Designers for Uganda

Posted on March 5, 2007 Under Life

Designer Meg Golden in definitely doing her part-- she's working to raise $10,000 to go towards providing education to poor disadvantaged orphans in Uganda, most of whose parents have died from Aids, a well known and dire issue for the…

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Nexcite

Posted on March 5, 2007 Under Life

Once upon a time, just a couple years ago, there was Niagara. A Swedish company had developed Niagara as an herbal love enhancement supplement for women-- and it was huge! I remember it being all over the news. These bubbly…

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The 26 Chosen Ones: Spear Collective

Posted on March 2, 2007 Under Life

Today I have the true pleasure of publicly introducing a project I've been working on behind closed doors for several months: Spear Collective. Over the past several years in my blogging life I've become quite a fan of a handful…

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Plum: Collect Anything

Posted on March 2, 2007 Under Life

If you're anything like me, you thrive on accumulating massive amounts of information and data. I can tell you how much I spent on gas in March 2005. While sites such as del.icio.us help you aggregate bookmarks, and programs such…

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Poolboys at the Mansion

Posted on February 27, 2007 Under Life

This reminds me eerily of the Zach Slow + Lady Sovereign fiasco a little while back, but who am I to get in between three men and their dream. Pool Boys at the Mansion is a recently-surfaced guerrilla campaign by…

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Toyo Microbit Tires: These Are Nutty!

Posted on February 27, 2007 Under Life

When I went back to my 'Siberian' hometown recently, the new rave were these Toyo Microbit Tires. People who live in the Colorado Rockies drive on snow and ice during the majority of the year, so they don't skimp when…

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(LESS) Campaign: Donate Without Consuming

Posted on February 27, 2007 Under Life

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate how big corporations like Gap are turing sales into helpful donations to great causes through the (RED) campaign; I think (RED) has been successful from a wide-spread outreach standpoint. But I also really appreciate…

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The Feral Robotic Dog Project

Posted on February 26, 2007 Under Life

Natalie Jeremijenko, a loved and non-traditional professor at UCSD (and previously, Yale), has brought her amazing Feral Robotic Dog project to the West coast. This awesomely creative and interesting experiment has students transform old toy robotic dogs into toxin-sniffing, pollution…

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Web 2.0 in Under Five

Posted on February 24, 2007 Under Life

For those of you who haven't seen it yet, I hope you enjoy this short and thought provoking clip by Michael Wesch, who is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University. In this, a short, clear, simple,…

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The New Magnet Media

Posted on February 23, 2007 Under Life

MagneCote has come out with a product that may add a little something to the print advertising you magazine readers see so much of. From what I've seen, it's begun to filter into some design mags out there, and I'm…

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