I love design and nothing gets me going like a well-designed brand, especially one inspired by the sea. UK based Seascape Island Apothecary has created some awesome packaging for their bath and body products. You can’t go wrong with a seahorse and colorful graphic flowers. At least not in my book!
Images via The Die Line
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So in love with this wedding package created by designer Austin Petito for his own wedding. It's the perfect little package to get everybody psyched for a high seas wedding. Oh, and did you see the mermaid bottle opener?! And the custom beer coasters?!! Epic win. See more (and larger) shots over at Tight Slice.
Images via Design Work Life
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I have never, never seen anything like this before. Land meets sea in the most clever of ways in Petit Beasts’ Jellyfish Air Plants. Seriously, how delightful are these plants with sea urchins for planters. Creator, Cathy Van Hoang, is an art director and photographer from Long Beach, CA. If you'd like to know more about how she makes these plants and lives a creative life, check out her interview on Dearest Nature. You can purchase any of these jellyfishies on Etsy.
Images via Petit Beast
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I must have this awesome mermaid journal from Write Now Journals featuring one of my favorite quotes by Anais Nin.
Images via Live-Inspired
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I love Jonathan Adler and his brilliant home decor, gifts, and stylings. He just opened a store here in Minneapolis, and I can't wait to get the Adler experience. Anywho, Jonathan has a line of stationary and accessories at Barnes & Noble. His spring collection is all about the ocean. Perhaps we're suppose to write a "whale" of a tale in those journals... You can nab these goodies at your local B&N.
Images via Barnes & Noble
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“Sprouting from the digital petri dish of social networking, seapunk is a whimsical style that mashes together cartoonish aquatic themes, rave culture and a nostalgia for ’90s Internet imagery."
-Ben Detrick of The New York Times
Seapunk is a hash tag/movement/subculture I stumbled upon nearly a month ago on Twitter. Curious, I took the word to various search engines like Google and Tumblr, and most of what I found was an oil spill of strange digital graphics, trippy dolphin-cry basement music, and a handful of blue and teal-haired merboy and mergirl fans. The whole thing was strange, strange enough for me to follow Seapunk’s creator and music producer, Albert Redwine, AKA @ultrademon, on Twitter. Well, thanks to the New York Times, Seapunk has made a formal splash upon the cultural landscape. (Or perhaps a belly flop, but it’s too soon to tell.) I tried to listen to the music—emphasis on the word tried—because all that frenetic synthpop is just not for me. All in all, Seapunk and its burgeoning legion of fans is one to watch, at least for now.
Listen to Seapunk
View Seapunk Imagery Here and Here
Images via Chicago Reader , Kevin Heckart, and ASOS Marketplace
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Love this sea-themed wedding invite by Cheree Berry featuring a mermaid print. Divine.
Via 100 Layer Cake
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This is totally blowing my mind right now. Blk. water is spring water naturally infused with fulvic acid, (a derivative of plant matter.) Yeah, this is natural, no dyes, no additives, nothing. The water comes black from the earth and it claims to be good for you. I have to admit, the water doesn't look appetizing. In fact, all I can think of is oil spills and that awful crocodile movie. But the packaging is totally badass. Keep drinking, and you've found you've turned to the dark side. Hell yes.
Image via Fancy Crave, Kasbah Style, and Who Are Jim and Bob
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The funny thing about blogging is that you're talking to everyone and no one at all, so when people are kind enough to drop me a line, it usually takes me a minute to get over the shock. Really? You care? Someone actually cares?! Charity Daw is one such person who reached out to me and I'm super happy that she did! Charity Daw is an L.A. based singer, songwriter, painter, milliner, goddess, gadabout, and super-freakin-awesome-fashionista with a love for mermaidy things. (Yeah, she's all that and a bag of sea salt chips.) Her hats are gorgeous, intricate conffections exploding with coral and pearls. Her paintings are as bold and feminine as she is, often depicting mermaids and ladies who evoke the spirit of the sea. This post really does her no justice. I encourage you all to swim over to her website or Etsy page and explore her whimsical world. It's pretty and glittery, and totally for modern-day mermaids.
Images via Charity Daw
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