The Design Crack Guide to Resources
Gift Guide: Sex Toys
Christmas is just around the corner, and it recently occurred to me that a wonderful gift you might consider giving to your lady-friend is a device that can produce ecstasy. I must admit to you, I have not tried any of these stimulating devices myself. In fact, I’ve only chosen them based upon their innovative [...]
Design Book Magazine: What Design Crack is All ABout
Tonight, I’m spending some time cleaning my books, and getting all of the press releases out of my in box. One I received is for a new magazine about sexuality and excess called Design Book Magazine. This is a bit like Wallpaper but slightly raunchier and not as good… but still very interesting. [...]
People’s Design Award A Free For All
After only being open a few days, the People’s Design Award created and maintained by the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum has had some strange submissions. Cooper Hewitt has left the winners up to the people to decide as well as the nominees. Some of the nominated designs include Get Smart’s shoe phone, the [...]
Osler House by Marcio Kogan
I have very little to say about this house. When trying to come up with a reason for including it on the blog, the only thing that came to mind is: "looks cool". This is not the criteria I hoped to use when I started design crack. But what the hell… One funny [...]
Pachinko Parlours are Las Vegas at the Extremes
Ping Mag has posted an insightful account of the pachinko architecture industry leading me to believe that I will never be able to know as much as I would want about this world. I could spend a lifetime studying the accuteness of this strnge design style.
PingMag – The Tokyo-based magazine about “Design and [...]
Design Shopping in Venice
The New York Times “The Moment” Blog points towards some interesting design shopping in Venice this week. As you know, the Venice Biennale is in full force with the cinema extraveganza coinciding with one of the world’s largest and most interactive art expos. Of course, if you need a break, where to go to shop [...]
Holley House, New York
Wallpaper has created another interactive post of new modern residential architecture. This month, they feature the Holley House, a simple Miesian brick house built near Garrison, New York. The work borrows the smart use of heavy planes that ground the house in a similar way to the Barcelona Pavilion.
Holley House, New York – Architecture – [...]
Droog redesigns website
Droog has done a complete overhaul on their website to make it so much more handy. If you’re not familiar with Droog, they are one of the most influential organizations in Dutch Design. It’s a treat to explore their wittey design objects and furniture, and it’s een more of a pleasure to explore [...]
Wallpaper* Selects – Art – Wallpaper.com – International Design Interiors Fashion Travel
Wallpaper has incited an impressive collection of photo shoots over the years, so why not capitalize on their fantastic collection by offering a number of their best shots in a limited printing. Photography collectors take notice!
The first collection includes images by Jonathan de Villiers, Mauricio Alejo, Jonathan Frantini, Christopher Griffith, Stefan Ruiz, Daniel Stier, Benedict [...]
Noticed: The Plastic Chair Reconsidered
Yet another Dwell post referred. Thank you Brian Fichtner for putting together the very post I’ve wanted to write. My title was tenantively: "The Plastic Garden Chair: What the Fuck?" There is an amazing trend to redesign and modify this simplest and cheapest of iconic chairs. I call it the deer antlers of [...]
Dan Funderburgh Snapshot
A quick referral to a referral: Dan Funderburgh. He is, as the Dwell Blog says, a renaisance man. He is a graphic designer and wallpaper wonderkind. But what I really like about his work is the baroque almost obsessive level with which he makes every day objects very special. Case in point: a [...]
2008 IDEA Design Awards – BusinessWeek
Businessweek recently created a special report highlighting several winners of the 2008 IDEA Awards. Consequently, IDEA stands for the International Design Excelence Award. In the report are a host of articles including a focus on Brazil, a design organization that strives to fix the voting process, and a look at IDEA megatrend: elegance [...]
Greener by Design Conference Results: Business as Usual
I recently received a recent press release on the Greener by Design Conference that just occurred in Washington D.C.. The author of the press release sent me a link to the results of the key panel ending the conference. What was the result? The same old hemming and hawing you hear at every green design [...]
Wallpaper’s Architects Directory 2008
Shibuya Station, by Tadao Ando, photo credit: Satoshi Minakawa
Kay from Wallpaper always sends me the most interesting bits from her publication. Today, for instance, she sent me a link to their brand new Architects Directory 2008. The by-line of Wallpaper directory is The World’s 50 hottest young architecture practices. Not to toot my own [...]
False Flat: Why Dutch Design is So Good- The Ultimate List of Contemporary Dutch Designers
I just received from Phaidon yesterday False Flat: Why Dutch Design is So Good. False Flat is, in a sense, a compendium of contemporary Dutch Design. The book so much more, but I will get to this is a proper book review in a week or two. But for now, I thought I would put [...]
Summer Sale at Paul Smith!
If you are fashion conscious and relatively well off, run to the nearest Paul Smith store for a mind blowing sale! Yeah, the Paul Smith collection is still out of reach for us trolls. This T-shirt, for instance, has been marked down from $300 to $150. Wow 50% off! But wait. Still expensive? It’s worth [...]
