I had meant to post about this yesterday, but didn’t get to it before getting sucked back into the Miami Project. Those who read my personal journal already know this, but this week’s episode of South Park featured an appearance by Jay Maynard, The Tron Guy.
This capped off a day which was already surreal [...]
Let us review.
Before….
After:
This is not an improvement.
For those who may not know, one of my degrees is in restoration. Though I am *by no means* anti-development in the City of New York, I do think that there are some buildings that should not be significantly altered. This was one of them, and I [...]
I’ve just come back from, amongst other things, having a look at the “new and improved” 2 Columbus Circle building. The scaffolding is coming down and you can really see what’s been done to it. So I had a look.
I’m just going to put this out there- It’s fucking ugly. As in it’s significantly worse [...]
Every so often I get shown something in the world of design that confirms that P.T. Barnum was right. There really is a sucker born every minute.
In this case, the sucker would be whomever decides to fork out a whopping $6,592 (no, seriously.) for this:
From the retromodern site:
“This fabulous stainless steel chair allows you – [...]
It was 5:30am exactly when the building began shaking. The problem was that this wasn’t a movie. It was my building, and that was yesterday.
There were a few upsides though. First of all, I was awake anyway, so my adrenal system didn’t go haywire from being woken up suddenly, and second of all, it wasn’t [...]
Though I am sure I will have something more interesting to talk about tomorrow, since I have plans to take photos of a friend for the beginning stages of a furniture design project (and I’ll probably get some nice photos of Harlem too while I’m at it- I haven’t been taking enough photographs lately anyway), [...]
Let’s play a game.
See if you can guess what’s my all time, number one, with a bullet design peeve.
Wait. This will never work- too many of you already know. Okay, for the three people on the planet that don’t yet know, it’s when tables are too close together in restaurants. This makes me [...]
“You’re not paid to think.”
Well actually, I am paid to think. It’s one of the best things about this job. It requires you to have a brain in your head. (see: differences between designers and decorators, part #4,587) I love the fact that I’m paid to think. For someone who tends [...]
I wasn’t planning on writing this today. I was planning on writing something about packaging design. But that’s been bumped to tomorrow, because last night my good friend Marianne wrote this post on her blog about public restrooms. And though I am sure I’d have gotten to writing about this topic *eventually*, suddenly [...]
I love industrial design. Love. I will happily sit around and design products, furniture and *stuff* all day long if someone asks me to, which is funny, because I genuinely and honestly hate *shopping*(I do as much shopping as I possibly can online- the only thing I don’t mind buying in person is [...]
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