Happy February, everyone! Let’s bring this stagnant blog back to life, shall we?

I love this video announcing pink as kate spade’s February color (click the Watch the Film link on the bottom-right of the page), created by super Brooklyn design firm, Part & Parcel.

via @jenniferdaniel, @jezburrows

Cute. Bang! is a concept lamp that you turn off by firing the accompanying gun at it. When you pull the trigger, the light goes out and the lampshade knocks to the side. By bitplay INC., Taiwan.

via Laughing Squid

I was able to participate in this year’s GUTS event here in Charlotte, North Carolina. Created by Hawse Design, GUTS is a fun & friendly pumpkin-carving competition among the area’s creative professionals. After the carving session, the work is then judged and auctioned off to raise money for Levine Children’s Hospital.

As an excuse to sculpt Helvetica from a vegetable (and to scare the other designers at the event), I decided to bless my pumpkin with the rejected Gap logo. Expectedly, my pumpkin did not place among the winners. Perhaps I should have included a gradient?

Big thanks to Kimberly Diedrich for taking the photos. If I happen across any public gallery of the event that I can share with you all, I’ll link to it here.

Porcelain Pistols by Berlin artist Yvonne Lee Schultz. From her site:

The Porcelain Pistols are replicas of James Bond’s Walther PPK and its contemporary sister, the P99, with friendly permission of Carl Walther Inc. The fragile weapon, hand-painted in the style of classic tableware motifs, lies next to your coffee and cake, asking to be picked up. Its coolness and comfortable grip increase the qualms of the user, leaving him in a quandary between the pleasure of luxury and violence.

via Make: Online (thank you Jason!)

I am floored by this glorious photography of Vietnam by photographer David Terrazas.

via @Behance

Very friendly Monster Friends poster series available from Familytree. The Kracken, Yeti, Loch Ness, & Sasquatch, by Alex Pearson, Jeff Kandefer, Andy Young, and Julian Baker respectively.

via @LaughingSquid 

The very tranquil pebble pencil sharpener by Taiwanese designer Sheng-Hui Hsu. This (along with the matching candle holder) was featured in Designboom’s asia now exhibition at Dwell on Design earlier this summer.

So far, no word on if and when this item will be available for purchase.

via sub-studio

Artist Dalton Ghetti carves miniature graphite sculptures from pencil tips, including this excellent alphabet. 

via @cameronmoll, HOW Blog