Design sponge is coming to chicago next tuesday, october 11 from 5 to 8 p. Nov 25, 2008 grace bonney of designsponge will inspire even noncrafters to. In 2006 grace founded the designsponge biz ladies series, a traveling event designed to connect women running their. She called it inspiring, and thats exactly what it is. There was this other thing i also got a phone call today at work from kim, a really lovely literary agent. Grace bonney is the creator of designsponge, a daily web site dedicated to home and product design. So, our house was on design sponge today which is kind of a dream.
Design sponge at home is a companion to the popular design sponge blog. Follow grace bonneys instagram account to see all 7,956 of their photos and videos. Her first book, like her blog a daily website dedicated to home and product design is a definative guide to creating and decorating a stylish home for young homeowners and renters. Last week, designsponge founder grace bonney announced that, after 15 years online, the beloved site will be closing up shop. I dont follow the design sponge blog and got this book on sale. Designsponge at home was published in early september. The basic concept is that interior design can be affordable and accessible. Think of your website as the building and the pages as the rooms, you need to look at the website as a whole. I would religiously watch trading spaces after all my classes and then go and build furniture for my dorm room and my friends rooms. There are young media titans and motherdaughter fashion houses, hoteliers and ceramicists, tattoo artists and architects. Thank you, wrote a reader to design sponge creator grace bonney, for teaching me that houses dont have to be frumpy and formal. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading design sponge at home. Popular blogger grace bonney celebrates regional style in. Design sponge at home is the labor of love of grace bonney, creator of design sponge, the wildly popular home decor design blog that has 121,622 rss subscribers last i checked.
Contrast is found everywhere you look and is also a major player when it comes to design. Launched in august of 2004, the site updates daily and attracts a diverse group of devoted readers across the globe, currently reaching over 2 million readers per month designsponge focuses on the creative community, with the goal of making the art and design world personal. Designsponge at home by grace bonney, hardcover barnes. Inspiration and advice from over 100 makers, artists, and entrepreneurs is an unprecedented collection of empowering advice and inspiration.
Design sponge didnt need its trademark asterisk to stand out. Brooklynbased writer grace bonney the 30yearold behind the popular style and design blog designsponge talks with culturemap about her first book, designsponge at home. A few years ago, after our first book came out, we sat down with our publisher to plan the second. This largeformat hardcover is the book that its 280,000 followers on twitter have been anxiously awaiting. The book includes home tours from artists and designers, clever diy projects to help personalized your space, stepbystep tutorials on everything from hanging wallpaper to doing your own upholstery, a flower workshop with bouquets for every budget. Last week i had the pleasure of meeting grace bonney, the girl behind design sponge and author of design sponge at home. Its a 400page, gold foilcovered bible of hip homes, easy chic projects, and smart decorating ideas.
Designsponge didnt need its trademark asterisk to stand out. Grace bonney decorating ideas decorating tips from design. Im always looking for decorating tips and inexpensive ways to improve my house. Last night grace was here in seattle on the designsponge at home book tour and i was lucky enough to get to attend the crafting class that shes holding as part of book tour. Nov 08, 2011 cant get enough of grace bonneys great designsponge blog. Oct 03, 2011 brooklynbased writer grace bonney the 30yearold behind the popular style and design blog designsponge talks with culturemap about her first book, designsponge at home. Sep 15, 2011 its finally been released into the world. Now, of course, grace bonneys book designsponge at home is nothing particularly new to the scene, having come out in 2011, but its always worth noting in a discussion of designcentered coffee table books. Across the globe, women are embracing the entrepreneurial spirit and overcoming adversity to.
The college mission is to prepare diverse students of art and design to enrich our world through their creativity, skill, and vision. I thought that maybe in a few years i could use it as a digital portfolio to one day. Nonreaders, especially boomers like me, may find it a bit random compared to the typical design book thats the online influence, im sure. Bonney launched designsponge in 2004 and is not only making a living by exercising her passion, but is also sharing the love. A project from design sponge at home bleach pattern tea towels adapted from design sponge at home by grace bonney artisan books. Grace bonney on design sponge at home southern living.
I didnt even know what the term designsponge meant. Designsponge presents great ideas for bookshelves one of the most popular design blogs in the world, designsponge is filled with great, affordable tips for improving your home. But until that nap comes around i think that will be in december after the book tour im so excited to finally be able to share what weve been working on so hard. Grace bonney shares her love of all things fabulous with designsponges diy twist. Design sponge is an intriguing book to flip through and at first glance appears to be packed with tons of juicey design tips but has proved to be disappointingly blah and not contain any useful ideas that i would like for my home. Her many local fans including quite a few of us from the spoonflower crew enjoyed a craft night and had the opportunity to meet the author at our nearby anthropologie store.
Designsponge at home is the longawaited debut book from design blogger grace bonney, founder of the popular interior design blog designsponge. Design sponge is one of my favorite websites for staying uptodate on design trends and new products. When i heard her book tour was coming to beverly hills, i new i had to be there and it was worth the drive, babysitter, time and effort because it was book signing bliss. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Our favorite ideas from the book designsponge at home. The longawaited home d cor bible by the beloved design blogger thank you, wrote a reader to designsponge creator grace bonney, for teaching me that houses dont have to be frumpy and formal. Designsponge readers will be very familiar with its casual tone and funky flair. This way you can continue forward with a fresh eye and put interior design methods into practice with your web design. Join the decorpad community and share photos, create a virtual library of inspiration photos, bounce off design ideas with fellow members. Over the past decade, designsponge has grown from its origins as a personal home decor blog into a destination for content that makes the art and design world personal, reaching over 2 million readers per month. Designsponge at home by grace bonney, 97815796543, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide.
In the beginning the design blog was a side project she did in addition to her real job, first at a design pr firm and later as a freelance writer for house and garden, domino, and craft, among other publications. Design sponge soaks up fans with blogbook combo sfgate. Behind grace bonneys decision to close designsponge. Jan 14, 2019 last week, designsponge founder grace bonney announced that, after 15 years online, the beloved site will be closing up shop. Design sponge blogger grace bonney, above, has taken a break from the internet for a moment to publish design sponge at home, a hardback compilation of the sites best decorating ideas. Interior design and decorating ideas of bedrooms, living rooms, denslibrariesoffices, dining rooms, nurseries, bathrooms, kitchens, entrancesfoyers by design sponge. Plus, the adorable cover is sure to perk up any coffee table. After you started the blog, when did you realize that it was a hit. Grace bonney of designsponge recently visited spoonflowers hometown of durham, north carolina for a signing of her newly released designsponge at home book. Apparently, it means to soak up design like a sponge. When grace bonney started designsponge in 2004, her expectations were low. This longawaited book from designsponge founder grace bonney is the influential bloggers first.
Designsponge is a daily blog run founded by writer, grace bonney. Virginia native grace bonney talks about her new book. A guide to inspiring homes and all the tools you need to create your own grace bonney isbn. A followup to her first book, designsponge at home, is due out this fall. Grace bonneys blog ranks as the most popular design site on the web, drawing over 75,000 unique visitors and 250,000 page views every day. Grace bonney, the editor of the popular blog design sponge, has published her first book. I dont follow the designsponge blog and got this book on sale. Interior design inspiration photos by design sponge. Sep 30, 2011 last night grace was here in seattle on the designsponge at home book tour and i was lucky enough to get to attend the crafting class that shes holding as part of book tour. Grace bonney new book artisan coming in fall 2021 founder of design. But if you like to get a little more handson, design sponge.
Oct 21, 2011 designsponge at home was published in early september. Fans of design sponge will be delighted to hear that the book is a good representation of the blogs coverage of home tours, crafts and doityourself makeovers. Last week i had the pleasure of meeting grace bonney, the girl behind designsponge and author of designsponge at home. Inspiring your inner whittler with melanie abrantes 12 new book, carve otis college of art and design. Brooklynbased writer grace bonney the 30yearold behind the popular style and design blog design sponge talks with culturemap about her first book, design sponge at home. It may require you to step back from the way you currently view web design and visualize it as something else. Design sponge is an intriguing book to flip through and at first glance appears to be packed with tons of juicey design tips but has proved to be disappointingly blah. There was this other thing i also got a phone call today at work from kim, a really lovely. Oct 27, 2011 grace bonney of design sponge recently visited spoonflowers hometown of durham, north carolina for a signing of her newly released design sponge at home book. Buy a cheap copy of design sponge at home book by grace bonney.
Brooklyn writer grace bonney founded the blog seven years ago, and recently published the companion book, design sponge at home artisan books. Designsponge presents great ideas for bookshelves huffpost. I didnt even know what the term design sponge meant. Design sponge at home kindle edition by bonney, grace. Created and run by grace bonney, the blog recently published its first book, designsponge at home. I look forward to loads of input from all you readers. It has some great tips and tricks for making a house a home. Updated daily with resources, ideas, projects, tips, recipes. Cant get enough of grace bonneys great designsponge blog.
Jun 29, 2011 in cape town, south africa that loves beautiful things and is attempting to build a house from the ground up. The fossil history and phylogcnetic relationships of sponges. Which makes me wonder if any of you reading this are here because of it, which makes me wonder what new friendships will come from this. Grace bonneys design sponge at home, otherwise known as the design blogger bible, or a book about how to be really awesome at design blogging. Popular blogger grace bonney celebrates regional style in new. Grace bonney is the author of the bestselling books in the company of women and designsponge at home. They can just be comfy and unique and reflect who you are, no matter how small your budget or. This was actually one of the very first design books i ever purchased for myself, and its one that i know ill be referencing for years and years to come, just like the. Oct 04, 2011 get ready for some book signing eye candy. Its packed with nearly 400 pages of inspirational photos, decorating tips and tricks, and easytofollow craft instructions.
Designsponge at home kindle edition by bonney, grace. They can just be comfy and unique and reflect who you are, no matter how small your budget or space. That reader is one of the 75,000 unique daily visitors to designsponge, who make it the most popular design site on the web. In the company of women, grace bonneys new book, features interviews and portraits of 100 of these exceptional leaders across a diverse range of races, ages, backgrounds, and industries. Oct 07, 2016 one of grace bonneys favorite parts of running the popular design sponge blog is discovering creative and inspiring women. Design sponge at home by grace bonney the new york times. Bonney is passionate about equity, inclusivity, and supporting all members of the creative community. Jan 31, 2019 when grace bonney started design sponge in 2004, her expectations were low. Sep 12, 2011 there may be no better way to kickstart my return to blogging by talking about what i received in the mail a few days ago. This article i want to design a range of kids bedroom with spongebob theme that certainly has been a family favorite around the world spongebob is an iconic character loved by millions of kids, and decorating your childs room with this theme is not too uncommon.
Despite my oldschool orgnizational quibbles, i really like this book and expect that ill pick it up often. It has some great inspiration photos and galleries as well as a diy section to make cheap, yet classy decor for your home. The longawaited home decor bible by the beloved design blo. The site receives 250,000 pageviews every day and has 150,000 rss subscribers and 280,000 followers on twitter. Oct 07, 2016 the lifestyle blogger behind the wildly popular site design sponge is live in times square to discuss her book in the company of women, and she shares design tips for enhancing your office space. They dont have to be matchymatchy or rigidly modern. We know you love design sponge for its crafty, helpful tips and ideas, and you owe quite a bit of your homes cuteness to the website. Grace bonney is the author of the bestselling books in the company of women and design sponge at home. Her business has continued to grow, and bonney says design sponge reaches nearly 2 million readers per day. When undertaking web design, there are important aspects of interior design that you can take inspiration from to help you build a fantastic website that works as well as it looks. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. The first section of the book called sneak peaks takes the reader to several homes with several photographs of each. In 2009, bonney published her first book, design sponge at home. Design sponge at home is about to become your next obsession.
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