URL: Sori Yanagi
RELATED LINKS: Sori Yanagi Design | Bookendless
SHOP @ Tortoise | Amazon
CAFE: Menya Sou
When I first saw Sori Yanagi's cast iron sauce pan at a small Japanese boutique stand at Manhattan Village Mall called Uzu in person, I fell in love with Sori Yanagi. And I've been discovering more of his products, and I'm always amazed and surprised with his genius design and sensitivity for usability. It's rare that product itself makes you think and smile.
HAKUSAN SHOP
ADDRESS: (MAP)
From First G Floor 5-3-10 Minami Aoyama
Minato-Ku, Tokyo
PHONE: (+81) 03.5774.8850
Open between 11am - 8pm
RELATED LINKS: Ping Mag
One of the store I want to visit when I go back to Japan :) Hakusan Shop in Aoyama showcases and sells all the Hakusan's products directly from the manufacture.
URL: Smashing Magazine
Smashing Magazine offers good resources and tips for making your life easier in design world. I downloaded and experimented with some free photoshop brushes and vector icons this morning. Pretty cool!
URL: FAT: Fashion Architect Taste
RELATED LINKS: Dezeen
I saw this Soft Hércules Stool by FAT on Dezeen Blog the other day... and kept thinking about it.
URL: SCR | DROPCLOCK
Cool motion clock screensaver utilizing the font face "Helvetica".
They captured heavy "Helvetica" dropping into the water in super slow motion, and the time corresponds with the actual time on your desktop. It's very beautiful...
URL: ANIMAVI
Animavi: animate; give/bring life; refresh; rouse; inspire
I just finished designing and uploading the first initial launch of Animavi's website on Friday :) Animavi designs and manufactures contemporary-styled premium quality, eco-intelligent products. The very first product they are introducing is a Chair and Ottoman. It comes with several different choices of e-leather and vegetable stained leather.
URL: 740 Sound Design | Client Login
PROJECT: Web Design | Client Login | Html Email Design
INVOLVEMENT: Art Direction / Design / FLASH / HTML & CSS Programming
RELATED LINKS: BLOG 302
We finally finished working on the website for 740 Sound Design :)
We went live over last weekend, and they told me that they have been getting a lot of compliments and positive feedback from their clients. That's always good to know and makes me feel good :)
URL: Ideaco Dust Mug - about $35
When I first saw a picture of this product, I thought it was just a coffee cup! Surprisingly, this is a waste basket! You can conveniently separate your regular trash from recyclable trash by lifting up the top cup. Pretty nifty and I like the design of it.
URL: Nanda
Cute and unique alarm clock - Nanda Clocky $49.99
If you have problem waking up, this clock would probably wake you up for sure.
URL: Umbra
RELATED LINKS: Motif Modern Living
Mela Magazine Rack $59 - $66 (left) - 14.25 x 9.75 x 15.5"
Cado Stool $399 - $420 (right) - 18.5 x 18.5 x 18"
I love this retro looking magazine stand - Mela Magazine Rack by Umbra! It's cool and affordable. I also liked the stool (right) I found on the Umbra's website... I love the design, but I think it's a bit expensive for what it is. Pretty cool to have double usage though :)
URL: OFFI | Eric Pfeiffe
RELATED LINKS: Design Public | Amazon
OFFI W Magazine Stand by designer Eric Pfeiffe: $99 - $119
Another cool magazine rack! I love the simple, sophisticated, and stylish W shaped design. It comes in 3 different colors (materials), Birch, Oak, Walnut. It's hard to tell by the small pictures, but I definitely like the rich color and the texture of Oak and Walnut more than the Birch (right).
URL: lacollection
RELATED LINKS: TwentyTwentyOne
Magazine Basket by Enzo Berti: £239.00 (about $332)
We saw this cool looking magazine basket (pic left) in Dwell Magazine. Ahhh... looks so nice! You can place the current magazine you're reading on top, and keep other ones inside the basket. It is designed by industrial/Architectural designer Enzo Berti. The chairs on the right are designed by him as well. Beautiful work.
CLIENT: 740 Sound Design
INVOLVEMENT: Art Direction / Design / Production
PROJECT: Logo Design / Collateral Design / Reel Packaging Design / DVD art / Inserts
740 Sound Design is a company that (obviously) design sound. They create sound for various different commercials, films, and internet, and they have won many awards. One of the most recent commercials I often come across on the television is the PROPEL commercial.
URL: Charley Harper | Treadway Gallery
RELATED LINKS: Flickr | YouTube | Amazon
Very tempting books to buy... little expensive though...
URL: Rotor House | Luigi Colani
RELATED LINKS: MOCO LOCO
Compact living :) Rotor House by Luigi Colani.
The house is designed with maximum living space with minimum dimensions (a six square meter)!
URL: Modern Twist | PJ Pocket Pillow
Cute Pillows from Modern Twist, inspired by a Japanese anemone box :) The idea is to store and hide the clutter (ex. stuffed animals, blankets) in your house and also to be able to have second usage from it.
URL: Richard Shed
Wall Hook for hanging your jacket by Richard Shed!
Simple... I love it :)
Photo found on Flickr
- toasted bagel + avocado in a CD container "bagel to go" by Rodrigo Piwonka
What a brilliant packaging idea! Why didn't I think of this before?!
Those CD spindles finally gives us a good purpose to keep around and recycle!
URL: Star Here
Wow. This is fresh cool idea for notebooks!
I've come across this cool blog - swissmiss this morning and checked out these linkable notebooks.
URL: KTA | treehugger | Architectural Record
Very cool Green House!
This month WIRED magazine covered an article on Green Home.
URL: CIAK
SHOP@: Kate's Paperie | Amazon
While we were browsing at Joyful Honda in Japan, we came across these little italian CIAK versatile notebook. And we were very much impressed with their design.
URL: Gary Baseman
SHOP@: Bristol Farms | Amazon
When I was shopping at Bristol Farms yesterday, I saw some Hint Mint with Gary Baseman's art on the package. They only carried the right 2 designs (as shown on picture above) at Bristol Farms, but I discovered there are more!! They are very cute!! I like the left 2 packaging designs the most... and they are going to be only sold for this holiday season. They are limited edition!! ...and they might be a good collectible items for Baseman fans! :)
URL: SHERBERT MAGAZINE
RELATED LINKS: THNDERCUT / SHERBERT / CONEY ISLAND SHORTCAKES
Another cool magazine.
I saw a guy wearing cool t-shirt that said "SHERBERT", and I ended up finding out about this magazine.
URL: oooms
Wooden USB memory sticks!
It looks really odd to see sticks coming out from a computer, but it's pretty cool :D They are available both for Mac & PC.
URL: Moontree Letterpress
RELATED LINKS: Moontree Letterpress Blog | Etsy
Beautiful work...
There is something special about letterpress printing. I love them!!
URL: STICKYLOU | LA STICKERIE
RELATED LINKS: MySpace | Flicker
Find cool stickers, sell your stickers, and print your own stickers! Very Juicy online store I've come across from my MySpace friend :D I have it in my bookmark.
URL: Cut & Paste
RELATED LINKS: Cut & Paste NYC 2005 | Live Art Jam NYC | Tournament Format
DATE: November 11th, 2006
PLACE: Rec Center Studio
If you are a designer, this is a great chance to get fame, be exposed, win Apple 13" MacBook & Wacom Intuos3 Tablet, and be judged by all these cool people you wish to work with - (Buff Monster/Emit/Eric Nakamura/Andy Mueller/Roger Gastman)! ...or just attend the event to see how it is!
URL: GREEN FORTUNE
RELATED LINKS: Hugg | Design Spotter | Green Thinkers
I love this world!!
What an incredible and beautiful idea for a wall space!! No floor space needed to enjoy lots of greenery, and this wall system self waters and also fertilizes itself. How? I guess the plants are planted onto layers of special textile and works with integrated drip irrigation system. "Besides the impression of beauty, plants also provides oxygen and humidity to improve the air quality. Some plants even have air cleaning properties."
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Vivavi, Inc. sells eco-friendly contemporary furniture and more! "Founded upon the firm belief that environmentally smart products and services can enhance our lifestyles."
BRANDS: VANS | DRAVEN | FIFTY 24SF | VISION | Ed Hardy | CIRCA
When my sister was in town, she bought a few pairs of VANS slip-ons. Since then, I've been looking for a pair I may want to get for myself, and I ended up finding so many cool slip-ons I've never seen before!! They are pretty cool! Check out each of the photos, they are all linked to where you can purchase a nice pair for yourself. :)
URL: FIBE-MINI
RELATED LINKS: Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., | Robotomi | FLICKR
Ohhhh my gosh!! I love OTSUKA SEIYAKU's FIBE-MINI campaign! A friend of mine let me know about this today... I absolutely fell in love with all the monsters!! My favorites are "DARU DARU" and "KASA CASA". But, all of them are super cute! And each monster has it's own theme song and background story... how funny is that! You can also fight with each monster and download a screen saver when you win! (...right, I've done that...hahaha) Anyway!
