Just because

Just posting to post - I drew this.

Shine a Light

I love the simplicity of this light. It looks great for camping and will fit in anyones backpack, not to mention the Tom's shoes business model. I like to see equity make it's way into a viable business model. http://www.luminaidlab.com/index

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Occupy Portland getting Evicted Live

I know this isn't design but I think it's something worth sharing.

http://www.koinlocal6.com/content/live/default.aspx

DIY minimalist desk

Even though we have an office, sometimes we need two desks at the same time. There is a little space next to the bed, about 30" wide, that could be used to solve this problem. I'm looking for a minimalist desk that I can build myself with minimalist tools (we don't have a power-anything).

It would also be great to have a little drawer for chapstick, etc.

Here is the space (don't worry, new bedding is on it's way).

And here is some inspiration.

Wall-Mounted Desk -MASHstudios

Shifty - Daniel Schofield

Maggi's Minimalist Oak Desk - Design Sponge

Boxoffice - chris&ruby

Storch - Nando Schmidlin

Thoughts?

 
 Now it's time for a little self promotion. I think this is one of Sister's favorite.
www.davidapatterson.com

CAD vs Pencil

As a design industry professional I've been wrestling with the argument of CAD vs Pencil and it's the same discussion over and over again.  Finally someone has figured out a new way to answer that question. http://www.daltonmghetti.com/

Occupy Design

So I've been following the Occupy Wall street movement wondering what I can do as a designer to support  those out there standing up for us all. After a little searching I came across occupydesign.org.  As described on their website,

"Occupy Design is a grassroots project connecting designers with on-the-ground demonstrators in the Occupy Togethermovement. The project’s goal is to create freely available visual tools around a common graphic language to unite the 99%. The project places an emphasis on producing infographics and icons to improve the communication of the movement’s messages and the data surrounding them across the world."

It's either this or I start designing locally built, gluten free, vegan tents.

The Knife Maker

I really like when people find what they are good at and take pride in there craft. That's exactly what Joel over at Cut Brooklyn did when his writing career turned out to be less than lucrative.  Check out this great video over at http://thisismadebyhand.com/. I had know idea a chef's knife had five different lines.