took a scan down Memory Lane
February 20th, 2008
Spent my “jaw is sore/swollen because I got two wisdom teeth yanked out” day off from work scanning in
old pictures, eating delicious “Ciao Bella” sorbet that I picked up at Metro K Supermarket, and napping. Personal favorites that I dug up include a fire truck (
or rather a truck on fire), my old cat
Cassie, and my skateboarding
pinnacle.
Fun trip down memory lane.
I Heart Plywood
January 4th, 2008
I’d just like to say that I Heart Plywood. Not so much in an “I Love Lamp” sort of way, because that would just be weird. It’s more of an appreciation for the forms that modern plywood molding techniques allow. I’m thinking this probably goes back to my skateboarding days when you would spend time inspecting the uniques
curves and
contours of the board, only to then take it outside and beat it into oblivion.The photo above
(series here) is of a pretty sweet “overlap” table designed by
Eric Pfeiffer that I got for Christmas (and am actually using as I write this). Bent plywood furniture has been around for some time though, the
Eames were some of the first designers to fully utilize the plywood molding techniques that were available to them in the 1940’s-60’s and began to push the envelope creating
iconic designs that are still popular today. They even managed to create a very nice
plywood elephant. Furniture designers all around the world continue to push this medium creating
striking forms with more and more innovative uses.I tell you what though, the folks at
SKURNITURE (Skateboard+Furniture=Skurniture) really got it right.
