Back in November, the rain ready folks at SWIMS graced our pages with their award-winning, ultra-dapper update of rubber galoshes. Well, those nifty Norwegians are at it again, still helping us avoid the dampness of downpours, but this time their…
Continue Reading →By now you may have heard that Airbus' A380, the world's largest passenger jet had its maiden voyage from Singapore to London. The 471 passenger big boy is cleaner that a traditional jumbo jet, has more leg room than your…
Continue Reading →Germans aren't typically known for their sense of humor or whimsy. While we'd like to imagine them standing around making funny faces and taking things lightly all day, we take greater pleasure in knowing that Nik Back and Alex Stamminger,…
Continue Reading →These past few years, when it gets to be around the holidays (no matter how inconsequential) and my birthday, I admit I feel kind of nostalgic for all the cheesy/lame/insert-your-synonym-here Blue Mountain or Shockwave e-cards that used to fill up…
Continue Reading →Hulger -- the London-based old skool phone masters (and MOMA exhibitors) who take your basic clunky '70s handset and connect it to your sleek '08 mobile phone -- have not stopped retrofitting our lives. Behold! The spankin' new DJ adapter.…
Continue Reading →With spring upon us -- oh glorious spring -- many of us will be looking to shift our modes of transport from bus/auto/train to the likes of bicycle/skateboard/Razor Scooter. Since I've ruled out Razor Scooter for obvious reasons and have…
Continue Reading →If you're like us, you like to relive your childhood fantasy pretending you're one of the Knights of the Round Table. The problem is Sir Galahad has let himself go quite a bit taking up entirely too much room and…
Continue Reading →To match their philosophy that yes, you can conquer the disarray of notes written on scrap paper spread all over your desk, in your bags and pockets (hello, that's me), the brainiacs at Field Notes went on an organizing binge…
Continue Reading →Several months ago, I wrote an embarrassingly impassioned post regarding a music blog. It was a sappy, raison d'etre-style diatribe, involving too many adjectives, too many hallelujahs, and way too many myspace references. I don't think I was drunk when…
Continue Reading →Grace at D*S has gone a little contest crazy. Hot on the heels of yesterday's DIY update, it's time for the 2008 Design*Sponge Scholarship contest, where design's rising stars go to be discovered. Together with Domino, 2Modern, and The Paper…
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