Trend report: Things That Fall Over

Everybody should head over to SallyTV to check out my report on everyone’s favorite new mini-trend, Things That Fall Over.  You’re welcome, world!

Lots of things seem to be taking a fall lately. Surely you’ve noticed this – everything from the price of an iPhone to the speed of your stolen WiFi is just dropping like a brick. But maybe something you haven’t noticed is that this action is also appearing in design. Not so much in the “look out for that falling piano” sense – that is pretty timeless. What I’m talking about is the “pretend you’re microwaving this thing” sense.  Read more…

Trend Report: Things That Look Digital But Aren’t

As those of you who hang around the internet a lot have probably noticed, design blogs these days have been chock-full of things that look digital but aren’t.

This is only natural for us young designers. We’ve grown up alongside floppy disks, keyboards, printers, pixels – and after all, designers are prone to abstracting their surroundings into decoration. And since decoration came back into style we can do basically anything we want, which is pretty sweet (just as long as it’s not floral-viney things or baroque silhouettes. Let’s all agree to not do that any more, hm?).

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ICFF 2008: The Tubes

Pretty much every conversation regarding this year’s ICFF begins: “Did you catch ICFF this year?” and ends: “Yeah, I took a nap in the car too.” Where were our fruit beds this year, ICFF? Our humongous UFO sofas? Even a good old-fashioned box of nothing? Nope. Nada. The place was dry. But apart from boredom, there was at least one trend that stood out as unique to this year…wait for it…

Tubes. Tubes! I know. But hear me out.

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