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
With all the Earth Day events and green hype, have we forgotten about the world’s largest furniture fair that just occurred last week in Milan? It was amazing. I have to thank Kay from Wallpaper Magazine for providing hundreds of photos of the show for me and all of the — Continue reading
Finally, the Milan Salone del Mobile has come around again, and with it brings all the fantastical chairs from design houses all over the world. One chair that has received enormous buzz (with good reason) is the Ghost Chair by Drift, a Dutch Design Collective. The chair as you can — Continue reading
I wanted to make quick reference to a fun article in this week’s Sunday New York Times called "Nice Tower! Who’s Your Architect?". It’s about the new trend in residential New York "starchitecture". I still haven’t made up my mind if it’s a blessing or a curse to have residential — Continue reading
Bretz Sofas: Ugly or Beautiful- You be the judge. About 8 months ago, I wrote a post on Bretz Sofas titled: " Bretz Sofas: Quite Possibly The Ugliest Sofas Ever Made". The title, admittedly, is loaded. You know that I’m not going to give these sofas a chance by the — Continue reading
Tamawa Watch will be displayed at the Zona Tortona April, if you are a design freak, means Milan’s Salone di Mobile which is the world’s largest furniture and interior design fair. But as big and as important as the fair is, more and more of the hipster crowd forgo the — Continue reading
Tokujin Yoshioka is a designer that I am not extremely familiar with, but in 2007 he was named Design Miami’s Designer of the Year, and in 2008 he was named best furniture designer of the year in the Wallpaper Design Awards. So when I started to explore his work it — Continue reading
Wallpaper recently came out with their design awards issue, and one piece that just immediately popped out at me was the One Square Meter by Arik Levy. This piece is one in a treasure trove of Mr. Levy’s pieces that shows true genius. It is a modular shelving system that — Continue reading
Recently, I’ve been contacted by a number of design publishers to review their books. This has really exposed my naive take on design books. Two weeks ago, if you asked me to name a design publisher I would have said something like Phaidon, Rizzoli, or even Chronicle Books. But today, — Continue reading
I’ve recently been exploring BlickFang. I have no idea what the word Blickfang means, but what Blickfang is it’s a collective of up and coming Central European designers who travel to a number of the international design fairs. With its own very distinctive charm BLICKFANG presents innovative design made in — Continue reading
Mater is a Copenhagen based luxury housewares company founded in 2007 that has been praised for their commitment to ethical workplace conditions. Mater is a strong balance between ethics and aesthetics. I, admittedly, look at the aesthetics before I even consider how the piece is made. I just want that — Continue reading
Over the past year at DesignCrack.com, I’ve made it my business to cover beautiful and high-concept design objects. Basically, what I do is dig through all the international design shows, student exhibitions, and design forums to find the most fabulous objects of desire. After I find the objects I simply — Continue reading
I was recently compiling a master list of London Design Links with an emphasis on furniture and interior design when I came upon one of the freshest design collectives I’ve seen in weeks. The Collective is called OKAY Studio. There are seven members in the collective all of which took — Continue reading
In my ever expanding quest to find quality videos of cutting edge designs and designers I’ve stumbled upon the work of a website called designguide.tv. It’s really not clear as to who produces these videos, but from what I can gather the videos are made by a guy named Robert — Continue reading
I normally post on Wednesday afternoons, but this Wednesday I had a particularly interesting call: it was my wife calling to tell me that she was in labor. 10 hours later I became a dad. Since then, my wife and I have been sleep deprived to the point of exhaustion — Continue reading
The Tokyo Design Week, which basically runs from October 31st to November 4th, is so hard to keep track of and massive that you wonder how anybody makes it to these events. Not to mention, Tokyo Design Week is only a few weeks after the gargantuan London Design Week. The — Continue reading
One of my favorite pastimes is data mining design. It’s a labor intensive hobby, but one that I get great enjoyment out of. So, what is data mining design? It’s basically scouring the world for new designers and design trends. Do you ever wonder how design blogs come up with — Continue reading
I’m hoping to expose the reader today to some of the far edges of design while maintaining the context that I originally set out to explore: Dutch and English Design. If you have not been following, I’ve loosely based my posts around the interesting stuff coming out of design schools — Continue reading
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This week, I’ve decided to change focus from Design Crack‘s Design in the Netherlands and Great Britain, and come back to my home town of San Francisco. A friend of mine, Derek Chen, has introduced an ambitious new collection of furniture at this year’s ICFF which include a number of — Continue reading
Function Tiles is an oldie but a goodie. It’s a tile system from 1997 by Droog Designers Peter van der Jagt, Erik-Jan Kwakkel, and Arnout Visser that makes the tiles work more functionally, thus the name “Function Tiles”. The concept is brilliant. That is, getting more out of your shower — Continue reading
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