Seth Godin recently reposted In Search of Meaningful, an article he wrote six years ago when the New York Times first instituted their paywall. It’s about what kind of digital content is truly valuable and worth paying for. He asked three questions to self-test the value of the content you/we are producing or are reading:
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Looking for ways to jazz up wood decking? Studio Weave has designed a new roof terrace for London College of Fashion’s gallery space, adding brightly coloured decking and seats. Says Studio Weave’s Eddie Blake: The whole thing was done with reference to basket weave – trying to make timber look as if it’s woven. The timber is…
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Stumbled on at Mondo-blogo: a great little adhoc chair repair. In addition to the cat’s-cradle-ish string design, we imagine numerous possibilities for fixing the seat of this bentwood chair carcass, using many of the materials we’ve come across over the years…
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One of the benefits of meditation is that it quiets the mind, allowing us to hear “the still small voice within”. Recently, our friend Chris Eldredge reported a surprising message that came through at the end of his morning meditation He said the vibe was simple, nonjudgmental, clear… Ha!
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We’ve often viewed ourselves are being computer-like at times, especially when information overload occurs, causing the definite need to SHUT DOWN, which we usually do by taking a nap. When we reboot, it’s usually with a clearer head. Graphic designer Victoria Siemer, who often goes by the moniker Witchoria, has created Human Error, a series of emotional computer…
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We recently stumbled in this image of French fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld’s 1970’s Paris bathroom which interests us for its vision of bathroom as parlour or even work space. It includes a sitting area with Panton chairs around a mirror table by the tub. The room is filled with mirrors and posters. We love seeing…
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The quest for a restful night’s sleep can feel like an impossible dream, particularly for urban apartment dwellers or those who share tight living quarters and a noisy town. How to shut off the world – and the kitchen – to grab some privacy and nourishing shut-eye to help maintain emotional and mental balance, can be an…
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This past week, after we accompanied a dear friend through a dire emergency in the hospital, we witnessed the many ways that friends and strangers “lent a hand” with what seemed like an overwhelming amount to handle. Neighbors put groceries in our fridge, friends brought dinner to the hospital, some, like Maria Robledo, sent us images that…
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If this gif doesn’t show up, click HERE to see it full size. Televandalist created this inspired “GIF of a Vine of a video of a flipbook of a GIF of a video of a roller coaster”. It was created using Flipbookit. It is exactly how we felt last week during our friend’s hospital emergency. Seeing…
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Our old friends from the food world Frances Boswell and Dana Gallagher have teamed up to create a lovely labor-of-love blog called Kitchen Repertoire. Their simple mandate is a breath of fresh air: We are 20 year veterans of the magazine industry; a food editor and a photographer. We live real lives with kids and…
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During the week we spent looking after a friend in the hospital, we found ourselves applying design thinking to many little ways to make our friend comfortable. Like many prototypes, the phone table we’d devised needed tweaking after it had actually been put to use. We asked ourselves: What problem do we need to solve? and then What can we use to solve this problem?.
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This image of trees that appear to be unexpectedly cracking through the deck, got us thinking about the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi and modernism, and just how the two relate.
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Last Friday morning, we were blasted out of our normal routine by a call from a friend in dire straits. After a harrowing ER visit and 6 nonstop days at the hospital, we are are delighting in the ordinary joys we missed: the miraculous everyday. The scent of linden is in the air. Perhaps tomorrow we’ll collect linden blossoms and leaves to make some tea.
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(Video link HERE.) I was bogged down today in a creative funk, head-buttingly blocked, wandering in a dark wood, wrestling with a component for a necklace that is carved from clear, rock crystal so that it seemed, well… simply invisible. How do you showcase something invisible? I recalled something I’d read in an interview long ago with…
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After we wrote about Holton Rower’s ingenious invisible magnetic wall for easily displaying art and photographs, a reader alert us to this iteration of a magnetic wall panel. Luis Pons Design lab created magnetic wallpaper i.e. a magnetic panel that could be afixed to a wall. It allows anyone to move a fine metal mesh over the panel…
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In the midst of our recent hospital siege, we received a number of very cool emails from friends and readers. This one from Ellen Silverman: So often we forget to look up, especially in a congested public space. This afternoon as we were saying goodbye to Luca in terminal 4 at JFK, Josh happened to…
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A couple of days ago, a dear friend called early in the morning having difficulty breathing and asking us to meet him at the imaging center the doctor advised. The results of the CT-scan had us accompanying our friend to the Emergency Room where we spent nine hours navigating his serious distress with a cellphone that…
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It is peak pea season and we can’t think of a better, easier, more delightful way to eat them than this simple recipe from Canal House Cooking Volume No. 3: Winter & Spring. Unshucked peas-in-their-pods are cooked in a hot cast-iron skillet until blistered. Then you just salt and eat: the perfect hors d’oeuvre for a summer…
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Artist Robert Dolan intended to make a tee shirt for a young man with leukemia who is now in remission. He made a history of his creative process for a grammar school art class to show the twists, turns, and often messy failures that he went through to arrive at…Plan B. Not a tee shirt,…
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These charming little structures got us thinking about beach shelters. Of late we’ve seen some pretty chic, pricey ones, like Sombrilla Beach Tent for $189. It’s based on a simple, classic structure, one of many you can make yourself.
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