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daily dose of imagery is a photoblog dedicated to sam javanrouh’s, “day to day visual experience [of toronto].” javanrough (creative director of optix digital pictures) posts one iconic photo daily – creating a chronological catalogue of an unfettered city. with simplistic headers like: today, day before and day after and candid captions, javanrough creates a uncritical, clean and welcoming environment by which to view the city.

train rails shot yonge street around summerhill

around yonge and st. clair
a biker on yonge and st. clair

queen street sidewalk, near cityhall

love lies bleeding

i came about a most stunning plant on a walk this week. towering at 5 feet this rope-like flower known as amaranthus is impressive in its magnitude. glorious trailing tails of flowers in crimson recall its colloquial name – love lies bleeding.

a new dove film: onslaught

i am not one to venerate global marketing campaigns, but i came about this dove clip serendipitously and could not ignore its message. let’s give our girls a fighting chance.

poppytalk handmade

saw this on design*sponge and had to share. poppytalk has launched a new site called poppytalk handmade which “is a monthly online street market to showcase, buy and sell handmade goods of emerging design talent from around the world.” this felt hair clip from annie + olive sent my heart aflutter.

branch notebook by anna cole

cake + milkpaperie name art

homegrown skinny

track + field laptop bag (you can't miss the irony here)

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manoeuvre felt safe

ecojot

my favourite stationary company mirage paper co. just got a little greener. the newly launched line ecojot is a collection of journals, notebooks and sketchbooks designed by carolyn gavin. with an array of creative patterns and brilliant colour, which are all created using 100% recycled materials and vegetable based ink you can feel good and shop more!

token

one of my favourite shops in toronto is token. carefully selected goodies like: wall decals, ceramics, stationery and beauty products are all artfully displayed in this eclectic queen west shop. such coveted items include:

stationary by toronto’s katie muth (yeah yellow!)

shannon burch of soap & paper factory
ceramic tiles by toronto-based xenia taler
(saturated colour - gorgeous) ceramic pieces by amy adams of perch design

click here to check out token's design blog

wheels

certainly, my most preferable mode of transit is on foot; however after making what must be the zillionth trek to my grocer of choice i happened upon a competitor to my trusty stroll – the caped crusader.

what looks like a simple two-wheeler is in fact a mobile monument to kitsch (with a windshield to boot!) i’m converted.