The latest in all design-related disciplines from all over the world.
In breaking car news, Honda Type R loyalists and gearheads everywhere are drooling all over the new next-generation Civic Type R, as they should. The brushed aluminum vehicle, just unveiled at the 2016 Mondial de L’Automobile in Paris, is wonderfully wicked looking and coming to America to kick some asphalt. Read more
Hungarian photographer and retoucher Flora Borsi has added three new images to her Animeyed collection, a series of unique digitally manipulated self-portraits, that previously existed of six. Read more
In San Antonio, Texas lies a barber shop where the customers are getting a cut above the rest. Portraits of famous athletes, artists and celebrities are adeptly shaved into heads by the clipper-yielding hands of a talented, tattooed Barber/Artist known as “Rob The Original.” Read more
Snapchat, the popular social media app, has changed their company name to Snap, Inc and has just launched their first piece of hardware, a totally new type of camera. It’s a small wireless video camera embedded in sunglasses and they call them Spectacles. Read more
Tonight is the 2016 Presidential debate between Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican candidate Donald Trump. It’s one that I’m certain most of the world will be watching. At least they ought to. That said, here’s a look at key moments and summaries of all the televised Presidential Debates since the first aired in 1960. Read more
A lot of design blogs were buzzing about the Reindeer Moss Clock concept last year. The wall-mounted clock whose face is covered with real reindeer moss from Norway has changed a bit since then and here’s the latest. Read more
Rio, a collaboration between by Morgan Studio & Studio Integrate, combines traditional furniture craft with innovative 3D printed components. Read more
I was very happy to see that the New York Times recently featured the photographic work of Julie Blackmon, one of my personal favorites. For me, her work is as if an early Sally Mann mated with Stephen Shore. The Missouri-born and raised photographer is the oldest of nine children, and the mother of three, which is instrumental to her take on the world around her. Read more
Philip Johnson’s Glass House and the landscape surrounding it has been transformed by artist Yayoi Kusama. Three separate works of art; Narcissus Garden, PUMPKIN and Dots Obsession – Alive, Seeking for Eternal Hope by the Japanese Artist have been incorporated into the architectural icon and its surrounding meadow. Read more
The Carolina Reaper Madness Chip is from Texas-based Paqui, makers of gourmet gluten-free tortilla chips. It is made with the hottest chili pepper on the planet, measuring over 1.5 million units on the Scoville Heat Scale. It’s so hot, it’s sold only ONE chip at a time, cleverly packaged in a coffin. Read more