Okay, I want this game. I think it’s such a fun way to play on your touchscreen and still use your brain.
Also featured were these awesome crayola pens. How fun would it be to write with these?
From Trendhunter
On Wednesday, Andy and I went to the Cincinnati Art Museum to see the exhibit China Design Now. (The link goes to a different museum, but it’s the same show.) It tells the story of design in China, focusing the story through three cities: Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Beijing.
I really liked the first part best (Shenzhen: the beginning of graphic design in China in the 1980s and 1990s) and Andy liked the last part best (Beijing: architecture — each exhibit featured a proposed model of the building/area, and then photographs of the reality). There was some fashion and some product design in the middle that neither of us were wild about. Overall, though, it was quite nice.
We also came across a solo exhibit of Ryan McGinness’s work. This particular show featured blacklight art, meaning the paintings were done with metallic and fluorescent paints and then viewed in the dark via blacklights.
As it turns out, Mr. McGinness went to our alma mater, Carnegie Mellon. It was cool to see the work of a fellow alum, especially since he’s so young and already apparently experiencing a good amount of success.
Student Andy Mangold sent in his redesign of the classic Monopoly game:
Isn’t it beautiful?! Too bad little kids mostly want screaming colors and star bursts and such. Although I do think my sense of aesthetics was developed enough as a child — i.e., I was the snotty daughter of two architects — that I would have preferred this.
Anyway, check out the original post at The Dieline for his reasoning and more photos.
I think I know what my writing nook needs…
Cute lamp, huh?
(Via The Dieline.)
I don’t exactly picture this going up in an executive office, but I bet a number of creative-type folks wouldn’t mind a cute little light like this in their workspace.
I saw these “Nature Exploration Agate Notebooks” on Dooce’s holiday gift guide (seriously, does everyone do a holiday gift guide? should we?!) and thought, Ooo, Angie would love these!
Then I clicked and saw they were from Nantaka Joy. OH. NO WONDER.
As a change from food and beauty, I wanted to show these cute, simple labels and bags for Tatico. (Sorry the pictures are so small! Screengrabs, eh…) Tatico is a line of 100% organic cotton tees for babies. More info and another photo after the jump.
I absolutely adore these home goods from Etsy store Joom. I think each piece has its own personality… Sophisticated, sweet, and simple, respectively.
Believe it or not, she has plenty of other colors in her store. There are also flowers and other patterns instead of birds. These were just the pieces I happened to be drawn to. Not sure what that says about me… (Although I suppose it makes total sense given the current JBU layout!)
As you well know, I am a lover of paper. This means that I have a personal collection of scraps of paper that I think are cool, random graphic design pieces and notebooks. I also have been buying little gifts from Sweet Charity for years. So I was giddy to purchase these Vera Wang Fine Papers (took a while to find online might I add) cards when I saw them in little booklet they sent in the mail. As soon as I saw these beautifully laser cut cards, I wanted to have them in my hands and subsequently send some to good friends.
Sweet Charity only has one blue and one orange (I think I love the orange the most) left and I’m in turmoil because they’re almost $40 per box. Even though that equates to $4 per card, which is reasonable considering how much individual cards cost, $80 for 20 or even $40 for a 10 is even a little much for me. What do you think: buy or not buy?
Okay, their Web site is not the best I’ve ever seen, but I really liked the look of the Skin Therapie packaging. This line was designed by Graham Hanson, whose Web site is just fine.
I don’t think it’s for sale, but a friend of my coworker created this coffee table inspired by the iPhone. (Images via iLounge)
Coasters built in!
I have to admit, I probably wouldn’t buy this for myself — doesn’t exactly fit my home decor, you know? — but I’m sure a lot of hardcore Mac junkies would. Or how cool would it be in the lounge of a compsci department on a campus??
