February 2008
41 posts
Super Health
tylerriewer:
I don’t get sick. At all. My immune system is like a steel fortress surrounded by a moat of cough medicine. It’s incredible. And I’ll tell you my secret… germs. Starting at an early age. I really believe that. While other kids were worrying about washing their hands and covering their mouths when they coughed, I was eating food off the floor and sharing A.B.C. gum. And it made me...
WatchSweet looking project, I’m glad it was able to happen. Too bad studio condo’s are slated to be sold around $400,000.
❝ Why not reconsider how communities are designed? Instead of focusing on how much housing can be built (and how big each house can be), why not reflect on how a house could better serve the people who live in it? ❞via NY Times You didn’t read that wrong…it is actually from a New York Times article about changing the face of housing today.
Blood Mountain Fun →
Go ahead and skip forward to 17:00…this was so long ago
The sun still exists, even when it is night
passionfordesign:
So this, and my earlier rant, poses the question in my mind: Is my sole purpose in life to give the consumer all the objects they need or think they need? Or is it my duty, as an educated designer, to give them what I think is best? The later seems like quite a tall order, not to mention a good bit egotistical, and yet it does hold some value…
❝ Designers should show the future...
❝ But then, after all your hard work and some measure of feeling deprived of the good things in life, you get a job with a big salary and someone who sells real estate puts you in her car and drives you around and some person inside you — not the careful-planning you but this other more spontaneous and sensuous you, a you who always wanted to live in a big house with a yard — sees a...
❝ thing is, i’m personally not going to be that sad to see it go. now, if they get an absolute hack to do a new one (and, sigh, the chances of that are high), then that’ll be the real tragedy. but the idea of doing a more ‘urban’ library up there could be an interesting notion and unless they want to drop a lot of money into this one to refurbish it (and they won’t),...
Off to the Stockholm Furniture Fair
Its official, I suck at sketching right now.
❝ This generation [echo boomers] is significant because they are the last born to appreciate the changes of the digital revolution, and the rise of the internet and computer technology. ❞via Wikipedia
A note on how the rest of the country lives
travisekmark:
sharingtime:
I’m sitting in a place called Corner Bakery, which is part of the King of Prussia Mall. It’s next to the largest Crate & Barrel store I’ve ever seen in my life. This “cafe” is the size of a city block. Here you eat oversized cookies, soups, sandwiches and anything else you can find to fill your face. You drive here in your SUV and park as close as you can to...
Gus Design Group | Elegantly Minimal Furniture +... →
travisekmark:
for sloan. this part reminded me of you: “we delight in the simplicity of everyday objects.” Wonderful words…I’m not a fan of the execution though.
