It's not that I'm ungrateful about receiving gifts, it's just that I appreciate -- maybe more than most -- incredibly wrapped presents, whether they're heading my way or not. For some reason, I feel a lackadaiscally-chosen gift can be totally…
Continue Reading →A heads up to all of our collectors/design junkie readers: Sotheby's will be holding an auction featuring the work of a very impressive line-up of designers on the morning of June 19th. Pieces from Chris Ferebee, Ron Arad, Zaha Hadid,…
Continue Reading →In a clever marketing ploy, PepsiCo has been reaching out to the DIY/design/art/fashion communities by offering "design your own" contests for cans of Pepsi, and now, 16-oz aluminum bottles of Mountain Dew. Visitors on Mountain Dew's Green Label Art site…
Continue Reading →Okay, kids, listen up. To celebrate the launch of our hot new Showcase feature, the folks at Spout have generously donated five $100 certificates for the most popular entries posted to the showcase; we'll be giving away one a week…
Continue Reading →I think I might need to get this clock for everyone I know--- nobody seems to realize that when I'm in London I'm 5 hours ahead of NYC, 7 hours ahead of Boulder, so calling me at 11pm to see…
Continue Reading →The creative team behind Italy's Pig Magazine -- a.k.a Sean Beolchini and the Beckerman brothers -- recently created a line of stellar sunglasses. Dubbed Retrosuperfuture, these new sunnies are pretty radical, and what makes them even radder is their handmade…
Continue Reading →A friend of mine had a date last week (no, this isn't where I say it was a friend when it was actually me) and despite every factor that made it one of those horribly awkward first dates, namely them…
Continue Reading →Remember that quirky but not-yet-finished Fish Condo I blogged about way back in November '05? It looks like our friends at Realm Dekor finally got their act together and figured out the production of the 3-globe fish bowl and it's…
Continue Reading →When you're in the business of making something as simple and vanilla as a t-shirt, you have to think of ways to set yourself apart from every other wannabe entrepreneur with a screen printing kit in their parent's garage. We've…
Continue Reading →The work inside the Graduate Design Exhibition for Lund University in Sweden called Emergence Design is truly remarkable. It's a collection of work and concepts from their 2007 industrial design student body, all of whom appear to be incredibly talented…
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