mixture of shapes with a little realism's, but has that futuristic look.  If that even makes sense. Well check out his work on his site and if you like any of the ones below they're for sale and he has more than just these.

Ed Fairburn an English artist use vintage maps and star charts as canvases for hand drawn portraits. Cross-hatched patterns and shaded regions inside roads, borders, and rivers assimilate into the contours of faces, as if the images had always been secretly hidden in the map’s topography.

Fairburn has a new show of works alongside artist John Wentz at Mike Wright Gallery from November 6th - December 19th in Denver, Colorado.




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Jessica Sjöstedt‘s champagne bottle packaging concept for Devout Champagne catches the eyes and has a great geometrical style. The unusually-shaped packaging has a drawstring at the top and comes apart in the middle. With its pleasing polygonal pattern and pastel tones, it’s certainly not like other Champagne boxes that I have seen on the market. What do you think of this concept packaging?



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These bottle of juice are not only beautiful, but very clean. Almost a shame to consume the products because the packaging is so elegant with the striking contrast between the black and the different vibrant colors. The clear labels with the black satin is a nice touch as well, with the name and content detail looking like they were printed on the bottles. A little about the company below.

"Owen + Alchemy is a small ‘juice apothecary’ in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood, a very trendy and flourishing part of town. The owner, Anne Owen, has a background in fashion publications in Miami and wanted to bring that simple, stark and fashion-forward look to her juice bar. Her name, paired with the alchemic approach of their juice and food concoctions led us to create this brand inspired by old alchemic symbology, with a modern twist."

So what do you think of this branding?

Blank William is a New York based designer who created this project called Kingdom Chess.  Not much info, but you don't need so much when you look at this amazing aesthetic chess set. This would be my center piece on my coffee table.  The design of this table is unique and the choice of black and white animal chess pieces adds a nice touch.

What do you think of this chess set? While your on his website also check out a few more of his projects.