Sacramento, California based ISO50 is a small and really great design shop with some truely inspiring and beautiful work. THe designer Scott Hansen has done everything from high quality print posters and photography to branding and logos-- and he even…
Continue Reading →The Swedish Design Expo is coming to the San Francisco Design Center on October 1st. Sponsored by the Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce in conjunction with Dwell, IKEA, and H&M, rumor has it this year is going to be a good…
Continue Reading →I don't know much about bongs (I swear mom!), or even vodka for that matter--but I never expected to see the two of them together. Apparently the US government recently approved 'Bong Vodka', which will make its Florida debut in…
Continue Reading →I know the uber-exclusive Vertu cell phones are indeed just 'regular old' cell phones inside a fancy case (minus the one touch button for a concierge). Conspicuous consumption aside--damn, they make a nice looking phone! Vertu just announced a new…
Continue Reading →The Grower is a small 'vehicle' that moves around the sides of a room, hugging the walls responding to carbon dioxide levels in the air by actually drawing lines of varying height on the walls. The Grower is used in…
Continue Reading →Silent Revolution has a nice selection of cleanly designed bags. As they put it, it's "their effort to create futuristic and minimal bags reflective of the digital age in which we live". Silent Revolution was started by Andrea Toyias, a…
Continue Reading →Yoffy's artwork is clean, smooth, and even dynamic-- he uses simple shapes and color to evoke emotion, memories, and creates a 'visual' language with his work. His a Tetris painting is just great, paying homage to Tetris, one of the…
Continue Reading →THECAST meticulously discolors, massages, and distresses each of there shirts over a 3 day process to really give their clothing line a true worn in feel-- or as they once put it "a soul". New clothes have no 'soul', everyone…
Continue Reading →Traveling to Vietnam anytime soon? Interested in traditional Vietnamese food? There are two new food blogs online covering the foodie scene in both Hanoi and Saigon. Sticky Rice, and Noodlepie cover everything from fruits to vegetables, oysters to noodles, as…
Continue Reading →The IDEA Group is looking to showcase small to medium sized furniture designs, accessories, and lighting for their upcoming FROST 2006 exhibition in January, in Edmonton. The idea behind this exhibit is to explore the relationship between the designer and…
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