The Sao Paulo atelier of Estudio Manus is a place of inspiration for all those who enter into the space, and its no wonder: proprietors/artists Caio de Medeiros and Daniela Scorza take ideas from Brazilian folklore and the insights and…
Continue Reading →This week has seen some serious life changes for me, most notably the purchase of a new MacBook, marking the end of a three-year run with my beloved Powerbook , and signing a lease on my very own one-bedroom apartment…
Continue Reading →Paul Loebach, the world renowned, Brooklyn-based furniture designer, recently released his latest series of product and furniture designs. Called the Yee-Ha collection, Paul's newest work beautifully blends exaggerated decorative references and images of American cultural fantasy with traditional materials resulting…
Continue Reading →So much for hiding your cables: Britta Böhne's Cable Carpet integrates them into a plush white pile to display them prominently on your floor, saving you not only from pitching face first over those pesky whatever-gaming-device-makes-you-gooey-this-week cords, but also from…
Continue Reading →My inability to motivate myself out of bed this morning had nothing to do with the sinus infection I've been battling for the last week, the presence of some Adonis-like character (or any man, for that matter) there with me…
Continue Reading →This is why I love Capitalism. (1) See a niche, (2) fill that niche, (3) sell the thing that fills the niche on the internet. It really couldn't be simpler. The people at Genius Pad have mastered that formula. They…
Continue Reading →It's hard for me to admit this, but there's been a void in my life. I love to sit on piles of stuffed animals, and I love to sit on chairs. But there's never been a chair made of stuffed…
Continue Reading →When we got an email from an e-glue fan, my first impression of the product was that it was a kid-friendly glue stick. I was a little thrown (I thought glue WAS kid friendly; we all ate it, right?), but…
Continue Reading →Finding the balance between mass-production while maintaining a handmade aesthetic may be a struggle for many designers, but MUD Australia seem to manage it effortlessly. Founded in 1994 by Shelly Simpson, the line is completely microwave, food and dishwasher safe,…
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