TENET is an indie pop-up shop bringing men’s fashion to the celebrated skiing and shopping town of Aspen, Colorado. Offering both established and emerging labels, founders Jesse Warren and Josh Warren set out to open a lifestyle store for the high season. This proved to be no easy task, and it makes for a great [...]
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 [...]
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
Did you catch our key in this week’s New York Times Magazine? They asked us to design an object to illustrate the opening page of their “Key” real estate section.
The theme they gave us to work with was “rebirth to renewal” – so our idea was to make a key rising up out of a [...]
Tags: Consulting, Design, Design Glut, Key, New York Times, Rapid prototyping
Paperless Post is an awesome new service that allows you to make custom invitations that look like engraved type on a nice thick paper stock – but it’s all digital. Facebook or Evite no more – show your guests that you’re all class. These invites show up just like the *real* thing, envelope and all, [...]
Hookmaker
6″ square x 3″ deep
Ceramic
$30.00
The Hookmaker teacup tile is a fun accent piece. It creates wall-mounted storage for small things, like keys and change, or hot-dish holders and spoons. It has a different use in every room! Tile several together for an even more dramatic effect.
Tags: Accessories, Buy, Ceramics, Design, Design Glut, Hookmaker, Housewares, Optical Illusion, Storage, Store, Teacup, Tiles
Egg Pants
2″ diameter x 1″ tall
Dip-molded PVC
$20.00
Egg Pants have three stubby ″legs″ which will keep your breakfast eggs standing tall. The cups are white on the outside and yellow on the inside, just like the eggs they hold. While the material looks like ceramic, it is actually quite soft and flexible. The flexibility allows these little cups to stretch and give a perfect fit to all different sizes of eggs.
Tags: Accessories, Buy, Design, Design Glut, Egg Pants, Housewares, Store, Tabletop
We were invited to repurpose Joby’s products for the upcoming Joby Inspired pop-up shop and gallery. What a fun challenge! After playing with their tripods for a while, we were inspired to designed toy parts that interlock with Joby’s bendable structure. Once we were happy with the design, 3-D printed them out using a MakerBot. [...]
Tags: Design, Design Glut, Joby, MakerBot, Rapid prototyping, San Francisco, Toys
