Cooper Hewitt Exhibition - Fashioning Felt

More Felt!!

There will be an exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum in DC called Fashioning Felt that will run from March 6 to September 7, 2009. Apparently this show is going to run the full monty of felt, from historical examples to current innovations, from wearables to architecture. This is going to be so cool.

Josh Jakus and his kick ass line of purses

I love this line by Josh Jakus. Super cool. And the unzipped version looks so easy and simple too.

The Trashcanulator 2000!!

Check this out! This IKEA hack is a great little light box for only $10 to $15! Tanya Brown had this on her blog, but it has found its way all over the web. I found it here at Tacky Living. I think I'm going to make one this Christmas.

Egg Bibliography

Here is a list of websites I have perused over the past few weeks while I have been researching eggs:

Egg: Biology article, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_(biology)
Egg: Food Article, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_(food)
Egg Shell Energy Article, http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/eggpower.htm
1,000 Rings, http://books.google.com/books?id=NtXwT05_RU4C,
Peter Carl Faberge, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faberg%C3%A9_egg
Thomas Gentille, http://www.klimt02.net/exhibitions/index.php?item_id=4911
Seo Yoon Choi, Desire 1999
Sigurd Bronger, Egg ring
D-Vision, http://www.d-vision.co.il/151263, Motherbird
Lily Yung, http://www.lilyyung.com/, Necklace, 2005
Josh Jakus, http://www.joshjakus.com/, Eggflat
Paul Outerbridge, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Outerbridge,
Triumph of the Egg, 1932
Felt Artist Links, http://members.peak.org/~spark/feltlistFAQ.html
Egg spoons, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_spoon

d-vision

Whoa! Go check out this really cool Israeli design collective called d-vision. They take recent undergraduates and place them in their design collective as interns for two years. This piece is called motherbird. They have many other cool projects and their 'inspiration page' is really neat too. Go check it out!

Creative Caffeine: EGG-centered phrases

I decided to make a list of Egg-centered phrases and cliches, (which morphed in to recipe names and other bird centered phrases, idioms and lyrics), that we use in our everyday lexicon. If you have more feel free to add them in the comment section. :)

* Egg (someone) on
* Egg on (someone's) face
* A goose egg
* All your eggs in one basket
* Walking on egg shells
* Egg-head
* Bacon and eggs
* Sunny side up
* Playing chicken
* Why did the chicken cross the road?
* Chicken feed
* Chicken coop
* Fly the coop
* Chicken Little
* Chicken Nuggets
* Chicken wing
* S'matter? You Chicken?
* Chicken scratchings
* Hen and Chicks
* Chick peas
* Egg salad sandwich
* Chicken shit
* Chicken Little
* Spring Chicken
* Which came first? The chicken or the Egg?
* Scrambled eggs
* Eggs Benedict
* (Last one there is a) Rotten Egg
* A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush
* Duck, duck, goose
* Goose step
* Little Red Hen
* Henny Penny, and the rest...
* Eggo's
* Kentucky Fried Chicken; Churches Chicken
* Chicken a la king
* egging a house
* oeuf
* qui vole un oeuf vole un boeuf
* Omelette
* eats like a bird
* duck a l'orange
* goose is cooked
* christmas goose
* christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat...
* Which came first? The chicken or the egg?
* ducks in a row

ReadyMade and Wired

In September of 2004 Wired published an article about two Irish scientists who had isolated a particular species of bacteria that "detoxif[ied] styrene and return[ed] it ... as a green plastic." This green plastic could then be used as an elastic polymer, which has a wide range of uses such as plastic coating on cardboard.

The article mentioned how the scientists worked their bacteria experiment on a small scale, but hoped to recreate it on a much larger scale, possibly for the use of commerical and industrial businesses. I am unsure if they have been able to achieve this goal since the article was published, four years ago. According to the University College Dublin website, this research is one of their key research interests.

Currently I am planning on making some of my production line with styrene, and I am planning on outsourcing it to a laser cutting service: Ponoko, ("Pinnochio," as a friend just called it). Which brings me to the current issue of ReadyMade. I will bring it to class, so let me know if you want to look at it.

The issue has an article specifically about Ponoko: the background of the company and PhotoMake, the new application it just launched two weeks ago which enables users to submit a picture instead of using graphic design software for laser cutting. This application is supposed to bring the user from cocktail napkin drawing to finished product without so many steps in the middle.

They always find the coolest models for their covers.