Posted in Lust Factor: Hot | Consumer Technology
Clement Eloy, a young French designer with a great sense of play in his designs, has come up with a hilarious product prototype. The design concept is to create a flavored candy pen cap which Eloy calls “Suck My Bic”. The idea is very perceptive because it recognizes people’s tendency to suck on their pen […]
Posted in Black | Lust Factor: Hot | Consumer Technology | $50,000-100,000 | Metal | Hard
The Seitz 6×17 digital large format camera is something that needs to be seen to be believed. It is, quite honestly, the most amazing digital camera ever made. Where do I start? Well first, the construction of this camera is unparalleled. The body is made from aluminum billets that are hand tooled into the final […]
Posted in Architecture | New York Building Guide 2007
The New Museum, founded in 1977 by former Whitney Curator, Marcia Tucker, may be one of the most provocative and interesting buildings going up in Manhattan currently. The building is a 7 story, 60,000 square foot homage to the newest of new art designed by Sejima + Nishizawa. On Sunday last week, I happened upon […]
Posted in Architecture | New York Building Guide 2007
Recently, I made my way through Manhattan’s (or at least mid-Manhattan’s) latest buildings. I lived in L.A. years ago and even had the opportunity to draw working drawings, along with dozens of other people, on Frank Gehry’s Disney Concert Hall. The concert hall was phenomenal in my mind. I’ve been pretty high on Gehry’s work […]
Posted in Architecture | New York Building Guide 2007
Yesterday, I wrote about the IAC building in Chelsea, New York. Today, I wanted to point out a building that is just underway right across the street from the IAC called 100 11th Ave. It’s a condominium project designed by another world famous architect, Jean Nouvel. My feelings about this building (at least how it’s […]
Posted in Architecture | New York Building Guide 2007
I have very little time this morning to get this post up, so please excuse my brevity and bad grammar. This is the High Line (seen above), a multi-mile strip of elevated railroad track running straight through some of Manhattan’s hottest neighborhoods. It was originally used as a means to transport goods out of factories […]
Posted in Architecture | New York Building Guide 2007
One Bryant Park by Cook + Fox is probably the first really “green” tower I’ve heard of. What I mean by “green” tower is that the tower has implemented a number of techniques to lower the amount of materials wasted in constructing the building as well as creating the least amount of impact on the […]
Posted in Architecture | New York Building Guide 2007
A couple of weeks ago, my brother in law, Scott, dropped me off at the ferry terminal in Hoboken, New Jersey. I had to wait about ten minutes for the Ferry to make it over, so I spent some time just gazing over at the skyline of midtown Manhattan. Something looked new to me. Something […]
Posted in Lust Factor: Hot | Houswares | Plastic | Smooth
I’ve featured Clement Eloy tons of times on this blog. I’ve never met him or even spoken to him, but I like his design cleverness. He’s always looking for an edge to something such as his laptop power source / foot warmers or his hot doll (don’t ask, just look). Yet another edgy, smart design […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Blue | Lust Factor: Warm | Fashion | Soft | Synthetic Fabrics
Mina Perhonen is a Finnish Designer working in Japan. Her work is characterized by empire dresses with flowing waists, huge, bold buttons, neutrals mixed with a few earthy cool colors, and softness. I’ve chosen to show a picture of the softest of the soft pieces. It’s sort of a hoodie mixed with a cardigan made […]
Posted in Lust Factor: Warm | Architecture | Wood
Terunobu Fujimori is the type of architect who has decided to strip his style from any modern tendencies and place himself in a world of architecture that might only be described as “Hobbit Houses”. All kidding aside, Mr. Fujimori is an architect who has looked into the depths of what people might call outdsider architecture, […]
Posted in Lust Factor: Hot | Architecture
Diller Scofidio + Renfro is one of those architecture firms that is about tapping into human drama and emotion through their sculptural buildings. Back in 1995, when Diller and Scofidio were just young Cooper Union professors trying to make their way in an academic/artistic world, it looked like their career was going to go […]
Posted in Lust Factor: Hot | Fashion | $2,500-5,000 | Metal | Shiny
Cartier has looked to the past to find their new LOVE collection. The design, originally from one of their collections in the 1970s works like this: the ring has screws around the perimeter of the band and the tighter you turn the screws the more you love. Is that right? It seems to me that […]
Posted in Lust Factor: Warm | $2,500-5,000 | Wood | Furniture
The Atlantico Sideboard by De La Espada is quite simply of of the most perfect pieces of wood modern furniture in the world. Atlantico guarantees this: perfect joinery, furniture only made from American White Oak and Cherry, and wood selected for beautiful and perfect grain. These are simple rules to follow, but the execution take […]
Posted in Black | Red | Lust Factor: Hot | $500-1,000 | Metal | Lighting
ID Magazine has recently come out with their 53rd Annual Design Review where they award a number of products and project top honors for design. They have named top honors in the consumer products division to the Leaf lamp by Yves Behar. I’ve been tempted to write about this product for a while now, but […]
Posted in Brown | Lust Factor: Warm | $5,000-10,000 | Wood | Furniture
Daniel Michalik is a Brooklyn based designer who explores the boundaries of unconventional materials. His focus is cork, though. Cork, as you probably know, is the bark that comes from a particular type of oak tree. The bark replaces itself every year and therefore can be sustainably harvested for use as stoppers in wine bottles, […]
Posted in Architecture | New York Building Guide 2007
About a month ago, now, a friend of mine and toured New York for the latest in architectural works. I had been told that the design duo, Herzog & de Meuron, had been commissioned to design a new condominium building in Noho. So, we went to take a look. My first impression when we arrived […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Black | Magenta | Lust Factor: Hot | Metal | Leather | Furniture
Fritz Hansen is one of the top manufacturers of modern luxury furniture in the world. But despite this reputation I’ve neglected to feature their work on Design Crack. Why? It’s called laziness. I’ve been really lazy in tracking down images of their furniture. Finally, I’ve nicked a couple from their site, and I will now […]
Posted in Lust Factor: Hot | Architecture | Wood | Glass | Metal
I’m not sure why I’ve never noticed Matteo Thun before. He is an extremely talented designer with a multivalent design studio. His office are as adept at designing a chair as they are a building. And their recent building is a hit with me. Mr. Thun and company has created a three story office building […]
Posted in Black | White | Green | Lust Factor: Warm | Sports and Recreation | $50-100 | Plastic
Design House Stockholm is a company that finds and creates great Scandinavian design, and they’ve been doing so since 1992. They probably have dozens of designed products that I could easily show on this site, but I’d like to start with a bike basket called Carrie. This piece gets to me because, as a daily […]
Posted in Red | Lust Factor: Hot | Automotive
I know nothing about the Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione, but quite frankly I don’t have to. (If you’re a car freak, you’ve come to the wrong place, unfortunately). Still I feel compelled to feature a couple of pictures just to allow people to dream. Sigh… Can you feel the beauty?
Not to make anyone jealous, but […]
Posted in Lust Factor: Cold | Houswares | $50-100 | Glass | Brand Crack | weird designs
I just happened to notice this on Yahoo today, and I could not help but to put it on the blog. I present Bling H2O- the next best thing to selling luxury air is luxury water. The water is the brainchild of Kevin G. Boyd who is a Hollywood writer and producer (I’ll get to […]
Posted in Brown | Lust Factor: Hot | Wood | Bumpy | Furniture
Monday, July 30th, 2007
This is a sweet little piece of design crack in which the London design duo, Draw Me a Sheep, takes an elemental piece of nature such as a tree trunk and asks, “Is nature really that good?”. In Bo-Young Jung and Emmanuel Wolf’s series, called Nature V2.01, they explore the forms of nature and whether […]
Posted in White | Lust Factor: Hot | Fashion | Stone | Bumpy
I was recently rummaging through dozens of French design websites when I found this ring. I wish I spoke French because France has so many wonderful designers, but consistently French websites never translate any of their pages for an English audience. It’s fine if they don’t, I just wish I could read the French. Because […]
Posted in Black | Lust Factor: Hot | Fashion | Shiny | Smooth | Natural Fabrics | Synthetic Fabrics
I’ve increasingly been looking at fashion lately, and call me conservative: I love the Burberry collection for this upcoming season. Burberry, as you may know, was a brand that only catered to preppy Hampton sows for years and years. It ranked up there with Ralph Lauren in yawn factor. Today, Burberry has reinvented itself by […]
Posted in Black | Lust Factor: Warm | $500-1,000 | Wood | Metal | Furniture
One thing I’ve been seriously wanting to do is give a shout out for my awesome sponsor, 2Modern.com. They are my dream sponsor because it is so easy and fun to talk about their products and mean every word I say. So today, I dip into the bag of 2Modern goodies to find some serious […]
Posted in Blue | Lust Factor: Hot | Fashion | $0-50 | Plastic
Have you ever wanted to wear something that looked like it came from an ancient alien civilization? Your only choices in the past were pretty much either a Halloween costume store, where most of the items are made from some Chinese rubber that smells as if you wore it too long you might get cancer […]
Posted in Lust Factor: Warm | Glass | Lighting
Konkret Form is a minimalist design duo from Stockholm Sweden. They are a fairly young but well accomplished crew. All of their projects follow a simple rule which is, as you may have guessed from the lamp, K.I.S.S.: Keep it Simple, Stupid. As you can see, they haven’t strayed from this with this lamp that […]
Posted in Green | Lust Factor: Warm | Houswares | $50-100 | Metal
The Wine Tray designed by Munimula is a piece I saw recently that I thought I would include as an example of simplicity at its finest. This piece actually solves a major problem which is how do I easily carry a bottle of wine and four wine glasses into the other room to serve my […]
Posted in Brown | Lust Factor: Hot | Wood | Bumpy | Furniture
Last week, I reported on a piece of furniture that was an update on the log. The update, by Draw Me a Sheep, made the log into a square shape which is quite a convenient shape. But what if trees grew vertically in a boomerang shape? Damn, that would make a sweet lounge chair! Any […]
Posted in Lust Factor: Warm | Houswares | $2,500-5,000 | Wood | Glass
Mirror, Mirror. On the wall. What’s the fairest (mirror) of them all? Possibly the Lineground Round Mirror by Skram? I was looking through 2Modern’s retail catalog, and I came upon this mirror and was a bit stunned. The mirror is built with the same craftsmanship as a fine musical instrument. The bent wood frame is […]
Posted in Green | Lust Factor: Hot | Fashion | Shiny | Leather
If you live in New York, chances are you have or you soon will see the Celine Green Buffalo Leather Handbag around town. It’s H-O-T hot. First, let’s talk about the buckle. It’s a really chunky buckle which, to me at least, almost reminds me of the Fendi double buckle bag in the way it […]
Posted in Randomness
Mine, a San Francisco graphic design firm founded by Christopher Simmons, has sent me a press release for their ingenious project: OK Tape. Their project is showing at this year’s California Design Biennial along with many of the more well known objects of desire such as the iPhone ( you may have heard of this). […]
Posted in White | Red | Blue | Green | Lust Factor: Warm | Houswares | Plastic
I have been cordially invited by 2Modern to do a weekly guest blog which I’m extremely excited about. As I was reviewing the posts in this blog trying to find what my niche might be, I was blown away by the the depth and diversity of the blog. I find Design Crack similar in nature […]
Posted in Houswares | $250-500 | Metal | Randomness | Furniture
A reader sent me this link some time ago, and I’m embarrassed that I’ve not published this yet. It’s a link to DutchByDesign, a very well curated online design shop. I’ve actually visited the site many times looking for just the right gifts. This site has something for everyone… that is, something for everyone who […]
Posted in Art | weird designs
I saw this post on Brand Spankin’ New, and I wanted to share this piece of usability design with you. The pictogram is shown on the face of a hand dryer. The problem with the design of the hand dryer is how does the designer express to a user how you might use a hand […]
