Retro Gaming

Retro Gaming

I love the retro gaming and  nostalgia  based stuff that is going around as much as the next guy but you have to wonder where the line for good taste is. I think tetris / tetrino  shelves  like these are fantastic, and seemingly quite functional. Hey i might even...

Sound Toolkit by Chiara Onida

Sound Toolkit by Chiara Onida

    A little Foley now and then is cherished by the  wisest  men. Better know the difference between a whup, a whomp and a crack. But this all leather set is designed to be a portable sound studio in a painter style folio. A foley folio? Who could resist?...

Skyscrapers Swaying in the Quake

Skyscrapers Swaying in the Quake

Design is a beautiful thing. Functional design is  beauty  with purpose. Due to its location right on the Ring of Fire, at the intersection of several very active  tectonic plates  Japanese  architects, engineers and construction professionals are very well versed in...

Balloon Payment

Balloon Payment

A new series called How Hard can it Be is debuting on National Geographic (Nat Geo for you hip kids and cools cats) and one of their  inaugural projects is to create a version of the House from Pixar’s UP!, except without the heart wrenching opening sequence....

Das Beer Boot

Das Beer Boot

Have you seen Beerfest? I love that movie, and one of the most iconic pieces of hardware contained in that hilarious Yeasty  Comedy  was DAS BOOT, a beer drinking  apparatus  of legendary proportions. While Das Boot had been around for a while as a novelty item this...

Coffee train on Gryphony

Coffee train on Gryphony

I was just notified that Gryphony is showcasing the wonderful Coffee Themed Design above. Gotta love a Moka pot train. No word on if the cups are a full 6 oz or if they are Demitasse glasses. But still the design is mighty spiffy, head on over and check it out before...

Lab Propaganda

Lab Propaganda

We are running out of ideas for signage in our lab. No one reads anything. So I’m trying a new approach, propaganda inspired posters detailing the Do’s and Do Not’s of lab life. We have Mario, a goomba, Godzilla and The Wolf Man so far. What say you?

OBEY the Bean

OBEY the Bean

Originally uploaded by Paul Rj Muller “CaffiNation” Form over Function Friday returns with a fun little design concept I’ve been working on. This is probablky going to end up as a T-Shirt design, hopefully. I’ve had the idea rattling around my...

Something Rotten in the Fridge?

Something Rotten in the Fridge?

If your house is anything like mine than the person with the best nose gets the job of milk checker. And not unlike  feudal  Europe  this  poison  checker also has to drink first. Having a young kid in the house means tons of milk goes through our fridge doors, but...

Folding Laptop

Folding Laptop

There are a great many  obstacles  in my way when it comes to  net books. One being the system specs are a little low for something I would use. Because i tend to run a ton of different applications all at once, it comes with the  scatterbrained  territory, deal with...