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Seika Lee‘s new collection, Tied Up, is out, and we have received some leaked campaign images. The form tells the story of not just the female body, but of the woman herself.

The structured garments are held beautifully together with wool and tweed, combined with cotton popeline for shirts, combined with wool jerseys. Palettes with concrete grey, grainy and chocolate brown, midnight blue and velvet black, all in pure and minimalistic.

I absolutely love the subtle cuts, and the styling for the campaign is really superb.

Quicksilver: Mac OS X at your Fingertips [Sponsor]:

I’d like to thank my new friends at Quicksilver for sponsoring this weeks RSS Feed. It’s now back and being actively maintained by a commit group of great folks that love it as much as I do. In my opinion, you will not find a better application-launcher-file-manipulation-search-thingy at any price. It’s free so download it today.

Also, if you are new to Quicksilver, you would be hard pressed to find a better series of links on how to squeeze the awesome juice out of it than the ones from Merlin on 43Folders.

Neat is a minimalist table designed by French designer Christophe Pillet for Kristalia.

The construction of the table is simple and straightforward, aluminium, plywood, and white lacquer.

Christophe Pillet say:

The chair and table I have designed are ambitious projects, not only due to their design but also to the difficulty involved in industrially producing them. These objects are simple in shape but technically complicated.

Clean, light and elegant design. I love it.

App Emails — Shawn Blanc:

Start with your favorite bloggers and podcasters. Write personal, thoughtful, and specific emails to each of them. Give them a promo code (or two — one for themselves and one for them to give to a friend). Tell them why they might like your app and give a few quick points about why. Don’t give an entire feature list, simply mention some previous articles of theirs and touch on why you think your app would be interesting to them in light of what you know they have already written about.

Like Shawn, I get a lot of pitches. Most do not end up here. I suspect if everyone with a product to promote took the advice herein, the reverse would be true.

That said, the ones that have ended up here have done so because they took the above approach and I bet you could ask any of them and they will tell you it was well worth their time and in the case of some, the traffic actually caused their site to break…

Sorry, Quicksilver.

With its foundation in 1997 by Charles Cosac (brazilian enterpreneur and maecenas) and Michael Naify (north-american businessman), Cosac Naify is a highly established publishing house in Brazil.

Their catalogue spans across a broad range of artistic fields, and with a body of graphic work that is notorious for its quality. Beside many of their original, bright and colorful designs, one can also find a vast number minimalistic covers.

However, perhaps a photograph is not the best way to interact with the books, given that one of the most interesting aspects of Cosac Naify’s designs are their tactile quality, since they often work with textures and sensorial explorations in the reading experience.

It’s always a great thing to hold a beautiful book in your hand!

Time Lapse of My New Minimal Set Up (by vincent.pj)

I love the t-shirt. Also, for what it is worth, I think both setups were lovely.