Interior Design FMLs

I'm sure most all of you are well aware of the infamous fmylife.com by now, in fact you may even visit the site to get your daily dose of "humor at someone else's expense" in.

But, within the last couple days, I have gotten my own dose of FMLs...all of which are related to interior design.

1. For my Japanese Pop Culture class, we were all asked to bring in Hello Kitty something to basically just prove the point that they make Hello Kitty EVERYTHING. We could even print something out that we found on the internet. As I started my searching, I came across a Hello Kitty Hotel. I thought to myself, "well this is interior design related, right up my alley!" Then, as I sat down in class the next day, I looked closer at the image and noticed 4 bondage straps on the bed. FML.

2. I am currently president of the Interior Design Student Organization at my school. We have weekly board meetings that are held in our student lounge. We always have trouble fitting everyone around the tables in this room, but this Wednesday when I walked in to set-up I was pleased to find that the tables were arranged in such a way that there was probably enough space to fit everyone! I placed an agenda at every seat and then took a seat at the "tip" of the tables, only to notice that I was staring down the length of a very...phallic-looking arrangement. FML.

3. I am in an Office Systems course where we are currently learning to use CAP studio in CAD to create functional office spaces using panels and the like. I worked diligently on a floor plan for our 2nd where we are required to fit 20 workspaces into a small office area. In an attempt to do something unique and creative, I tried placing my panel systems on a diagonal. As I finished my first attempt at the space planning of this office space, I found that my panels had formed a series of perfect swastikas. Needless to say, I completely started over. FML.

New!

I started another blog strictly for organizing photos and things that I like. I sometimes find it necessary to draw conclusions and try to figure out what it is that attracts me to certain things...so I guess this is a blog more for myself than anyone, but feel free to look.

Lisa Inspired By...

Hopefully I will find some time to update Juxtaposition as well.

Thought of the Day

When interior design integrates itself into your life...

Cultural Tour

If you've ever fallen in love with a city and wished you could bring that city's feeling and energy back with you into your home, Teo Jasmin might be able to help. Teo Jasmin is an interiors company based in Paris, France that specializes in digital printing. Their decorative pieces are adorned with the quintessential images from cities such as Paris, New York, London, Venice, San Francisco, and Japan.

Here is some of their feature pieces from the 2009 Teo Jasmin collection:

Just one Teo Jasmin piece added to a room can easily create a bold graphic element.
Here's some of my favorite products featuring places that have stolen a pieces of my heart:

• New York

• London

• Italy

Juxtaposition: Interior Design & Skateboarding

What could be better paired with the "glamour" of interior design than the badassness of the skateboarding lifestyle?

This post was inspired by an ad campaign that always caught my eye whenever I passed by it in Interior Design magazine. This campaign is for the Software upholstery line by Patty Madden. According to the website, the line is "an energetic new brand of high-performance upholstery that will move any installation to the edge of what is possible", so it makes sense why they chose to showcase this fabric along with snippets of skateboarders in order to enforce the brand of the product.





After noticing the Patty Madden ads, I found some other pieces that combine skateboarding culture and design. Below are bamboo skateboards covered with architectural renderings that can be hung on the wall as art or used to do kick flips until your heart is content.

Next, is a coffee table that takes on the look of a mini ramp, and is actually skateable, too. Both pieces are by the Test Collective.

Lastly is a set of stairs that leads into the basement of the Roarockit skateboard school. Sick, dude.

P.S. Happy 20th to my favorite skaterboy <3

Photos: Hedi Slimane, Patty Madden, Test Collective, Roarokit

Credit: notcot.org, MoCo Loco

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IIDA Student Blog Feature

Well, I've been on somewhat of a blogging hiatus again...which means that the new semester at school has started and it has come back in full force!

I wanted to drop a quick post today to tell you to check out the IIDA Student Blog.  I had the pleasure of writing a guest blog for them, and it was published today!  I did a post on the variety of interior design magazines available - check out the Student Spotlight post here!

Something My Interior Design Classmates Should Enjoy

After endless hours of Revit and/or CAD last semester, my classmates will either laugh or die a little bit when they see these chairs by Jaebeom Jeong.  These chairs are an exploration of the relationship between computer generated and the traditional forms, and is sure to make you feel like you've stepped right into your Revit file.

Grid Chair:
"The structure of chairs we have known is a creature experienced by association effects, and nothing more than functionally having the minimum structure to sit."

Made of stainless steel and walnut with a black stain finish

R60 Chairs:
"This chair embodied an image of infinity repetition derived from reflex action and virtual image."

Made of stainless steel, poly carbonate sheet, and ash with a black stain finish

I think this makes me a true interior design geek for enjoying this.  I would honestly consider having one in my home.

Source: Home Rejuvenation  Photo Credit: Jaebeom Jeong Design Lab, Young-tak Han

A Look Back & A Look Forward

Two thousand eight is officially gone and two thousand nine has come straight out of left field!  Seriously, where does the time go?

I had a pretty tame NYE.  It was spent reminiscing with some old friends, flipping cups, determining the geekiest new years resolution, and thinking up the worst possible escalator situation (which, if you're wondering, would be getting kicked out of a party by a huge bouncer with a bat and having to exit by running down a slippery up-escalator.  Or maybe it was having to climb up a slippery down-escalator while carrying 20 pizzas and wearing an easter bunny costume).

Anyway, what I wanted to do is take a look back at the most popular Juxtaposition Design posts!

1. Interview: Interior Design Idol - Serge Van Lian

2. Finds at the Michigan Design Center: Part I, Part II, Part III

3. The Row Video Revisited

4. High-End Sleeper Sofas

5. Student Project: Ergonomic Chair for Acoustic Guitar Players

6. You Could Be My Black Kate Moss Tonight

7. Master Renderer: Paul Maguire

8. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition That I Worked On!

9. American Apparel Goes Green

10. Extreme Update: It's Move-In Day!

I can't wait to see what 2009 holds for this blog & I would love to hear any and all opinions about what you would like to see more of/less of/new stuff here on Juxtaposition Design.

Thanks & Happy New Year to everyone!

"When Fashion Meets Interior Design"

Wear Your Chair: When Fashion Meets Interior Design is a book written by Judith Griffin and Penny Collins and is one that I am definitely interested in exploring.  Wear Your Chair looks at historical facts to explore the overlap of a number of different discipline, most prominently fashion design and interior design.
Judith Griffin is a full-time university interior design lecturer and Penny Collins is a fashion design professor.  They decided to join forces to create this book after teaching a course together in 1994 that was for a combination of interior design and fashion design students.

Wear Your Chair sounds very intriguing and I am especially interested in gaining more insight on a few key topics:

• How much the influence of personal fashion has on material or color choices made my interior designers, as well as the everyday person decorating their home.  Is it more likely for people to choose to use a color in their home because they personally look good in it?
• Life becoming style
• Interior designers/architects who have crossed over to the field of fashion design and vise versa

After giving thought to making interior design choices based on personal fashion taste in regards to me personally, I think it holds true that I am attracted the most to interiors that have the color or feel of an outfit I would wear.  Although I can't say I would ever wear these cream or ivory colors (seen in the bedding I chose for my dorm room) against my pale skin.  Have any of you experienced this in your interior design choices?

Also, let me know if any of you have read the book/what you think of it

Wear your Chair can be purchased from Fairchild Books or Amazon

You can also listen to a pretty cool interview with the authors to learn more about the book at runawaydesign.com

P.S.  Happy Birthday to me, I am officially not a teenager anymore.  Weird!

Source: runawaydsign.com  Image: Fairchild Books

Juxtaposition Design on American Apparel's Daily Update

Not too long ago, American Apparel's Daily Update blog featured a little article written by yours truly!  They posted about this article that I had written concerning their first LEED certified retail store.  Click here to go the the Daily Update post.

I felt a slight sense of "eek!" since they mentioned the surprise I had towards the fact that they hadn't "gone green" with their retail stores sooner.  But, in the end, I couldn't be more excited and honored since American Apparel is definitely one of my favorite stores!
In other news:Just discovered that Mary-Kate Olsen was ice skating at Rockefeller Center's ice rink the exact same night that I was at Rockefeller Center and I completely failed to see her.  Did I mention how much I love Mary-Kate Olsen?Lame :(

Photo: http://www.mary-kateolsen.us/pictures/displayimage.php?album=231&pos=6

NYC & anticon.

I got back from New York on Saturday night but, I have been sleeping a lot because I now have a really lame cold.  My boyfriend and I made this 10 hour road-trip to New York for the Anticon 3rd Annual 10 Year Anniversary show at the Knitting Factory.  Anticon is a record label comprised of almost all of our favorite music artists, so we knew that we couldn't pass up that chance to see them all on the same stage.

Here's a little photo re-cap of my trip:

Doseone telling the oral and musical history of Anticon (click for video)

Picture with my 2 favorites.  Epic.

A Manhattan afternoon.

Alias killin' it!

Yoni Wolf (of WHY?) doing his solo set.(click for video)

What we were all waiting for - the cLOUDDEAD reunion. (click for video)

Then the 3rd night, we decided to head to Times Square and partake in touristy things.

Wes and I at the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree.  This should probably be our Christmas card.

Happy Holidays! And also, a quick shoutout to May of the blog Mayk All Day Everyday.  I randomly discovered May through Dapper Kid.  May not only has awesome style, but was also coincidentally at the Anticon show, so be sure to check out her blog!