The Design Crack Guide to Natural Fabrics
Gandia Blasco Day Bed
The day bed by Gandia Blasco is something that I dream is owned by billionaire sultans with good taste. It reflects a lifestyle of year round beach weather on breezy North African coast. Inhabiting this furniture are sexy young things in white linen pants and skirts drinking mojitos to cool themselves off while the thump […]
Sweet Home Laptop Power / Foot Warmer by Clement Eloy
OK. I wouldn’t call this product exactly “green” per se, but it does make something that is not so efficient into something useful. What I’m talking about is the laptop power / foot warmer by Clement Eloy. He’s created a design that takes your overly warm transformer that is required for every laptop to function, […]
Margaret Howell Spring / Summer 2007
Margaret Howell provides the highest style in the vein of a genre where the only term that comes to mind is preppy. All of her Spring/Summer ‘07 collection seems directly inspired by either a croquet game if all the players were characters from the O.C. (the O.C. is an American TV show full of young, […]
Bretz Sofas: Possibly the Ugliest Sofas Ever Made
The website for Bretz Sofas is www.mycultsofa.com, and, quite honestly, you would probably need to be in a cult to own one of these pieces of furniture. Because only someone who has been brainwashed would pay thousands of dollars to buy a Bretz Sofa. They are truly the ugliest sofas I have ever seen, and […]
Brand Crack: The Louis Vuitton $42,000 Handbag
Maybe I watch too much crappy television? I don’t know. But, I was watching the Preview Channel - you know, the channel that scrolls the TV guide at the bottom while washed up child actors talk celebrity gossip- the other day when the woman on the show started barking on and on about Louis Vuitton’s […]
Rhombuswear Binary Shirt
Are you a geek in need of clothing? Here’s an excellent option from Rhombuswear. It’s a shirt completely covered in ones and zeros, or the binary code for those in the know (BTW, click on the image to get a better look). This shirt, and an extremely competent first collection beyond this shirt, is the […]
Laptop Sleeve by Red Maloo
Red Maloo began its existence when the company was originally asked to design a laptop case presented in 2004 at the Tokyo Ambient Lifestyle Fair. The initial design was constructed of the finest Japanese Linens and used similar design and construction as kimonos. Soon after, Maloo introduced the Red Maloo Laptop case made of a […]
Jacket from Spring 2007 Collection by Jurgen Oeltjenbruns
Don’t ask me to pronounce his name is the first thing that came to mind when I first saw the work of Jurgen Oeltjenbruns. Fortunately for me, blogs are a print media, so no pronunciation required. Once you get past the highly unmarketable name you hit the most important men’s fashion designer out there: Jurgen […]
Obelisk by Dedon
The Obelisk collection by Dedon is a piece I’m in love with for nostalgic reasons. When I was a kid, my parents took me to many different seaside resorts in Mexico and in Europe. I would spend my days swimming, playing games, eating, and sitting in a woven chair very similar to the Obelisk. All […]
Spring 2007 Collection by Y and Kei
Y and Kei are a Korea base design duo with offices in New York who’s 2007 Spring collection astounds me. Their work is permeated with white and a shimmering tan. The overall concept is casual as if the models were walking along a beach boardwalk enjoying the summery breeze. I’ve been looking at several collections […]
ID 40 2006: Pillow Cover by Groovisions
Over the next week or two, I will include some of my favorite designers from ID Magazine’s “ID 40″ list of top designers of 2006. It’s a pretty amazing list, so I urge you to pick up a copy of this magazine.
Groove Visions is a Tokyo based design collective with a cool little store […]
