Matt, a friend and colleague in the Designbox space, ran into some bad Luck in the Raleigh Combat Zone (click here for earlier post defining the Combat Zone) yesterday. He left his beloved Nokia out on the patio for a second (maybe two), and it was promptly stolen! These days, a stolen mobile can [...]

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The face of downtown Raleigh will be changing soon, with a new and contemporary energy conscious building for the headquarters of the North Carolina chapter of American Institute of Architects. There was a state-wide competition to find the right statement which, of course, includes aesthetic and functional awesomeness as well as fulfilling the goal [...]

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These Bloch Design fireplaces would be a total showstopper in the right contemporary setting. I’m in love with the look of a few of them. I have to admit though, I get a not so good paranoid image of the possibilities…
My imagination leads me to see myself crashing my shin into the glass hearth [...]

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Looking for a new pair of Converse Chuck Taylor low tops? Camilla Engman’s design, Lil’ RED Riding Hood, was chosen for one of the shoes in the Converse (RED) program. So cute… great cause! Camilla is an Illustrator/Artist in Sweden… check out her work or her blog!

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Peter Callesen probably keeps Band-Aid in biz with all the paper cuts he ’s got to have creating his masterpieces. Born in 1967 in Denmark, he has been on the art scene in his country and around the world since about 1997. His artistic themes are very fantasy-vs-reality or success-vs-failure, all with the realization that [...]

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