One of the most exciting times of my hectic mail openage each month is when my new Momimomi TEeA Party T-shirt arrives. Don't remember? It's the sexy subscription t-shirt program where every month I receive an uber-exclusive, sickeningly soft and…
Continue Reading →Like I needed any more distractions, virtual or otherwise, while I am at "work" -- reader Nina submitted Peter Fowler's collaborative project with HP, Toyrama, to our Design Showcase this afternoon, and it's got me wanting to create some serious…
Continue Reading →Blik, the I.D. award-winning line of wall decals, has once again teamed up with Threadless in order to produce a steady stream of awesomely sticky art. You may remember the cheery result of their first collaboration, a one-time competition that…
Continue Reading →Meet the Knockman Family: Cha Cha, Kerotama, Koron, Pororon and Knockman himself -- all members of a strangely endearing/possibly highly irritating wind-up toy family, newly in stock at Hero Design Studio (who also, as it turns out, are some of…
Continue Reading →It appears there's been a mistake. Even though designer and artist Adam Cruickshank has t-shirts up for sale at Commune and 2x4, worked on Sketchel, and participated in the ongoing 22 Flavours project for Lifelounge (his flavour is Banana Split),…
Continue Reading →Very recently, a new design center -- one that promises to take a different approach to sharing design with the public- opened its doors in Tokyo. Named 21_21 Design Sight (after 21/21 vision; meaning to see beyond today into the…
Continue Reading →I've wondered for a few years why we don't see more carbon fiber in furniture design -- especially since it's been used to make oddly shaped bicycle frames and body panels for F1 cars for years. It's not much more…
Continue Reading →Scaring off a bad date just got a little easier with Maxim Velcovsky's Little Joseph candle holders. Not only do the baby-heads stare creepishly from their hand-painted shells, they also "mature" with each use as candle-drippings create a nice crop…
Continue Reading →You might worry about a collaboration involving two Turkish designers, one Spanish designer and one Portuguese designer. How is the end product going to look? Vaguely Moorish? Eur-Afro-Asian? As it turns out, Autoban by De La Espada "” the collaboration…
Continue Reading →It's been almost two years since industrial designer Justin Porcano first made an appearance on JS, and we're happy to report that the talented NY-uproot recently updated his site, Upwell Design. Along with his traditional furniture and faucets (and by…
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