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Posts tagged “design”

The Mogg Blogg
The Guilty Pleasure of the Decorating World

If you have ever looked at the newest "it" chair and thought, "While I don't need a shedding chair, I can appreciate the effort it must have taken to get a yeti and a chair to procreate," you are not...

Type + Furniture = Beautiful Design

These tables grabbed our attention---as lovers of type, lucite furniture, and functional design as a whole, these hit the spot......

Is It A Rug Or A Radio?

This rug has a trick up it's sleeve (although we're pretty certain, rugs don't actually have sleeves). It picks up the radio waves with human contact! Check out a video of it in action after the jum...

Our Visit to the Concrete Countertop Workshop
Apartment Therapy Field Trip

A few weeks ago we had the chance to be a guest at a one day concrete countertop workshop at Cheng Concrete located in Berkeley. We took the workshop mostly out of curiosity and desire to learn more a...

Paper Art by Helen Musselwhite

A while back we posted about papergraphics by Yulia Brodskaya. Today we would like to share with you the amazing paper art creations of illustrator, Helen Musselwhite. More photos after the jump......

ReBurbia: A Suburban Design Competition
Dwell and Inhabitat

Suburbia. The word often sends chills down the likes of urban dwellers and those who envision a homogenized grid of bland, cookie-cutter homes. Conjuring images of the Stepford Wives and Tom Hanks goi...

Fun & Playful: Sarah Applebaum's Art

We have seen Sarah's art before in one of our house tours. This time around we explored her portfolio in much more detail. We collect vintage blankets for their fun designs and unusual color combinat...

Pattern People

It is safe to say that we have a great interest in color, pattern and texture. We actually get excited to see what colors next month's Muni passes are, and love mixing and matching patterns wherever p...

Good Quotes: Jennifer Morla

"Accidents often produce the best solutions… only you can recognize the difference between an accident and your original intent." -Jennifer Morla Jennifer Morla until recently, was the Chief ...

Urban Indigo

There’s a shop in Oakland that we keep hearing about, and we finally got the full scoop! Fresh from a successful trunk show of Kat Geiger’s gorgeous terrariums, Urban Indigo is a great hot spot fo...

AIA San Francisco Design Awards 2009

The San Francisco chapter of The American Institute of Architecture recently held its annual Design Awards ceremony honoring excellence in the field. Check out their top three picks after the jump......

Peter Raphael Russo Designs

What makes someone a "mastermind"? We couldn't say, but Peter Raphael Russo, with his transformations of Craigslist freebies into functional and fun furnishings, seems to fit the bill......

Good Quotes: From Street Artist Banksy

Some might scoff at heeding the advice of a graffiti artist, but this quote by Banksy is quite relevant when applied to the design of our own homes. Find out how after the jump......

Designing Dreams, Engineering Desire
Portland

We've blogged the "Designs on Portland" lecture series before, and we're consistently impressed with the topics they cover. This time, the focus is on design and technology, and the role they play in ...

Tin Light Kit

On the heels of such lively feedback on yesterday's Pin Light, here's another light design to sink your teeth into. It's not much really -- you provide your own shade....