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The Good Design Awards expo is coming up at the end of this month and to gear things up the committee has officially released the list of products that will be on display and consequently up for a Good Design Award. I’ve been sifting through the 50 categories and 1748 products and have decided to highlight a select few that caught my attention.
Kicking it off with the product packaging category:

Product: Forest Milk
Designer: Rise Design Office
For Amita Corporation
Description: Sustainable farming applied to dairy. Cows are free to roam an unused forest 365 days a year. The cows are happy and in turn they also promote upkeep of the forest by eating grass and weeds that would normally have had to been cut away.

Product: Blue Earth Dream Packaging
Designer: Samsung
Description:  Released contiguously with Samsung’s Blue Earth solar powered cell phone, the packaging is designed without adhesives and using environmentally friendly materials. The design also encourages and facilitates 2nd usage as a picture frame or business card holder.

I saw this line of soaps and perfumes at anthropologie the other day and was severly confused. Then it was picked up by the moment today, which was good because they provided some supplemental information on the products. Namely, that they were designed by Denver-based illustrator Margot Elena Wells.

The packaging is breathtaking and almost makes me want to clean myself with something called Tokyo Milk Soap.

Hope everyone had a nice weekend.
I’m currently working on a retrospective of one of my favorite Japanese designers. Hopefully I’ll be able to share something with you by Wednesday, or perhaps Tuesday. In the meanwhile, check out these cute T-shirts by husband-and-wife designer duo Noto Fusai. They’re meant to be worn by parent and child!
The designs are from the shikisai collection in collaboration with fashion retailer Tomorrowland.

An interesting conversation took place over the weekend surrounding so called “street photography” and the disillusionment that the photography subjects are actually fashion professionals (models, magazine editors, etc.) whose job requires them to be style savvy. One of the criticisms is that identities and occupations are rarely revealed, leading readers to believe that they are surrounded by fashionistas. The subjects of the conversation include U.S. based Sartorialist, France’s look de rue, and Japan’s Style from Tokyo.

My reaction? flabergasted (I’ve always wanted to be flabergasted) . Call me naive but I never suspected that the Sart’s beautiful subjects were anything other than innocent bystanders. The effect? For me, probably minimal. I continue to browse The Sartorialist for inspiration rather than a means of gauging trends amongst the local consumer.

You can read the conversation HERE and HERE.