Toy Design Contest Details
More details on the Toy Design Contest are now posted. If you missed it, I'm doing a contest with Android 8, we're looking for talent--and we have been getting some great submissions...keep 'em coming.
Continue Reading →Fresh Mailbox Design
This is Adriean Koleric's fresh take on a new mailbox design. This product was originally developed as an entry for the 2005 Frost furniture prototype exhibit in Edmonton. The designer's intention was to come up with a fresh take on…
Continue Reading →Lotus 23: Reinventing The Umbrella
Young Australian designer Andy Wana was this years Gold winner at the 2005 Australian Design Award-Dyson Student award. His ingenious take on the umbrella won him top honors, he calls his design "Lotus 23". The reengineered umbrella design is fully…
Continue Reading →Sketchel Results
Remember Sketchel? That customized satchel design contest from a while back? Well, either way they had around 150 artists from around their world submit designs---and some of them can be seen here. The full online gallery isn't online yet, but…
Continue Reading →The Android 8 Toy Design Contest
Android8 is the new shop on the block-- so we won't tease them for that, they're holding their own. They have a very sweet selection of toys and goodies, so if you haven't yet, check 'em out. I'm proud to…
Continue Reading →Google Gulp
I'm not going to prank you all--i'm not that witty today--but Google sure is. Their prank, Google Gulp, is a riot. "Think fruity. Think refreshing. Think a DNA scanner embedded in the lip of your bottle reading all 3 gigabytes…
Continue Reading →Unklbrand
Portland based Unklbrand has some seriously good toys, art (silk screens, painted skate decks, etc), and apparel. Their shirts are all hot, each design reflecting their playful line of designer toys. They are currently producing a small figure exclusively for…
Continue Reading →Futuristic Apple Products
Core77 led me to an article in Business 2.0 where they asked the superbly talented designers at Pentagram to envision some possible future Apple products. One of the products they came up with was a wrist worn iPod watch. What…
Continue Reading →Android 8 Store
Android 8 is open! Alas the launch of Android 8, one of the hottest online stores I've seen to date. It's astounding how nice this store functions and looks--not to mention it has a line of limited edition products we're…
Continue Reading →Gary Panter in NYC
If I weren't traveling somewhere warm and sunny, I'd go check out Gary Panter speaking in NYC tonight, March 22nd. It's apart of the AIGA New York Chapter events. Gary Panter is a three-time Emmy winner for his production design…
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