It’s like having a window of escape in your own home. These door sticker/wallpapers at Couture Deco (for US$199) are a lovely way to dream and get away, without going anywhere at all. Customize to fit in the proper space with scissors and use wallpaper glue to adhere to the wall. I’m afraid I’d actually try […]
Hotel Costa Verde in Costa Rica has “most exclusive hotel suite in Costa Rica.” The fully outfitted, meticulously detailed, two bedroom, Boeing 727 fuselage suite. We have refurbished a vintage 1965 Boeing 727 airframe, which in its prior life shuttled globetrotters on South Africa Air and Avianca Airlines (Colombia). Our 727 home features two air […]
Remember when you were yelled at as a kid for eating your crayons? Well now you can! Crayon (made of food!) is a set of food bars made by Luxirare. Crushing up various foods of the same color family and using marshmallow to hold the ingredients together, crayons are formed in a mold. The flavors are based on […]
Pick a recipe for your kitchen or bath from their website and Design in a Bag will send you a kit (for about US$100) with samples of your personalized selection. What a great semi-DIY concept, making good design accessible to everyone! Medill kitchen recipe. On the Design in a Bag website, you can browse online galleries of […]
Did you ever realize that there’s an insane variety of rice products in the Chinese diet?! Rice porridge (congee), dumplings, noodles, and buns are just a handful. Truly a staple, starting with a breakfast food like congee, “flavored with all manner of additions such as salted eggs, pickled vegetables, meat, or seafood,” and rice dishes […]
Just the start of a funny collection of photos of nothing I’d see in the States: Beijing, China (courtesy of my classmate Tim. Thank you!) Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 在亚洲的街上休息休息：这几张照片就是开始的系列。真有意思，在美国没见过。
I started a project attempting to etch glass… When starting it, I didn’t realize it would be so simple! The vinyl sticker material used to make the stencil was the hardest part to master. If you’re trying this, a few trials should do the trick to familiarize yourself with how the material cuts with an […]
Bacon!! Mo’s Bacon Bar, to be exact. I had a taste of this mini-chocolate bar the other day and the salty, sweet flavor was pretty good! I think it was the novelty of the product more than the chocolate itself that made it delicious. Funny how that works. Regardless, along with the infused bacon flavor […]
Found in Danshui (淡水), a port city north of Taipei, Taiwan: “禁止设摊” (Jin4 zhi3 she4 tan1) translates to “It’s forbidden to set up a vendor’s stand” I suppose as long as you are not directly selling the items from this public space, it’s perfectly acceptable to use the space for storage or display of your vending […]
Coming across this very humorous series of infotoons on Flickr, I was oddly reminded of the absolutely most delicious hotdog I’d ever had; it was at Japadog during my trip to Vancouver. The streetfood cart of hotdogs called Japadog was amazing! No wonder when we first tried to line up, we waited nearly 10 min and […]
Lacie‘s “iamaKey” USB key is lovely! Lately, I’ve been busy backing up photos and reorganizing files. With the USB always with the house keys, iamaKey would be perfect for my absent-mindedness of always forgetting something.. haha.
Last night DesignMuseumBoston hosted an event in collaboration with Office Environments of New England to not only eat, drink, and meet some wonderful people, but to also give some background and insight into what the Design Museum is trying to accomplish. In addition to opening nomadic and ever-changing ‘pop-up museums’ in empty store fronts, DesignMuseumBoston […]
These posters are some very creative AT&T cell phone advertisements, using only a phone and painted hands that represent a place or object significant to a worldwide location. I wonder who did these and if the series is a concept or if this campaign of “Best Coverage Worldwide” has already been launched…? As beautiful as […]
It’s true that our lives revolve more and more around electronics and it’s peculiar that cord management of all our electronics has really become an issue for us! I love travel accessories and MI-O cell phone cradle via YankoDesign helps manage all those cords when charging your cell phone, so they aren’t dangling all over the place. There’s […]
I was going through some old magazines and travel guides, coming across this article of 30 must visit places in Hong Kong. Check out my previous post on Shanghai Tang. And I have really only been to a handful of these places listed in my many visits to Hong Kong; I’m ashamed… Which is your […]
Designboom has just launched a version of it’s site in Chinese with translations of the same original English content! (Though, I can’t seem to match the content up…) Anyways, have a look at the chinese version http://cn.designboom.com :) Designboom 现在有中文的网站！看看。
Jan Chipchase writes a short entry about the failure and successes of color-changing diapers that alert parents of a wet diaper (or nappy): Yellow nappy stripes – a familiar, comforting sight for parents indicating that the contents of the container/nappy are dry – with a few drops of liquid the stripes turn blue. Whilst it […]
I’m loving the fresh fruits and veggies of summer time. And coming across this collection at Toxel made me smile wide :) The natural food colors and not so natural colors from packaging are so vibrant. I wonder how Linda Lundgren decided and picked which colors go where, like grapefruit as red and fish as […]
What’s a scratch map you ask? My Scratch Map is like scratching a lottery ticket after you’ve traveled somewhere (perhaps you’ll want to win some lottery tickets to fund your exotic trip…haha) A subtle way to showcase (or show off) the many places in the world you’ve visited. Reveal the colors under the gold foil by […]
I took this photo during my trip to Nanjing only as a way to document my walk that day and the things I’d seen. Looking at the photo again, now, I’m not quite sure what’s going on here…There’s something really intriguing to me to know what daily life is like for this lady. Definitely hanging […]