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Dow Jones Hanky
16″ x 16″
100% Linen
$28.00
It’s OK to cry! As long as you’re using a Dow Jones Hanky, that is. It’s here to catch all your recession tears. Embroidered with the graph of the Dow Jones from the past 5 years, 2004 to 2009. Want a hanky embroidered with YOUR stock portfolio? Custom pieces are also available.
Tags: Accessories, Buy, Commentary, Conceptual, Design, Design Glut, Dow Jones, Economics, Humor, Recession, Stock Market, Store
Black Crude
1″ pendant, 22″ chain
Powdercoated brass
Allow 2 weeks for production
$100.00
Oil touched the $100 mark on January 2nd, 2008. We produced 100 limited edition Crude Necklaces to commemorate the date. Each piece has a miniature oil barrel pendant, engraved with “$100″ and “1-2-2008.” Don’t miss out on owning this piece of history.
Tags: Accessories, Barrel, Buy, Commentary, Conceptual, Design, Design Glut, Economics, Fashion, Jewelery, Oil, Store
Crude Necklace
1″ pendant, 22″ chain
Powdercoated brass
Allow 2 weeks for production
$160.00
Oil is the new luxury. Crude Necklace is satirical bling. The Crude Jewelry collection is manufactured in monthly batches. Each piece has a miniature oil barrel pendant, engraved with the date it was made and the price of a barrel of oil on that day.
Tags: Accessories, Barrel, Buy, Commentary, Conceptual, Design, Design Glut, Economics, Fashion, Jewelry, Oil, Store
While SallyTV’s advice based upon the DESIGN FIGHT! article by Stefan Boublil was sound, I have chosen to neither take a Xanax nor get back to work. Cracking open a Monster and climbing into the ring seemed like a much better more fun idea. It’s Friday afternoon, afterall.
[This move was not endorsed by Kegan, who [...]
I discovered the Fuck Off Sarah Palin T-shirt just as my terror at having Palin as a VP was peaking. I thought, if anything captures the zeitgeist right now, it’s this. I wanted to know who was behind it. Kim Berlin is a creative director who decided to get political after she became supremely pissed [...]
We asked our summer intern, Karl Zinsmaster, to write a bit about what it’s been like working here. Read below to find out how he got the internship, and what advice he has for his fellow students.
So, I’ve been at Design Glut working on product development and helping with small business responsibilities for almost three [...]
It seems fitting to end our first week of blog posts with the story of how Design Glut started. It was the spring of 2007, and we were a couple months from graduating college. Kegan discovered this thing called the Designboom Mart. The Mart gave us access to the world of trade shows, introduced us [...]
Tags: Commentary, Design Glut, DesignBoom Mart, Editorial, ICFF
Design can only change the world if it leaves the small circle of design-community intellectuals and reaches the people it is meant to help. That abandoned project in your portfolio probably won’t change anything. Neither will a lovely rendering, all by itself. If there’s one thing that I’ve learned, it’s that change requires hard work, [...]
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