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CINDY LACKEY

DESIGNER



INSPIRATION   TRAVEL   PICK OF THE WEEK   DIY

Old Posts + Life These Days

I recently have been receiving the kindest emails from you. First, I’m so sorry. I know how frustrating broken links are and I’m so touched that so many of you have emailed me asking where the old posts can be found. So here’s what happened.

I switched website platforms so instead of using Squarespace, I’m now using WordPress. I really loved Squarespace, their interface was awesome and clean, the templates were nice. But, in the end, I needed a little bit more customization to create things like my personal website + portfolio. Plus, I totally fell in love with Station Seven and all their beautiful templates. This is Coastal.

So, when I made this big switch, I was able to upload all my blog text, BUT all the images were hosted by Squarespace so they all are now tiny icons instead. I went back and re-uploaded images to this site for my most recent or most favorite posts. However, the really old posts are silently waiting until someone emails me and asks after them.

If you loved an old post, maybe you saw it on Pinterest or BHG and the link is broken, write me or post a comment here. I promise to search it out, dust it off and make that post live for all the world to see.

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And as for what is going on with me? Well, I hope you’ve been following along on Instagram and Snapchat, but if not here’s the update:

I finished up language school last winter and I got a job! I am working as an Interior Architect for a navel engineering firm in Copenhagen, which means I get to design the inside of ferry, cruise and offshore platforms. I hadn’t even ever considered designing for marine but its basically a designer’s dream job because it’s essentially a hotel, just in the water. So we design ever type of space, from the lobby to the restaurants (usually multiple, all with different concepts) and the cabins to the lounges, plus all kinds of specialty spaces like movie theaters and game rooms. It is a pretty darn fun gig.

On top of all the fun professional stuff, we’ve been traveling like crazies. Seriously, we’re averaging one trip a month this year. Mostly we’ve been exploring all Sweden has to offer with trips up to Gothenberg or way way up to Abisko. During our summer holiday (because this is Europe and we all take a month off in the summer) we headed up the Stockholm and just wandered around all their neighborhoods for four days. It feels like there is so much to see right here in our own backyard!

Anyway, I just wanted to pop in and say send me a message if you want and old post and I hope you are having lots of adventures, too.

Happy Weekend + Travel

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Happy weekend, everyone. I hope you are having just as much fun hanging out with all your loved ones as I am right now. Have a wonderful sunny weekend!

PS This snapshot is from our short layover at the Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris. More from our travels on my Instagram and Twitter feeds!

 

// around the web this week

FOUR more of my fabric designs will be sold on Minted very soon! Check out South West Key, Geometric Net, Golden Triangle and Seven Triangles.

This home is full of crafty inspiration (like a super awesome paper mache eye tray)

light up some calming incense in this clay DIY holder

Oh how I wish I could have gone to this DIY workshop

chocolate macaroon cake, um, yes please!

Pick of the Week + BEdesign

We’re California sunshine bound! My sis and her beau are getting married at the end of this month and I could not be happier to share the day with them. We’ll be spending nearly a month catching up with family and friends and just hanging out. I feel so lucky to have the best friends house and kitty sitting for us back here at home, and that means at least one case of Cali wine is coming home with us as presents! I’m so excited to visit our favorite vineyards, like Big White House and Concannon, and taste all the new releases. It’s gunna be an awesome trip. I’ll be sure to keep you all updated on Fridays’ posts and over on Instagram + Twitter.

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This week’s pick is a design company founded by a pair of inspiring sisters from Finland, BEdesign. Bette and Cilla Eklund, designer and marketing manager respectively, have stuck to the ideals of Finish design, staying true to raw materials and creating clean geometric forms that are intuitively functional. Above is one of my favorite piece from the collection, the Wave Table (which is in prototype). I love the effortless magazine rack wave that works set as a high or low table.

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I also really like the Lume Coatrack, which comes in two sizes. The design is minimalistic but with a playful catch. The expected third and fourth leg to the rack are missing giving the whole piece a twisting feel and that extra bit of intrigue that makes this design irresistible for an entryway or ganged together in the bedroom.

This design team has such a great focus on creating the next generation of great Finish design. I got a change to meet with the sisters at the Stockholm Furniture Fair and their creative energy is infectious. BEdesign is definitely one one to watch.

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Happy Weekend + Language

 

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I was totally taken by Maschmanns Matmarked in Oslo, Norway last week. Their display of groceries is so simply and yet so beautiful. We stopped in for lunch on a Sunday (yep, they are open on Sundays) and had amazingly yummy pizza. They also had scrumptious looking pastries that I will definitely be taking part in next time.

Next week I start intensive Swedish language classes with the state run SFI. I have been waiting four months to be placed in a school and I am so excited to finally get down to business! I’ve got some basic knowledge from our time at Folkuniversitetet but I’m not conversational or anything. The class will meet every day for five hours a day and, when I feel ready, I can test up to the next level until I complete the school. The whole process should take 6-8 months for me to complete.

One of our New Year’s resolutions this year was to really dig into Swedish life here in Malmö. For me that means becoming full fluent in Swedish is a huge priority. I’ll be dropping my posts here on the blog down to three per week so I will have enough time to focus on my fluency goal. Please check in on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays for new posts and wish me lycka till (good luck)!

// what to do this weekend

read the news in very basic Swedish

freshen up your desktop backgrounds

whip up some yummy desserts

elevate your instagram feed

craft up some woven wall hangings

Pick Of The Week + Lovedales Studio

  

I know I must have seen Hanne Løvdal‘s work before but it re-caught my eye this weekend. Audrey and I did a design shop tour through Oslo (using the Oslo City Guide from Design Sponge). We hit 7 shops in 5 hours, which is pretty good for a pregnant lady and her design obsessed friend. Lots of interesting things were posted on my Instagram and Twitter and even more little ideas ended up in my sketch book. Design shops are so inspiring. Get ready for some awesome DIYs this month!

Our last stop of the day was the House of Oslo shopping mall. But this is better than any shopping mall I could have imagined. This shopping mall only has design shops! The anchor shop is Illiums Bolighus (four floors of it!), which is always lovely, but I wanted to see shops I can’t browse at home. So we popped into the Raun Concept Shop which had the lovely Lovedales Studio work on display.

Hanne Løvdal mixes digital coloring with pencil and watercolor sketches to create compelling illustrations. She quit her job as a magazine art director in 2013 to pursue her art full time. This print “Jomfruen/Virgo” is one of my favs from her 12 zodiac signs series, each sign represented with beautifully intricate hair. Check out her online print shop which ships worldwide. Oh! And, Løvdal is available for commission work, “if you think [her] pen can suit your project”.  So sweet.

  

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Hello! I’m an interior, user experience, and graphic designer with a love for purpose-driven minimalism. I am also a digital nomad originally from California, currently living in Barbados, by way of Colorado, with my husband and our two cats.

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