Jean Prouve – A prefab visionary
June 25, 2010 – 3:52 pm | 2 Comments

Jean Prouve was a metal worker and designer that acquired notoriety for his collaboration with  his famous cousin Charles Edouard Jeanneret (who assumed the pseudonym Le Corbusier). This weeks video presented by Wallpaper Magazine …

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Cargo Containers and Sustainability
April 8, 2008 – 12:35 pm | One Comment
Cargo Containers and Sustainability

This is a nice video describing the use of shipping containers as housing. The last time I checked, Jacksonville was a port city. Thousands of these containers just sit in storage at the …

Living small is big in Japan
March 23, 2008 – 9:19 pm | 2 Comments
Living small is big in Japan

I caught a documentary on the National Geographic channel called Tokyo: Living Small in the Big City that I highly recommend. It airs again on March 27th so try to catch it or set …

…..might be worth the drive
March 23, 2008 – 11:47 am | No Comment
…..might be worth the drive

Modern-Atlanta is having an event in May that includes a modern home tour and we wanted to pass it on. It looks like several interesting homes will be on the tour. We can …

Welcome Nest-Living to 5-Points
March 14, 2008 – 1:41 pm | No Comment
Welcome Nest-Living to 5-Points

“Modern” in Riverside used to be a four letter word……
Nest-Living is now open in 5-Points offering wares from Modernica, Heath Ceramics, Geneva Sound Labs, Unison, Cavern, (Listen to an interview with the owners of Cavern …

Trailer Wrap
March 14, 2008 – 12:57 pm | 2 Comments
Trailer Wrap

A one time University of Colorado architecture professor takes his students on a journey from tailer trash to trailer modern. A single wide trailer destined for the landfill becomes an exercise in adaptive reuse.
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Kithaus
February 20, 2008 – 9:05 am | No Comment
Kithaus

Anyone have any rooftops (flat, please) available downtown so we can drop one of these on it? Starting at $29,500, you can have a little 9′x13′ prefab Kithaus studio to call your own. …

Congratulations Brown Dog!
February 11, 2008 – 2:47 pm | No Comment
Congratulations Brown Dog!

Brown Dog Creative was awarded a prestigious Gold Addy Award for yes, you guessed it, our web site. Leslie Foster and her team of talented web designers went head to head with some of the …

Railing Pot
February 7, 2008 – 3:40 pm | No Comment
Railing Pot

The Steckling flower pot allows for display of your favorite plants on your balcony railing. This innovative design also allows for two separate areas for two different plants to grow in the same pot and …

“Cheap, Fast, Good…”
February 7, 2008 – 10:00 am | Comments Off

This is a nice little video of a lecture given by Scott Ervin of Alchemy Architects, the creators of the weeHouse, on trying to solve the ever present issue of bringing good design to the …

My obsession with the creative process
February 4, 2008 – 10:10 pm | No Comment
My obsession with the creative process

Some months back, I came across a CD that my brother-in-law passed on to my wife for a listen. The disc happened to be The 6th’s. I carried it out to the truck …