design + indie

The Evolution of Storage at GOOD

If you haven’t already seen this Evolution of Storage infographic, take a look. It’s beautiful and fun, and it has me thinking about the way we live.

Granted, we all know that information used to take up a great deal of physical space—on the pages of books or in the grooves vinyl records—and now takes up very little physical space. It’s not much of a revelation at this point in time. But it is fun to see the trend so nicely depicted.

I love the crackle of a needle on vinyl. I enjoy flipping through the pages of an open book. And I cherish the books and records I keep in my house. But most of the music I own (and most of what I read) is digital—the books and records are tools of beauty and presentation, not efficiency.

I’m reminded of the architect and designer William Morris’s famous words: “Have nothing in your houses which you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.” As things get smaller, Morris’s adage becomes increasingly easier to abide.

Me and J’s iPhones… haha it excites me. A small design lecture class and of 4 people at our table, 3 have iPhones. Yeeeah :)

Note: Way to move your hand when I took the pic, Champ.

Helsinki will follow Turin, Italy ‘08 and Seoul, Korea ‘10 as a World Design Capital for 2012.

The World Design Capital is a city promotion project celebrating the merits of design to a chosen city every two years.

“This is a magnificent achievement for Helsinki. It is an important recognition for us and our collaborators Espoo, Vantaa, Kauniainen and Lahti, as well as for all the participating organizations and individuals. We have received a unique opportunity and will be taking every advantage of it, for both enjoyment and good for all,” says Helsinki Mayor Jussi Pajunen.

For more on WDC click here.

iPhone App Scans for Green Products

The new barcode scanner application draws from a wealth of independent, scientific information on the health, social and environmental performance of more than 50,000 consumer items and companies to provide instant product ratings to shoppers. GoodGuide licensed Occipital’s state-of-the-art RedLaser barcode scanning technology for its new application.

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Life-Altering Revision To An Existing Device of the Day: Damjan Stanković’s Eko Stoplight has a built-in timer that tells you exactly how long you have until the light turns green.

Yet another one of those specks of brilliance that make you go, What possible reason could there be for this to have taken so long to come into existence.

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FINALLY. ABOUT FUCKING TIME.

This is so good.

Amazing. But I bet anyone over the age of 40/50 will be like WTF?!