Things that are Cool

Pencils and Architects

Pencils and Architects

Pencils used to be the most important tool an architect had and while that’s no longer true, I still love using pencils

Japanese Playhouse in New Zealand

Japanese Playhouse in New Zealand

A materials engineer in New Zealand tries his hand at building the Japanese playhouse I designed for charity in 2010. Here are the results:

Pinterest for Architects

Pinterest for Architects

Pinterest is a website that allows users to collect web-based images and assemble them by some common topic – an excellent tool for anybody, but particularly good for designers

No, it’s all about me

No, it’s all about me

You can tell a lot about most creative people by finding out the design things that they admire. Here is just such a list:

The Genius of Charley Harper

The Genius of Charley Harper

Charley Harper is an American Modernist artist known for his illustrations of all sorts of wildlife. He called it “minimal realism” but I call it awesome.

I’m Number 3!  (or 46 if you’re picky)

I’m Number 3! (or 46 if you’re picky)

Life of an Architect is currently the 3rd most popular architectural blog site in the world. I’m probably more surprised than anyone – here’s the list:

Cool Things 002

Cool Things 002

The second in an on-going installment of things I think are cool. Whenever I find something that stops me down and gets me to say ‘cool’, I stick it in a post.

Cool Things – 001

Cool Things – 001

I have been toying with the idea of creating a post that just sits there for a while and whenever I find something that stops me down and gets me to say ‘cool’, I’d stick it in that post. So this is the first one, chock-o-block full of stuff I think is kinda worth checking(…)