This amazing short video is a fun, insightful, and frustratingly pretentious interview with Charles Eames in 1956. There are a few great quotes in there about Charles’ and Ray’s design philosphy, but more importantly to me, it appears to be one of the first times the iconic Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman was revealed to […]
I really, really hate it when something I’ve been talking about but have been too lazy to properly design comes to market. For years I have been droning on about how dumb it is that wine bottle labels don’t have a little tear-off part that has all the relevant details of the wine on it. […]
Phillipe Starck has now officially dipped his design hand into every category of things. This naked street bike, the Voxan Cafe Racer Super Naked, is pretty badass, though the gas tank looks a bit painful.
It’s just a concept for now with no official price or release date.
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‘A Single Sheet of Paper’ is a collection of … origami(?) from artist Peter Callesen
Oh my god.
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Let’s Take Pictures is a collaborative, worldwide photo collection put together in the most incredible Flash portfolio I have ever seen. It works so well and looks so beautiful. I rarely say that kind of thing, especially about Flash, but this site is near-perfect. I absolutely love it. I wish my photos were this good […]
Refill magazine is curating an exhibit of beautifully designed and laser cut skateboard decks at a Sydney’s MTV Gallery. They’ve got a Flickr set up with a bunch of picts.
Absolutely stunning. I’d be proud to hang one of these on my wall.
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I’ve had a crazy couple of weeks, this last one especially, and blogging has suffered. I usually make myself drafts in GMail of things I want to blog about, but I haven’t had a chance to go back for over a month. I just found this from Feb 12.
I’ve been making little sketches to myself […]
I absolutely love these new moleskin city notebooks. They’ve created fantastically useful city guides by adding maps, loose notes, reusable stickies, and tons of blank pages into the standard, beautiful moleskin format. They’re available for only a select set of cities right now (Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, Lisbon, London, Madrid, Milan, Paris, Prague, Rome, Wien, […]
The Yakuza Table from Reddish is absolutely gorgeous. Traditional Japanese Yakuza tattoos cover the simple wood design. I have no idea what it costs, but I want it.
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Business Week has a rundown of all the winners of the 2006 IDEA Awards - these are the gold standard awards for Industrial Design organized and run by the IDSA. Some of the designs are so good they hurt. Like this sushi/sashimi plate that makes me want to commit suicide, it is so great and […]
Along with the 3-series coupe, this week BMW unveiled the “Clever”, a 2-seat, 3-wheeled concept vehicle, enclosed, and safe, crash-tested and airbagged, and absolutely gorgeous. I LOVE it. The article claims it is, “expected to cost around $10,000 and would have a top speed of 50 mph” and an expected 188 MPG! The coolest part […]
It looks like Khoi Vin’s capable hands have already had a major impact at NY Times.com. The homepage is redone - looks a little like The Onion, and interior pages are fantastic.
For those of you who DON’T know, Khoi is a brilliant designer and founder of Behavior. They recently redesigned The Onion to […]