Welcome to the jungle

by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor

Thankfully, I have undergone a baby mobile intervention since having our first child, and am happy to report that we are free of all fuzzy, robotic sounding mobiles in our home, mostly due to the amazing choices out there today. Like this beautiful Petit Collage baby...

The year of the owl

by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor

If you haven’t noticed, 2009 appears to be the year of the owl– at least when it comes to baby accessories. I suppose that it’s sort of fitting, seeing as how owls are awake all night long, not unlike some babies I know. Sigh.At least this lovely...

Good car-ma

by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor

With our new playroom almost finished, and our poor son caught in between two girls and a whole lot of pink, we decided to decorate it on the blue side of things. But tracking down cool boy decorations that won’t completely alienate the girls in the house is a...

Animal house

by Mir | Art + Decor

Just when I think there can’t possibly be any more ways to make animals into wall art that make me want another baby purely for the decorative accessories, someone goes and proves me wrong. This time it’s Milk Moon Kids, purveyors of limited edition...

Love is all you need

by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor, Valentine's Day

Hearts, schmearts. Not every printed proclamation of love needs to involve pink or red or lacy frilly things. Me, I’m digging the screenprinted love poster from Jennifer Ramos of Made by Girl that simply says love. What more do you need?The poster does come in...

Wow, like, tooootally modular

by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor

I always love finding great design elements for kids’ rooms that weren’t actually meant for kids’ rooms. Take for example the modular Modulari screen system from Brooklyn’s Razortooth Design that I discovered at the International Gift Show this...

“Helvetica” – It made me laugh, it made me cry, it made me spell

by Betsy | Art + Decor

We love helping our readers discover cool and unusual kid stuff, but we love it even more when they return the favor. Especially when it’s something as cool as the ABC Helvetica Film Poster. Many parents put up sweet ABC art in a nursery. This bold and graphic...

Childrens art that tells a story. A good story, too.

by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor

I love children’s art that seems ripped out of the pages of a classic storybook. So when I discovered that very thing at the newly opened Tutti Studio…instant swoonage. Tel Aviv artist Tutti Shafir’s imaginative children’s giclee prints can...

Picture picture on the wall

by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor

I’ve made the leap into actually printing my photos, mostly due to pretty strong nudges from the grandparents who keep asking me for a darn hard copy of everything. So that means I’ve now got some pretty nice prints lying around, without the bookshelf...

Revved up like a deuce

by Betsy | Art + Decor

An occupational hazard of writing for Cool Mom Picks is spending waaaay too much money buying all the cool stuff you’re writing about. One glance at this original 1970s Olds print and my 8-year-old was declaring he had to have it.It’s not surprising...

If these walls could read

by Rita | Art + Decor

Ever been tempted to rip the pages out of your kids’ books and hang them on the wall?  Is that only me?  Oops. I’m tempted by every single framable children’s book illustration by illustrator Adam Record of Fall Down Tree, a man so cool and...

One more incentive for taking on those blank walls this year

by Mir | Art + Decor

We’ve been raving about graphic artist Lisa Masterson’s various works at Avalisa for… well, a long time, and Liz recently marveled over her stunning stretched wall art. So you can probably only imagine my glee at learning that more than 500 different...