industrial design

If you’re like me then you have fond memories of your first Barbie Dreamhouse.  The layout was alright, the furniture was bland and uninspired, and worst of all everything was pink.  Pink isn’t for everyone, so thankfully there’s brinca dada. brinca dada (pronounced (BREEN-kuh DEY-duh) is the brainchild of Douglas Rollins and Tim Boyle.  Simply [...]

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ICFF 2010 has come and gone and it was quite a show.  Gradon and I went down on Saturday and managed to do the show and five parties in under ten hours.  We saw the good and not so good.  I think it’s important to highlight the contrasts between this year’s show and the last. [...]

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You can do ICFF in a day, but I wouldn’t recommend it. Christopher and I took an early bus down to New York on Saturday for the first day of ICFF 2010, and came back that night, getting back to Boston around 3:00AM. In between those two four-hour bus rides, there was much design to [...]

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In last Sunday’s Boston Globe, Dushko Petrovich explored how Boston could find itself as the home of a new art revolution. In his essay, Dushko cites all that Boston has going for it: “several great museums, a superabundance of universities, many galleries, a highly educated and increasingly sophisticated audience, and a density that allows for [...]

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Since I met them two months ago, there has been excitement for what Design Museum Boston proposed: a new type of museum, focused on design, and spread throughout the community. The press — both here in Boston and beyond — and the blogs have grabbed on to what seems to be one of the few [...]

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