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Clip Tree!

joe — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 15:09:49 +0000

Shantell Martin

admin — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 23:02:32 +0000

WATERTOWER | Tom Fruin

admin — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 15:00:32 +0000

Tom Fruin’s Watertower is a new sculpture installed on the rooftop of 20 Jay Street in the DUMBO neighborhood of Brooklyn. As part of his series Icon, the first to be placed in the US, Fruin utilized plexiglass and steel to create a sculptural piece atop a water tower platform on the Brooklyn waterfront, essentially making his piece a new part of the Brooklyn skyline.

Fruin’s Icon series take salvaged and recycled materials to create sculptural tributes to iconic symbols of architecture. Regarding Watertower, from Fruin’s website:

“Illuminated by the sun during the day and by Ardunio-controlled light sequences designed by Ryan Holsopple at night, this beacon of light is a tribute to the iconic New York water tower and a symbol of the vibrancy of Brooklyn…”

Of note to Brooklynites and to visitors to Brooklyn, Fruin also created the ‘HOTEL’ letters seen on the facade of the new Wythe Hotel. If you haven’t seen them in person, they are quite a sight. Check them out on his site here.

2012 Hanji Project | New York

admin — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 18:10:00 +0000

Google’s Nexus 7 Tablet

admin — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 17:43:26 +0000

Timeless LA

joe — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 21:05:18 +0000

Ice Cream Concept Parlour | Ploenpit (tusy) Nittaramorn

admin — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 21:07:43 +0000

We read an article a little awhile ago on Good reviewing The Lost Art of Real Cooking: Rediscovering the Pleasures of Traditional Food One Recipe at a Time by Ken Albala and Rosanna Nafziger. As big food people it really resonated with us. We sincerely take pleasure in cooking meals from scratch for ourselves, as well as friends and family. We hope this trend continues and are happy to see the excitement that’s been built up around Ploenpit-nitta’s MA Final Project, Ice Cream Concept Parlour.

Ploenpit-nitta wonders, much like we do, why people go for the pre-peeled, bagged carrots at the store instead of the fresh whole ones? They save a small amount of time, but they also separate the connection between people and food. We wonder less and less, where do these carrots come from, when were they peeled, what is applied to them to keep them fresh? The Good article also references this in it’s example of baking a cake. At it’s simplest, a cake is: flour, eggs, sugar. It takes the same amount of time to mix these ingredients as it does to open a box of pre-mixed cake mix to add the fresh ingredients.

Her project attempts to explore the process of hand-making typically readymade foods (in this case, ice cream), and sharing with people around the world the experience and ritual of a process that can be enjoyed through design. And she does it without an actual ice cream maker! Problem solved for us at We<3 HQ, because our kitchen is already full of other gadgets.

Watch the video below:

Ice Cream Concept Parlour 2012 from ploenpit on Vimeo.

Also, if you happen to be in London right now, Ploenpit is serving up some special flavors as part of the Central Saint Martins MA Graduate Show. Here is one of the special summer flavors being served up, yum.

Duplex by Constance Guisset

joe — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 20:29:48 +0000

The Noun Project

admin — Fri, 25 May 2012 15:33:33 +0000

reCAP Mason Jars

admin — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:53:22 +0000