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Barkitecture - Dog House Design 2008-08-27 01:12:16 I believe the term “Barkitecture” is now an official entry in Webster’s dictionary and refers to “designer” doggie houses. I don’t know what kind of dog house your dog had when you were growing up, but when I was a kid, the choices in style and design were pretty slim. You could choose [...] Read more:House
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Design Competitions 2008-08-26 13:45:55 A few weeks ago, Eler sent me a link to a graphic design competition and wanted the two of us to submit an entry together. Well, I never got back to her in time, and now we’ve missed the deadline for submission. Actually, I think as I write this that there are three [...] Read more:Competitions
Coffee Time! 2008-08-25 17:56:43 If you had just met me and wanted to know something about me, I’d tell you about my love for, and addiction to, coffee. Anyone who knows me, knows that coffee is my preferred beverage - whether it’s the middle of summer and 104 degrees outside or the dead of winter when it’s below [...] Read more:Coffee
Hand-made making a comback? 2008-09-20 04:59:14 Annie Deakin, of The Independent, writes about “craft is back”. The London Design Festival is not laden with conversation about sleek upscale design and technology, but with talk of the hand-made, quality craftsmanship forgotten since the age of the machine and mass production.
Move over mass production. The churned out home wares of the high [...] Read more:making
Labeling a building “Green” doesn’t make it so. 2008-09-20 04:04:12 The hype around the concept of “green” is creating too many questionable buildings. Cathleen McGuigan, of Newsweek, rants about the trend of building green but actually missing the point entirely, way too often.
When it comes to green, people don’t want to hear that size matters. We keep building not just bigger entertainment complexes but [...] Read more:Green
Architecture Presentation Styles 2008-09-19 00:33:34 Image Source
When I was a student in architecture school, I often referred to other student presentation formats for ideas, inspiration, and innovation. I rarely presented a project that I was truly proud of regarding presentation format. I had a terrible habit of working too long on the design itself, leaving the presentation design [...] Read more:Architecture
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Wood Joinery Happiness! 2008-09-16 22:08:29 New freedoms in wood joinery techniques, thanks to technology. Wood joinery has always been a necessary design opportunity, but since these joints were traditionally created by hand, they were kept quite simple. Beautiful, but simple. With the availability of present day machines, routers and such, these joints can be made into intricate [...]
Test your color IQ 2008-09-16 21:53:28 This is a fun test to determine how well you visualize hues. I scored a 4. Supposedly the closer to zero you get, the better. So I hope this means I scored relatively decent. Take the quiz and post your scores here, if you want.
90 Creative Urban Furniture Designs 2008-09-16 20:50:08 The Web Urban
ist has compiled a list of crazy…um…creative furniture designs. For the complete list, please see his article here.
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Recycled Post - City in the morning 2008-09-13 21:45:27 I’ve recently relocated from a large city to a smaller one. In fact, I don’t even consider this “small city” a city at all. To me, it’s more like a large “town”. The town I currently reside in has a population of about 63,000 people versus my home city of about 650,000. [...] Read more:Recycled
Language 2008-09-13 18:14:38 The Language I speak defines me. It is the first factor (if we don’t take into account the long-played cliché of “love at first sight” which no one takes seriously these days anyway) of sophisticated contact with others, a tool that gives the stranger I meet on a long trans-atlantic flight the opportunity to evaluate [...]
Wow, Second Place wins first with us! 2008-09-09 13:49:23 Eler sent me a link to the 2006-07 Student Design Competition winners for the Cranbrook Academy of Art. This was a design competition we were going to participate in while we were still attending school. Unfortunately, due to student limitations in the ability to travel to the site, our class ended up choosing [...] Read more:Second
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On Productivity 2008-09-06 07:42:41 Ever have a day when you feel like you should not be allowed to communicate your thoughts to the world for the sake of maintaining the few standard signs of human intelligence for the generations to come? Well, some people need a monitor box that would sort, filter and cautiously release only the thoughts that [...] Read more:Productivity
Ever wonder what the internet looks like to a color blind user? 2008-10-08 23:26:12 My understanding of web design is extremely limited, which is probably painfully obvious with the design of this site. But I do try to avoid breaking a lot of rules. Something I have recently come across is an application that allows you to submit a website and filter the colors so that the [...] Read more:wonder
Essays For Fun - Part 1Mies, The Barcelona Pavilion, and The Tugendhat House 2008-10-06 17:58:33 This post, and the one (or maybe several) following it are essays written as an undergraduate. I thought I’d share them here because I’m struggling with ideas for new content lately and Eler has abandoned me for Germany so I can’t count on her for help or ideas. Poo.
Both essays contain the “topic [...] Read more:Barcelona
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Don’t forget your reusable bags! 2008-10-06 07:37:32 Having trouble trying to remember the reusable bags before you go shopping? The Green Routine has some tips for you.
I think we will soon be so used to carrying our reusable bags that it will become routine and habit, so we won’t have as much trouble remembering them. Check out the [...]
22 Bathroom Storage Ideas 2008-09-29 20:01:10 Redesigning your bathroom? No money for redesign but still searching for a nook to stash the Q-tips and extra toilet paper rolls? Check out Better Homes and Garden’s 22 Bathroom Storage Ideas list. The list offers great solutions for finding places in your bathroom which you can convert to storage, ways to [...]
Essays for Fun - Part 2 Gropius, The Bauhaus and it’s legacy. 2008-10-10 18:24:39 Topic Question:
The Bauhaus had a relatively short lifespan in comparison to most schools of architectural thought, design, and production. However, its impact on the modern movement was quite profound. Please explain how the Bauhaus came into being, its instructional theory, and its impact on modern architecture in the years following its demise. [...]
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