The Museum of Ordinary Objects A quiet gallery where the things people kept — and let go of

The Museum of Ordinary Objects A quiet gallery where the things people kept — and let go of — are...The Museum of Ordinary Objects A quiet gallery where the things people kept — and let go of — are...

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Asad Jehan Zeb

• Aug 21

The Museum of Ordinary Objects

A quiet gallery where the things people kept — and let go of — are exhibited with the same care as fine art.

Most of the objects that hold real meaning in our lives never get preserved anywhere: a childhood toy, a worn kitchen tool, a ticket stub. The Museum of Ordinary Objects gives them a proper home. Users donate an everyday object with a photo and its story, and it joins a browsable public gallery organized into wings — Kitchen, Childhood, Tools, Paper, and Worn Out. Each visitor also gets their own Collection page to manage what they've donated, with full edit and delete control.

Built entirely in Bubble, using AI-assisted generation for the page layouts and design system, with custom-configured backend logic for authentication, per-user data scoping, and the wing-based filtering system. https://www.loom.com/share/4417b940f8574e58965641492c80b68f

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Michael Ofodile

• Aug 21

In few years to come, this will host alot of Nostalgic memories 👌🏾

Dotun Ayoku

• Oct 31

PLIQUE · LIBELLULE

I went through the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access collection and picked four artworks from 1900 to 1920. I took their colours and details to design PLIQUE, an imaginary Paris fashion house. LIBELLULE means dragonfly in French. What I took from each:

Lalique's dragonfly brooch → the see-through wings and frosted glass Tiffany Studios velvet → the deep greens and soft textures Gallé's glass vase → the leaves, the flowers and the warm amber glow Redon's flower painting → the purple and plum Lalique made a dragonfly small enough to pin on a collar. I turned it into clothes, shoes and bags. Made in Recraft, with one Style built from these four artworks.

ARTWORKS

René Lalique, Dragon Fly Brooch, c. 1900–1910

Tiffany Studios (designer: Dorothy Marshall Hornblower), Stenciled Velvet, c. 1902–10

Émile Gallé, Vase, c. 1920: IMAGE

Odilon Redon, Vase of Flowers, 1916

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Anas Musa

• Nov 1

Obsessed with your editing style! So minimal and soft, everything is flows so smoothly 👏👍

Ananto Nugroho Putra

• Oct 31

Prism Hours

What if the glass of 1900 became the material of everything we touch today?

I built a custom Recraft V4 Style from two pieces of glass at the MAK, Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna: an anonymous Bohemian vase in cobalt and gold iridescent glass, donated in 1902, and an English opal glass vase with fine spun threads from before 1900. From the first vase I took the deep blue and silver sheen that shifts at the edges; from the second, the milky translucency and the thin threads that flow inside the glass and glow warm amber at the centre. Both references were cropped to their surfaces so the style learns the material, not the shape of the vases.

Then I let that glass take over modern life: app icons, office and studio interiors, jewellery and clothing, a fashion lookbook, illustrated city scenes, logos, and a poster series built on internet slang, from Doomscrolling and Brain Rot to Soft Launch and Touch Grass. One material from 1900, applied across photo, illustration, icon, logo and graphic design, shows how Art Nouveau glass can still feel like the future.

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