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Design*Sponge » Blog Archive » diy project: filament lights. We were feeling inspired by all of the beautiful filament light bulbs we keep seeing! This week we took on making some of our own lights, something that sarah was in need of for her place. a trip to a lamp supply store provided a wealth of ideas, and we put together these simple light fixtures with these beautiful bulbs. it makes for a lovely and totally easy light installation! -bbb craft sisters CLICK HERE for the full how-to after the jump! What you need: what you do: 2. take apart the wall plugs and lamp sockets with the screwdriver and thread the cord through the hole on the top part of each (this sounds more complicated, but often the plugs and sockets will come with a visual how-to for this). 3. cut a bit of the rayon fabric covering on the cord back so that you can get to the wires. 5. using the needle nose pliers you will then wrap each length of exposed copper wiring clockwise underneath the proper terminal screw’s head in the wall plug.

The Secret Law of Page Harmony - Retinart. “A method to produce the perfect book.” The perfect book. This is how designer-genius Jan Tschichold described this system. Not the ok book, nor the pretty good book, but the perfect book. This method existed long before the computer, the printing press and even a defined measuring unit. And you can still use it. The Secret Canon & Page Harmony Books were once a luxury only the richest could afford and would take months of work to be brought to fruition. And they were harmoniously beautiful. The bookmakers knew the secret to the perfect book. So elegant is this method of producing harmony that a few designers saw to rediscover it. They found the way to design a harmonious page. There’s a dance to all this Let’s look at this dance, shall we? And here it is with them (using the Van de Graaf Canon and Tschichold’s recommended 2:3 page-size ratio, which we’ll get into next).

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