Archive for the ‘On The Fly’ category

Designer Fashion For You, Your Baby, and…Your Stroller?

Luxury baby mobility company, Bugaboo, has teamed up with Italian fashion house, Missoni, to develop some pretty eye-catching limited-edition products. This isn’t the first designer partnership for Bugaboo. They’ve previously teamed up with names like Marc Jacobs and Paul Frank. Last month, Slate had an interesting article about the luxury… Continue reading…

The Hourglass

  The Hourglass from Ikepod on Vimeo. Marc Newson’s latest creation for Ikepod sees the Australian designer interpret the most iconic timepiece of all: The Hourglass. Director Philip Andelman traveled to Basel, Switzerland, to document the designer’s modern take of the classic hourglass inside the Glaskeller factory. Each… Continue reading…

Tree of Codes

Tree of Codes is a work of liberature (no, that’s not a typo. Click the link to learn more.) by Jonathan Safran Foer. Requiring a unique die-cut for each page, the book discovers a new three-dimensional story by subtracting from Bruno Schulz’s The Street of Crocodiles. Check out these videos for an… Continue reading…

5 Minute Candles

Ingenuity comes in many packages. Designed to look like a book of matches, each book holds 10 small candles that can be lit while still in the “matchbook” for an instant birthday party without the cake. Or be a traditionalist, break them off and put them on the cake. One pack equals 4 books: pink,… Continue reading…

Florida court rules against debt-collection efforts on social media

A Florida court has ruled that a debt collector cannot use social networks to contact a debtor or her contacts. The plaintiff said MarkOne Financial representatives used Facebook to contact her friends as part of a larger campaign to get her to pay her bills; her harassment suit against MarkOne is still pending. “It’s dangerous… Continue reading…

In a nutshell…

An Australian company turns macadamia nutshells into beautiful household objects.