1000 Cranes
Ancient Japanese legend says that anyone who folds a thousand origami cranes will be granted a wish by a crane. Forget finding a crane, who has the time to fold one thousand pieces of paper in one's image? Well, we've…
Continue Reading →Kluster's 72 Hour TED Challenge
Kluster, founded by friend and young punk Ben Kaufman is in full force here at TED. The former iPod accessory entrepreneur recently (ie: last week) launched his new platform to allow groups of people (just like you and me) to…
Continue Reading →Choplery
Plenty of people love to showoff their chopstick chops while chowing down on Chinese food. They'll specifically ask for the troublesome utensils in order to impress their friends as soon as they reach the table...and sometimes, if you look over…
Continue Reading →Spunique Emergency Cuff Links
We can't say how many times we've actually had a cuff link emergency, where we absolutely needed to link our cuffs when faced with an otherwise imminent demise. However, the fact remains not everyone owns cuff links and we could…
Continue Reading →ASH
For a while now, I've been seeing in various stores around Sao Paulo acrylic pins in the shape of a half-adult/half-kid human, looking soporific. Then when I saw a drawn version of him on tags hanging from clothes in the…
Continue Reading →Alice Wang: Asimov's 1st Law
Isaac Asimov's first law of robotics stated that "a robot may not harm a human being." While we don't remember Rosie ever bludgeoning Elroy Jetson with her duster, our old friend, Alice Wang, not only worries about the danger of…
Continue Reading →Aesthetically Loyal
Anthony Kolber is not your typical graphic designer. The graduate of Australia's Swinburne University eschews the traditional methods of the design process, which call for incremental improvements to one's own material. Influenced by the work of artists such as Joseph…
Continue Reading →Gap+Rehab: The Sound of Color
So what exactly is the sound of color? Gap and San Francisco-based Rehab asked this question to five bands, who each wrote corresponding tracks for Sound of Color. The pieces were then handed off to different directors who were allowed…
Continue Reading →K2 x DWR: 2nd Annual Design The Modern Board Competition
DWR's Denver studio wants you"¦to participate in the 2nd Annual Design The Modern Board Competition. The contest sponsored by K2 Snowboards and benefiting the Snowboard Outreach Society is asking established and aspiring graphic designers throughout Colorado to throw their proverbial…
Continue Reading →Werkstate
For anyone that thinks a house really isn't a home until it has chairs with intertwining wooden tentacles, Toronto-based designer Rob Southcott is a like-minded individual. His Werkstate studio seems to find clever ways to coax nature from some standard…
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