To match their philosophy that yes, you can conquer the disarray of notes written on scrap paper spread all over your desk, in your bags and pockets (hello, that's me), the brainiacs at Field Notes went on an organizing binge…
Continue Reading →Grace at D*S has gone a little contest crazy. Hot on the heels of yesterday's DIY update, it's time for the 2008 Design*Sponge Scholarship contest, where design's rising stars go to be discovered. Together with Domino, 2Modern, and The Paper…
Continue Reading →Greenery is a rare thing in many urban environments. Often times the only traces of vegetation we see sprouting up are in between the cracks in the sidewalk. We're not exactly sure if that's what inspired French Designer Frederic Ruyant…
Continue Reading →Robert Ryan loves paper...though we can't say for sure if he likes to read things on it, but we know he likes to take sharp objects to it in the name of art. The London based artist specializes in slicing…
Continue Reading →A few weeks ago we told you about a little competition Grace over at D*S was having for all of you shelter magazine obsessed DIYers. Now the time has come to vote! Our personal favorites are the newspaper subscription table…
Continue Reading →When most people think of cabinets and shelves, they often envision perfect right angles nestled up against a flat wall or surface. However, there's only so much you can do with ninety degrees"¦and that only so much usually results in…
Continue Reading →If you're anything like us, you remember sitting in school as a kid thinking that the clock on the classroom wall was exacting the most cruel of tortures by moving especially slow in order to keep us indefinitely steeped in…
Continue Reading →Every time an ingenious Web app comes out, one (or in this case two) of the millions of users has to go along and make it faster and less annoying. Just like crgslst which we blogged about last week, two…
Continue Reading →If Stanley Kubrick were to design a Murphy bed, this would be that furniture piece. This one comes to us from the good, surface area concerned Frenchies over at Décadrages. They recognized that one of the major problems of having…
Continue Reading →In 2008, for the first time in recorded history, fifty percent of the World's population will be inhabitants of the earth's urban environments. The dense population of these cities has created a great need for low-cost housing. The Design Indaba…
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