Product designer- Peter Marigold

Split shelves by Peter Marigold. A product designer based out of London, these shelves are based on a simple geometric principle:

'The inverted angles of a shape split into pieces will always add up to 360 degrees.The angles can be interchanged but will always form a whole.'

You can listen to is interview for Wallpaper here.

MOMA visit

So the other day we headed to MOMA with some friends to check out their 'Design in the Elastic Mind' exhibit. We love visiting MOMA (it was some people's 2nd visit to the exhibit) and it's a bit of reunion anytime we go back (esp for Tara).

About the exhibit: "It focuses on designers' ability to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and social mores, changes that will demand or reflect major adjustments in human behavior, and convert them into objects and systems that people understand and use."

We highly recommend seeing it and it's running through May 12, so you still have time. Best to go on a day when you can absorb yourself in each piece as a many of them are interactive. (Maybe we'll go back for a 3rd time... when it's not so busy.) If you can't go in person they have an online exhibit that is both frustrating and absorbing..

Some highlights:

Young Hyun

Rules of Six:


Walrus:


Neri Oxman and Materialecology:

Boston inspirations

Some nice finds at the Boston Public Library..

Best little bookstores- Boston and NYC

So you just can't find that book on 21st century infographics huh? Well, we know the just place(s) that might have it..

If you're like us and love small, well-edited bookstores (with great design titles) then stop by MIT's Press bookstore (yes, that MIT) in Boston and St. Mark's Bookshop in New York City.

Don't be fooled by their websites, it's worth the trek out as both have a great selection. We've loved St. Mark's Bookshop since moving to the city, but the MIT bookstore was a nice, stumble-upon find during a recent trip to Boston.