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This week's design blog of the week goes to This is Paper. This is Paper curates a well rounded collection of architecture, product design, fashion design, interior design, fine art, graphic design, and photography. The blog features works that reflects an elegant and delicate design aesthetic full of soft pastels and neutrals complemented by clean lines and a touch of wood here and there. Aside from This is Paper's impeccable taste, we want to highlight that the blog often showcases student work. It is nice to see young artists and designers with fresh new ideas and even nicer to see well-known blogs recognizing the importance of supporting the up and coming not just the established. 

All Images via This is Paper

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Current design aesthetic is moving towards all things bigger and bolder. Everything from typefaces to gridlines and even colors are getting punched up. This new trend is playful, loud and hard to ignore. The style even filters over into fashion with bold color blocking and oversized silhouettes.

Images via 1. Nagel Probe 2. Supaire Frappe 3. Tumblr 4. Alt Studio 5. Tumblr 6. Celine 7. Celine

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Maison Martin Margiela designed a collection for H&M and it's safe to say that all of us at DFM are beyond excited. We have admired the genius of Margiela for some time and now it's just within reach. With affordable prices and to die for pieces, the Margiela for H&M collection has DFM in a frenzy. We are counting down the days until the collection hits stores on November 15... see you in line!

All images via Vogue

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We've been busy worker bees these past few weeks, and our poor blog has been feeling a little neglected! Nobody puts baby in the corner (or, more accurately: we can't put our blog in the corner for long before we begin to miss it and feel terrible for not attending to its needs!).The DFM calendar is packed with a ton of fun in the next few months. First up is a launch / holiday photo shoot for our client that is the retailer of vintage / vintage inspired engagement rings later this week. Before any photo shoot, we always make a mood board to capture the feeling and aesthetic we're aiming for (which also helps us buy awesome props, I might add). Here's our mood board for the upcoming shoot: vintage meets modern paired with love, stunning jewelry, and just a little quirkiness. Can't wait!

All images via Trunk Archive

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This video, called "Nightfall" by Colin Rich, is a three minute tour of light through our very own city of Los Angeles. Shot using mostly time lapse through dusk and dawn, "Nightfall" captures the beauty of Los Angeles like we've never seen it before. From Rich: "I shot 'Nightfall' in an attempt to capture Los Angeles as it transitioned from day to night. Nightfall in particular is my favorite time to shoot time lapse. Capturing the transition from day to night while looking back at the city as the purple shadow of Earth envelops the eastern skyline and the warm distant twinkling halogen lights spark to life and give the facing sun a run for her money - this will never grow old or boring to me. I hope you enjoy watching it as much and I enjoyed creating it." Below are a few of our favorite stills from the video, but the beauty of the time-lapse is best captured in video form. Check out Colin on Facebook by clicking here.

All images from the "Nightfall" video by Colin Rich.

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Love these flowers in Pantone Warm Red C from Pike's Place Market in Seattle. What an amazing color!

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Kelly, our Marketing Strategist, spent her Labor Day weekend in Seattle, basking in the beautiful fall temperature (68˚ and sunny every day) and eating almost every meal from the Pikes Place Market. Right on the waterfront, the market has all the fresh produce, seafood, and flowers you could ever want - not to mention the hoards of delicious bakeries, coffee shops (including, gasp, the ORIGINAL Starbucks!), and craft/product booths to boot. But the best part about Pikes Place? It's open EVERY DAY. Unlike your run-of-the-mill farmer's markets that operate just once a week, Pike's Place sets up shop every day, rain or shine. With a market like this stuck right in the middle of downtown Seattle, who would ever need a trip to the grocery store again?

All photos taken by Kelly using Instagram @johnsonkellyc.

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Last week we were lucky enough to have an out of town client, Stephanie Bradshaw, come visit us in LA for a two-day intense design collaboration. Stephanie is the creative force behind Stephanie Bradshaw Events & Interiors based out of Baltimore, and she's also quite the up-and-coming fashion/interior/lifestyle blogger for her fantastic daily blog. While she was here, we put our heads together to choose a color palette for her own SB Inspired line - the next chapter of Stephanie's exciting career. We ended up with soft white, champagne, gold, and lavender for the main palette, and we're loving every minute of it. Visit Stephanie's blog by clicking here to see what she's up to in her studio!

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