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Sitting down with Bay Area housewares execs from CORE San Francisco

by Barbara Phillips-Barrett.
Last month we were invited by friend and colleague Vicki Küng, co-creator of the Museum of Robots, to give a presentation to the Chief Officers Reaching Excellence (CORE) of The International Housewares Association….

Starbucks Loses It’s Name and Coffee

The new branding effort by Starbucks’ in house team has removed both ‘STARBUCKS’ and ‘COFFEE’ from their familiar green logo. Seems they…

Celebrating 10.10.10

We’re big fans of the work of Charles and Ray Eames and their vital contributions to furniture and industrial design, films, exhibitions, toys and architecture. We recently re-watched their documentary, “Powers of Ten”. The Eameses believed that both the problems and opportunities of the world are mainly matters of scale. They believed that a deep [...]

There’s Beauty in Chalk on Asphalt

Last weekend we enjoyed volunteering for our 10th year at the Italian Street Painting Festival in downtown San Rafael, California. Since 1994, Youth in Arts has sponsored this fundraising event to support arts …

Message in a Bottle

We’re fascinated by the Plastiki and find ourselves tracking its voyage while drawn to its message that waste is fundamentally a design flaw. This ‘off-the-grid’ vessel is the definition of sustainable design and cutting edge technologies. The Plastiki is engineered from 12,000 reclaimed plastic bottles, solar panels, wind turbines, bicycle generators, hydroponic vertical gardens, a [...]

Tarnishing the brand?

For 50 years IKEA has been building its worldwide brand and embedding its logo on consumer culture…

Lamfers.com Listed on DesignDirectory

Lamfers & Associates was recently added to DesignDirectory…

Kuhn Rikon on Discovery Channel’s ‘How It’s Made’

L&A client, Kuhn Rikon, was recently filmed for a segment on pressure cookware at their Swiss factory. See show times in your area at http://science.discovery.com/tv-schedules/ Kuhn Rikon has been manufacturing the highest quality cookware and cooks’ tools for more than 75 years. Kuhn Rikon is a genuine ‘lovemark’. Excellent cookware paired with helpful, informed people who [...]

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