Dieter Rams

Friend and fellow designer Mike DiTullo sent me this link. It is an interview with Dieter. The best I have seen to date. The filming is a little staged but it is worth watching especially for comments on the work Ives has done at Apple and how he personally feels about the connection between his early braun work and the similar work of others done more recently. I have never met him but he seems like a class act and he is one of the few true creative geniuses in ID. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ncw3f4jgNP4

Wastepaper Basket

I believe that Jasper Morrison designed this for Magis (I could be wrong). This is exactly the kind of simple form that I was talking about earlier regarding how difficult it is to communicate the direction through sketching. Obviously color and texture become so much more important.

Dart

Check out this beauty.

Emerils NOLA

Luke, Tony and I just booked a trip to New Orleans for early January. This will be the first vacation that us three brothers have taken together and I am really looking forward to it. I hope that we are able to make it to at least three of Emeril's restaurants while we are there. I already have reservations for NOLA. I know that Luke will love it but I am not sure about how much Tony likes Emeril's food.

Osaka

In preparation for an upcoming trip to Osaka, so far I have learned that Osaka means "Large Hill", they have an "American Village" in the city, and according to Wikipedia it is the food capital of Japan. I thrilled to have been invited as a finalist to the conference and I hope that there is time to make it out into the countryside while we are there.

Ford GT40

As a kid this was my favorite slot car. I think that this is the greatest car a man can own. Sure there are some nice Mercedes and Porches but they all seem to lack the fun of the GT40. Of course I think it is save to state that there is no chance that I will ever have $100k+ to spend on a car, but if I did this would be the one. The proportions, details and stance are perfect. Even all of the color ways are excellent. The only bummer is that it is a Ford...which to me means that it is gaurenteed to fall apart in a couple years.

single cup coffee maker

It is too bad that the handle on this is so lame because the rest of it is pretty nicely done. I think that it would be neat if they made a single cup coffee maker that could just make me a refill every 45 minutes. Maybe you could set the intervals?