Entries Tagged as 'design'

Thursday, May 27th, 2010

Look! Desks and Furniture Designed from Plumbing Pipes | Apartment Therapy Boston

A friend of ours told recently us about the furniture that the folks at the graphic design studio, Oat, made for their studio in Somerville. We loved the idea, and when we went to check it out we had a great time visiting and hearing how they made it. Rory, Oat’s founder, took plumbing pipes [...]

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

What’s Inside Counts: Sex Toys and Design

When we think about good design, sex shops—with their neon lights, blacked-out windows, and tacky-looking products—are not the first thing that come to mind. Sex toys have suffered similar bad design, thanks in part to social stigma that makes it harder for consumers to stand up and complain when they’re unhappy with their purchases. After [...]

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

DT@ICFF: Link Studio on Flickr – Photo Sharing!

Based in San Francisco, Link Studio has another take on the custom-manufactured kid’s furniture concept. This play table and bench can be ordered in any dimension to fit your kid–or to anticipate his growth rate. The bench can be a chair, the tabletop can be etched with any design or vector graphic you like–there are [...]

Sunday, December 27th, 2009

How to rasterbate rasterized images from any picture | Video « Wonder How To

via wonderhowto.com Posted via web from crasch’s posterous

Sunday, September 13th, 2009

Stuart Semple’s Happy Blue Clouds

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

Dexter box set

Via boffo.

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

Best books on design/aesthetics?

What books on design or aesthetics do y’all like? The one that comes immediately to mind for me is Edward Tufte’s Visual Display of Quantitative Information. I also liked Design of Everyday Things. What else is good? What’s the graphic designer’s bible? Specialist titles (for example, design of typography) are also welcome.

Monday, June 8th, 2009

Concrete stain

Beautiful concrete floor. . Done by Garage and Storage Plus of Austin.

Saturday, January 3rd, 2009

Water based eyeglasses: no optician required

British inventor Josh Silver, a former professor of physics at Oxford University, has come up with a game-changer of a product design with his water-lensed glasses. Silver has devised a pair of glasses which rely on the principle that the fatter a lens the more powerful it becomes. Inside the device’s tough plastic lenses are [...]