I’m not much of a Vodka man. Generic vodka requires sugary mixers to remove the medicine-like taste from it while most good vodkas are too harsh to sip neat and require a Bond-like martini and a tux to make you look like you’re not an alcoholic for drinking vodka straight. Little did I know that [...]

I don’t post a lot about redesigns or Microsoft (or their affiliates) but I stumbled across this preview of the new MSN.com I’m usually the last to say this about anything Microsoft but, from an information architecture perspective, it isn’t quite bad at all. It’s easy to visually parse and it strips our a lot [...]

Beautiful work from Zefara Studio Zerafa Studio LLC (thanks, Joaquin) featuring a custom kitchen from Bulthaup Toronto via ArchDaily

For the upcoming Wired issue, Khoi Vinh and a couple of his crew from NYTimes.com put their spin on Craigslist. Just don’t call it a redesign: Any truly serious redesign of Craigslist would inherently look very different from what we produced, and we kept that in mind from the very beginning. And, yes we took [...]

More proof that low-budget, high-design makes for big profits. Motel 6 is projecting a 100% increase in bookings next year thanks to a down economy and a great redesign from the creator of Virgin Airline’s airplane cabins. Read more at Dwell

…Three things I love combined here at this roadside donut shop.

Behance Mag has an a great write-up on industrial and architectural design firm, Strudio Dror.

I’ve been meaning to post about Theory since I came back from my trip to New York earlier this month. Established in New York in 1997, Theory set out to produce comfortable, minimal clothing for women. Their mens line launched in 1999 and their accessories line followed a few years later.

Finally, after over year since the initial design was completed, Crate & Barrel has re-launched. Previous design Live now

Here’s 10 things that have caught my eye in the last month and a half (in no particular order) The Olympics – NYTimes.com created this great tool to track all your favorite events here Bell Canada rebrands and relaunches Pantry, a local gourmet-to-go kitchen, grocery and coffee shop owned and operated by my friend Greg Bolton [...]