Site Specificity

We talk a lot about site specificity, but this installation epitomizes the ideal.

http://www.zanderolsen.com/Tree_Line.html

copywrite Zander Olsen

Ice Cubism: The Hardest Rapper lends design some street cred

While he was balancing being a hard-core gangster rap icon, presumably with days filled with 'rolling up on fools,' Ice Cube also packed a T-square. That's not slang.  Cube studied architectural drafting at an Arizona trade school and now the New York Times’ "Home & Garden" section has featured his take on design. Sure, we may not all agree with his personal taste, but who wants to argue with a former member of NWA and, even so, it at least helps us prove that maybe we're not in such an old-man's club anymore afterall... 

Did you move to a big house in the hills once you became successful?
Ain’t that what it’s all about: providing a better way for your family than you had? It’s a Mediterranean-style house and it feels, to me, like an Egyptian palace. Though I haven’t been on my architect game in 25 years.
But you still try to make good design a part of your life?
Yeah, a lot. What I learned from architectural drafting is that everything has to have a plan to work. You just can’t wing it. I can’t get all the materials I need for a house and just start building.
Whether it’s a career, family, life — you have to plan it out.
How are your drafting skills these days?
You don’t want to live in nothing I draw. I got a certificate. For a year. In ’88. I don’t think I picked up a T-square since.

A Digitally Remastered Funday Classic: Door Handles

What subject could be more pertinent in today's tumultuous world that door handles?  We at Funday agree an have reproduced a Funday Classic from all the way back to last year's very first Funday thanks to the archival efforts of Ron I.

Ron's foundational presentation compares the great personalities of 20th century design with their personal takes on that most tactile of building elements, the door handle.  Make your own Freudian presumptions about how each work represents its respective designer and enjoy this timeless Funday presentation.