Design

Keep calm and have a cupcake

In Design on 6 November 2008 tagged calm, Design, poster, Things with Comments Off

My cur­rent frame of mind is most prob­ably related to the dis­tinct lack of cup­cakes in my life. [Paint­ing by Etsy seller, jennys­bakeshop.]

Japanese Kangaroo mug

In Design, Things on 5 November 2008 tagged Design, kangaroo, mug, wants with Comments Off

Should any­one who reads this be able to read or speak Japan­ese or be in Japan, I need this mug:

Kangaroo mug avail­able from sunny-style.com So far, my attempts to cir­cum­vent the Japan­ese­ness of the check­out pro­cess have failed miser­ably, but I can’t even begin to tell you how much I want this. There must be a way!

Amazon’s “Frustration-Free” packaging

In Design, Green on 4 November 2008 tagged amazon, packaging with Comments Off

Amazon.com have intro­duced what they’re call­ing “Frustration-Free Pack­aging”.

“The Frustration-Free Pack­age is recyc­lable and comes without excess pack­aging mater­i­als such as hard plastic clam­shell cas­ings, plastic bind­ings, and wire ties. It’s designed to be opened without the use of a box cut­ter or knife and will pro­tect your product just as well as tra­di­tional pack­aging. Products with Frustration-Free Pack­aging can fre­quently be shipped in their own boxes, without an addi­tional ship­ping box.”

I abso­lutely can­not wait for this to catch on, be intro­duced to Amazon.co.uk, and then be adop­ted by other online retail­ers. Way too much of my life has already been wasted try­ing to get flash memory out of their wel­ded plastic prisons!

Vitra Uten.Silo stores the awesome

In Design, Things on 20 October 2008 tagged covet, Design, objects with Comments Off

This Vitra Uten.Silo organ­iser is so supremely cov­etable that the small shelf in our hall that’s covered in pretty much everything we don’t have a place to store — receipts, keys, cam­era tri­pods, old crumpled bus tick­ets — is weep­ing as I write this. Luck­ily for it, I don’t have £200 to spend on an organ­iser board, and it’s ages until Christmas.

Avail­able at Nest.

ScienceDirect

In Design on 20 October 2008 with Comments Off

(And evid­ence sug­gests that at least 27% of those art­icles were down­loaded by me.)

Great typo­graphy on a book for Elsevier and ScienceDirect.

Gift box from a cereal box

In Design, Green, Projects on 19 October 2008 tagged Projects, recycling with Comments Off

I’m slightly smit­ten with this idea for mak­ing gift boxes out of old cer­eal boxes.  
Instruct­able by Blight­design, via Zero Waste Blog, via Al.