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If you liked my review of Not Just a Pretty Face and want to know more, there’s a great event going on this weekend at the San Francisco Library.

You can learn more about the idea of safe cosmetics and enter to get a makeover and manicure!

The details:
12-2 p.m.
San Francisco Library, Koret Auditorium, 100 Larkin Street

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LA-ites, I’ve got something awesome for you.

Until May 24th, stop by Quiksilver’s siteLA and drop off some of your trash — tapes, cd cases, etc — and then watch them turn into a piece of art! Upcoming events will recycle different items.

If you stop by tomorrow for the opening, you can watch the artists and work and have some drinks.

Where: Quiksilver’s siteLA, 2522 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles
When: Saturday, May 17, 2-6 pm
Why: Be a part of something awesome.

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If I lived in Sweden, I would be attending this. If you live in Sweden, you should go. It starts Oct. 18.

I mean, check out the ten newest speakers that have signed onto this conference and design show:

Stephen Burks
Stephen Burks is one of the most successful designers in his generation. He is working with everything from shop interiors and packaging to to furniture and home accessories. One of his latest projects was the design of the bottle for the new Calvin Klein perfume CK IN2U.

Mathilda Tham
The work of Mathilda Tham includes trend forecasting, fashion and sustainable issues. Mathilda has also been working with design, pr and marketing. Mathilda works as professor at Beckmans college of design in Stockholm and teaches about eco-design at Goldsmith college in England.

Ilkka Suppanen
Ilkka Suppanen once belonged to the successful Snowcrash design community and his creativity often leads him forward towards new materials and technologies. He is both preserving and developing the innovative and functional Scandinavian heritage.

Katarina Graffman
Katarina Graffman works as an ethnographer. Her tools are simple but the practice is complex. It consists of digging for something with unknown shape, colour and size. The research take place wherever, whenever as reality is her lab. The experiments are conducted in cars, homes, stores, workplaces and parks.

Kristina Börjesson
Kristina has for most part of her professional life as a projects manager and managing director worked for an altered attitude to marketing. Kristina lives since 1996 in London and has written a Master thesis on designers as the link between culture and meaning as also a PhD thesis on the affective sustainability of objects.

Jens Martin Skibsted
Through is company Skibsted Ideation Jens Martin Skibsted develops innovative products that are brand carriers, drive numbers and massively boost PR. He applies the thinking of branding, fashion and music to the world of industrial design. Jens Martin Skibsted is the founder of Biomega - the luxury urban mobility brand.

Nina Jobs
Nina Jobs is an internationally recognized and awarded designer. With a background as graphic designer she holds a master degree in product-design from ENSAD-Paris. Her designs includes works within products, furniture and textile design. Nina also make speeches world wide.

John-Michael Ekeblad
John-Michael Ekeblad runs Daytime Projects Inc which is a strategic design consultancy based in New York City that creates magic out of rationality. John-Michael´s philosophy is about convergence of design culture with deep consumerism and artistic movement that creates a platform of Commercial Aesthetics.

Björn Jeffery
Björn Jeffery works as CEO and Internet Strategist at the Swedish communication agency Good Old. As co-founder of the company, his main focus is the implementation of current and future web trends to large publishing houses. Björn is also the founder of two of Swedens largest blogs, Discobelle.net and Manolo.se.

More info.

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IKEA is teaming up with Snapfish and the co-creator of A Day in the Life and America 24/7 to reveal America at Home. It’s a week-long project, where everyday people take pics of your home in everyday situations. Upload the pics and be a part of a gigantic project with 100 photojournalists. If I had any photographic skills, I would be up for it.

Participate here.

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Do you live in Venice? I wish I did. It’s possibly the only part of LA that is acceptable to me. That is acceptable and semi-realistic on my salary. But I digress. My good friends over at Blik are throwing a party to celebrate their 5th anniversary. I bet they throw good a good party, judging by how cool their graphics are. Yes, you can judge cool-ness through graphic design. Apple, anyone?

If you’re around August 17, you should hit it up, but be sure to RSVP first: rsvp (at) whatisblik (dot) com

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You probably heard any number of news stories about the Kim family, who went through a tragic ordeal in Oregon during Thanksgiving weekend. In addition to James Kim being a CNet editor, the family also ran a home store in San Francisco. A bunch of artists and stores from around the world stepped up and started a auction site, and all the proceeds will go to the family.

Bidding starts January 3. There are previews here.

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