IMAGINED M TO M TO MAGNIFICENT Our design-geek jaws hit the floor when we discovered legendary design duo M/M Paris was releasing a retrospective book. With over 1,000 illustrations of some of the designers’ most impressive projects, exhibition photographs, and some killer interviews with their closest collaborators like Bjork and Pierre Huyghe, M to M of M/M Paris is filled to the brim with everything our little designer hearts could want. MMPARIS.COM
STACK ATTACK For those of you still weeping over Instagram’s new privacy policy, let’s get real. Nobody really wants that Earlybird-filtered image of what you ate for lunch. But if you’re still vying for a replacement and seriously need a new fix of checking-in-liking-sharing-commenting-networking-all-around-social-media-thugging, perhaps you might have more fun with ArtStack. Geared toward the art lovers of cyberspace, the new app allows you to collect art you love, “stack” it to your profile, and share it with your fellow stackers. (Some of who happen to be heavy-hitters in the art and museum world.) Sorry Instagram, we can’t be monogamous. THEARTSTACK.COM
BEAT THIS Our love-hate relationship with online craft market Etsy just got a little more obsessive. We stumbled into LA-based artist Angela Rossi’s whimsical storefront, Beat Up Creations, and it’s taken all of our strength not to overstay our welcome (truthfully, we just ran out of money). Rossi transforms antique, stuffy, baroqueinspired plates and turns them into a hipster’s dream dinnerware set, mixing ornate details with portraits of the most unusual kind. A plate of Marie Antoinette as a cyborg? She’s got ‘em. Patti Smith decked in florals? Done. It’s hard to pick a favorite, but we did just score a plate of a Walking Dead-inspired zombie child salivating blood (yeah, we went there). Martha Stewart, eat your heart out. BEATUPCREATIONS.COM