Category Archives: SHINY OBJECTS

DESIGN: SF MoMA’s Beautiful Custom Prints

Custom Print of a table full of sweet dishes

Museum Quality Art For Your Walls! The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art now has a Custom Print on Demand Wall Art Service!   Have you ever wanted true museum quality art on your walls? The traditional museum posters have always been printed in fugitive offset printing inks that fade over time leaving your framed […]

PIXELATED Sculptures Contrast with the Botanic Gardens in Denver.

GARDEN DESIGN is the perfect location for showing off large metal SCULPTURES.  Pixelated: Sculpture by Mike Whiting opened April 28, at the Denver Botanic Gardens featuring the sculpture of Mike Whiting. Whiting’s works explore the relationship between digitized images and the natural worlds contrasted over the grounds of Denver’s Botanic Gardens. The exhibition is up through September […]

1st Person – Meeting Legendary Typography Designer Herb Lubalin

Designer, Typographer, Art Director and Very Good Guy: Herb Lubalin. By Jack A. Atkinson I met Herb Lubalin when I was 24 years old. In the world of graphic design and art direction, he was at the highest level of success in that field as there was, at the time. I had met a partner […]

Women in Speedo – It’s All About Feeling Comfortable When Swimwear is Required

SWIMSUITS FOR WOMEN As new technologies, fabrics and fashion trends have transformed the swimwear industry, Speedo has continued to change the look of their competitive and recreational swimwear to suit the needs of beach, pool and lake goers worldwide. Choose from their huge selection of swimsuits from modest to tiny bikini to competitive swimwear, perfect for serious lap […]

GOLF COURSES – Gary Player Designs the Greens & Fairways He Likes to Play On!

Gary Player / Pro Golfer / Golf Course Designer Gary Player and Gary Player Design have executed over 300 golf projects in 35 countries on five continents. The company offers three different design brands: Gary Player Design, Player Design, and Black Knight Design. With golf accepted back into the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de […]

Furniture Design by Garrit Rietveld and his family

Red nd Blue extended edition

Gerrit Thomas Rietveld was a Dutch architect and furniture designer born on June 24, 1888 and died on June 25, 1964. He was a principal member of the Dutch artistic movement “DeStijl”. Rietveld’s most famous design is his “Red and Blue Chair” pictured below. Rietveld was born in Utrecht Holand, in 1888, the son of a joiner (woodworker). He left […]

Italian Memphis “Blues and Reds and Yellows!”

On December 11, 1980, Ettore Sottsass organized a meeting with designer friends, and in 1981 they formed a design collaborative named Memphis. The name was taken after the Bob Dylan song “Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again” which had been played repeatedly throughout the evening’s meeting. The Memphis Italian Design Group drew […]

ReMarkable E-Ink Paperwhite Tablet – Digital Reading, Writing, Drawing, Etc.

reMarkable tablet

CREATIVE PEOPLE ENJOY PAPER & THE “ReMarkable” E-INK “PAPER” TABLET BRIDGES THE OLD SCHOOL vs TECH GAP. (This article has excerpts from Valentina Palladino’s review at arstechnica.com. For her full review, please access their website.) The reMarkable tablet offers a unique reading and writing experience. Unless you use a Kindle paperwhite or other paperwhite e-readers regularly, you […]

AHOY! A Sailboat for the Ocean & One for the Lake!

a red sailboat

Marlow-Hunter 31   An Affordable Sailboat for the Ocean   Marlow Hunter (formerly Hunter Marine) has a 31-footer back in its line-up. This new boat incorporates some clever new features not seen in earlier anywhere. Although some other 31-foot keelboats are as wide as this new Marlow Hunter, very few create such a strong impression. […]

TRAVELING / Cargo Pants? Yes, Cargo Pants!

fleece cargo pants

Tailored and tightly fitting cargo trousers are much better looking than the older, bulky, big legged ones.     What pant is humble enough that it has never been crowned fashionable? Cool enough that it is worn by artists and house painters? Functional and comfortable enough that it would be elected “the-pant-for-all-time” instead of fashion for […]