Archive for the ‘TRENDS’ Category
Visionary Buckminster Fuller famously said, “I am not trying to imitate nature, I’m trying to find the principles she uses.” Come. If the “Design to Function” ratio of Nature is always brilliant, then we proclaim these four (plus ONE) playful and innovative inventors as MAGICIANS mixing the old principles of nature, simplicity, cooperation and synchronistic balance […]
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Tags: Adam Kalkin, aerial view peace sign, African Americans and the environment, Alexander McQueen, Architechiture and Hygiene, artists who knit, box houses, brand new sexy economic fun, buckminster fuller, Cee-Lo, Cesaria Evora, cnn, cnn recycled houses, co-working, container homes, cool knit clothing, craft clothes, crate homes, creative new economy, crochet clothes, crochet ideas, Dwell Adam Kalkin, Earth Hour, Fabricatng the Modern Dwelling, Global Peace Film Festival, green architecture, green pioneers, green urban, green urban living, Green Worker Cooperatives, green worker coops, Home Delivery, I'm Outta Here!, India Ari, India Arie style, jade dressler, knit artists, knit clothes, knits, knitting ideas, Ladene Clark, Len Burnett, Little Marvin, little marvin producer, MOMA, new craft style, new economic ideas, new economy, new economy ideas, new knitting ideas, newcrochet artists, Omar Friella, one box at a time, peace sign, people in a peace sign, People of Color Don't Care About The Environment, Princeton architect, Princeton crate homes, Quik build, ready made houses, readymade houses, ReBuilders Source, recycled homes, recycled houses, Rollins College Peace, Sanford Dickert, Sharon Pendana, shipping box homes, shipping container home, shipping container homes, shipping crate homes, Simran Sethi, Sundance Channel's The Green, Superreal, The Runway Project, Tony Bacigalupo, Uptown magazine, Van Jones, whiteness of green movement, worker coops
LIVING DESIGN 1
May in New York City is International Contemporary Furniture Fair Month. Trust that every year the crowd, the design is intoxicating and the people are the most supremely chic. (Somehow refreshingly less affected than fashion people too) TREND: TENDANCE The Brits are Very Into Faerie Influences. The nature designs and inspiration in art, advertising and […]
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Tags: contemporary furniture fair, Design Democracy, Downstairs Studio, Fiona Gall, ICFF, jade dressler, Lindsey Adelman Studio, Miranda Meilleur, new furniture, threadless.com
LOVE NOTES 1
This Spring we have an outright obsession with words, letters, the printed word, handwritten fortunes, art and hand wraught Love Notes. Meaning and power become altered inside of us and take on new forms when simple messages appear in places you would least expect. Like Etsy proves, the handmade is hot. A new book, Script & […]
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Tags: Al Montagna, Alvaro Montagna, banksy, crop circles, found gold notes, found notes in the city, ghandi in union square, gold fortune notes, gold fortunes, gold notes in Union Square, gold tube notes in NYC, gold tubes on the street, golden love notes, grafitti, ICFF, jade dressler, Jenny Holzer, Jenny Holzer on Twitter, Love Notes, mahayana buddhist temple, Myth Can Make Reality More Tangible, NYC urban intervention, PSFK, script & scribble, Small Earth, street art, The Big Word Project, the rise and fall of handwriting, Travey Kendall, union square, urban intervention, who is leaving gold notes in NYC?