Magpie iPod Outfit

Anyone who's spent any time South of the border has seen the color-splashed oilcloths that Austin-based designer Maggie Stephens uses to make her Magpie iPod Nano "outfits". Stephens, a marathon runner, came up with the design after she couldn't find a functional yet still good-looking way to carry her Nano when training. Already the owner of Magpie, a successful accessories business, Stephens designed the reinforced …

Flocks

Sweaters made by Flocks, the brainchild of Dutch fashion designer Christien Meindertma are exciting to me for a multitude of reasons. Here are two. First, my father is Dutch and I’m always excited to meet people with obtuse Dutch names doing obtuse things with their lives. Second, in my undergraduate years, I studied agricultural journalism and worked for the World Dairy Expo. In the end, …

ABC Stools

Dutch designer and technorati pioneer Esther Ermers has developed the first three dimensional alphabet. By rendering our two dimensional Latin alphabet into three dimensional shapes, she has brought the written word into the third dimension. Once we go paperless and immerse ourselves in a realtime digitally enhanced environment, we'll have a need for three dimensional letters. And until then? Well, we'll just have to sit …