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Bookmark | @Bat_Gio’s Instagram Stories

In The Anthology’s Bookmark column we explore some of the most inspiring places on the wild, wild web.

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Maybe you’ve been heavily debating Instagram stories vs Snapchat. Or maybe you left that debate in the dust long ago like I did. Because the minute Giovanna Engelbert started posting Instagram stories as often as you check Facebook, there was never any doubt in my mind that story content doesn’t get better than this. (Unless you count Liz Plank’s Snapchat content but she’s covering the election.)

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Giovanna’s fashion show stories are nice and all, but it’s the stories she posts when she’s goofing around with her sister and friends that give you a sense of her personality, her creativity. She’s engaging because her jet-set life is impossibly glamourous, yes, but also because she doesn’t take herself seriously.

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Plus, she always seems to be on a boat. So follow @bat_gio already. And follow @KelseyDundon while you’re at it.

[Images from @bat_gio on Instagram.]

Bookmark | Julie Ansiau Photography

In The Anthology’s Bookmark column we explore some of the most inspiring places on the wild, wild web.

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Portrait photography strikes me as being very hard. I don’t do it much (unless you count shoving a camera in my babies’ faces) but I imagine it’d be a real challenge to capture your subject in a natural, expressive pose that actually conveys whatever it is you need that portrait to convey.

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That’s why I find Julie Ansiau’s work so compelling. The French photographer’s portraits are lovely. She captures such creative people in their beautiful spaces in a way that reminds me of Todd Selby. And everyone is so effortlessly chic — her portfolio is filled with as much style and decor inspiration as it is photography inspiration.

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So bookmark Julie Ansiau’s site already. And bookmark The Anthology while you’re at it.

Bookmark | Black Cardigan

In The Anthology’s Bookmark column we explore some of the most inspiring places on the wild, wild web.

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Well this is a departure. Most (okay, all) of The Anthology’s Bookmarks are heavy on the visuals — the column is like one long love letter to blogs by graphic designers. But this, this is something different. This particular Bookmark pick is light on imagery and heavy on well-written text.

Carrie Frye’s Black Cardigan is a newsletter that covers everything from Mr. Darcy’s sweaty curls to Cher Horowitz’s trendy-again chokers. It’s funny, literary and topical in such an offbeat way. Like Longreads, Lenny and goop, it’s a newsletter I’ll actually click on (what more can a newsletter ask for?) and it definitely deserves a space in your inbox.

So subscribe to Black Cardigan already. And bookmark The Anthology while you’re at it.

Bookmark | Ste. Marie Design

In The Anthology’s Bookmark column we explore some of the most inspiring places on the wild, wild web.

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I am such a creative creep. I love seeing the work behind the work, getting a glimpse into the thought process — and the process process — of people who make beautiful things.

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Which is why I love Ste. Marie Design’s Tumblr. The interior designer firm helmed by Craig Stanghetta is responsible for some of Vancouver’s most beautiful new restaurants, like Savio Volpe and Kissa Tanto, and their Tumblr feels like a moodboard they might have created when they were beginning any number of their projects.

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It’s filled with interior design, sure, but also fashion and art, much of which is raw and refined, jagged and framed in gold.

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It will make you want to quit your job and become a designer. Or at the very least, start Tumbling again. So bookmark Ste. Marie Design’s Tumblr already and bookmark The Anthology while you’re at it.

[Images from Ste. Marie Design’s Tumblr.]

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Bookmark | DeSmitten Design Blog

In The Anthology’s Bookmark column we explore some of the most inspiring places on the wild, wild web.

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I admire minimalism, perhaps because I am not a minimalist. My instincts lean toward more so I respect those who gravitate towards less. 

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Maybe that’s why I find DeSmitten so refreshing.

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By Brooklyn-based fashion designer and writer Christina De Smet, it’s crisp, clean and very tightly edited. It’s filled with fashion (which makes sense).interior-inspiration-house-d-by-Bataille-iBens-1-1

Peppered with interior design, beauty and most importantly…

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Charlotte Gainsbourg, the coolest of the cool. So bookmark DeSmitten already and bookmark The Anthology while you’re at it.

[Images from DeSmitten.]

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Bookmark | French for Pineapple

In The Anthology’s Bookmark column we explore some of the most inspiring places on the wild, wild web.

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Often I have no idea how I first stumbled across a site. I’ll get lost in an internet vortex and end up somewhere so inspiring that I get drawn in even further and by the time I drag myself away from my screen I have no idea how I ended up there in the first place.

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But with the design blog French for Pineapple, I know exactly what drew me to it: the above photo. It landed in my Pinterest feed and I fell in love with it right away. The print is striking, the stools are amazing and the blue walls make me want to paint my living room.

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Edited by print and textile designer Bianca Hall, French for Pineapple is filled with art recommendations, photos of her constantly reinvented North London home and DIYs like the fluffy stools I fell in love with in the first place (CB2 has something similar if you’re not super handy with a staple gun).

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In other words, it’s filled with some serious inspiration. So bookmark French for Pineapple already and bookmark The Anthology while you’re at it.

[Images from French for Pineapple.]

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Bookmark | The Fresh Exchange

In The Anthology’s Bookmark column we explore some of the most inspiring places on the wild, wild web.

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I’ve said it before (twice) and I’ll say it again: graphic designers have the best blogs. It’s all about the imagery after all — even though I make a living as a writer, I get that — and they have the imagery thing down pat.

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Take The Fresh Exchange for example, a blog by the graphic design duo — husband and wife actually — behind the branding firm Wild Measure. It’s all about their creative process, travel, fashion, you know…all the good things in life.

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The photos are beautiful, the write-ups heartfelt, the effect inspiring.

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So bookmark The Fresh Exchange already and bookmark The Anthology while you’re at it.

[Images from The Fresh Exchange, of course.]

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Bookmark | Design Crisis

In The Anthology’s Bookmark column we explore some of the most inspiring places on the wild, wild web.

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I don’t remember how I first stumbled across Erin Williamson’s blog Design Crisis (probably Pinterest. It’s usually Pinterest.) but I am so glad I did.

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It’s beautiful, quirky, inspiring and shows you all the guts, dyed fingers…

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…and real-life mess that go into a design project. erin-williamson-21

Her finished products are always so bold, so full of personality, but they’re often  done economically with treasures hunted from vintage shops and eBay.There’s a whole lot of love that goes into the homes she works on. Including her own.

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She doesn’t post nearly often enough (but hey! Neither do I.) but Design Crisis is definitely worth bookmarking. And bookmark The Anthology while you’re at it.

[Images from Design Crisis, naturally.]

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Bookmark | Bambula

In The Anthology’s Bookmark column we explore some of the most inspiring places on the wild, wild web.

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I can’t understand a word of it (and Google Translate isn’t much help: “Next summer, the yard looks like you’ve probably kivemmalle”)…

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…but boy, is Bambula a beautiful design blog.

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Filled with design trends (house plants!), DIYs (plant hangers!), and beautiful snippets of Finnish family life…

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…it makes white walls look dreamy in ways only Scandinavian design blogs can.

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So bookmark Bambula already. And bookmark The Anthology while you’re at it.

[Images from Bambula, naturally.]

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Bookmark | HealthFoodSnob

In The Anthology’s Bookmark column we explore some of the most inspiring places on the wild, wild web.

I’m cheating with this Bookmark pick. Because I’ve actually featured HealthFoodSnob before, back when it was just an Instagram feed.

But as of this week, it’s also a blog. So I figure it deserves a repeat feature. Besides, it’s run by my sister and she cooks and bakes for me a lot so I’m going to do everything in my power to make sure that keeps happening.

With that, my friends, allow me to introduce you to HealthFoodSnob the blog (which my sister built in Squarespace and she’s been raving about that platform almost as much as she’s been raving about her Vitamix).

It’s stocked with recipes that are good for you, tasty and completely unpretentious. So bookmark HealthFoodSnob already and bookmark The Anthology while you’re at it.

[Images from HealthFoodSnob, naturally.]

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