I stopped by BARKITECTURE here in Boulder at the Design Within Reach store on Sunday night. BARKITECTURE was a fundraiser setup by Ryan Bath from DWR-- his store hosted a dozen or so 'designer' dog houses made by local designers…
Continue Reading →You're probably looking at the picture above thinking "Starck... no, no, Rashid.. no, no, no.. who the heck is this?" I present to you Gilles Roudot, a young French designer with an incredible line of work. My French is a…
Continue Reading →This graphic explanation of a designer's life is totally great-- in fact it's priceless. "How a Designer Grows: Changes in a Designer's Self-Worth/Knowledge Over Time". The journey of a designer starts in Junior High and moves through all of the…
Continue Reading →By now you probably all know I'm in love with Jason Gregory's handmade MAKR leather wallets-- it's really my all around favorite wallet. Great too look at, smooth to the touch, and incredibly functional. Gregory, a self taught leather worker…
Continue Reading →My blogger pal Notcot found some really nice products with unusually great patterns. Deadly Squire is a collaboration between Anna and Tim Harrington, initially attracted to one another by their art and personal style-- when they finally got together and…
Continue Reading →Freudama & Sodele have a very beautiful collection of jewelry-- their rings, or 'Finger guests' are really the gems. They're described as pleasantly wearable acrylic rings, and a piece of slide film loads into the top and locks in, adding…
Continue Reading →YouWorkForThem has a wonderful new book on Japanese Traditional Stencil Designs-- and not only is it beautiful to look at, the book comes with a CD which contains 100 royalty-free jpeg files of the stenciled patterns for use in your…
Continue Reading →Our friends over at Core77 have amazing coverage of the Museum of Modern Art's next design show called Safe: Design Takes On Risk, a show which opened this weekend. The show really does look amazing and I think deserves all…
Continue Reading →For the past few years SHIFT Japan has created an amazing yearly calendar. It's the result of a competition to select just 12 designs-- and this year's Shift Calendar Competition was more prosperous than ever before. They received 1253 entries…
Continue Reading →Jon Setzen runs Standard Motion, a Brooklyn based design studio that creates some really nice limited edition poster prints. He does some work with J Records, as well as many music related and concert poster art for shows around NYC--…
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