My local drugstore's card aisle leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to subjects outside of birthday and Christmas, so I'm usually left speechless, so to say, when it comes to the moments in between. Whimsy Press has…
Continue Reading →I'm sure more than a few of our readers will be heading west this week for the AIGA Design Conference in Denver, where speakers like Paul Budnitz of Kidrobot and Bill Buxton of Microsoft (and about a hundred other big…
Continue Reading →"It's a big stereo. Speakers so loud, they blow women's clothes off." I'm not much of an audiophile, but even I'm impressed by these bad boys. Or at least by the design; I have no idea how they sound. The…
Continue Reading →Federico Slivka Lederer is well-traveled and well-worded. He is a graphic designer (with whom you may be acquainted with, particularly if you've been to a little site called TreeHugger), an art director, and an interaction designer. He is also an…
Continue Reading →Billie and Tootie have been friends since high school. Starting in their teens, they dreamed about opening a shop together, a shop where they could sell the things they liked, where they could be nice to the planet, and nice…
Continue Reading →Sometimes I think if it were possible, I'd marry Google Reader. It places all of my pertinent reading material in one central place and waits patiently until I am ready to read it. The downside of this, though, is that…
Continue Reading →In case you hadn't figured it out already, I'm a HUGE fan of mid-century furniture...and the newer stuff inspired by the masters. So, naturally, I got a little excited when I stumbled upon the Mute Chair by San Francisco design…
Continue Reading →If there's one word in furniture design that makes me melt, it's Eames, so that pretty much leaves me liquified, now that I've seen the Eames 100th Anniversary Chairs that Herman Miller has produced, in celebration of the birth of…
Continue Reading →If the inside of your home resembles something you might see on an episode of MTV Cribs but the outside looks like the Amityville Horror House, perhaps you should think about mowing your lawn or maybe getting rid of that…
Continue Reading →If you guys aren't checking out the Showcase on a regular basis, you're missing out on some pretty awesome submissions, like this week's blinged-out dog bed, a photo exhibit about underwater living and a bathtub carved out of one piece…
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