Design Crack - My name's Brandon. I am a designer at the San Francisco architecture firm of David Baker and Partners, and am a design and fashion addict. I run a blog called DesignCrack.com which is my hub for all things heavy in the design world.
DesignCrack is meant to be a fun place to store my design digging. I’m always looking for inspiration, and I do this by exploring the city, the web, other cities, looking for things I find beautiful or fascinating. Less [+/-]
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Religious Juxtaposition (GALLERY)
A Bookshelf for the Religiously ConfusedReligion is so complex. That’s why the Juxtaposed bookshelf designed by Mike and Maaike is so important. It helps you simplify religion by bringing together all the world’s most important religious texts…
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Stair Architecture (GALLERY)
The Incredible All-Stair HouseDid you ever feel as if your not getting enough exercise? One way to combat this is by making you house 100 feet tall and separate each floor by a staircase. This is what the son of famous Portuguese architect…
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Teatime Goes From Stuffy to Sexy (GALLERY)
Turn teatime from stuffy to sexy with Undergrowth Design’s Blaue Blume tea set. This set includes a white porcelain dessert stand, tea cups, a tea pot, among other items. Why so sexy? Undergrowth Design…730 Views
Pricey Furniture
Keep Your Feet of My $42,000 Coffee TableThis coffee table looks relatively simple. It's made of several large pieces of hardwood that has been treated with a silver finish. But the San Francisco manufacturer of luxury furniture, Council Design,…
Published 1,636 Views
iPod Case For Old Ladies
GrannytunesGranny tunes clears the chasm between youthful geek fetishism over the iPod digital audio player, and the antique flavors of an 80 year old woman. The tassel makes this design a must have. The concept…
Published 2,956 Views
Edible Furniture
Biodegradable Starch Chair by Max LambThe Starch Chair by Max Lamb evokes in me strong hope for the future of green furniture design. The chair shown above is created by squirting out a continuous tube of starches which are layered so that…
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Pre-Broken Ceramics
Greece VS China PlatesGreece vs China is a plate with a clear concept: take the plates needlessly broken during any traditional Greek wedding celebration. salvage them, and glue them back together to sell them as high minded…
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The Sound of Luxury
$145,000 Muon SpeakerMuon speakers are, quite frankly, the most opulent speakers ever made at an unreasonable price of $145,000. Mind you, this price would get you a Ferrari with a pretty decent sound system, but, if you…
Published 3,392 Views
Resin Lamp Clearly A Winner
DesigngedichtjesThe Resin Lamp is as simple and finely crafted light as you would expect from Designgedichtjes. The lamp really looks spartan. It consists of a cord, a couple of light bulbs, and highly polished clear…
Published 2,781 Views
E-Commerce Meets Ultra-luxury
20Ltd Sells High End Design20ltd is a link that someone sent to me, and I’ve been very impressed with the site. Essentially, 20ltd has taken the concept of the Design Crack site and turned it into a retail business, which, I would…
Published 3,384 Views
Paradoxical Art
Self Healing TapeSelf Healing Tape is paradoxical in design, allowing you to make things appear broken even though they aren't. I recently covered the fun and innovative Nature V2.0 chair by Dream Me a Sheep which is…
Published 2,408 Views
First Green Gas Station
Office dA DesignOffice dA, a Boston based design firm, has created this gas station in the heart of Los Angeles. It creates quite a paradoxical relationship for those who seek it out. For the everyday user of this gas…
Published 5,697 Views
A New Wave in Furniture
The Storyline ShelfI’ve included a couple of images from the Dutch By Design collection called Storyline. It’s a bookshelf that has taken the form of an abstracted sound wave. The designer created the piece in the exploration…
Published 3,095 Views
Bendable Interior Objects
Bend Your Way to LuxuryI subscribe to a newsletter by a Swedish company by the name of Form Us With Love, and they just sent me an announcement for their latest design product/company called BIO (Bendable Interior Objects).…
Published 2,038 Views
Beach Cafe Made of Iron Sheets
Graffiti-Proof East Beach CafeThomas Heatherwick created this beach side cafe in Little Hampton, UK around an extremely strict design concept. The owners of the East Beach Cafe wanted to discourage graffiti, which was a problem in…
Published 1,891 Views
Social Network For Designers
Design 21Design 21 is a Design Social Network I read about in this month’s ID Magazine. When I went to the site, I was skeptical of its ability to connect designers, but after a quick look around, I realized…
Published 3,250 Views
A New Take on the Noguchi Table: Clear Legs
I will file this wood and clear acrylic coffee table in my YANRO file. YANRO, of course, stands for Yet Another Noguchi Rip Off. If you’re wondering who Noguchi is and don’t care then please leave this site immediately and don’t come back. If you’ve heard your high-brow friends throw Isamu …598 Views
Whimsical Art Tiles
JuJu Design Snow Print Ceramic TileThese are two young designers whose names I cannot pronounce, but whose design concepts I immediately get. Both Tuukka Tujula and Maija Puoskari are members of the design collective JuJu Design Party,…
Published 3,186 Views
Subtle and Powerful Chapel (GALLERY)
Peter Zumthor DesignI’ve always been a fan of the work of Peter Zumthor, and a recent article I read in Icon Magazine has reinvigorated the joy that I get in his work. This work in particular, the Bruder Klaus Chapel,…
Published 3,365 Views
Magnetic Salt and Pepper Hearts
Shake On Some LoveFinnish Designer, Susanna Vesalainen, created this ceramic salt and pepper shaker for a competition this year sponsored by DesignBoom. The salt and pepper shaker is comprised of two ceramic halves held…
Published 2,408 Views
Glowing Pod Sculpture
Triode T33 LampI find it extremely exciting when designers send me images of their prototypes to display on the blog. Even better than that is when the designs are as glorious as the T33 Lamp by Paris based design studio,…
Published 2,166 Views
The Fireplace Goes Ultramodern
Radius Design is a hugely talented German based design firm. I’m always tickled pink when I get press releases from companies with so much talent because when I see their work I feel like the quality…Published 5,993 Views
Retro Handbag of the Day
Dior's 1947 Samurai Handbag ($3,900)This bag is soooo old news. However, The Dior Samourai 1947 handbag is still one of my favorites even though Dior has probably gone on to market bigger and better pieces. This handmade gem by Dior is nothing…
Published 2,859 Views
Can Denim Be Couture?
G-Star-RawI’ve never seen denim treated as expertly as by G-Star Raw. The company uses the most comfortable fabrics, and leave you feeling like an extra in a 1940's noir film. The styles in the most recent collection…
Published 2,591 Views
Witty Home Accessories
Clause Bjerre's Light PlumbingClaus Bjerre created a witty take on a candle holder. The holder mimics the form of a plumbing pipe with a valve. The valve, besides looking beautiful in its industrial simplicity, actually serves a purpose:…
Published 1,617 Views
Artist Richard Wilson Creates A Whole New Level Of Building Automation (VIDEO)
Richard Wilson’s work over the years has been a strong personal inspiration for me for two reasons: Richard Wilson teaches me by taking things apart that I would not normally think to take apart, and Richard Wilson doeas this on a very large scale. A scale that I could never had imagined was possi…518 Views
WASPish Sexiness
White Ferragamo Pump With Mosaic HeelAnd speaking of good shoe… Ferragamo, seen above. The name brings middle-aged coiffed women to their knees in ecstasy. This brand is what I would consider to be the pinnacle of refined shoe. Salvatore Ferragamo makes the best shoes, but rarely does the brand take risks. They make simple, straight …
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Customizeable Job-a-matic (GALLERY)
Instant Job Board For Your WebsiteI came upon job-a-matic recently while searching for an efficient way to post design jobs on my own website, DesignCrack.com. Job-a-matic is a tool that allows me to create and customize job posting on…
Published 2,675 Views
A Bed with Shock Absorbers
Sleep On Recycled Car SpringsI recently came across this bed in a Toronto, Canada design shop. The bed isn't all that exciting. It's well crafted and reasonably priced at around $1400, but the obvious stand out aspect is that the…
Published 3,912 Views
Lung Ashtray
Gives ThoughtSometimes I wonder how it’s possible that I’m able to feature two lung ashtrays in such a short period of time. The first lung ashtray I saw was by an extremely adept Italian design firm called industreal…
Published 3,432 Views
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