Well, it was a busy weekend for Alicia and me with a disappointing trip to the Target Center and a not-disappointing trip to the No Coast Craft-O-Rama, the Midwest’s premier independent craft extravaganza! Ben joined us as we browsed the amazing assortment of local crafty vendors and got the low-down on this grassroots gathering (see […]
Last week we had a chance to talk to our friend and fellow Minnesotan Garrick Van Buren on his First Crack Podcast. You can listen to the interview online. We talked about our reasons for starting Curbly, our process for developing the site, and some of our plans for the future. check it out! Related: […]
Alicia found these great magnetic flower vases that amaze your dinner guests by balancing implausibly on the table-top. Unfortunately, the price tag was also implausible ($42 dollars!). So, in true Curbly fashion, we decided to do it ourselves. Here’s the video, details and links are below. Like this video? For those of you […]
Alttext’s post on creating easy wall art out of simple, cheap materials generated a lot of interest. Here’s another method that produces some pretty spectacular results: DIY Jewel Case Frames: Wonderful Wall Art Faster than you can say Polar Bears! “We found a clever project that uses CD jewel cases to make rearrangeable, refillable, photo […]
From the awesome (and Minneapolis-based) furniture maker BluDot, a series of design-inspired short films called Good Design is Good:
The Art Hotel in Berlin (Arte Luise Kunsthotel) prides itsef on the eccentric and unique interior design of its building. Every room is different and original: The concept of this somewhat different hotel – “art instead of grandeur, poetry instead of room service” – is winning guests over. Let’s take a tour… In the ‘Comic’ […]
Are your dining room chairs on their last legs? Mine were. They were already looking bad three years ago when I bought them for $40 at a thrift store. Well, this weekend, Alicia and I decided we’d had enough: Thanks for watching our first-ever installment of ‘The Fix Its’ (that’s me and Alicia); we plan […]
Our dining ‘set’ is a thrift-store rescue; it was on its last legs and probably would have been put down (sent to the landfill) if I hadn’t come along to save it ($40). I think it was actually once a nice piece of furniture, built by the White Furniture Co. of Mebane, North Carolina. But […]
Immigrants, expatriates, and airline-stewardesses have known it for a long time: there’s a startling gap between American and European attitudes toward design. Entering the U.S. after spending any length of time in Europe (or, for that matter, practically anywhere else) is eye-opening. Everything looks bigger, more imposing, like the world has been outlined with a […]
