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    A visual exploration of TED’s 2012 Design Salon

    Saturday, February 25, 2012

    David Rockwell and Chee Pearlman are co-curating ‘The Design Studio’ a session at this year’s TED conference in Long Beach. They Have an insanely talented and well known group of participants in the salon. The participants include: Chip Kidd, Creative Director of Knopf Liz Diller,Diller Scofidio + Renfro David Kelley, Founder of IDEO and Stanford’s [...]

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    Is the New Fisker Karma the Funnest Hybrid on Earth?

    Friday, February 24, 2012

    You be the judge. From the looks of this WSJ reporter, the Fisker Karma has some impressive power for a plug in hybrid. Besides going fast as hell and having amazing fuel efficiency even in non electric mode, I like this car for all the wrong reasons. . I like this car because it’s designed [...]

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    ugo architecture: inspirational renderings

    Thursday, February 9, 2012

      The architecture is beautiful, but the rendering style is sublime and ethereal. I’ve been doing Photoshop renderings for close to fifteen years and I’ve never come close to the quality of light shown in these views. ugo architecture + design: 100 trees.

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    Bamby Chair

    Thursday, February 9, 2012

    There are very few inanimate objects that I thought I might want to make love to This could very well be one of those objects. It has this nimble doe-like quality to it that screams touch me. At the same time, this chair has got solid hips that gives you something to hold on to. [...]

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    Sruli Recht and Inaisce

    Wednesday, February 8, 2012

    Some has come up with a way to market Peter Jackson’s costume designer’s vision for the Hobbit. Sruli Recht and Inaisce.

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  • Pentax K-01

    Friday, February 3, 2012

      Pentax K-01. I grew up with a Pentax k series camera . Now,  an icon of contemporary design has redesigned a classic for the digital age. I’m in love.

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Featured Too

Nature to Wear
Feb
10

NatureToWear by Ldesign

  Nature to Wear by L Design is one of those pieces of jewelry that annoys me because the title has got this almost naive irony in that the way the ring is constructed is not natural at all. Extracting metal from the earth is on the highest order of technology that snubs nature over [...]

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Desk by Janua
Feb
10

Desk by Janua

  Janua is a furniture brand I’ve never known until I started exploring this year’s IMM Cologne which happened this week. The collection is quite hard to pin down. Every piece feels familiar, but different. Every piece feels as light as air but also substantially hefty. I don’t know where to place the brand in [...]

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silver edition | Bordbar.de
Feb
10

silver edition by Bordbar

  Looking for that certain something to set off your airline themed party? Look no further than the beautifully detailed and rugged silver addition food and drink carts by bordbar. Sure, their made for airlines. But, Bordbar also sells them to the public. They are a bit spendy, but I know if I lived in [...]

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Featured Finally

Feb
11

Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln

  With the IMM in Cologne just happening last week, I’ve been scanning everything Cologne. One asset in this design city is their design museum, MAKK. Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln.

Side Furniture Unit by Richard Lampert
Feb
10

SIde Furniture Unit by Richard Lampert

  This blog will see much more work by Richard Lampert. The collections of furniture are so deep and so thoughtful that just having this one piece does nothing to show the range of beautiful work. I choose this piece, frankly, because I need a piece like this in my house right now. I need [...]

Dec
5

Base in a Box Instant Kitchen

The FOB is a containerized base camp solution designed to set up in an emergency, and contains everything needed to run sanitary kitchen. The FOB (forward base unit) kitchen is housed in four containers and can accommodate between 300 to 600 people. The interior surfaces of the containers are made of stainless steel, and UV [...]

Dec
3

Big Idea, Little Printer: Exclusive Q&A with Matt Webb, Principal & CEO of Berg

The Interwebosphere has been abuzz with news about the very device that may be spell—or rather, print—its unmaking: earlier this week, London-based design consultancy Berg unveiled their latest innovation, the Little Printer. The desktop device is roughly the size of a cube of Post-It notes, configured to produce a receipt-sized analogue for a newspaper featuring [...]

Dec
2

UCSF construction barrier

San Francisco-based Altitude recently designed a 400-foot section of the construction barrier mural surrounding the new UCSF Medical Center campus in Mission Bay. Messages of uncertainty, strength, and hope from patients journal entries engage audiences up close, and at a distance, to help shed light on the experience of being young and in a hospital. [...]