COME PLAY WITH THE HIPSTERS [firstop design weekend*williamsburg brooklyn] firstop, a williamsburg brooklyn based non-profit promoting local artists and designers is having a design weekend october 2-3. from 12-8 pm, you can come check out new, experimental, and professional design. there will be a network of open studios, stores, workshops, and exhibitions all over the…
September, 2004
Thursday September 30th, 2004
apparently everyone hates the design museum
sir terence conran was the nail in the london design museum’s coffin this week. following the vacuum legend himself, james dyson, who recently bemoaned the design museum’s “empty styling” and left his position as chairman of the museum, sir conran (the namesake behind the utopia that is the conran shop) followed up just two days…
Budget Travel
My Brooklyn is Better Than Your Brooklyn Budget Travel Magazine, March 2007 (8 Page Article)
Wednesday September 29th, 2004
R.I.P. bent plywood
blame it on aalto, or even charles and ray, but bent plywood is everywhere and it has to be stopped. admittedly, i’m the world’s biggest hypocrite because, for the last year and a half, i’ve been walking around drooling over the same stuff i’m about to demand be banned from the marketplace but i promise…
you win some you lose some
so maybe i’m the last one on the boat, but i’ve fallen madly in love with these rubber bands from innermost. there’s something really sweet about brightly colored animals that makes an ordinary office object come to life. i’ve always been a fan of things designed with children in mind, especially when it takes…
Monday September 27th, 2004
the greatest apartment….in all of new york city
eternally exaggerating and perpetually entertaining, the donald simply can’t be ignored. prone to, ahem, slight exaggeration, the master of hyperbole (trump, to those of you wondering) accepts nothing but the best and for once, i’m here to agree with the man- at least on the issue of interior design. but before i begin, let…
graphic gods
i am a 2×4 junky. a fan of their work since day one, i’ve yet to be disappointed by a single project of theirs. in a time when hip graphic design firms are permeating the design industry as quickly and extensively as reality shows are infiltrating television, it can be hard to spot the…
Glamour Magazine
Jane Magazine
Saturday September 25th, 2004
categories
Wednesday September 22nd, 2004
CAN’T WAIT [i heart huckabees*movie out soon] great cast, great design, what more do you want? the entire ad campaign is gorgeous, so i hope the movie turns out just as well. watch the big trailer and listen to the noise it makes when the names come and go. it sounds like tiny plastic chips…
the real burning man (without all that hippy crap)
scott beckerman has work on display at troy. go see it. it’s cool. or go see scott here. he’s cool, too. BURNING MAN [ben*scott beckerman] beckerman’s pieces at troy in soho are amazing. he laser cuts wood with this heat torch-thing (yeah, i know, real technical huh?) and designs images onto various wood “canvasses”. beckerman…
shiny things rule
gold and silver seem to be the rage in fashion so of course, design is jumping on the band wagon. i’ll have to say though- i’m all about this trend. metallics are always hip and if i can have a gold orange juicer than by god, i’ll take one! the bling bling medallion is kinda…
Monday September 20th, 2004
The Guardian
Sunday September 19th, 2004
New York Magazine
Thursday September 16th, 2004
boring walls suck
yeah, so maybe my own walls aren’t this cool, but if i had more money they would be. i love that designers are taking on walls as a design medium. especially when they cover them in things like cardboard. check out mioculture.com for the best of this bunch. if you have a few extra bucks…
clearly cool
i like things i can see through. seems like most contemporary designers do too. check it out. fun. neon. clear. cool. note the neo-baroque coming through…a welcome change after seasons obsessed with bent plywood and minimalism. SEE THRU [2.4 chair*some design] some design really came through with their 2.4 chair. what it lacks in comfort…
Tuesday September 14th, 2004
the john deere effect
THE WILLIAMSBURG-ING OF DESIGN [hipster culture's impact on contemporary design*from bedford avenue to mainstreet america] as much as i’d like to, i can’t blame ashton kutcher for everything. i mean i guess his ceaseless support of the trucker hat phenomenon really marked the END of the hipster look being cutting-edge, but come on- did it…
Monday September 13th, 2004
CLEAR WINNER [nessino lamp*artemide] i wandered into artemide this weekend during a massive greene street design store binge and fell in love with giancarlo mattioli’s nessino lamp all over again. there’s a reason moma puts things in its collection- and this clearly has icon written all over it. you’ve gotta love that psychedelic mushroom thing…
Wednesday September 8th, 2004
design across the bridge
WILLIAMSBURG DESIGN [the future perfect*williamsburg] of course williamsburg has a hip design store. williamsburg has a hip everything. but on the corner of north 6th street and berry in brooklyn is quite possibly one of the best little design stores in new york. yes, mxyplyzyk and moss get all the fame, but the future perfect,…
