Archive for September, 2006

Always Room for Something Cool – Piped music; no new wiring

MT-01 from Pioneer
This is so ridiculously cool that I can’t believe no one has come up with it before now. Pioneer is introducing a sound system that uses your existing electrical wiring to “pipe” music from room to room in your home. For vintage-house owners, this qualifies as a jackpot even with Pioneer’s undisclosed price. Solutions like this [...]

Why are cool mailboxes so bloody expensive?

expensive cool bobi mailbox
I get the idea of paying for design, for artistry, and not just materials and production costs of well-crafted items. I do. As a designer I understand that the price of an object includes the cost of creative struggle and experimentation. Knowing that, though, does not stop me from thinking $300 for [...]

Plyboo. Plyboooooo. Plyboo.

neopolitan plyboo at Smith & Fong
We saw these Plyboo folks at the Dwell on Design show the week before last. Ever since, the word “plyboo” has stuck in my head with a tenacity that rivals “La Bamba.”
I don’t know why, but before I saw Plyboo’s offerings, it had never occurred to me that one could make [...]

Bad Girls, Bad Girls, Whatcha gonna do…

women’s safety glasses at AO Safety
Okay so I know these safety glasses look kinda like the ones that particularly a-hole cops (You know the ones. They tend to be, like, volunteer sheriff’s deputies.) find de rigeur, but that’s not what’s important here. What is important is that they are designed for women: smaller profile, closer fitting, better [...]

Always Room for Something Cool – Rocket Cooler

retro cooler at signals
A little bit ago, a friend of mine was getting ready to throw a party that was going to require a LOT of festive libations. Rather than mix ‘em up one by one, she thought building them by the batch and dispensing them office water-cooler style would be the way to go. [...]