By Skinny Vinny
Even though I didn’t get a booth this time at the Gift Fair, I usually make sure I stop by- just to see what amazing things people are doing. After walking the aisles for 10 minutes, you can feel that things are still a bit slow for 2010. It wasn’t as busy as [...]
Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch met in Hollywood – but later transitioned from designing movie sets to more permanent architecture. And the transition has clearly worked for them! Ten years after starting their architecture firm, recent projects include the Ace Hotel, the Breslin, The Standard, and a ground-up building at 211 Elizabeth St. (Scroll down [...]
We’re all for taking control of your own destiny, and if anyone’s done it, it’s Cindy Gallop. How to properly introduce this amazing lady? In 1998, she founded the New York office of the ad agency BBH, which was named Adweek’s Eastern Agency of the Year just four years later. Cindy resigned as chairman of [...]
Tags: Business, Interview, Micro Actions, Social Change, Social networking, Websites
It’s no secret that kids are looking at porn online. Perhaps the most serious side effect of this? A generation growing up with internet porn as their main form of sex-ed. Pornography is not exactly a guide for real-world sex, hence why Cindy Gallop started makelovenotporn.com to set the record straight.
What gave you the idea [...]
Tags: Accessories, Design Glut, New York, Products, Smoking Gun
It’s 2009 and, let’s face it, if you’re in the creative world and you don’t have an online portfolio it’s a problem. Luckily there are solutions to that problem which don’t involve cramming your head with HTML until it explodes. Enter Carbonmade. They offer an incredibly easy-to-use platform so that even the Luddites among us [...]
Tags: Business, Creative, Design, Job hunting, New York, Online portfolios, Websites
Nervous System harnesses the power of algorithms to create incredibly beautiful jewelry. I was fascinated when I read on their site:
“We create our designs through an iterative and experimental process. After brainstorming an initial concept, we write a pattern-generating algorithm in the computer through which we further explore our ideas and ultimately create the finished [...]
Tags: Accessories, Architecture, Boston, Business, Creative, Design, Jewelry, Laser cut, Manufacturing, MIT, Products, Rapid prototyping
If you haven’t been out to House of Yes yet, do it. This amazing venue hosts everything from performing arts events to aerial and circus arts classes to sewing workshops… What started as a vague dream to own a theater and a costume shop has quickly turned into a reality. And it was sped up [...]
Time Out asked us to think up a new use for doorknobs. Always up for a challenge, we looked to find a new place where something that size, shape, and material would be completely functional. That’s where the candlestick idea came from. A brass doorknob, when turned vertical, is really pretty similar to an old [...]
Tags: Accessories, Candles, Design Glut, Housewares, New York, Products
Adrian Buckmaster creates hauntingly beautiful photographs. He’s managed to shy away from specializing – he handles portrait, fashion, architecture, and nature shot all with the same sensitivity, and he’s made quite a career of it. (And his talents don’t end in the visual realm, he also makes a mean chutney. We couldn’t ask for a [...]
