coffee pusher

Jessica Statz sent a link to the Illy 'Push Button House' that was

part of this year's Venice Biennale. Illy sponsor's the event and has

presence there with illycaffe. Architect Adam Kalkin designed a

shipping container to transform into a fully functioning 'home cafe'

and did it completely out of recyclable materials. The industrial

container reveals and beautifly clean white and sparkling interior.

If you're lucky enough duck to be shopping in New York this holiday

season, the illycaffe will be temporarliy installed at Time Warner center.

These great tiles we saw a year or so ago at the Kvadrat showroom

in Denmark are now in prodcution. Designed by the super talented

duo of Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, these flexible foam fabric tiles

can be connected together to create an infinate number of designs.

They can create and/or divide space, are a means to soundproof,

and are made from sustainble fabrics to boot. See Kvadrat for

more information and great design tools for using the product.

gtank

Please join us for gTank today at 5pm in DS3. Our most recent
product design will be discussed, reviewed.

Come! There's booze! And engaging conversation!

about town

This weekend.....

Chicago International Film Festival

Oct. 4th through Oct. 17th

MCA 40th Anniversary Events

-Free admission through November

-$40 Membership (usually $65)

-Rock On after party

Sat. 6th

-Intonation/MCA

Sun. 7th

-Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967

Through Jan. 6th

LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon

Sun.7th

and how it affects you getting around chicago

pretty pony

These rugs from Kyle Bunting feel more like art for the floor
than your standard rug. And maybe a bit like they deserve to be
experienced with bare feet! Kyle is a Texas based artist who hand
makes all of the rugs to order.
Check out his site for more luscious patterns and additional information.

coolest water feature ever

Elizabeth Gilmore sent this great video of an artist who creates words out of water as it falls.

drink light

Stewart Haygarth is a London lighting design who created a pretty

amazing fixture out of 416 disposable wine glasses and a fluorescent

tube. It was an exhibit for the London Design Festival last month.

Check out his site here.

build it

Bjarke Ingals Group (aka BIG), a Danish architecture firm, built

this model of a proposed housing development in Copenhagen

completely out of legos. Check out this time lapse video of the

construction (via gizmodo). If only we had this much time and

well, 250,000 legos.

stitch it up

Tonight is the Annual IIDA Stitch event at the Park West!!!
Gensler has three garments in the show. Check with
Jennifer Hirsch if you are interested in attending.

summer vacation is over.

Ah it sure was nice, wasn't it? As you may or may not have noticed (uh check the last

post date...), the blog's been away from the summer. But we're now back in action and

ready to keep every one of you informed and inspired!

Check back this week as we get back into the swing of things!