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ladies no. 3: "china doll"

What an exquisite image from the pages of the January 2012 issue of Vogue magazine.

interlude: "century girl"

One of my favorite books is "Century Girl: 100 Years in the Life of Doris Eaton Travis/Last Living Star of the Ziegfeld Follies."

Author Lauren Redniss is a Pulitzer prize winning writer and has created one of the most creative chronicles of a person's life by combining cut-out photographs and animated illustrations.

ladies: "gem girl"

Now that my studio is filling up with "ladies"- in my lamps, my vases, my artwork- I began to think that a compilation of interesting "ladies" would make its way onto the designsgirl blog.

Here is the official debut lady whom I call "Gem Girl", photographed by Trevor Pearson in collaboration with ad agency, RyderCG.

image from July/August 2011 issue of Communication Arts

interlude: "mail appeal"

Unsolicited mail is usually uninspiring and wasteful but here is the most beautiful mailer I have ever seen- a huge fold-out poster announcing the new Gramery Park Boutique Hotel in New York.

The hand-drawn map on the back of the poster with the exquisite typefaces make this piece of mail an unexpected treasure.

photo by designsgirl