I love @allsteel! Great party! #design #nyc (Taken with instagram)

Bisazza chandelier @designerpages meet up #nyc #design (Taken with instagram)

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Artist and pal Timothy Goodman, who gave Ace Hotel NYC room 910 its soul, is part of Plywood for Good, an auction tonight in San Francisco, hosted by Collective Good — thirty skateboard decks were distributed to thirty Bay Area artists to with as they pleased. 100% of proceeds will be donated to further support relief efforts in Japan — Tim has represented the colors of Japan’s flag in his piece. Come out if you’re in the neighborhood — see full details on Tim’s blog.

INFOGRAPHIC OF THE WEEK: Dog Owners vs. Cat Owners

Originally from Hunch.

Finally some design sense into the temporary tattoo mix! Introducing an online store for design-minded kids and kids-at-heart created by Tina Roth Eisenberg of the fabulous swiss-miss.com.

Perfect for those who can’t seem to bring themselves to sit in a chair and commit to a real tattoo - Tattly showcases temporary tattoo designs with great style and design-kick to them. And they make for a creative, small gift.

There’s a lot to choose from, so for the next two weeks, you can buy the Launch Special Everything Pack for only $35 - supplies are limited, and they may run out soon, so hurry!

Here are a few of my favorite items of theirs: Above from the Spring 2011 collection
Who doesn’t love The Boss?
Mystery Flower Seeds
In partnership with Moleskine - Numerous Drawings
 

Hyper Island On a Wall from Hyper Island on Vimeo.

This morning, graphic designer, Mikey Burton tweeted: “Handsome lookin’ blog about dude stuff http://thedapperdude.com and follow @DapperTweets.”

So I am!

The Dapper Dude shares wisdom on everything from Fashion, Imbibing, Dining and Design - but this time - for the fashionable dude. It’s one of the only blogs I have come across for guys that evokes that childhood wish I once had:

“I wish I was a boy!”

From his ABOUT section:

“The Dapper Dude is a beer drinking, burger eating, sports watching frat guy. He likes his coffee black, his blue jeans blue and his Scotch neat. He has spent most of his professional life working in the men’s clothing and design industry for companies like GQ, Esquire, Ralph Lauren, Jack Spade and New York Spaces. He’s not a writer, he’s not a designer and he’s not an artist. He’s just a dude and this is his blog.”

I’d like to meet this man.

If you haven’t seen this already, it’s worth a peek. Imagine a suggestion box for what we *still* don’t have at our finger tips. The Internet Wishlist is set up sort of like a blog feed, with suggestions from people around the world of what the apps of tomorrow should be. Could this lead to true solutions with innovative design and technology - solutions simply kick-started from the demands of you and me? Let’s get working, developers!

To contribute, post an idea on Twitter and include #theiwl in your tweet. Wishlist creator, Amrit Richmond then collects the good ones and adds them to the Wishlist website.

via: Allen Hemberger and Sarah Wilson

Who doesn’t love a little design in their drink?

Mixtures is a gallery of cocktails app designed and developed by The Loud Cloud, a creative agency representing a dynamic group of illustrators and designers. Through the app’s interactivity, Mixtures brings together 15 illustrators who each re-envisioned classic and contemporary cocktails, with their own crafted illustrations exclusively for the project. Each piece of art is accompanied by the actual recipe of the cocktail they’ve “concocted” with instructions for mixing the drink. Featured artists include: Maxwell Holyoke Hirsh, Carl De Torres, Caitlin Kuhwald, and Peter Oumanski.

The folks at Loud Cloud call it “a toast to the rich potential of interactive publication design.”

[above iPhone Screenshot]

My favorites from the menu include the Mad Scientist by Maxwell Holyoke-Hirsch and the Sidecar by Peter Oumanski. What’s your fancy?

Download Mixtures from iTunes here. Cheers!

I’m registered for the Arch Digest Home Design Show thanks to a wonderful complimentary invite from The New Traditionalists’ CEO, Mr. Philip Erdoes.

As I start following happenings with the show and participants, I see a lot happening with it’s looping in of different technology, but still, you’ll want to attend in person no doubt. And this innovative thinking seems like a nice way for the show to celebrate it’s 10th year and celebrate ways designers can tap into technology to enhance their trade show experience.

My favorite development so far has been Designer Pages’ new app, SHOWROOMS for architects and interior designers that allows you to partake in community-driven showroom discovery - a true design piece finder at its best! They’ve included a Scavenger Hunt feature just for the AD Home Show, too. A great interactive way to engage the designers attending. Is this quite possibly the start of a sort of design-driven Foursquare?

This sort of adoption of technology only makes the true tangible nature showrooms and shops that are a part of the design industry more relevant and necessary.