Pock It

Posted on December 4, 2007 Under Design

The Post-it note has been helping us remember what we've forgotten for 20 years now, but the latest development that could potentially change the way we use them comes not from 3M, but from a young industrial design student living…

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Amaze with Cubes

Posted on December 4, 2007 Under Design

If you're like us and regret shying away from that career in architecture because of the lengthy amount of schooling and your lack of a steady hand; have we got the toy for you? Created by architectural designer Andrew Comfort…

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Fragiles: Porcelain, Glass, and Ceramics

Posted on December 4, 2007 Under Design

With all of our recent -- and not so recent -- talk about porcelain, it seems only logical to let all of our Miami-based design fiends and friends know about die gestalten verlag's exhibition Fragiles. Fragiles is a collection of…

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+41 x ECAL

Posted on December 3, 2007 Under Fashion

When Lausanne's Art School, ECAL, moved in to a new building this past October, they asked designers, artists and architects to design 20 tee shirts for the occasion. Swiss designers +41 (who you'll remember from several posts regarding chocolate AF1's…

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The Napkin Notebook

Posted on December 3, 2007 Under Design

Some of the biggest ideas in the world started as a little sketch on a cocktail napkin; Picasso's earliest sketch of Guernica, the design for Bilbao Museum, the business plan for Southwest Airlines, to name a few. With this nifty…

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SpearTalks: DoubleButter

Posted on November 30, 2007 Under Design

David Larabee and Dexter Thornton are DoubleButter. You may remember them from a post we wrote not too long ago, in which two men bombed Denver's newest art museums with a little bit of well constructed furniture graffiti. While that…

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Foodpairing

Posted on November 30, 2007 Under Food

There's an ice creamery in L.A. that my friends swear by called Scoops, known for the owner's oddball culinary adventures of pairing flavors like avocado and banana, chocolate and jalapeno, and yam and rose water, and people freak out about…

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Jill Malek: Frequencies

Posted on November 30, 2007 Under Design

To many people, wallpaper is just paper you put on your wall to make it look like you possess some flair for interior decoration. However, if those same people were to take one look at Frequencies, the latest line of…

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Susan Kralovec: The Cat's Meow

Posted on November 30, 2007 Under Design

I don't own cats -- I'm actually at a point in my life (read: single; see also: mid-twenties) where owning cats places a certain stereotype (read: spinster) that I'm not entirely comfortable with. That being said, I like cats and…

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Top 5 Not-Ugly Wrapping Papers

Posted on November 29, 2007 Under Design

We've all been there, hands on the greatest gift ever, but forced to wrap it in some circa '98 wrapping paper from a drug store. Prep yourself before you wreck your gift, with one of these five wrapping paper solutions…

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