A reimagining of a classic. Designer Andrew Clifford Capener has created the A-1 Scrabble designer edition which features your choice of fonts and a scrabble board and interior box are made out of solid walnut, and the exterior box is made from birch. Each of the 6 board pieces is…
Auto Art
I met my very first industrial designer when I was about 16. Well, to be fair, he was really just a an 18 year old kid getting ready to go off to Pratt Institute in New York to study Industrial Design. Either way, as a career choice, it was something…
It’s The Best
One of the great things about the end of a year (beside the excitement of the fresh start awaiting you when that clock strikes midnight on the 31st), is the year-end list. There’s best movies of 2010, best albums, best books, best games, best, well, you get the idea. There…
What’s The Big Idea?
The teaser on the cover of the National Geographic was “Little Ideas That Can Change The World.” And yeah, it sometimes is that simple, isn’t it? A tiny notion that leads to something huge. There’s a Peter Gabriel song I like a lot called Mercy Street. There’s a line in…
Making Room
I’m currently living in approximately 700 square feet of living space. It’s small, but not unbearable. There’s something very comforting about knowing exactly how much stuff I can cram in here at any given time. Old magazines? I’m sorry you’ll have to go. Excessive knickknacks? No, not so much. It’s…