Interesting post at Inhabitant today about a German company re-fitting cigarette machines to dispense books. For less than the cost of a package of smokes. Pretty good deal and interesting change in cultural iconography. Apparently, cigarette machines have great mechanics. Never thought about it or considered the idea, however they must have needed to take [...]
Woods Bagot, a worldwide architectural firm has designed an interesting solution to the recession stalled, partially finished construction projects that dot the Manhattan landscape. This caught my eye with its potential for set design and events. The firm is shopping to developers temporary inflatable buildings which may help developers collect rent from these sites, and [...]
I’ve always been fascinated by tree houses and have been wanting to do a treehouse design post since I saw this. Unfortunately, My friend Eve Politanoff beat me to it. Twice. I think all of the obvious comments about fantasy and folly are well expressed by the various images seen through the links. I’ve also [...]
I wonder if they used Vectorworks? I know that Frank Gehry’s firm has a proprietary CAD application that they use to develope his trademark sail like metal shapes. For about 10 years, Gehry has been working with the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission. The first cool thing about this concept is the expansion of the [...]
Time to make Lemonade. We went to bed last night shortly after an unidentified thump in the midst of a hurricanesque Nor’Easter. This morning we awoke to find one of our major oak trees more horizontal than vertical. Actually, totally horizontal, just pushed over by the wind. Amazingly, aside from the loss of the tree [...]
It is springtime and a young man’s fancy turns, of course, to lawn care! Well, not so much, me not so much anyway. In springtime, I start to think about how to eliminate lawn care. I frankly hate our lawn and hate the 60 or so Briggs & Stratton engines that swarm over the yard [...]
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We have been working with the Valley Animal Hospital on a new branding and identity initiative for some time. Recently we installed some real and very tangible results of our joint efforts–New Signage. If you click on the link, there should also be a new website which we have Art Directed. If the website does [...]
Forget Texas, they do things bigger in Dubai! I saw what they call ‘The Creek’ in Dubai when I was there consulting with Al Arabiya, it reminded me of a sizable river feeding into an ocean, well the Gulf of Arabia. I saw this post about the Kirkless Hotel in Dubai today. They have quite the [...]
We’ve loved and/or hated Dwell since it first began publishing. This Tumblr makes fun of some of the things we hate. Like any publication, Dwell has evolved. The magazine first began published on rough paper a few times a year. It was truly innovative and had a world wide focus. We’ve given copies to local [...]