Far Out Art

Far Out Art: Check out Far Out Art’s website! They search the world over, visiting art fairs, galleries, local craft exhibits looking for the highest-quality, coolest furniture and home furnishings available… all artist-designed, all very unique and all available for you to take home and outfit your home to your own personal tastes. They’ve got furnishings like beds, shelves and […]

Chic Black Tissue

The Cincinnati Post: What will the fashionable bathroom be wearing this year? Egyptian-cotton towels? Spa lotions and potions? Sure, but if you really want to impress your guests, consider a roll of trophy toilet paper. Why settle for utilitarian white when you can flaunt sophisticated black, from Europe, no less. The ebony tissue, trumpeted by its maker, Renova, as “the […]

Low-Calorie Chocolate

The Patriot News: The Hershey Co. plans to introduce a low-calorie chocolate candy product in March. Hershey’s Sticks will be offered in four flavors: milk chocolate, caramel-filled milk chocolate, mint milk chocolate and rich dark chocolate. Sticks will be individually wrapped in a box of nine. Each Stick – the size and shape of a writing pen – has 60 […]

Pure H2O

Sephora.com: Antin has long required his model and actor clients to shower with bottled spring water the night before a photo shoot so their strands are in top condition for the next day—and free of what Antin says are the dulling and drying effects of tap water. So when Antin created his Jonathan Product hair care line, he used only […]

Chinese New Year Takeout

The VanCouver courier.com: T&T Supermarket is celebrating the arrival of the Year of the Dog in style this month. Walk into any T&T right now and you’ll be greeted by a blaze of red and gold, as the stores gear up to celebrate Chinese New Year-which this year includes a more polished offering of T&T’s popular table-ready, takeout Chinese New […]

Fresh New Storage Solutions

DEXIGNER: LaCie kicks off 2006 with 6 new storage products designed to help people easily manage their digital lives. Fresh new LaCie solutions for 2006 are Lacie Little Big Disc, Lacie Rugged Hard Drive, kwarim, LaCie Two Big, LaCie mini Hard Drive & Hub and LaCie Slim DVD+/-RW. LaCie has again teamed up with world-renowned designers including Neil Poulton and […]

Escapist Blending

Iconoculture: Who’s the fairest? Those gazing into the Conduit Group’s Daydreams mirror by designer Jason Miller find themselves in a beautiful landscape. Each mirror contains a digitally produced photo of an ocean or a forest. The scenes offer an escapist setting for the harsh realities of life in front of the mirror (and the harsher realities of rushing for work […]

What’s In The Handbag

BBC News: The contents of a woman’s handbag have long remained a mystery – often even to the owner – but a new design offers to shine a light on the problem. A solar-powered handbag designed by a student from Brunel University promises to make finding keys and other items at the bottom of a bag easier. The handbag, dubbed […]

Organic matters

Iconoculture: Mothers of Organic – otherwise known as M.O.O. – is an online beehive of pro-organic moms. The maternal healthnuts share info and inspiration about how to raise healthier, happier kids and steer clear of pesticides, preservatives, and pollutants. The all-natural network was created by farmer-owned food label Organic Valley. Nutritionists, organic chefs, wellness experts, and celebrity activists (like Raffi!) […]

Eat Easy

Iconoculture: Big Mama is watching. MealPay.com enables parents to set up an electronic debit-card system that logs their kids’ cafeteria purchases and bans certain foods altogether. The ATM / debit-like card is accepted in 76 school districts in 24 states (CSMonitor.com 11.22.05). Kids use it to purchase food at the cafeteria, then parents can go online to track what and […]