One of the more interesting stands at the Javits Center is the ICFF Studio, a joint venture with Bernhardt Design helping young designers prototype their furniture and find potential manufactures. Pictured left to right:

BOOM by Todd Bracher Studio Landscape by Kristine Morich Studio Amoeba by the simple light Angle Parking by Bradley Price Design S2 by Lutz Pankow Design Slope by Viable London Cabinet 414 by Viable London Oz by cate&nelson design S1 by Lutz Pankow Design

Log Furniture
Log furniture is big, bold, and beautiful. It's rustic charm fits nicely if you are decorating in a western decor theme. Log furniture exudes a warmth that is unmatched by other home furnishings and it's popularity and appeal have grown tremendously.
Published: 2008-05-07 08:59:14

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• Company Specializes In Secret Passages - Geekologie
• BLDGBLOG: The Architecture of Ascent All sorts of amazing new tools, techniques, materials, shapes, and spaces were being framed and even mass-manufactured out there, for decades, [for alpine equipment] but architects were all cooped up, underlining things for each other in the library.
• Wall Cleat Two tabs on the end of a regular outlet cover for wrapping a cord around.
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• Anafim - Outdoor cutlery Outdoor cutlery – Find the branch that is right for you, attach it to the desired tool and voila you have a fork, knife or spoon. Replace the branch whenever you feel like.
• Picket Fence By sticking these pickets onto the baseboard, a space is created between the wall and the picket points. This space serves as a track for routing all of the wires cleanly around the room.
• YouTube - Creature Comforts-Cat & Mouse Wrestlers Behind the scenes is hella informative and captivating.
• design:related - House of Concepts: Design Academy Eindhoven Almost 60 years after opening its doors in 1950, The Design Academy Eindhoven and FRAME publishes a book that exemplifies some of the schools unique industrial designs, furniture, tapestries, and more.
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• tronguy.net: All about Jay Maynard, the TRON Guy Bravo. No irony, no sarcasm.
• A List Apart: Articles: Community: From Little Things, Big Things Grow Advice on building a web service from a Flickr original.
• globeandmail.com: Teen's Facebook charge may set legal precedent An alleged Facebook faker will face a judge next month after authorities in Brandon, Man., charged the teen with impersonating one of his teachers

Published: 2008-05-07 00:00:00

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ITP Spring Show 2008
Author: Ami Kealoha

Spring in NYC means trees in full bloom, lightened moods and NYU's semi-annual mega-exhibit of art and technology, the ITP show taking place this year 12-13 May 2008. While every season promises an outpouring of creativity, this time around I was particularly intrigued by a project more straightforward than most but with a subject after my own (and Josh's heart) called "Born Dropped Out, The Hippie Kid Stories." The undertaking is simply a site documenting stories of the children of hippies in short video interview format and full of the drug references you might imagine.

Other more ITP-like offerings include Brush Bots, which are little motorized paint brushes, Waves of Leaves, an interactive ceramic sculpture, Table for Electronic Dreams, which visualizes the electricity in mobile phones and other gadgets and Jealous Furniture, a concept that puts furniture in the role of monitoring internet use.

On that note, nothing beats seeing the projects in person and talking to the creators. If you're in the NYC area next week, it's worth checking out.

ITP Spring Show 2008 12-13 May 2008, 5-9pm Tisch Building 721 Broadway, 4th Floor New York, NY 10003 map tel. +1 212 998 1880

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Published: 2008-05-06 19:00:59

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