Only two days after I featured her stationary company, Angela Liguori gives me more great news: She now has her own blog! In edizioni, Angela will feature news and updates "about our collaborative work, projects and events for Carta, Inc. and Edizioni Almenodue, between the Boston area, Rome and Italy."

That brings the number of Boston-area design blogs to eight. Angela, welcome to the blogosphere, and best of luck!

I've grown more and more interested as of late in locally designed and made crafts. I don't like the word "crafts", it makes me think of things that are a lot lower quality than what I'm talking about. Well, that's what those that create them call it, so that's what it is.

Magpie, in Davis Square, is "a gift store that carries hip handmade crafts, goods by indie designers and works by local artists," like this "Boys are awful" journal (we really are awful, aren't we?).

Magpie
416 Highland Ave (Davis Sq)
Somerville, MA 02144
617-623-3330
info@magpie-store.com

If you didn't have a reason to visit Portland, ME this summer, here's one: A friend tipped me off that The Portland Museum of Art has a new exhibit: Frank Lloyd Wright and the House Beautiful. The exhibit features approximately 100 objects, including furniture, metalwork, textiles, drawings, and accessories from the collections of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and other public and private collections.

"The exhibition explores how Wright sought to develop a modern interior reflective of a uniquely American spirit of democracy and individual freedom, illustrates his development in integrating the space with furnishings and architectural elements, and shows his experiments with bringing these ideas to the homes of average Americans."

Frank Lloyd Wright and the House Beautiful is running now through October 8, 2007.

A while back, I blogged about Kirei, an innovative, new green material. I recently noticed that 2Modern carries Iannone Design, a company that uses Kirei in it's furniture.

I got a chance to meet Michael Iannone back in May at the ICFF (he's all the way to the left in the photo above). I've always found it amazing how the most unassuming people are the most creative.

His furniture is modern and, obviously, eco-friendly. I love how on certain items, he's cut away the laminate to show the kirei boarding underneath.

Another email that I feel you may be able to answer for me:

Hi

Great Blog. I wonder if you know anyone in Boston who designs, makes, and
then sells his/her own t-shirts. I am not familiar with the fashion scene
here in Boston but perhaps you know or can point me in the right direction.

Thanks,
Oscar

Oscar, thanks for the compliment. I don't know any T-shirt designers off hand. Can anyone help Oscar out?