My good friend Benita is officially a blogger. Definitely bookmark-able… she’s a real keeper. Read more about dear Benita here and here![originally posted on designformankind.]
Monthly Archives: May 2008
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Alongside this week’s ICFF happenings, be sure to head over to the Meatpacking District for their own slice of New York design. Thai artist Korakot Aromdee will be displaying his amazingly intricate bamboo sculptures at Establishment, an organic home furnishings retailer. Download the enitre schedule for Meatpacking Design Week here. — Continue reading
Categories: Fashion + Trends
While the ion-audio LP dock might not be the coolest looking piece of technology in your home it certainly does an extremely smart thing. Plug your iPod into the docking station and the USB turntable allows you to upload any old vinyl records you might have in your collection to — Continue reading
To celebrate the 60th anniversary of one of the most famous books of the 20th century, Tok&Stok has created a collection based on the story of this dreamer boy. Since last year, a big range of very different types of products have been arriving in the shops: you can find — Continue reading
Categories: Modern Decor + Objects
What used to be lamps constructed out of paper, now bends organically out of thin aluminum lines. Label Atelier Oï, consists of a trio of designers, Aurel Aebi, Armand Louis and Patrick Reymond in La Neuveville, Switzerland, upholds a specific philosophy of multidisciplinary nature. Their design for Foscarini’s Allegro light — Continue reading
Can we just say the French & the Italians rule?!?!?! Roche-Bobois Paris and Missoni Home Fabrics have teamed up to provide this explosion of color: It is the Mah-Jong sofa covered in the bright & patterned colors of Missoni! Genius! First I love the fact that it is floor seating — Continue reading
Categories: Modern Decor + Objects
This lamps are awesome! They are a poem to the traditional bulb, but in a modern way. Kundalini is the name of the italian design company that produces it. If you are in New York, you can watch an exhibition of this lamps at the 477 Broome Street, from May — Continue reading
a.s* – Atelier de Santos was established in 1997 by Célia Gomes and Pedro Machado Costa. It is a collective of architects based in Lisbon. Their Central Library of the Azores University was nominated for the Mies van der Rohe European Architecture Prize and selected for the FAD Architecture Prize — Continue reading
Fabulous new prints, pillows and bedding from Amenity – and it’s all Eco-Friendly! Beautiful Birdseye Flat Print brings in new colors to the Amenity fold. Wonderful Cove Stretched Fabric Print provides a great escape from your everyday surroundings. And the intriguing Organic Trail Pillow brings interest to any room.
This past weekend I attended BKLYN Designs, an up-and-coming design conference and expo in Brooklyn with an interior and craft focus. This event is coming a week before ICFF, and is trying to become the front bookend to the gargantuan ICFF events that will start this Saturday. The work had — Continue reading
Categories: Art + Graphics
Aurora The only thing I ever thought to do with my colored pencils was to color things. I most definitely did not open my mind to possibilities, which is exactly what artist Jennifer Maestre has done. Inspired by the spines of sea urchins, she has created striking works of art — Continue reading
Categories: Architecture + Interiors
Genuine reds bring out sexual energy and stimulation. Reds like candy apple and cherry are used to create a sense of adolescence, liveliness and cheerfulness. Jeweled tones are considered more elegant while rose and cabernet tones are more dignified. No mater what shade, red is definitely an authoritative color. The — Continue reading
Categories: Sustainability
The packaging for Equal Exchange products is simple, effective and quite quirky… all that I look for in my organic, gourmet food products produced by democratically run farmer co-ops in Latin America, Africa and Asia. Brought to us by the folks at Good Creative. –sdotg–
Two creative minds have come together recently to produce a progressive, urban and eco friendly table set to debut at this Spring’s ICFF in NY.Using innovative printing technologies with UV light to cure eco-friendly inks, the cement table is manufactured locally, a method which reduces massive amounts of fuel consumption — Continue reading
Categories: Art + Graphics
Nothing says "Wake up, you lazy bean" like a good, good mixed CD. Preferably packaged in this good, good mixed CD sleeve. Preferably containing some good, good Bon Iver, but that’s an entirely different post.[Originally posted on Design for Mankind].
Categories: Modern Decor + Objects
I know they are coming, those perfect summer days, lounging by the pool or on the deck. They’re not here yet, not where I live, it was in the high 40′s and windy, like we were on the eve of a winter storm, so to put me in the mood, — Continue reading
Categories: Modern Decor + Objects
If you ask anybody about top lamp design in Brazil, you will sure hear about Lumini and designer Fernando Prado. Fernando has been creating amazing award winning lamps, with intelligent solutions and beautiful, clean and very modern designs. Lumini recently completed 27 years in the market, and their show room — Continue reading
Categories: Art + Graphics
There are many exciting modern art shows in New York this Spring, Jeff Koons at the Metropolitan Museum, Olafur Eliasson at MoMA but none makes a more immediate first impression than Cai Guo-Qiang’ s retrospective: I want to Believe. Inspired by a car bomb, Inopportune Stage One occupies the rotunda — Continue reading
Categories: Sustainability
The vehicle you’re looking at is not Lighting McQueen from the animated cartoon movie, Cars. This remake of a Carbon Sparrow, released in 2000, was perfected into an efficient car by Myers Motors in Tallmadge, Ohio and called NMG which stands for "No More Gas." It is all electric and — Continue reading
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