Products declaring their "green" status are popping up all over the place these days, and standing out in that market is becoming increasingly more difficult. Beauty Engineered for Ever, or B_E_E, has nailed it though; the New Zealand-based company has…
Continue Reading →Houndstooth on your dinner table? Say wha? The Haute Surface Collection, designed by Jamie Salm of Mio, a series of interlocking shapes cut from cork, designed to be laid out trivet-style on your dining table. They come in two types,…
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 →Often compared to the venerable Eames duo, Lucienne and Robin Day are a pair of British designers -- he does furniture, she does textiles -- who were recently showcased in The New York Times. The feature draws attention to a…
Continue Reading →"Our designs aren't for everyone -- and luckily for you, they're not!" So states the mission statement of San Francisco home furnishing company Onley Make Believe, whose gorgeous pillows have been making me dreamy-eyed ever since I first browsed their…
Continue Reading →Sometimes (well, a LOT of the time) we can't help but be completely flattered over the kind of people we can count as our readers. Case in point: Ben Light, a New York web developer with a sneaky side job,…
Continue Reading →Before we go any further, you need to watch this YouTube clip -- which I hope to God is tongue-in-cheek -- introducing Timothy Schreiber's E_Volve_Table. You really can't use Strauss' Also Sprach Zarathustra in the post-2001 universe without either being…
Continue Reading →The FDA treats aromatherapy similarly to the way it treats Echinacea, ginseng and other "dietary supplements." Basically, a company can make all sorts of claims on the bottle as long as it doesn't try to pass those claims off as…
Continue Reading →Barcelona-based Granada Design takes digitally-created artworks and turns them into exciting wall decorations. That sounds like something I could get into myself, if it weren't for the part that involves "manually printing the designs on thick fabrics," an endeavor that…
Continue Reading →Heather has written about decals here before; oh, has she ever. Loyal Josh Spear readers will remember her fawning over such creative cures for the blank wall as Blik and Dvider. I bet she was the kind of girl that…
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