Cool interface.
A great Flash interface at Design Within Reach (browse one of the catalogs). Found while looking for folding inspiration for the household vessel I’m creating for my industrial design class….
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Starchitects.
So, I’m checking out the Cooper Hewitt 2005 National Design Award nominees and lo and behold, one of them is my former landlord, Tom Kundig. How cool is that???
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….
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
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
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
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….
I'm hooked.
“No matter how much I try to be plain, people don’t accept me, so I might as well be fabulous.” – Austin Scarlett
Michaela and I have recently become addicted to Project Runway, so now I’m on a fashion design kick.
This article is talking about fashion design, but
Humvee for the disabled?
Hmmmm. Gotta love it, I guess.