USC Architecture jumping on the dancing bandwagon?

Modern interpretive dance is now a prerequisite course.

Note to Gensler: think hard before hiring any graduates from USC (and test them on the spelling of Philip Johnson).

Photoshop gone wrong

Photoshop is every designer's fix-it-all. I use this tool all the time to make anything look better. But what happens when a simple touchup goes overboard? This Ralph Lauren ad has made this model's waist smaller than her head! Someone give her a cheese burger!

Click here for more Photoshop awesomeness...

IKEA humor

Love them or hate them, IKEA are the purveyors of cheap stylish DIY furniture.
What I do love about IKEA is their marketing. Watch on.

the ultimate LEGO house

A real two-storey house made of LEGO is being built in the middle of the Denbies Wine Estate, in Dorking (I am not kidding), U.K.

The house features a staircase and a working full bathroom. More than 3,000,000 LEGO pieces were delivered to the site, which are then used to build full sized bricks, each one consisting of 272 LEGO pieces, and stacked into place over the wood frame structure. Thousands of volunteers participated over the 6 days of constuction.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1203654/Thousands-Top-Gears-James-May-helping-hand-Lego-brick-house.html

Taxidermy is Back

http://www.meetsebastian.com/english/

Furniture you can take with you...

I always like twisted dark humor, so I found this piece of furniture very witty without being too obvious -- afterall you don't want to be labelled a Goth.

Shelves for Life is an ingenious piece of furniture designed by William Warren, a self-proclaimed conceptual designer, lateral thinker, and joker. It's whimsical, functional, and a total conversation piece. And, it's a bookcase that turns into a coffin.

LEGO goes architectural

LEGO has always been every architect's beloved childhood toy, so naturally architect Adam Reed Tucker has collaborated with The LEGO Group and the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation to release the Frank Lloyd Wright Collection - part of the LEGO Architecture series.

Click here to see the other landmarks in the LEGO Architecture series: http://www.dezeen.com/2009/05/26/frank-lloyd-wright-collection-by-adamreed-tucker-and-the-lego-group/#more-31214

Woof Woof!

3rd Annual Best in Show charity event benefitting the Downtown Animal Care Foundation - April 24th.

Everyone's invited!

http://www.modlivin.com/events.cfm

Two great tastes that tastes great together

“What if you were given the opportunity to re-imagine the AF1? We invited 18 innovators from across the world to do exactly that. This is Nike 1World.”

Nike 1World is a collection of AF1, created in partnership with global innovators in the fields of sport, music, art & design. Featuring 18 original styles, the Nike 1 World collection will release over the course of eight months and will see the AF1 once again explore new territory.

Nike Design selected Maharam to participate based on its distinct approach to textiles and its prominence in the world of interior and industrial design, in parity with Nike’s longstanding commitment to invention and innovation.

Maharam’s unique interpretation of the AF1 introduces a silhouette constructed of Layers, a textile created by the Maharam Design Studio in collaboration with Dutch industrial designer Hella Jongerius. Layers, produced in single and double layered variations in 100% wool felt, uses sophisticated full-width embroidery equipment played against artisanal hand-cutting to create patterning, resulting in an “industrial craft” hybrid.

This already complex textile was further engineered to meet the specific needs of the AF1. The result represents a multi-disciplinary undertaking, bridging disparate aspects of industrial design including sports technology, textile design and the conceptual avant-garde.

Layers is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Cooper-Hewitt.

More info on AF1: http://www.nike.com/af1
Available exclusively from Moss starting April 8:
http://www.mossonline.com/product-exec/product_id/45025

What's your score?

Try to draw simple geometric forms here.

Piece by piece...

Who didn't love Lego's as a kid...
and who would have thought it could be a six figure career?

Check out the website below for a slide show of work from Lego Builder Nathan Sawaya.

http://www.portfolio.com/careers/job-of-the-week/2008/08/17/Lego-Builder-Nathan-Sawaya

Bananas across the world

http://www.londonbananas.com/

Catch up on your flicks

All your favorite movies condensed to 30 seconds... oh, and reinacted by bunnies:

http://www.angryalien.com/