Posts with category: Design
Spring (design) cleaning
I’m a little surprised by how long I managed to put off redesigning this site, but it’s finally got a new look inspired by the design work we’ve been doing on gdgt over the past few months. Although it’s not a radical departure, blogging as a format — even personal blogging — has changed significantly in [...]
Leica’s pixel dog
If I had a dog, it would absolutely have to be this breed. [Via Core 77 and Comunicadores]
Philippe Starck: “design is dead”
It kind of bums me out to hear Philippe Starck proclaim the death of design, even if it is merely sour grapes from a master designer whose time seems to have passed. No wonder he seems so bitter: “But the thing one needs most, he added, was the ‘ability to love’.” Indeed. But maybe I [...]
Who’s got a good, modern desk?
Time for a lazyweb: who makes a good, modern desk? I currently use a Fritz Hansen Plano (trés chic) but it’s not exactly built for use — it’s kind of a showpiece. I’ve had my eye on the classic Eames Desk Unit (in natural, above) for quite some time, but I’m really open to suggestions. [...]
Getting a Takumi TO:CA wood clock!
Ever since I first wrote about Kouji Iwasaki’s TO:CA wooden block clock by Takumi, I’ve really wanted one. That was in 2004, and I guess I’ve finally landed a TO:CA of my very own! V just got it for me as a late Christmas present (they were all out around holiday time), I’m totally stoked. [...]
Engadget redesign: it’s done! And just getting started…
On June 8th I was looking at Engadget for the eight hundred thousandth time and decided we had to a change. We all know great content is what it is, but there were just so many things about Engadget that wasn’t working. Comments were unwieldy and user un-friendly, the pictures were just too tiny, and [...]
A (short) open letter to the industry
Product distribution, marketing, and design management of the world — especially the consumer electronics industry — take heed. Your insanely difficult to open plastic packaging / blister packs, while excellent theft-deterrents and somewhat economical, are incredibly anti-consumer and irritating as all get out. There are few things as big a bummer as getting a new [...]
Cathode Corner’s Scope Clock
And here I was thinking a nice Nixie was about the sweetest geek chic / modern design nostalgic throwback timepiece around. I’d drone on about how much I want one of Cathode Corner’s Scope Clocks (as spotted on Eng JP), but they’re all out — and if they weren’t, I probably wouldn’t be able to [...]
2005 Taiwan International Design Competition
Evan at Engadget wrote up the Blowfly last week, which won third at the 2005 Taiwan International Design Competition — but there’s a ton of other really beautiful objects over at their site that are completely worth your time in checking out. Clockwise from the upper left is the Unity Phone by Jonas Bylund, Andreas [...]
Iannone Sanderson’s Mod coffee table
Somewhere in between Scrapile, Zebrawood, and bisected plant-cell diagrams lies the Mod, table made from a bonded wood-alternative of horizontal cuts of scrapped sorghum plant stalks. I think this might make number eleven on my wish list this year, since my current coffee table is on its, um, last legs. Ahem. [Via MoCoLoCo]
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