Notes Tray

Posted on March 26, 2008 Under Design

You can boast about your iron-clad memory, but between remembering to check the oven so the baked pasta doesn't turn into a crisp mess and making sure every guest is kept happy, details can fall through the cracks at any…

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Everything by Scott Rench

Posted on March 25, 2008 Under Design

Site mainstay Scott Rench (aka Yosoh) was one of the proud winners of the UNKL UniPo-By-You contest, and his piece is finally for sale. The Chicago-based ceramic artist and illustrator was chosen from more than 400 entries. He would like…

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Behance Inspiration: Imagining the Future

Posted on March 25, 2008 Under Design

Japanese Industrial Designer Mac Funamizu has an eclectic Behance portfolio with projects that range from a tea cup with a detachable handle to fantasy mobile computer displays. We are particularly lusting for one of his latest concepts titled Future of…

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Popping Up Everywhere

Posted on March 24, 2008 Under Art

In 1982, I was busy wandering around my house wearing kickass Spiderman pjs with footies and learning to put sentences together. Not far away in New York City, the Storefront for Art and Architecture, a not for profit organization 'committed…

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Smånsk: Skew Bookcase

Posted on March 24, 2008 Under Design

As a child, building Lego cities seemed like a creative way to while away the years of toddler-dom, provided one wasn't swallowing the pieces whole and being sent to the emergency room. However, nothing we ever made really proved to…

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OWL: Objects With Light

Posted on March 24, 2008 Under Design

We're not sure what your relationship with lighting is like, but we've had a long love/hate thing with lamps. There was the Banned-In-College-Halogen-Torch-Lamp phase in college, the First-New-York-Apartment-Track-Lighting phase, and currently the Take-Me-Seriously-I'm-A-Professional-Writer-Goose-Neck-Lamp phase. What London artist Georgiosi Ignatiou does…

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SpearTalks: Alyson Fox

Posted on March 21, 2008 Under Art

Alyson Fox likes doing things. In her case, 'things' mean drawing, taking pictures, designing clothes, making shop windows pretty - and probably one or two more 'things' since we last talked. But Alyson hasn't always been so dexterous; rather, it…

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What's With That Site?

Posted on March 21, 2008 Under Life

All of us have had the crushing moment when after typing in a web address we visit with frequency, we are told that site is unavailable. Our first instinct is to freak out. Our second is to check our connection…

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Pop Wuping

Posted on March 21, 2008 Under Travel

Taiwan resident Clark MacLeod's personal posts on Pop Wuping (we're saying that three times fast in our mind) fall into the category of blogging we really appreciate. You'd expect a guy who lives in a manufacturing epicenter to have the…

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Startup New Orleans

Posted on March 20, 2008 Under Life

While Brad Pitt and President Clinton are putting up pink houses (sorry if that sounded sarcastic, it's sincerely good works), Sean Cummings, co-founder of Startup New Orleans has been setting up shop. In an effort to drive creative-minded people to…

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