Tired of designing for consumption, Dina Amin employs her love of taking things apart and tinkering to create tiny videos that are charming and illuminating.
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Storage Cage Closets Then and Now
Was visionary designer Paul D’Urso’s 1980’s cyclone fence clothes closet the roots of Ikea’s recent iteration?
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Shopping Cart Lawn Chair/Lounger
The supermarket shopping cart has always seemed to us to be a splendid raw material, its metal-grid walls and sturdy wheels rich with possibilities. Artists have long been hacking shopping carts, transforming them into moderne, beautifully-designed objects of leisure.
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how to turn ugly electrical cords into a graphic element
Scraggly, unkempt electrical cords can be the bane a well-designed interior. At L’Ouvrier Restaurant in Toronto, black electrical cords are wound and tacked onto walls in spirally designs, turning a normally ugly element into something visually pleasing, without trying to hide it.
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‘objectified’ will change how you view the things around you
Pamela Hovland, who teaches design at Yale, emailed us about Objectified, a documentary by Gary Hustwit (who made Helvetica, a riveting film about a font). It’s about what REALLY goes into designing the things we take for granted around us, from toothbrushes to chairs to cars, and the ways design – both good and bad – impacts…
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