Taisei Construction Corporation has designed a 13,000 ft, Star Wars-esque structure for possible development in Tokyo. The 6-square kilometer building would house anywhere from 500,000 to one million residents, follow contemporary green planning outlines, and would incorporate the means to…
Continue Reading →Seattleite Justine Ashbee should be the celebrity spokesperson for Sharpie. A 2004 RISD graduate, Justine has been creating her intricate and lively work with the never-fail pens for much of her career -- one that has been propelling her out…
Continue Reading →Spear Collective member Jason Thielke -- who very recently took over Denver's The 400 -- has another solo show coming up in Boulder. CMYK, the title of his latest batch of work, will be up for looksies at Art and…
Continue Reading →Last night, around ten o'clock, I swooped a copy of Charlotte Rivers's Poster-Art; three hours later, I set it down, not even halfway through the 150+ pages of incredible poster design. A compilation of mass-market, personal, and limited-edition work by…
Continue Reading →Hey...cheap shirts and great design! Suddenly, I'm feeling a lot better about it being a Monday. Scott Rickey and Amy Fierro, the pair behind my over-early excitement, have three things going for them: a design studio (real or virtual, I'm…
Continue Reading →Josh Brown and Jeff Rooney, founders of creative agency Capacitor Design Network, formed their roots at a well-known Vermont studio called JDK. Sometime in the middle of working on some minor stuff -- like working on the Xbox logo (in…
Continue Reading →Paul Isabella, the furniture design student at SCAD whose ambitious portfolio has impressed us before, has recently updated his site with more of his well-executed homework. Nothing gives us a nastier case of the warm fuzzies than watching a new…
Continue Reading →New York's Brian Crumley, a fifth-generation Texan, Gen Art favorite, and increasingly-hyped accessory designer, has taken on something a little heavier than jewelry in his latest collection. Peace Under Fire: Aggressive Symbols of Peace features metal worked into twisted (or…
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 →Very recently, a new design center -- one that promises to take a different approach to sharing design with the public- opened its doors in Tokyo. Named 21_21 Design Sight (after 21/21 vision; meaning to see beyond today into the…
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