Watch This: Eames, The Architect & The Painter

Today I took a field trip with my company to the Eames House in the Pacific Palisades, California. Nestled in the bluffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean was the famous design couple's home and studio they built and designed in the 1940's. Not usually open to the public, we were given a private tour of the interior of the home!

It was pretty special to be able to see it, and perfect timing for the new Eames film that's coming out November 18. I can't wait to see this! Watch the trailer below, or here, and read more about the Eames House here.

Pantone Tattoos

Love these minimal Pantone tattoos by Tattly. What's so awesome about them is that they look different on everyone!

*images via tattly

Mast Brothers Chocolate

In a New Year's Eve excursion last year, I found myself in Dean & Deluca in Soho, New York looking for goodies. I'm a complete sucker for good package design, so this place is somewhat of a gold mine for me. After finding a 'bottle' of water in a milk container and an amazing Otomi runner, I came across these Mast Brothers chocolates while in line. Watch the video below by The Scout to learn more.

Pìcame

Pìcame is an editorial project born and developed on the web in a digital format. An e-magazine and a blog since 2008, Pìcame looks at the world of illustration, design and photography far from the mainstream system of the current market. Catch up on the issues here.

Tool of the Trade

There's something so simple and yet still design-driven that I love about Sharpie's. Now they come in stainless steel. It's a powerful and sleek weapon to keep on you at all times. Shop here.

Help Remedies

After a recent run-through at the Food Emporium on the Upper East Side, I found one of the coolest packaged products I've seen in a while. Help Remedies, a medical company created to solve simple health issues, has six different remedies for common illnesses- all in a tiny, very simplistically packaged product.

They claim to find the best solution there is for an illness and take away everything else (for instance, there is no sugar coating on their ibuprofen tablets). By stripping away some of the complexities of pharmaceuticals, they intend on making medicine friendlier and more accessible, and in doing so empowering people to make their own health decisions.

The product is made of molded paper pulp and a bio-plastic made from corn. They admittedly use these materials because they are interesting to look at. Oh, and they're also compostable. Shop here.

Objectified

In his new independent documentary on industrial design, Objectified, director Gary Hustwit (of Helvetica fame) has revealed how the products in our lives come into being and create personal meaning for us on a daily basis.

It’s a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets and the people who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on a daily basis. It’s about personal expression, identity, consumerism and sustainability. It’s about our relationship to mass-produced objects and the people who design them.

Through vérité footage and in-depth interviews, the film documents the creative processes of some of the world’s most influential designers and looks at how what they make impacts our lives.