February 28, 2009
This blog post by Mr. Skona wins this week’s prize for ingenuity and charm.
My lovely wool socks (please excuse the pills) were starting to get a little threadbare around the heels and the ball of the foot.
February 27, 2009
Wish Werner Herzog would come by the studio and narrate our work in that soft, brutal, matter-of-fact German tone. Instead I just re-read the imaginary Herzog diary, below, to wallow in Herzog postmortemese.
February 25, 2009
That’s according to the New York Times, and since nostalgia seems to work in 20-year cycles, I guess anyone could have seen it coming. If, as the article says, the 90s were the sci fi thing and the Breeders, then excellent, but … what is that orange outfit!
This beautiful Christmas tree or art object is called the PossibiliTree.™ I, a huge pun-hater and disliker of words mashed together, nevertheless really like these and would like to have one.
February 24, 2009
In the western world, 750 sq ft apartments can seem really small, even for just two people. The excerpt below is from an interesting article by Nold Egenter, a Swiss architectural anthropologist, on the cultural influences that allow the Japanese to live comfortably in what North Americans would consider small spaces.
This origami was created for Japanese shoe company ASICS by Sipho Mabona of Mabona Origami. Original video is here. Celebrating corporate advertising isn’t really our thing, but this little movie is pretty engaging and it has, not surprisingly, won many of the world’s top animation and advertising awards.
February 23, 2009
This is the one kind of pillow you actually can’t have too many of. The pillow rocks, called Livingstones, are by Smarin, a French design company named for designer Stephanie Marin.
What are these pillows doing – posing for their family photos? Yes, it is possible to have too many pillows.
February 22, 2009
The big glasses everyone’s been wearing for five years? Charles Nelson Reilly and Brett Somers, 1975. More here.
February 18, 2009
This graph shows the occurrence of the terms “decor” (blue) and “interior design” (red) in The New York Times between 1984 and 2009. What happened to the word “decor”? It fell out of usage in approximately February, 2001, maybe a result of a change in editorial style policy?
