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![Designing custom currencies [Future Blog: Design Hotels]
There is a trend taking place currently in local communities and regions creating custom-designed currency and putting it into circulation. While we are not sure about the logic and functinality of these new currencies, we love to see the designs that some communities are coming up with.](http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_korfvtYO6G1qz8k03o1_500.jpg)
Designing custom currencies [Future Blog: Design Hotels]
There is a trend taking place currently in local communities and regions creating custom-designed currency and putting it into circulation. While we are not sure about the logic and functinality of these new currencies, we love to see the designs that some communities are coming up with.
Designer Karim Rashid crafted the bottle. Check him out with the inventors of the Iiamo in this publicity photo. No, seriously, check him out. Or the New York shots with graffiti or in the subway. If you are wondering whether you’re still on Earth, your baby is not hip enough for this bottle.
Here is some reaction according to the Daily Mail:
“If you’re a mum or dad who’s bottle feeding a baby and…
Brooklyn Designs was a bit smaller this year overall, but it was bigger for two exhibitors: Argington and Casa Kids by Roberto Gil. These two had big spaces which were outside the hall and facing the street, making it easy to see their new stuff. While we don’t generally feature folks we’ve featured before (we look for new stuff), these two had some really nice new designs for design minded parents….
BKLYN Designs starts tomorrow and we couldn’t be more excited! Running from May 8-10, this awesome showcase of local furniture design kicks off NY Design Week, and is one of our favorite events of the year. We’ll be pressing our noses up against the glass bright and early tomorrow morning and - as soon as doors open - racing around to see all the fabulous eco-friendly furniture on display, so we…
3rd Ward invites you to Green Bikes Birthday Block Party. For their 3rd birthday, if you purchase a 3rd Ward membership you get a free custom-designed bike to go with it! To celebrate they’ve taken over Stagg street for a day of mayhem. Compete in a drag race, bring a t-shirt for live screenprinting, take a workshop, or just come for the fun. Live Music from: The Wild Yaks, Pterodactyl, Afuche, Aa, Lam, DJ Drew Heffron, DJ Grizzly…BV is a joint project of casaCARA and Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn. Look for it every Thursday on both sites.
ROBERT FARRELL, an architect and interior designer, has lived since the mid-1990s in a 600 square foot rental on the ground floor of a Carroll Gardens row house, with lumpy plaster walls and a tiny, tubless bathroom.
He stays mainly for the garden, a fifty-foot swath of lawn at the end of…
This past Thursday, April 23, four teams made up of third-year Master’s of Architecture students from Columbia GSAPP, Parsons The New School, Pratt Institute, and City College of New York (CCNY) competed against each other in an hour-long design competition to propose a sustainable design solution for the DUMBO archway. After several years of being used as a storage facility, the archway has re-opened for public use. The…
See, Magis? You can make plastic-looking furniture for kids without using ecologically damaging petrochemicals.
At Milan 2009, the Swedish architecture and design firm Claesson Koivisto Rune is debuting a compostable [!?] plastic children’s chair called Parupu, which is Japanese for “pulp.” Because the chair is made from a combination of paper pulp and PolyLactide, the kind of…
![New York City’s Administrative Code Book as Infographics [information aesthetics]
According to a story in the New York Times, for many (foreign) street vendors, understanding the regulations that govern their trade is a really difficult prospect. Instead, the group attempted to design a brochure that uses as little language as possible to spell out the most critical pieces of the city’s administrative code book. This graphical poster is the 3rd in a series of similar handbooks published by the Street Vendor Project. The others are a guide to Social Security and a map of cargo shipping networks in North America.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/1tnUCMVqXmetc42lDWrQMqgAo1_500.jpg)
New York City’s Administrative Code Book as Infographics [information aesthetics]
According to a story in the New York Times, for many (foreign) street vendors, understanding the regulations that govern their trade is a really difficult prospect. Instead, the group attempted to design a brochure that uses as little language as possible to spell out the most critical pieces of the city’s administrative code book. This graphical poster is the 3rd in a series of similar handbooks published by the Street Vendor Project. The others are a guide to Social Security and a map of cargo shipping networks in North America.
A pioneer in eco-conscious design and a leader in green marketing, Cardboardesign is a company that makes furniture and home accessories out of recycled honeycomb cardboard. In partnership with an advertising agency, Cardboardesign created a promotional campaign entitled ‘The Cardboard Speaks.’ Cardboardesign developed a series of cardboard thought bubbles, which all had witty phrases like, “One man’s trash is…
From the folks at PBS Kids, it’s “Conjunction Junction” for the info vis set. Although, I’m sure some of my colleagues would take issue with the 3D pie charts. via: Information Design Watch
It’s true, I am constitutionally incapable of passing up a chance to make an Airplane! reference.
It’s also true that Jenn from Minor Details is doing some major Spring Cleaning, which means clearing out her private hoard of vintage children’s furniture, toys, and design. Saturday and Sunday, April 25-6, at her DUMBO studio. Check the site for details and a preview of the loot: there are some Cosco car seat/chairs [alas, none with rocker…
Wow, awesome. While poking around a bit more on urban planner/architect/playground designer Richard Dattner’s PlayCubes concept—which, according to the 2000 monograph of Dattner’s work, seems to be doing just fine, thanks—I found this: Habitots.
And this is what we know so far about Habitots: a single photo in the book, with a tiny caption, “the Habitot unit preceded the PlayCubes.” Unlike PlayCubes, which are for…
