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
by Paul Muller | Mar 19, 2011 | Design
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
by Paul Muller | Mar 14, 2011 | Design
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
by Paul Muller | Mar 7, 2011 | Design
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
by Paul Muller | Mar 3, 2011 | Design, Food n Coffee
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
by Paul Muller | Feb 28, 2011 | Design, Food n Coffee
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
by Paul Muller | Sep 8, 2010 | Design, tech
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
by Paul Muller | Jul 2, 2010 | Design
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?
by Paul Muller | Mar 31, 2010 | Design, Food n Coffee
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
by Paul Muller | Mar 30, 2010 | Design
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...


































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































