Beeks

One of my good friends from college was recently featured in two design magazines and countless blogs regarding a recent exhibition he did in Chicago. All the press was focused on the lighting he designed using umbrellas, pretty cool stuff. Good work Steve.

The magazines are Urbis and IdN. Here are a couple of the blog posts so you can read more about it.

Inhabitat
Design Sponge

Home Hero

I'm becoming somewhat of a design nerd. I like looking at those hip design magazines and admire cool looking products. I happen to pass the fire extinguisher section at Home Depot and this item caught my eye. It's a fire extinguisher. It must be new they had it on sale and had a nice display set up, I also heard them talk about it on the overhead sound system. I bought it thought it would look very nice in our kitchen and plus it couldn't hurt to have a fire extinguisher around the house. I tend to get excited about new gadgets often, but never thought I'd be this happy and spend so much time admiring a fire extinguisher.

Looks like the Home Hero is only available at Home Depot, pick one up today - for safety's sake.

bent wire art

I saw this guy's site on Make Magazine. He takes ordinary objects, bends some wire to go with them and creates art. He's got some pretty cool stuff. You can check out his site and creations here.

Everytime I see this one piece though, the song Atlas by Battles just comes to mind. I'll try to post the song along so you can hear what I hear when I look at this.

Waterblogged

Earlier this week I came across the website for Fred water. It's a bottled water company that seems to have just come out the market. The thing about Fred is that it's pretty trendy, maybe even upscale. It has a very cool bottle design, cool website, it even has its own myspace page with friends. It's available in New York, I couldn't find any information of its distribution so I'm not sure if it's available elsewhere. I'm not usually one to buy expensive bottled water but with Fred I'd make an exception because of the cool bottle.

Then yesterday at a worship service my friend Thor had another cool bottle of water. Voss water which is from Norway. Thor being Norwegian (like the name didnt give it away)had to have it. Anyway Voss water is widely distributed and I'll be looking for it around here, although I'm sure it's pricey. So two cool water bottle designs in one week, made me do a search to see what other cool bottle designs are out there. There are a few I wouldnt mind picking up. If you see a cool one let me know.

build a guitar

One of my favorite bands, State Radio, uses a homemade oil can guitar for some songs. I always thought it'd be cool to build a guitar on my own sometime. Well today I saw this guitar on Make Magazine's Blog. This guy took the body of his original Nintendo system and turned it into a guitar. Looks like it could be a fun project. I'll have to raid my parent's basement and try to find my old NES console. Hopefully they haven't thrown it away. I wonder what other cool things I can find for a guitar body.