Herman Miller “Then x Ten” // Design Competition Winner Announced.Last month I wrote about an exciting poster competition run by our friends at Herman Miller. They received an overwhelming number of entries for the competition, which were narrowed down to just ten finalists chosen on the basis of being...
Karaköy Rooms by RunArchitects // Istanbul, Turkey.Karaköy Rooms is a boutique hotel with just nine rooms, situated in a century-old building overlooking the Bosphorous in Istanbul. Recently established Turkish agency RunArchitects have done a stellar job at balancing an elegant materials...
Verner Panton Interiors // Restaurant Varna & Spiegel Verlagshaus.In the way that you can’t have the saints without also having the devil, and you can’t have the Bachs without also having Mahler, you can’t have Asplund without also having Panton. He rightly occupies a space within the ranks of...
Herman Miller “Then x Ten” Exhibition & Design Competition.You guys know that I'm a massive design junky/ nerd/ tragic/ etc. Yes? I'm sad. Really sad. It is so easy to get me excited about amazing design initiatives, and this one is no exception. Herman Miller recently announced a brand new...
Wythe Hotel | Brooklyn, NYC.Located in Williamsburg, neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, recently opened Wythe Hotel offers up a huge dose of amazeballs with its superfine clash of vintage industrial and sleek modern. This 72-room hotel retains...
Painted Newspaper Prints by Evan Hecox.Dark Island is a series of mixed-media works by Denver-based artist Evan Hecox, currently on show at the Joshua Liner Gallery in New York City. Evan has a passion for exploring unfamiliar cities with his vintage Polaroid camera in hand,...
Mark Powell’s Bic Biro Drawings on Vintage Envelopes.Oh my! How craaaazy talented is Mark Powell? Talented with a capital T! Mark is a London-based artist who draws amazing portraits of the elderly on the backs of vintage envelopes using nothing more than a standard Bic Biro pen. Extremely...
Vintage Knoll Catalogue.What I love about much of Knoll’s furniture is that to me, it appears timeless. Paradoxically, what I enjoy most about these photos is that they are, without question, dated. These photos are a period piece. There’s a comfortable...
Design Free Thursday | Famous Photos Recreated With Lego.I am often amazed at all the crazy things people manage to think of, just like this weird and wonderful series of recreated iconic images. I am not exactly sure who was responsible for this work, but I am just going to assume that this was...
