To promote the New York International Latino Film Festival, ad agency Wing New York came up with a slew of stereotypes in major motion pictures and designed the crap out of them. I guess the point of the ad campaign is to say that this film festival is above all of the following clichés? All I know is that I will…
Apple stores have brought plenty of good things, like free internet kiosks and the security that the dude declaring our pricey devices unfixable is a "genius." However, their futuristic, transparent design (as seen above in a New York store) may have created a monster. Thanks to an effort to emulate Apple's look, an…
Ding's digital eyeshadow design concept works by balancing a frame of insulated wires on the face against a weight she calls a "lilypad" that hangs down by your ear and keeps everything in place:
What a thrill it is, every once in a while, to read a rip-roaring take-down! Today's specimen is Reed Krakoff, the Coach designer who launched his own super-expensive namesake brand last year, who is profiled by Ariel Levy in this week's New Yorker. Levy — whose last fashion profile was an exceptionally warm…
I didn't mean to show you another sex toy so soon after yesterday's vibrator-in-a-lamp, but this one has another novel twist. Made To Pleasure lets you custom-design your own vibrator to suit whatever your "needs". [MTP via Dezeen]
Modern reproductive medicine has freed women to have lots of hot sex without worrying about babies, but it has obscured their sense of their own fertility. To which some of us would respond: So freaking what? Not Brigitte Coremans.
Design students Kyle Tolley & Sarah Graves were tasked with creating tampon packaging that makes the buyer, "confident of their purchase and not embarrassed." They suggested these folded, environmentally friendly boxes, but we'd feel even more courageous buying Blackbeard Brand.
Harper Collins has released the cover for Palin's new book, America by Heart. It will be available to deface come November. For now, we have to satisfy ourselves with judging just the image - with some help from the experts.
I've never been the type of girl you would really describe as girly - except for one thing: I'm obsessed with weddings. Please don't tell my boyfriend.
In February, at a panel about "embarrassing" products and women, someone mentioned that menstrual blood is rich with stem cells. Comedian Sarah Haskins quipped, "one day we'll all be living on period farms." Good news: That day is almost here.
In 2007 John Bertram issued a challenge: design a cover for Nabokov's Lolita. The results run the gamut from horribly creepy to uncannily pretty. Check out the full library (and compare representations of pedophilia) here: [Flickr via BlackBook]
The prestigious Red Dot Awards designated the design concept "Live Checking Card" a winner in their productivity category for combining mobile banking and portability. But why are some tech sites using gender stereotypes to discuss the card's potential?
[Berlin, June 4. Images via Getty.]
Since 1991, Emily the Strange has become an industry, popping up on 500 items a year. Explains one editor, "She's a very strong, distinct character...There's not a lot out there commercially for kids that really says to be yourself." [WSJ]
The Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval, which the Hearst-owned mag has awarded to quality products since 1909, is getting an overhaul. I
Logo Design Love has an interesting look at discarded Obama '08 campaign logos. Sol Sender, who led the design team, explains each logo and details how the final decision was made. [Logo Design Love]
Last week's New York Times touched on mamas-to-be and home renovation projects, but in today's Independent focuses on décor. We're introduced to one Fiona Rattray, who writes, "My new baby is destroying my perfect designer home." How's a mid-century modern mecca of a home to survive something so, ugh, nouveau as a…
