This place is gorgeous. So much Baroque architecture, the old Jewish quarter and Mucha pretty much make the city (and Franz Kafka, but I didn’t see much related to him. Just went to a café called Café Kafka). I think my favorite things were the Goulash, the Castle and the Mucha museum. Phởtos: Billy Mays! He even sells […]
Wooo! This was quite the day, or two. Mei’s initial train caught on fire or something so she never got on. Then some other trains were delayed. Then she FINALLY found a way to get to Berlin by 5:00 on Saturday. Too bad that was the day we were planning on having Thanksgiving dinner. Mei’s mom […]
Martin and I drove out to Eindhoven on a Friday and managed to waste two hours walking around the center thinking that Dutch Design Week was nothing but a few showcases of lamps in some ritzy shop windows. It felt pretty dumb and we were getting pretty mad that we came all the way there for what seemed […]
An expo solely for making things the industrial way. Lots of molds, lasers and mechanical arms to see here. For me that got pretty old fast, then we got into what must have been the 3D printing/student hall. Now this is waaaaaay better. These guys had rigged an SLR to a Pico Projector and used it […]
Over a month ago I visited Mei and Nate in Belgium with Aaron to see the Interieur 2010 design fair in Kortrijk. To be honest, I’m having trouble remembering what all went on then. Dutch Design Week kind of overshadowed it, I’ll be posting on that soon as well. Here’s some hightlights: Antwerp Central Station: Design Fair: […]
was so niiiiice. I want to go back to the beach. Iwant to eat a crème brûlée sandwhich for breakfast again. I want to live in Sagrada Familia. And the trees, Barcelona has the coolest trees ever. And it’s SO WARM. Sagrada Familia: Park Guell: Around town: (This is the Spanish version of Freitag bags it seems. Different kinds […]
…was pretty impressive. I’m used to going to our senior shows and really being wowed by a handful of the seniors but here it seemed to be the other way around. All of the projects were presentable and the majority of them weren’t just pretty good they were REALLY good. Maybe I’m just not used to […]
This place is beautiful. The buildings, the cars (the scooters), and the people. Our first design stop was the Domus Academy, a very small private institution that teaches solely design. I got the feeling a lot of thinking goes on inside their building, more thinking than drawing for sure. They have design degrees I’ve never heard of being […]
Yay, we’re back to the right side of the road! But now everyone speaks German, fair trade-off? Probably, since a lot of Germans speak decent English. Frankfurt wins the prize for most interesting hotel location, right in the middle of the red light district. Now while we stayed in Frankfurt our actual design-related stop was a little […]
England was the easiest to get acclimated to of all the countries we visited, with the exception of nearly getting hit by cars on multiple occasions due that whole driving-on-the-left idea. And maybe this is more in the country side but really, no one really seemed to have bad teeth (Except the guy we saw […]
