Feb 19
Toy Fair Video Drive-By: Patrick Calello, Founder of Automoblox
Posted in: UncategorizedClick here for Patrick’s full story on Automoblox. A must-read for designers going into business for themselves!
Feb 19
Core77 Photo Gallery: Toy Fair 2009
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Here’s a gallery featuring shots from Toy Fair, spanning two floors of the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York.
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Feb 19
Botanical Martini Glass
Posted in: Uncategorizedpimg src=http://www.productdose.com/images/products/draft_5186.gif
alt= //ppThis glass by a href=http://www.benjaminhubert.co.uk/Benjamin Hubbert/a could be filled with rainwater and I’d still pay full cocktail price for it. Gorgeous. Just put some colored water in it and call it a sculpture. |via a href=http://design-milk.com/botanical/Design Milk/a|br //p
Feb 19
Westerdok Apartment Building by MVRDV
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Feb 19
New York Fashion Week Runway: The Heart Truth’s Celeb-Filled Red Dress Collection
Posted in: UncategorizedI can’t think of a more festive precursor to Valentine’s Day than a red-carpeted runway show graced with an array of gorgeous crimson gowns — all for the sake of healthy hearts! The Heart Truth’s Red Dress Collection, fashioned by a throng of top designers and shown off by a number of notable female celebrities and athletes, has become the traditional New York Fashion Week fall-preview opener with its collaborative and charitable fashion show aimed to help promote heart disease awareness. The wide variety of stunning ruby-hued gowns and cocktail dresses, designed by the likes of Carmen Marc Valvo, Nicole Miller, Betsey Johnson, Donna Karan, and Max Azria (and many more!), were worn by a parade of proud women celebrities including Katie Couric, Amanda Bynes, Jennie Garth, and Olympic gold medalists Nastia Liukin and Kristi Yamaguchi, who all set their nerves aside to strut down the ramp for the cause. Even attendees who came without a Valentine found it difficult to not give in to the occasion and fall in love with the stunning sheaths!
Colors: ruby reds and deep crimson
Silhouettes: all styles from tiny tube dresses to flowing evening gowns!
Celebs: (aside from the star-studded runway) Christian Siriano, Kellie Pickler, Miss J. Alexander
Photo Credit: Getty Images for Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week
Feb 19
Fashion Week Gets Sketchy
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Replacing the political campaigning of last fall as the design motif of the Bryant Park tents? A back-to-basics approach that uses sketches, photographs, fabrics, and other images from the studio inspiration walls of some of the designers showing inside. Scattered bulletin board-style among inspiring Polaroids (may they rest in peace) are fabric swatches—that bit of black lace above comes courtesy of Dennis Basso—and other graphic elements with pinked edges are sketches from designers such as Erin Fetherston, Rachel Roy for Barbie, Rebecca Taylor, and Tadashi Shoji (that’s his ruffle-fronted frock pictured above, at far right), who will show his collection tomorrow.
Meanwhile, Modem continues to up the cover art ante for its seasonal mini-guidebook to the collections. In seasons past, the Paris-based publishing firm’s notebook-style “fashion reference” has featured covers by designers and artists including Patricia Urquiola, Marc Newson, Christian Lacroix, and Jim Dine. “This season, for the cover, we have given carte blanche to John Baldessari,” notes the Modem Editorial Committee. Color us impressed. Baldessari’s 2008 work “Raised Eyebrows/Furrowed Foreheads: (with Pain and Insouciance)” appears on the cover (pictured at left) and on each of the book’s 11 section dividers, courtesy of Marian Goodman Gallery.
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Feb 19
Dino Cutter
Posted in: Uncategorizedpimg src=http://www.productdose.com/images/products/draft_5187.gif
alt= //ppNot just for kids, these will fun up my PBamp;J. |via a href=http://monkeyzen.com/2009/02/sandwich-de-dinosaurios/Monkeyzen/a|br //p
Feb 19
Forget What You Know
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It’s hard to conceive of ideas while avoiding gravity, fragility, and structure.
Bridge makers, furniture builders even bakers swear by these rules.
Humanity depends on them.
If you ignore physics, things tend to break or malfunction.
Why are we (designers) trying so hard to render reality when we could be working on fantasy?
It can be read as a banal aesthetic exercise, but material tech will surely catch up.
Today’s imaging is tomorrow’s table.
I want to create and enjoy the intangible.
The elusiveness of only existing as digital gives it more power.
Let’s make trashbytes, with unlimited potential.
No materials is lost, and the costs is only a few burned brain cells and a chunk of the electric bill…
Feb 19
Women: Gotta go, but no bathroom? Well, FUD
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I hate going to bars with co-ed bathrooms, because as a guy I know there’s going to be a line where there oughtn’t be one.
In fairness to women, they have to undergo a much more complicated process than we guys do. And what about those times when there’s no bathroom to be found? We males can go just about anywhere in a pinch.
Thus the arrival of a new product, GoGirl, “the feminine urination device that lets you go anywhere.”
Simply put, GoGirl is the way to stand up to crowded, disgusting, distant or non-existent bathrooms. It’s a female urination device (sometimes called a FUD) that allows you to pee while standing up. It’s neat. It’s discrete. It’s hygienic.
thanks jenni!
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