10x10.
On a lighter, design-related note, this is cool.
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I'm dying over here.
My laptop died yesterday. Zip. Kapoot. I had used it right before my interview to jot down questions and it was fine. I get home to log on and it won’t start up. I thought maybe the battery was out of power, so I plugged it in. Still nothing.
Message Bean.
This is cool. I wouldn’t mind one as a gift, and I’m pretty picky….
Dogs and Modernism.
I just finished reading Natalia’s book, Chasing the Perfect and I started thinking about how dogs fit into the modernist dogma. Her dog, Janie, is an underlying, constant presence in this book, and it got me pondering. When you think of the modernist aesthetic, dogs are really the antithesis
Humvee for the disabled?
Hmmmm. Gotta love it, I guess.
"Go" Chair.
Isn’t this a gorgeous chair? Designed by Ross Lovegrove, the designer my group is studying in human-centered design. I love this class.
Seth is leaving on Friday for his month with Northwest Youth Corps. I think it’s going to be a great experience for him. I just hope
Design for dogs.
From the NY Times (full article).
The Goods: Ready for the Red Baron
By BRENDAN I. KOERNER
Published: March 26, 2006
If human pilots can wear bulky headsets while flying, why can’t dogs? Mutt Muffs are especially contoured for a dog’s skull.
The main differences between Mutt Muffs
This is what I call industrial design!
Rapex, the female condom that prevents rape; invented by Sonnette Ehlers, a retired medical worker in South Africa, where raping women is a national past time. Ehlers was inspired by a rape victim who told her, “I wish I had teeth down there.” I read about it last night in
The Semiotics of Shoes.
From an article in this Sunday’s NY Times (I know, I know; I need to expand my source list):
They are not just any sandals, but boxy buckled Birkenstocks, the footwear that has become synonymous with a certain type of noodge. Or in the senator’s case, worse. In
The T-Chair.
Found this on designboom.com after hearing a recent ID candidate mention it during his presentation. Pretty cool idea, huh? I could sooooooo see Seth and Michaela wanting one of these chairs….