Cool Stuff: Irana Douer's Path to World Domination

Speaking of Irana Douer ...

If original art is out of your price range, young Ms. Douer has also created a variety of budget-friendly prints, housewares, and other items bearing her strange and beautiful artwork. Top: Untitled limited-edition Giclee print, $40 at Poketo

Wallet 2, $20 at Poketo

Untitled 6 ($20), Todo Pelo ($20), and Angel ($25) archival prints, all at Thumbtack Press

Hair Pillow, $30 Australian (about $20 US) at Third Drawer Down

Portraits of Broken Hearted Women limited-edition 'zine, $7 at Islands Fold

Maria, Christina, and Nadia, teacups, $46 each at LAMA

Safiya Cup, $48 at Makool Loves You

Check out more of Douer's artwork and other creations right here.

Mark Your Calendar: Irana Douer at Rare Device

Opening Saturday, January 31: Argentinian illustrator and painter Irana Douer's first-ever U.S. solo show, Hidden Treasures, at San Francisco's Rare Device.

Douer, who hails from Buenos Aires and is only 25, creates vibrantly colorful portraits of women that are at once innocent and sinister. The artist "is interested in how relationships, particular situations, or even ordinary things can affect a woman's life. Hidden Treasures ... explore(s) what's hidden, different and mysterious."

The opening reception (with Douer in attendance) is Saturday from 7 to 9 p.m., and the show will be up at Rare Device through March 3. If you're not in the area, check the Rare Device website to purchase Douer's original works online.

See more of Douer's artwork right here -- and click here to check out prints and household items bearing her illustrations.

Cool Stuff: Poketo

I blogged Marco Cibola's new Middletons Plate Set at Poketo the other day, and have since spent a little more time clicking around the site founded by Ted Vadakan and Angie Myung (above).

Poketo bills itself as an international artists' network producing limited-edition lifestyle goods. Some of my top picks there:

Clockwise: Irana Douer Untitled giclee print, Pietari Posti Giant Deer giclee print, Little Friends of Printmaking Cosmic Drawer letterpress print, and Lisa Congdon's Where I End and You Begin giclee print, $40 each

Oksana Badrak Birds of a Feather Plate Set, $40

Betsy Walton Wallet 1, Camilla Engman Wallet 3, $20, Hannah Stouffer Wallet 5, $20 each

Leah Chun Forest Roller Gang Notebook, $7

Check out all of Poketo's offerings right here.

And if you're in the L.A. area, don't miss the first-ever Poketo Warehouse Sale on Saturday, May 10. Wallets, t-shirts, plates, stationery, prints, and more will be on sale for just $5 to $10 each. (Plus: Cupcakes!)

The sale runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 510 S. Hewitt St. #506. The first 50 folks to arrive will get a gift bag and 10 percent off their entire purchase. More info here.