DailyCandy: All the nights spent scaling buildings, tagging bridges, scribing walls with your crew. Maybe you wanted to mark your territory. Maybe you wanted fame. Too bad you’ve been busted. Sucka! While under house arrest, ditch the spray can for some legal tender. Wonderful Graffiti (with the implied placid name) lets self-proclaimed practitioners of the art of scribble say what […]

TheDailyTimes.com: Homeowners who want something other than plain gray curbing in their landscape now have a myriad of options thanks to a new Blount County business. Johnny Bishop, owner of Curb Appeal, said, “We mainly do decorative landscape curbing. It’s like concrete curb but we put colors and designs in it. It looks really good bordering flower beds and driveways […]

Springwise: As we’re rapidly moving towards Dan Pink’s right-side brain, design-loving, aesthetics-driven economy, an abundance of opportunities has opened up for smart designers. One sector ripe for the picking: computers. After all, Apple is pretty much the only company that currently steals the limelight with beautifully designed devices, not facing any serious competition from other established players. Is the new […]

Iconoculture: As fakes become harder to spot – and more expensive – taking the low road has become more acceptable. And Millennials just love to make a stylish statement. Dutch design boutique Mind What You Wear takes faux up a notch with its Fakewear line. The popular faux designer bags are labeled, in spray-paint print, “Fake.” Just so we’re clear […]

Iconoculture: Live for the rush … and proud of it? Muscovie Design jewelry is stylish, even subtle, molecular-based jewelry that lets adrenaline, serotonin, and caffeine junkies wear their passion. The sterling-silver earrings, rings, and necklaces sprout circles embedded with brightly colored acrylic. The arrangements represent the molecular structures of six different “substances that affect mood” – and they’re chemically accurate, […]

Yenra: Vista del Campo, a student housing development on the University of California, Irvine campus, was named Best Student Housing Apartment Community by the National Association of Home Builders. The award went to the complex’s architectural firm, KTGY Group, for the 1,488-bed community developed and managed by American Campus Communities. “The University appreciates the spirit of cooperation between the developer, […]

The New York Times: Babies wearing emeralds? Well, why not? In the last year, two categories in retailing seem to be doing well: infants and luxury. Witness the success of Babies “R” Us, even as Toys “R” Us struggles. On the luxury end, see how Neiman Marcus’s sales and stock price keep going up and up. So it figures that […]

We Make Money Not Art: Seattle architecture/design firm Mithun won first place in the C2C Home Competition with their design for a house powered by spinach. The house will be built this summer in Roanoke, Virginia, along with other contest winners. The competition asked designers to work on work on cradle-to-cradle design principles and create objects and processes that replenish […]

Xtvworld.Com: TemplateMonster.com, one of the largest website templates providers on the Web, enters the market of icon design. Their new product line is called Icon Sets. Each set includes ten icons of high quality, which is why they can be used not only for the Web but for the off-line needs of Template Monster’s clients as well. The icons within […]

Yenra: Kohler will use its sponsorship of Olympus Fashion Week to introduce the Purist Hatbox toilet, a product that redefines common perceptions of what the traditional American toilet should look like. “Like the fashion industry, design is part of the fiber of everything that we do at Kohler to constantly develop new products that enhance the gracious living possible in […]