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Higashiya Tea Shop

mfjoe — Tue, 05 May 2009 03:01:47 +0000

Since I can’t sleep, as I’m a little anxious about the dentist tearing my face apart tomorrow morning (sadists, all of them…), I might as well continue with some posting. Came across the Higashiya Tea and Sweet shop on Cool Hunting. Georgeous little spot in Nakameguro in Tokyo designed by Simplicity…looks amazing, and features all kinds of seasonal goodies…ah, someday I’ll make it to Japan…someday…

Posted in Architecture, Cooking Tagged: Design, Higashiya, Higashiya Tea and Sweets, Nakameguro, Simplicity, Store, Tokyo Japan

Might As Well Blog About Shoes…

mfjoe — Tue, 05 May 2009 00:03:50 +0000

…So, I’ve been sleeping on the blog game as of late, working on a book with pops, trying to keep my sanity, and using twitter to feed my egoistic desires. But, I figured I ought to come on back ’round wordpress way and spend some time posting pretty pictures and entertaining y’all with my pithy wit…or, just blogging about sneakers…

…Anyways, I haven’t been feeling Reebok much lately (this could be leftover resentment for not having big enough feet to buy the first pumps in 6th grade, but that’s neither here not there…), however, Reebok teamed up with polymath John Maeda and released these nice looking Ventilator Timetaniums. These kicks were designed using Maeda’s own algorithms and code, so…that makes them a lot cooler than shoes you would make, I guess. Not too many pairs were made (like, 100), but head over to sneakerNstuff and see if you can’t get you a pair. Because, you know for damn sure you didn’t get your paws on those Yeezy’s.

(Thanks, Freshness)

Posted in Science, Shoes Tagged: Algorithms, Design, Freshness, Freshness Mag, I'm lazy...I know, John Maeda, Polymath, Reebok, Reebok Ventilator, Reebok Ventilator Timetanium, Shoes, Sneakers

Ill

mfjoe — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:03:27 +0000

…just what I need t be pushing…Satoshi Minakawa.

(High Snobiety)

Posted in Art, Cars Tagged: Art, Design, High Snobiety, Satoshi Minakawa, Someone should buy me a new car, Vehicles

Color Your Own Wallpaper

mfjoe — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 01:39:45 +0000

English Illustrator Jon Burgerman designed this ridiculously cool wallpaper, which you should buy and cover you walls with so people will actually come over your place and hang out. Because it gets lonely, right? I feel you. Pretties:

(Props, 2Modern)

Posted in Art Tagged: 2Modern, 2Modern Design Talk, Art, Design, Jon Burgerman, Wallpaper

Vinicius Costa

mfjoe — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:42:34 +0000

Vinicius Costa is a Brazilian designer who specializes in motion and illustration in 2- and 3-D. Kinda nice.

(IdeaFixa)

Color Coded Library

mfjoe — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:20:40 +0000

If you know me, you know that I like books a little bit. I form little forts of them around me wherever I sit. Gift and a curse, I assure you. Reading a lot of the books tends to make it a little embarrassing when you go over someone’s house for the first time, because you have to obsessively scan the shelves while trying to engage in witty banter. The whole shebang’s an ordeal. However, you can go to libraries and stare at the books and no one can tell you from the homeless people. Designer Valeri Madill has created a nice color coding system for libraries, and methinks it would do a lot more for the Carnegie than the cafe section, or whatever it is.

(Thanks Yanko)

Pete Harrison

mfjoe — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:37:29 +0000

Here is some more graphic design based work for this fine, muggy Tuesday evening. Pete Harrison is based in the UK and whips up some marvelous shit to get your mouth watering, y’know. Though, there is certainly a darkness to this the work. So if you want pretty and happy, maybe not so much…

(Thanks Kanye)

Hidden Bearbrick Collabs

mfjoe — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:30:53 +0000

Those toy-lovin’ folks at Medicom have hidden a number of special collaboration Bearbricks in their series 16 boxes. You know, those boxes that have no indication on the outside of what you are getting. Well, sometimes you luck out. And, sometimes you get chlamydia. I guess it just depends on the box. (That awful pun at the end their was actually unintentional, and is dedicated to my man, Lloyd Wilson, who I am going to coerce into giving me a giant piece of his amazing art for my wall. Because, as pops said, I have a bit of a minimalist style. So one masterpiece above the couch will do. Until Joce comes and puts something up. Or, until I cake up and get a Murakami.

Oh, but I digress. Collabs include Edbanger Records, Mint Designs, Gachapin x Mukku and more. Looky, pretty bears:

(High Snob)

London 2090

mfjoe — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 03:46:01 +0000

Flooded London was created by the incredible media production group Squint/Opera and visualizes the English city several decades in the future when sea levels have risen substantially. The series is set years after initial chaos took place, and has a fairly Utopian perspective. Good luck on that, but pretty nonetheless; I like the style of the pieces. The absence of Kevin Coster-esque mermen is enough for me. The images are at Medcalf Gallery in Clerkenwell, London for the London Festival of Architecture.

(Dezeen)

Sustainable Shopping Concept

mfjoe — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 02:45:43 +0000

With all the concern over something referred to as climate change, which seems to be at least somewhat accelerated by the plague animal-like population expansion of homo sapiens and their pot latch style of dealing with finite resources, shopping for goods and services increasingly involves ethical or moral dilemmas. With this in mind, the Sustainable Shopping concept was created. Designer Martin Hanberger combined nutritional information and factors related to environmental sustainability to create a electronic personal assistant for your food shopping trips. The device also offers price checking and store maps plotted against your shopping lists. No word on whether it will offer warnings so that I can avoid the insane people hiding in many of the aisles at the giant eagle on South Side.

(Thanks Yanko Design)