Over the holidays, I decided to treat my self to a new external hard drive. I wanted something I could use on my desk for backups, and even some general storage. My current drive at the time was just about to top off and I didn’t want to risk losing any backups. So I did my normal research online, looking for something both reliable and visually appealing.

I discovered these hard drives by LaCie that look amazing. The drives are actually in collaboration with designer Philippe Starck, a world-renowned designer. I actually new about Starck from the watches he designed for Fossil, so I was really excited to find these drives he designed as well. Also, LaCie is a very trusted hardware company, with a great track record in creating good hard drives, so I new they were reliable.

I‘ve had the desktop hard drive for about a month now, and it has worked wonderfully. It also makes my desk look that much nicer. The only thing I could say that bugged me a little was the default drive icon the popped up on my Mac when I plugged it in, (kidding). Nevertheless, I decided to create an icon for it, so that it would look as nice on my desktop as it does on my desk.

LaCie | Starck Hard Drive Icon (click image to download)

This is a tee shirt design I made a while back. I put it up for voting on DesignByHumans.com, so if you want to see it get printed, go vote!

(Original Sketch)

I decided to make a personalized card/desktop wallpaper for my cousin.

(Original Sketch)

Custom letterpress coasters done for Highsnobiety and Selectism. The coasters were printed by Repeat Press of Somerville, MA, and the short film was done by iloveqp.com.

This is what magazines could be like in the near future.

This conceptual video is a corporate collaborative research project initiated by Bonnier R&D into the experience of reading magazines on handheld digital devices. It illustrates one possible vision for digital magazines in the near future, presented by our design partners at BERG.

Via Bonnier.