Bresslergroup designs a new way to clean

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In his one-man show “Long Story Short,” where comedian Colin Quinn recounts the history of the world in 75 minutes, he does a wickedly funny bit about the lengths illegal immigrants will go through to arrive in a disappointing America. The gist of it is that they’ll swim rivers, climb mountains and run down roads to get here–then get a job at a U.S. gym picking up towels and watching Americans swim fake rivers, climb fake mountains and run on treadmills.

Anyways my point is, a gym can’t be an easy thing to clean, what with the amount of germs in there and all the machinery and surfaces you have to wipe down. Ditto for a hospital or a daycare center. Addressing this is a Delaware-based company called Sanosil’s Halo Fogger, designed by Philadelphia design firm Bresslergroup.

You basically wheel the Halo Fogger into a room, and then it emits a non-toxic cloud of cleanliness that reportedly kills 99.99% of germs.

[The Halo Fogger] transforms Sanosil non-toxic disinfectant into a fine mist of ionized particles, and distributes it throughout a room disinfecting every exposed surface, including the surfaces that regular cleaning can’t reach. The Halo assures a homogenous distribution of disinfectant on all surfaces including high touch areas, around doors, behind window treatments and even under desks, and is safe for use around all electronic equipment.

The advantages are that you don’t have to wipe anything down (which can actually lead to you just spreading germs around), it’s less work, it gets those hard-to-reach places, and it reportedly costs less than $1.50 to clean 1,000 square feet.

As it stands, the Halo Fogger still needs someone to wheel it around and push the button. This thing is just begging for the droid treatment.

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Daily Obsesh – Satya Jewelry Turquoise Triple Necklace

imageDuring the holidays, we often find ourselves scrambling to get gifts for just about everyone €¦ parents, siblings, friends, the boyfriend and the boss. With so many on the list, it€™s almost impossible to think of something truly meaningful to give. Dad gets a tie, mom a new silk scarf and the boss, something simple like a nice bottle of Malbec.


What about your best friend, though? A bottle of red nor a silk scarf just won€™t do. You want something special that will truly touch her. If she€™s a jewelry lover (and who isn€™t?) the Satya Jewelry Turquoise Triple Necklace is the perfect find.


A single turquoise bead is strung alongside two pendants etched with the tree of life and a lotus blossom on a gorgeous 24K gold chain. The handcrafted charms symbolize healing, faith and hope. Surely we could all use those things for Christmas.



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WhoMelimeli was the first to add the ‘Satya Jewelry Turquoise Triple Necklace‘ the to the Hive.

Tonite! at the Hand-Eye Supply Curiosity Club: Joey Roth, Industrial Designer!

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We’re back in Portland this week recovering from our smash NYC Curiosity Club event with Zach Liberman and are happy to bring you *tonight* Joey Roth of Ceramic Speaker, Sorapot, and Talk/Work Poster fame!

5:30 PM
Hand-Eye Supply
23 NW 4th Avenue (btwn. Burnside and Couch)
Portland, Oregon

As always we’ll be broadcasting live in this space if you can’t make it down!

Read more about the event here.

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Seat : Projection Mapping

Une production de Vectorsoul pour le client Seat, sous la forme de ce court spot et de “projection mapping”. Un travail réalisé par Nerdo, le collectif de design basé à Turin (Italie) composé d’Alessandro Durando et Lorenzo Levrero. A découvrir en vidéo dans la suite.



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A short film about dottie angel

Dottie Angel’s Once Upon a Time from Etsy on Vimeo.

I had the pleasure of visiting Tif Fussell this fall, to get to know her and to begin work on our book collaboration. I made a short film of introduction about Tif and her alter-ego dottie angel and we are thrilled that it is having its premiere today on Etsy’s Storque.

Thank you to Beth and Eric at Etsy, and to my brother Marc Vangool who composed and performs the guitar music.

Here’s an outtake scene from a trip to the local Value Village:

In honour of the occasion, Tif has stocked her Etsy shop with some marvelous items:




The Suitcase Series Volume 2: Dottie Angel is out this summer. Preorder it on its own or part of the book bundle!

A Collection a Day: book block


Here’s the small-but-hefty book mockup for Lisa Congdon’s A Collection a Day. Now I’ve got to go and design all those pages! The special collector’s tin is in progress as well and once the artwork is cleared for production, I’ll share that with you as well.

(Book preorder price is $25—you save $10 when preordering. The book is also available as part of the UPPERCASE book bundle which includes The Elegant Cockroach which ships immediately, followed by Work/Life 2 in February, A Collection a Day in March and Dottie Angel in June.)

Freebox Revolution by Starck

Dans la lignée du boîtier Le Cube for Canal+ conçu par Yves Béhar, voici cette réalisation du designer Philippe Starck pour la nouvelle box de l’opérateur français Free. Intitulé Freebox Révolution V6, elle est dotée d’un serveur NAS 250 go, d’un lecteur blu-ray et d’une manette.



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Freebox Revolution, est disponible à partir du 1er janvier 2011.

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The Submarine Chair, part 2: Silly Product Testing

In an effort to draw attention to the strength of the Submarine Chair, a few years ago the pranksters over at Wieden + Kennedy London shot the chair from a large slingshot and dropped it out of a window, probably hoping bloggers would dig the inanity and link to it. And I fell right into their little trap.

Damn that thing looks strong.

As a follow-up with a spiritual successor to the Submarine Chair, the Norman-Foster-designed 2006 Chair, they demonstrated how light it is by gallivanting around what looks to be East London with the chair held aloft by a large helium balloon:

If only all product testing was this fun.

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Line Up: Rigging Knots and Glimpses of a Master Class

Tight rope performer Philippe Petit in a gallery show
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Philippe Petit, the daring performance artist who captured the world’s attention when he rigged a tight rope between the World Trade Center’s twin towers, is the focus of Clic Gallery’s current exhibition “Line Up: Rigging Knots and Glimpses of a Master Class.” Not only is Petit a incredibly skilled balancing act, but the multi-hyphenate artist is a bullfighter, street juggler, lock-picker and talented sketcher.

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His pencil drawings will be on display, along with rare photos of the man-in-perpetual-motion, shot by photographer Victoria Dearing.

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The intimate exhibit will show Petit exploring the rigging knots that determine his fate when he is walking in the clouds as well as reveal a more philanthropic side of Petit, who has spent much of his life since his 1974 World Trade Center stunt imparting wisdom onto his students.

Meet Petit at the opening of “Line Up” tomorrow, 16 December 2010 and the show runs through 16 January 2011.


The Submarine Chair, part 1: Making of

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People in submarines eventually need to sit down, and in 1944 aluminum company ALCOA collaborated with the U.S. Navy on the purpose-built 1006 Chair, also known as the Navy Chair or Submarine Chair. The design brief had at least one interesting bulletpoint: The chair had to be “torpedo-proof.”

The resultant super-strong chair is still in production today, manufactured by aluminum chair company Emeco. For a fascinating look at how it’s made, check out their 77-step process, starting from aluminum sheets and ending up with the finished product:

The video above is eight minutes and should be of interest to ID’ers because they call out each production method with on-screen notes. For those of you who already know this stuff, there’s a frothier, shorter video using the same footage but edited down to about three minutes, sans call-outs, and scored with a jazzy soundtrack:

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