May 2006
Furniture of Different Heights
Mon, 05/08/2006 - 17:59 — AnonymousEven if you have followed the prior guidelines in previous posts, you may still feel that something is wrong with your room but you can't pinpoint what it is. There is a very simple reason why your efforts may not have worked: the arrangement of your furniture, art, and accessories may be creating the dreaded-and very common- "roller coaster" effect.Is There a Roller Coaster in Your Home?The fastest way to discover if you have a roller coaster is to take a "ride" around your room-with your eyes. By learning how to really "see" a room, you can quickly determine what the problem is and solve it. Unfortunately, we often can't see what's right under our noses until it's pointed out to us. So now is the time to share one of my tricks of the trade with you. It's a simple technique that only requires keen observation, like learning to read an X ray. Once you know what to look for, you can isolate the problem and determine a solution.Isolating the WallsStand in the center of the room and face one wall.Working from left to right (or right to left, if y...
【活動告知】瞎啪台T得獎名單已經公佈囉~
Wed, 05/24/2006 - 06:04 — Anonymous*「瞎啪台T」得獎名單已經公佈囉 *只要點到 瞎啪台T 的活動頁面，就會將得獎名單彈跳出來喔！這段期間也謝謝你們這些支持我們的朋友，讓我們能在第一次辦活動時，就得到這麼多迴響，之後新的活動也請大家多多支持跟宣傳喔~謝謝大家！請期待新的活動吧！
...The Spirit of Design
Tue, 05/23/2006 - 14:59 — AnonymousFor the last year, we've explored the heart and soul of design. It's been a strange journey. I don't really know where we're headed, but I feel called to travel there just the same. Along the way, we've trudged through deep valleys, walked across endless plateaus and have gotten completely lost. Then there have been those moments where we crest a steep hill and glimpse an oasis: beautiful and refreshing and yet seemingly untouchable and unreal.It makes me wonder why it's so difficult to touch the heart and soul of design? Is design heartless? I hope not. Is it soulless? I think not. But maybe we've not touched design that gives Life because we've not touched the spirit of design. I'm not talking about rah-rah school spirit, or about spirits floating through the air. I'm talking about a deeper level of design that goes beyond what we see or even experience. Let me explain by comparing people to design.I assume we can agree that each person has a physical body, a mind, a heart and a soul. Our physical body is "touched" with our eyes. Our mind is understood with our intellect. Our heart is experienced with our feelings and emotions. And our soul is connected to our identity. But there is another part of us that is equally important--our spirit. And let's say that our spirit e...
From Parchment to Postscript
Sun, 05/07/2006 - 13:02 — AnonymousIn 2004, my family and I attended a fascinating exhibit entitled From the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Forbidden Book: A History of the Bible. Unfortunately, the exhibit is no longer on display in that form, and it seems that information about the exhibit can now be found at Ink & Blood.If you're really interested in seeing fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls, an exhibit is currently mounted at the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage entitled Cradle of Christianity: Treasures from the Holy Land. this exhibit sheds light on Christianity’s earliest days: from its emergence against the background of Jewish society in the land of Israel during the 1st century, to its development alongside Jewish communities over the following six centuries.While the actual fragments of the scrolls that we saw were about the size of a quarter (why bother?), the most fascinating were the examples of Bibles on display from the 10th to the 20th century (The Lunar Bible). Perhaps if you have a keen interest in Christianity, historical book design, archeology, or bibl...
The New-Aged Hippie's Urban Survival Kit
Thu, 05/25/2006 - 00:17 — AnonymousAfter finishing an immersive semester in sustainable design, I've been reconnecting with old friends who have been to the far reaches of the earth. There seems to be a recognition among those of us who are experiencing reverse culture shock upon coming home, that our mainstream American society can be quite accurately described with one word: disposable.This disposability, though, seems ultimately to be rooted in the much broader cultural indicaor of how we value time. A friend who just returned from 10 months in South America says she misses the slower pace of life down there. People live their lives day-to-day, contributing to their families and communities as determined by the roles they have adapted themselves to fulfill.Returning to the States imparts an immediate feeling of stress upon remembering that in this country, we are constantly trying to climb the ladder until we find the rung on which we want to settle (but does anyone ever get there?), or to find the next big adventure that will prolong our state of transience (a state that our generation is first to enjoy on a large scale; but also to discover the downfalls of not being able to identify, though maybe temporarily ...
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Thu, 05/18/2006 - 05:42 — AnonymousMost of us have seen this bumper sticker at some point while cruising the open road and it was interesting to see it again after having spent the last four months immersed in ideas of sustainability. The original message is obviously that we better take care of the trucking industry and make sure they get what they want since they're responsible for getting all of our food from the farm to our plates (the average piece of food travels over 1200 miles to reach your grocery store). Viewed in a new light however, it's a powerful argument for supporting locally produced food since sooner or later the trucks will stop. Oil prices will get too high, we won't be able to spend billions of dollars building and maintaining highways, and it just won't make sense to transport our food this way when we can grow it in our own backyards.
...Unisex Sells
Mon, 05/01/2006 - 01:00 — AnonymousDesign is crossing the gender line with increasing boldness. Which products are leading the charge?
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