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My Top Ten Favorite Design Objects from ID’s 2008 Design Review

01 July 2008

ID, a magazine that I follow religiously, recently released their 2008 Design Review. Rather than go through each category, piece by piece, I decided to feature my top ten favorite projects or products. Each of the objects has a number of fantastic characteristics, but to keep Text to a minimum and image to a [...]

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Summer Sale at Paul Smith!

06 July 2008

If you are fashion conscious and relatively well off, run to the nearest Paul Smith store for a mind blowing sale! Yeah, the Paul Smith collection is still out of reach for us trolls. This T-shirt, for instance, has been marked down from $300 to $150. Wow 50% off! But wait. Still expensive? It’s worth [...]

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Well Designed Gifts for a Tight Budget

05 July 2008

Let’s be frank. Times are tight. I just listened to a radio news report detailing that American consumers have spent all they can spend on high end goods and are now sticking with the basics. But, nothing says I love you better than a well designed gift, right? You could make a gift yourself which [...]

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Goodbye Fly: a fly swatter in the shape of Milan by Gulio Lacchetti for Pandora Design

Goodbye Fly by Gulio Lachetti: Commemorate Milan by Killing Flies

01 July 2008

Milan has an extremely intricate pattern that makes up its central city. Roads thousand of years old crisscross with modern freeways and light rail tracks. Now you will always be reminded of walking those crooked side streets by whacking a couple of flies. These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover [...]

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Circumflex Accent Chair by Zoe Mowat

26 June 2008

Zoe Mowat has come up with something I find quite special. Her Circumflex accent chair is a perfect triumvirate of steel, cast plastic, and walnut which creates something that is forward thinking and yet retains an old-world richness. Usually, when I see chairs like this they’re either too clumsy or look like a robot made [...]

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OLPG: One Laptop per Granny

20 June 2008

Bruce Nussbaum has suggested a new program that is a spinoff of the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) project. He suggests putting as much design innovation into helping old folks as was put into the OLPC. So, how do we start? I guess the first area would be to conduct a great deal of interviews [...]

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Anger Release Machine by

16 June 2008

Finally, a machine that does something I really need in those desparate times: an Anger Release Machine by YarisalKublitz . It’s a vending machine where you deposit money and the machine smashes a piece of porcelain for you. It may even be renamed a Greek Wedding Machine in the right circumstances. b l [...]

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