DesignVerb: How to get up, eat breakfast and get ready for work in 5 minutes

Watch this. I have no words. Oh except that it is genius to put your pants on without using your hands.

DesignVerb: Aaron Tang

After all this time I realized I didn't know ANYTHING about the blogger behind DesignVerb: Aaron Tang (I actually didn't even know his name five minutes ago). As it turns out, he's a really interesting designer with a background in industrial design (check out his resume) with a killer online portfolio. Since we have all been designing and redesigning (and redesigning) ours, I thought some inspiration might help. He uses roll overs too, which is proving to be a really effective way to give info on a web site.

Check him out!

DesignVerb: and a lost robot

This may be the cutest thing I have seen in a long time... and wouldn't you know it, it's a very smart project. Watch. It's too cute not to.



Why you ask? Find out here.

DesignVerb: Relief Prints

Check this out!



Bryan Nash Gill is the artist behind these sweet relief prints, but he's got a really cool blog too. If you are like me, you are always looking for web design inspiration (heck any inspiration will do), but if you are interested you should check it out.

DesignVerb: MINI Chameleon

How do they come up with these things?



This week, DesignVerb shows the latest and greatest invention in the auto industry: color-changing cars! The colors change according to weather conditions (the paint gets brighter on rainy days to improve visibility and lightens on sunny days to cool the vehicle down), which is not only amazing, but actually pretty practical as well. Unfortunately, the MINI Chameleon is only coming out in Singapore in June. Alas, we'll just have to stick with our boring singular color cars.

DesignVerb: Curiosity

This week, DesignVerb! reminded me that if you don't try, you'll never know.


Curiosity from Si on Vimeo.

I think that at this point in the semester (and really at any point in life) we can all benefit from enabling our curiosity to get the better of us. Whether it is experimenting with web design, portfolios or Vox covers, it is important to remember one of the most important characteristics that got us this far: our curiosity and willingness to experiment and put our wildest dreams out there.

So go ahead. Curiosity may have killed the cat, but he (or she to avoid minus 10) had nine lives.

DesignVerb: Soap Leaves

DesignVerb is always bringing my attention to the coolest examples of design innovation in everyday life and today is no exception. Today I found the most beautiful and dainty leaves made from soap, which you would never have guessed by looking at them.


I'm just shocked by how real they look. I wonder what they look like after you use them, or if they dry your hands out. Maybe something this beautiful was only meant to be looked at? But then, why make leaves out of soap?

DesignVerb: Green Design

I love sustainability in all forms (just ask my roommates who find my obsession with recycling slightly difficult to live with) and apparently so does DesignVerb!

They posted this article about Project Green Bottle, which makes plastic bottles with a chemical that will allow them to break down over time, thus being biodegradable. This is awesome because, as DesignVerb! points out, it factors in the reality that despite the ease of recycling plastic bottles they often end up in landfills. Way to go Project Green Bottle!

DesignVerb: "Everything's amazing and nobody's happy"

DesignVerb featured some REALLY awesome things this week from the world of design. This, although not entirely design related, is probably one of the best things I have seen in a while. This guy makes some great points about how we should all stop complaining (and this after my last post where I complain about waiting in lines... oops).

It won't let me embed, so sorry this link will have to do. Oh, and did I mention it's a clip from Conan?? That should entice some of you...

http://www.designverb.com/2009/02/27/everythings-amazing-nobodys-happy/

DesignVerb!

This week, DesignVerb! posted some notes from the Entrepreneurship Program Forum at Brown University. I hate to be another person talking about the economy, but I think it would be really interesting to have heard what these people had to say during a time like this. What do you guys think? Is there a place for entrepreneurs in an economy like this? Are they way to boost the economy back up?

DesignVerb! Inspiration

With all the web design in my future, I am looking at DesignVerb! this week for some inspiration (especially since I know NOTHING about web design). This week, I noticed that their header changes every time the page reloads. It always follows the same format (photograph with very small blog title), but the photographs are so diverse that it looks like a completely new, inspired web site every time I log on! This is one of those things that I might
put in my bag of dirty little tricks, once I figure out how to execute it...

DesignVerb: Foam Furniture

I saw this article on DesignVerb last week and I've been thinking about it ever since.

Some witty designer has made furniture that resembles that from old Western movies. The best part is, you can actually reenact the famous bar fights from the flicks because the furniture is made of foam! Finally we can all live out our fantasies of shattering a chair over our enemy's back.

DesignVerb: More Sharks

They're at it again. DesignVerb has found another awesome shark-inspired item.

This one is a tea bag holder that floats at the top of your mug, but what is really fun is the way that the color coming from your tea bag makes it look like a real shark attack has just taken place. Too cool.

DesignVerb!

DesignVerb has recently found design sneaking into the most ordinary of items in the most extraordinary ways (but don't worry, they've got Obama footage too). This week, they focused on glasses and bowls with simple, yet interesting, details that increase the fun of a glass of water or bowl of cereal.
The bowl reminds me of a mug that my sisters and I had when we were young that had a cat at the bottom. As you drank, he would gradually appear and stare you down as you sipped your hot chocolate. After seeing this shark bowl, I can say with certainty that surprises in dishware are not just for kids.