“The William” Cooktop: Who’s concept is it?

August 30th, 2010

Props to Beardie for sharing this with me. ”The William” … why have I not seen this before? Who’s concept is it?? Aside from everyone calling it a Stove-top, when it is actually a cook-top, I can’t Google this one to the root cause. Anyone? Sheesh… poor person who’s concept it is an they’re not getting [...]

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A Million Tiny Alarm Clocks: Graffiti can be sensual

August 30th, 2010

Ok, I’m not trying to make a big point, but here’s another example of how graffiti can incorporate into our daily lives as a print ad, or imagination, or pure visual bliss. All be it more stylized and more of a sketch-book like concept drawing; but, that’s where the good ideas really come from anyway. [...]

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Vancouver Public Art: Beatty Street

August 30th, 2010

600 BLOCK, BEATTY STREET, VANCOUVER, BC – This baby has taken on the best of any life in this no-fun city. Graffiti is either an annoyance or beauty, but wow, this is awesome. Having been painted over on December 23 ’09 by the Engineering Department (aka City Works) in a boring, lifeless, blue that would [...]

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The Vegetarian’s kitchen – raw foods live here

August 22nd, 2010

This is the big expose on Corey and it’s not to be missed. I stopped eating meats all together. I haven’t eating meats from quadrupeds for 20 years now, and resisted the transition. So I figured that there’s no time like the present to try something new, well newer. Being a designer, I immediately began [...]

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IKEA’s kitchen of 2040

August 18th, 2010

Everyone has a vision, I guess, and this is IKEA’s vision of the kitchen in 2040. In a report commissioned by the Swedish home furnishings giant, they seem to think that food will be “printed” (#2)… ah whom am I kidding. I’d rather see a Jetsons Food-a-Rac-a-Cycle. @electricpig

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MP Lighting is Vancouver-chic

August 18th, 2010

I client I’ve been working with realized that the lighting they had wasn’t sufficient so they asked for a recommendation. I spoke about MP Lighting briefly, but said they were local and pretty awesome stuff. Back in design school, we had the complete tour and I was pretty impressed and quickly benchmarked MP as the [...]

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Your biggest fan

August 15th, 2010

Our fan finally broke down (for the 5th time) which caused a sleepless, sticky, night. I immediately started searching for a new fan, at 1:30am, but why is it that I only find these (or these, or these) monstrosities of ugliness with power-sucking venom? I mean, fans need to be practical, but in this city [...]

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Improkitchen: The kitchen that sets the stage, literally.

August 10th, 2010

ZÜRICH – Art imitates life. This was bound to happen sooner or later. Keung Caputo constructed this mobile kitchen stage for performance artists Maria Küpfer and Stefani Grubenmann where they curate dinners showing their improvisation of cooking dinner. Lisa Smith at Core77 writes about Improkitchen: We like it because it takes a stand against all [...]

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