November 2, 2008
These “modern nomad” or “urban nomad” styles appeared in Canadian fashion magazine Flare this fall, and Vogue and and others published similar photographs. Since fashion and other areas of design tend to be strangely prescient about historical circumstances – for example, American Depression-era styles were on the runway for nearly a year and a half before the recent stock market crash – does this interest in nomadism mean anything?
October 31, 2008
Our studio pumpkin. Happy Hallowe’en!
“Each year the Great Pumpkin rises out of the pumpkin patch that he thinks is the most sincere. He’s got to pick this one!
October 30, 2008
Swiss artist Felice Varini applies these geometric “perspective-localized” paintings to rooms and other architectural surfaces. Varini’s perspectival installations are interesting in that they project visually compelling geometric shapes onto architectural spaces but the shapes are only seen in their perfect geometric form from a single, specific vantage point.
Why does ancient art look more and more interesting as time goes on? Is it just the effect of looking at too many contemporary design blogs, where nearly every object is acquirable?
For the record, an image of the oldest fragment of textile ever found. This is a Neolithic fragment of linen from Egypt circa 5000BC—a shred of clothing that belonged to someone 7000 years ago.
October 29, 2008
Maybe this is another version of the indoor swing, I don’t know, but there’s something magical about suspended furniture. It’s by architect Robert Bernstein and was profiled in the NYT style section a while back.
October 28, 2008
These trailers for the Branchage Festival (and there are more here and here) are by Toolbox DC, a cool company run by Brian Liu and Nick P.
A swing inside the house changes things. Yes, not everyone has a ceiling high enough or room wide enough for a swing, and yes, most of the photos we found of indoor swings pictured them in lofts—and in lofts you can do many things indoors that people normally do outside.
1 of 1 Design Studio is a collaboration between textile designer Cate Reas and generative software artist C.E.B.
October 27, 2008
e15‘s leaning book rack “Mate” is quite well-known (photo at bottom), but their shelf/cupboard units Kast Drie and Kast Een are equally nice.
