Archive for the 'Design' Category

Hot New Privacy Hoodies

Thursday, June 22nd, 2006

These Computer Hoods by Royal College of Art alumn Joe Malia are for people who aren’t feeling the traditional privacy screens. Several designs available to work with your desktop PC, cell phone, and PSP. I found them on we make money not art’s website. From a Texans’ point of view, they over looked the [...]

High-End Design

Sunday, February 19th, 2006

Although it’s been a year now on the market, I’m just noticing their full page advertisements on the back of Wired Magazine. Kolhers’ Purist Hatbox Toilet is impressive because of it’s tankless design, but then again who ever complained about having a tank? Isn’t that were we pile all the reading material and the extra [...]

Lou’s Views

Thursday, February 9th, 2006

I’m hoping a good friend of mine reads this entry because he’s been having trouble choosing a new pair of glasses. I think these are for him for two reasons: he’s a big Lou Reed fan and he’s near sighted -I think. Anyhow, I found these advertised on Lou Reed’s Website, apparently Lou says that [...]

Giant Guerillas Fall Hard

Monday, December 5th, 2005

Sony’s guerilla marketing campaign for the new PSP backfires in marketing sensitive cities like San Francisco. (read more + pictures : Wired article: Sony Draws Ire With PSP Graffiti By Ryan Singel) I also read in the Wired article that the anti-Sony sentiment might also be stemming from the invisible virus-prone software that Sony [...]

Clocky! Where’d You Go??

Tuesday, November 29th, 2005

Alright who needed one of these this morning?

Leave it to the brains at M.I.T. to design Clocky, a clock that hides when you hit the snooze button. Although the buzz about Clocky has been circilating for a while, I just recently noticed that Clocky won the Ig Nobel Prize in October 2005, go [...]

Prêt-Á-Guerre

Friday, November 18th, 2005

What do people wear during war-time? An Exhibit at Bard.

Design For Change Symposium

Wednesday, November 16th, 2005

The New School for Social Research just uploaded a RealPlayer archive for the Design for Change Symposium held earlier this fall..
from thier site:
Design for Change: A Symposium on Design, Social Responsibility, and Non-Profit Organizations
This September, the school will present its first conference that brings together design educators, practitioners and nonprofit administrators to discuss the role [...]