Design

Phrase of the day: Chemical amnesty

Now you can cleanse your soul and not just your floors.  Do-gooder soap-maker Method has a established a “chemical amnesty” program at its newly opened New York pop-up store.  As the always informative PSFK Trends Digest reports, “New Yorkers can bring in their old chemical-based products and exchange them for Method goodness–and M-fans can buy 5 products […]


Before you brake, my heart

Jalopnik offers up a clever example of emotionally intelligent signage.    (HT: Edatrix)  


Reynolds’s rap

Garr Reynolds, author of one of the year’s hottest and most valuable business books, Presentation Zen,has put together a very cool slide presentation that summarizes Johnny Bunko. | View | Upload your own  


Fashion meets technology?

A few months ago, Michael Dell – the newly returned CEO of his eponymous computer company – said, “We are in the fashion business.” Yowza. Add another notch on design’s bed post.   Now, according to the FT, Microsoft has issued a research paper with the unlikely title “Fashion meets technology: Welcome to the future of PCs.” The paper’s author, Nadine […]


Stamp of recognition

Legendary designers Charles and Ray Eames will get another well-deserved tribute this summer when the US Postal Service issues this set of 16 stamps. (HT: John Berry)

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