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• Dansk & Quistgaard, design

  Cool Woodturning Book

  07.02.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  I found this cool book about woodturning.  The cover features a rare piece by Jens Quistgaard, abstracted shapes, and simple Helvetica type. It was published in 1970. The book features a few more Dansk pieces inside and has a ton of information on how to make just about anything on a lathe. There’s a few [...]

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  DIY Furniture plans from Ready Made Magazine for sale

  04.04.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  A few years ago, I designed a “murphy bar” for Ready Made Magazine which appeared in issue 32. The nice people at Ready Made took those designs, and a few others from that issue, and created cool blueprints you could buy to learn how to make them. Originally sold for $35, I have a few [...]

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  Beer

  03.19.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  I’m very excited about my colleague Lance Wilson’s new book: Beer. It combines many of my favorite things. Beer, photography, design, collecting, and beer. This beautifully photographed, super thick book is chock full of beautiful photographs of beer cans from all eras in all shapes and sizes. From the very first cans on the market, [...]

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  Palm Springs: More Hipstamatic

  02.24.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  I went to Palm Springs for a long weekend and kept finding myself without my DSLR whenever there was something cool to take a photo of. Thus, I decided to use Hipstamatic to take retro photos of some retro homes. There were some super dramatic clouds that day. The first group of photos are from [...]

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  Looking up for up&up

  05.23.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  Over the last year, Target has been rolling out their new “in-house” brand of home products called up&up. And I’m obsessed with them. Somehow Target has managed to laser in on multiple areas of interest for me and came up with a killer combination. First of all, I like good, consistent design.  I really like [...]

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  Cocktail Shaker Auctions

  04.25.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  Before I collected Quistgaard’s work, before I collected other Danish Modern, I collected Martini Shakers. My collection started in the mid-to-late 90s when I was living in New York City, making very little, and getting interested in mid-century design.  There were a ton of cool stores in NYC and flea markets every weekend and I [...]

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  Pantone Pepper Mills

  01.21.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  I rarely post about pepper mills besides Danish Modern pepper mills because, frankly, I don’t care too much about grinding pepper per se.  But, these are some cool new ones put out by the nice people at Pantone. Pantone is famous for defining colors for designers and anyone else who needs colors accurately defined.  They [...]

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  JanSport Heritage Series

  01.08.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  Although I am more often found on my sofa these days than hiking in the back country, I have always had a love for the outdoors, and an even greater love for outdoor equipment design.  This started back in the day when I was a Boy Scout and got my first backpack.  I did a [...]

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  Vintage Electronics Soccer Ball

  11.14.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Super cool soccer ball with illustrations of vintage electronics found at Old Navy.  Includes a boom box, turntable, synth, mixer, floppy drive, and much more.  Enjoy the photos.

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  Hacking some IKEA Stools

  11.12.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  IKEA is one of my favorite stores, I love it each and every time I go there.  With each visit comes infinite ideas.  Sometimes it’s just about using their products in my home, but often they are about how one could change or improve upon their products to make them more fun, higher quality, or [...]

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