I Often Dream of Trains in New York DELUXE EDITION

Gamil Design worked with Yep Roc and Robyn Hitchcock to create a deluxe CD package for a limited Deluxe Edition of “I Often Dream of Trains in New York”. The classic looking CD package unfolds and transforms into a phenakistoscope, or moving picture machine. Original CD and DVD artwork can be viewed as animations through the included viewer. Gamil developed and produced the package concept, design and artwork. Each part of this deluxe package was made in the USA. This Deluxe Edition can be purchased at Yep Roc!

Robyn Hitchcock Deluxe Edition

Robyn Hitchcock Phenakistoscope Assembled

Check out the video below that Yep Roc put together showing the phenakistoscope in action!

Pâtisserie of Lite

If you have not been to Paris in the past 100 years or so you have been missing out. Macaron’s (not to be confused w/ coconut macaroons) are the signature confection in The City of Light. Composed of a delicate pillow of meringue, almond and silky sweet fillings in a myriad of colors. You may even wonder if the city’s nickname was inspired just by this delight.

Pistacia Vera assortment

Never fear! In Columbus Ohio, Anne Fletcher has made a crossroads between US(a) and Les Parisiennes at her lovely  Pistacia Vera.

Door to door dessert.

Only recently have I known of this wonderful shop. Interested in my product, The Teastick, Anne contacted me for pricing and I casually mentioned the macaron desert I am marooned in… and just today, I received this elegant box of assorted macarons in the mail. Totally unexpected! I have now become the hero of the office (sorry Beth). My advice to you, if you are not travelling soon to Columbus (or Paris), is to get online and ship yourself an assortment from Pistacia Vera and become the hero of your friends and family. Thank you Anne and happy steeping.

A personal favorite of the NYIGF, Alchemy Goods are design heroes: reusing old bicycle tubes, manufacturing in the USA (Seattle), and working with the inherent properties of their materials to make truly beautiful and unique designs.

I love the Magnolia – but check out these design details from sewing together innertubes!

Their work demonstrates a beautiful sense of design with an emerging mastery over their materials and processes. Alchemy indeed!

It used to be that architects were also obligated to design chairs. Now that trend has shifted to shoes, at least for Zaha Hadid. Her recent endeavor is a footwear line for Lacoste.

The design and texture is based on series of overlaid and repeated patterns to give the shoe a dynamic fluid feel. A winding strap touts a bi-stable metal band to support the shoe at ankle or knee height for men’s and women’s editions, respectively. (Note: bi-stable metal band= snap bracelet technology)

Intrigued? You must act fast and internationally. This is an extremely limited edition of only 850 pairs available at exclusive boutiques in Paris, London and Milan.

Hadid is no newcomer to footwear, she has also designed a pair of unabashedly Zaha-esqe shoes for molded footwear sensation, Melissa.

Via Dezeen

Today I wish I were in the LA area and I wish I were here… Royal/T. Royal/T is LA’s first Japanese-style cosplay (costume-play) cafe. But that isn’t all… It is also an Art Gallery focusing on Japanese Contemporary Art (the gallery art rotates every 4 months) and a Shop that is curated with rotating artist made goods and design objects that supplement the gallery show.

images from royal-t.org

seen on green wedding shoes

I came across cricket today in my morning internet wanderings, and was immediately drawn to because of its simply/happy/friendly feeling packaging.

Cricket is a Green Tea and Kola Nut Brew. None of those chemically ingredients such as the phosphorics or high-fructoses are included in the Cricket formula.

Masking Tape option from Happy Tape. Happy Tape has a great selection of solid and printed-pattern spools of Japanese washi paper tape.

image from happy tape

image from happy tape

Packing Tape with lace motif options in either black ink or white ink at Rockett St George. Rockett St. George is a gift and homewares online store from the UK.

image from Rockett St George

Duct Tape that is stylish and fun by Fortis Design (Headquartered here in Raleigh, NC). The Designer Duct Tape comes in 4 different designs.

image compiled from Fortis Design

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We use macs in our office. The relationship used to be all love/love, but I have to admit some love/hate developing. Just when I think I know where Apple is going, I experience a personality change and there is yet another video standard.

The standard for a good long while in video equipment was S Video, and Apple accommodated this for a while.

mini VGA (iBook)

Mini Display Port

Then there’s DVI – like the Micro DVI used in Macbook Air

But that’s different than Mini DVI

Now that’s different than DVI. You have to get an adaptor to scale up to fit almost all of the video stuff on the market.

There are at least two standards Apple is using here. The DVI-D is digital only, while DVI-I can do both analog or digital. Apple equipment comes with one or the other and they do not work together. I’ve gotten burned buying the wrong adaptor. Some standard huh?

More amazing is how much it looks like (but won’t fit) the G4’s Apple Display Connector.

It’s surprising they haven’t picked up on the whole industry move to HDMI

Of course as Apple keeps changing its mind, one thing remains constant – PC’s good ol’ VGA