Trebucard

Let the inter-office warfare commence with a business card catapult

by Blair Pfander If designer Bryce Bell has anything to do with it, business cards won’t be regarded for their paper weight or raised ink, but by their ability to fling random objects through space. His latest invention, the “Trebucard“, does exactly that, using the weight of 16 pennies to launch jumbo-size paperclips 8-10 feet in the air. Cleverly designed to fold into a wallet-friendly …

Atlantish

Contemporary crisis and mythical inspiration in a Greek design collection

by Ikechukwu Onyewuenyi When one thinks of Atlantis, a phantasm of decadence and splendor floods the senses, harkening a city at the height of its glory. For the “Atlantish: quite like Atlantis” collection, design collective Greece Is For Lovers (GIFL) turned to the present to communicate the allegorical allure of the past through modest design classics synonymous to Grecian culture. GIFL designer Thanos Karampatos says …

Shuck Truck

We sit down with Juliet Totten to talk about her movement to bring the oysters to the people

by Matt Domino Since 2007, Juliet Totten has embraced society’s current entrepreneurial spirit as the co-owner and founder of the wedding decoration company Poppies and Posies. Building on the success of that venture, Totten decided to broaden her business scope by starting Cabin Cove Oysters, an oyster garden in South Bristol, Maine, which takes to the street on the Shuck Truck—a traveling Airstream trailer from …