A fantastic new issue of Design Bureau magazine is now on stands! In addition to my Toys by Design column on Brutherford Industries (above), this 2nd anniversary issue features
As I continue to define and refine the genre of “popjects,” I occasionally stumble upon perfect popjects. These Pasta Bowties, which I wrote about last February, (and wore
I was skeptical that the happy, hairy, magic-loving artists of FriendsWithYou would adapt to their relocation from Miami to Los Angeles, but all appears well and colorful in
Some hardcore collectors compare toy collecting to drug addiction. Both activities begin in pursuit of pleasure. Both produce fleeting joy. Both leave you wanting more. Jason Freeny‘s CAPSL
Today’s convergence presents itself in the form of these two gooey Chinese knockoffs. Up top, we’ve got everybody’s favorite MIGHTY MUTANT POWER TURTLES. They’re not teenage, but the
Andy Warhol painted his first Campbell’s Soup can in 1962, and in its aftermath, the artist and the brand became permanently linked in popular culture. Warhol lunched on
Ashtanur is the Arabic word for “oven bread” and also slang for flat-bread (or pita bread) made in Jerusalem. Israeli industrial designers Ido Mohar and Baruch Mogilevsky added humor to the rolling
Australian designer, Fiona Roberts, has created a chair upholstered in lush red velvet with 300 plastic eyeballs. The chair is called “Scopophilia,” or “the love of looking,” and it is “the
These two modern chairs (above) were designed with recession-proof secrets. They offer a potential solution to a perennial problem: Has this ever happened to you? As you head