design

Vegan Meat Wallet

I have a known weakness for ironic meat accessories, including the steak earrings I’m wearing as I type. Well, Makers Market seller Kitten Camero makes this vegan wallet depicting a lush meat scene on the back. Not into meat? Her other wallets are also quite quirky and fun, like this periodic table billfold.

Nature Textures Library

As a designer, I have a great love as well as a professional need for visual lexicons. Type faces, illustration, ephemera, old signage — you name it, I collect it. Textures are no different. It’s not infrequent that a texture is needed for a design project, and what better way to amass a royalty-free collection […]

Playful Jewelry from Hairy Sock

I’m really enjoying the creative mixture of materials and concepts from Hairy Sock, including this eccentric “Drown in a Blossom” hair pin! I also really like the way the website is laid out; you can search by concept, type, and materials (including “hair”). There are also some wonderful photographs that make you look twice and […]

Crafting electronics

It’s Geek Chic month over at Make: Online, where I posted a bunch of pictures from my recent trip to the MIT media lab, where Leah Buechley was busy hand-crafting LED modules for her research group’s TearDrop electronics toolkit. More: Craft Meets Tech at MIT