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Here’s a win-win-w1n solution for safety, keeping the weight and gizmos to a minimum, and looking cool. Epic Bike has embedded five LED lights into a seat post. Water-resistant and theft-resistant (with a little common sense) lights that last a minimum of 50 hours on two AA batteries. [ epic bike ]
Give the gift of creativity. Give the gift of design. DesignApplause has two(2) gift ideas lists. [our e-zine] [our objects]
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A discreet yet powerful accessory. The PowerPod by Scott Miller and MINIMAL is designed to be a dual function tray and power outlet.
At first glance, you see whatever is contained in the three triangular compartments. However, remove the upper part of the accessory tray from the base and you have smart tabletop access to six power outlets. Other features include an energy-saving on/off switch with an indicator light to reduce vampire power consumption, a built in surge-suppression and integrated circuit breaker. The neutral milk and silver finish melds with nearly any room décor.
Full dimensions: 6” x 5.86” Max Load: 120V, 15A, 60HZ Voltage Protection rating: 400V Surge Energy Rating: 1700 Joule
designer: scott wilson, minimal
producer: coalesse
material: aluminum
period: 2010
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ACME Studios was founded in Los Angeles in 1985 by Adrian Olabuenaga and his wife, Lesley Bailey. ACME made its first appearance with a limited edition collection of jewelry designed for them by Peter Shire, the LA-based member of the world renowned Memphis Group. Soon after the initial debut, ACME released a large collection of over one hundred pieces, ‘Memphis Designers’ for ACME, with the help of writer Barbara Radice and designer/architect, Ettore Sottsass. Little did Adrian and Lesley know that this collection would dramatically change the jewelry industry the same way the Memphis Group’s furniture changed the design world.
smudge stick | peter shire
playhouse | frank lloyd wright
sorry | emiliana design
In 1997, ACME released its first collection of fine writing tools. Always on the cutting edge of design, ACME’s writing tools revolutionized a new concept in the pen industry. Having collaborated with hundreds of top designers over the years, ACME has secured a place in both the pen industry as well as the design industry. The company makes products and accessories designed by the world’s foremost architects, designers, and artists. Acme has been nominated for multiple design awards including the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award. ACME Studios writing instruments are well designed with a comfortable weight and shape. Pens are constructed using metal barrels with hand applied color images – the finest lacquers are used. Quality manufacturing is demonstrated by metal-to-metal threading. [ acme studio ] [ store locator ]
The following museum shops sell Acme online.
Cooper Hewitt Design Museum | New York NY
Indianapolis Museum of Art | Indianapolis IN
Institute of Contemporary Art Boston | Boston MA
National Building Museum | Washington DC (acme product inventory low. call 202.272.7706 for help)
Toledo Art Museum | Toledo OH
Photographer Ezra Stoller is best known for his photographs of iconic modern architecture. But a new book on his work also shows other sides to his work, including interiors of factories and offices and close ups of equipment and people. It is edited by Nina Rappaport and accompanied by essays.
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20 plates! Each one features a different city’s downtown core printed on a black background. Key buildings are represented with red icons, while rivers and public spaces are shown in blue and green. Comes gift-boxed with a printed key. Size: 12-inch [ national building museum ] [ not neutral ]
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This year ditch the popsicle stick art and put down the plastic googly eyes and pine cones and deck your halls right. We like to trim our tree with a collection of ornaments we’e designed and made ourselves as well as few store bought pieces, which can be really hit or miss. To save you time hunting down those elusive, not horrendously ugly mass produced ornaments, we’ve made a list of our six favorite picks.
Themis Mobile Mono, Artecnica (above) Though technically not an ornament, we’d love to decorate exclusively with Clara von Zweigbergk’s cheery geometric constellations.
Pantone Christmas Ornament, Cooper-Hewitt Shop. Buck the tired red and green motif with ornaments in your favorite Pantone colors.
Astro Ornament, CB2. A flocked, retro astroid ornament makes for a very midcentury Christmas.
Felt Ball Garland, Crate & Barrel. You could easily make this yourself, and with better colors, too, but if you’re short on time chances are there’s a Crate & Barrel not too far away.
Flock Together Ornament, ABC Home. Wooden ornaments make for a nice mix of materials on typically glass-heavy trees.
Elf Mobile Ornament, MoMA Store. Time design by Bent Knudeen, 1953
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Make Design Matter – new book by David Carlson, founder of David Report.
Make Design Matter is a little Red Book that presents a pocket-size guide to meaningful design. Seven stepping-stones that help you cross the stream of change, and get you to the other side, firm and dry. The guide is an important iterative and strategic approach based on holistic thinking, shared wisdom, and reflective insights, and will help you to make design better – and matter!
Make Design Matter is published by BIS publishers. The book is available from leading online market places and book stores around the world. You can also buy your personal copy from the BIS publishers online shop.
You will find further info about the book at the dedicated Make Design Matter webpage.
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65 years ago famed Italian cyclist, Cino Cinelli, retired from professional cycling and founded his eponymous bicycle manufacturing company. Credited with setting the standards for frame and component design, “Cinelli has led the evolution of professional cycling and defined the ideal of the classic bicycle: from the classic Supercorsa racing frame to the cutting-edge MASH fixed-gear pursuit bikes ubiquitous on the urban riding scene.”
Cinelli has remained at the forefront of parts manufacturing with boundary-pushing products like the first plastic racing saddle and the controversial Spinaci handlebar, which was banned from professional competition. The company has also sought input from well known cyclists, designers and artists such as Keith Haring, who contributed the record-breaking Laser bike.
The company, now located in San Francisco, has just released a tribute to Cinelli’s legacy. Published by Rizzoli, Cinelli: The Art and Design of the Bicycle, includes a conversation between fashion designer Sir Paul Smith and Cinelli president Antonio Colombo as well as over 200 pages of two-wheeled eye candy.
In Stripes: Design Between the Lines, writer and design expert Linda O’Keeffe explores the lineage of lines as they shape culture, art, and style. The illustrations create a rollicking visual ride while the accompanying text—by turns witty and weighty—shows how these potent, sometimes-charged symbols have even changed the course of world history. [ amazon ] [ barnes & noble ]
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