My friend and former ITP classmate, Carolina Vallejo’s project, Design for the First World needs help with funding on Kickstarter and with spreading the word around the internets. In Carolina’s own words: My ITP thesis project Design for the First World, is a competition with a motto: The Rest Saving the West. I’m proposing to [...]

Networked coffee mugs provide an update to the old 10th-cup-free punch-card customer loyalty program. Our highly modular system allows any coffee shop to use one of our mug readers, link it to their name and physical location, and get started immediately with the program. Shops will sell RFID-enabled stickers at a low cost to customers [...]

More press for I RIDE FOR LIVESTRONG, an online interactive experience I worked on at Purpose: TechPresident: Avaaz Co-Founders Seek Purpose Driven Consumer Life Huffington Post: Julia Moulden on How to Use Technology to Change the World Cool Hunting: This Week’s Picks PSFK: Online Game I RIDE FOR LIVESTRONG Raises Funds, Awareness, and Social Empowerment [...]

Ni Hao You Doin’? – A new Hepnova shirt on Zazzle in collaboration with Joey G. We were hanging out in Little Italy/Chinatown tonight and Joe came up with this brilliant bilingual pun that celebrates the confluence of cultures in a pizza/scallion pancake slice of Lower Manhattan with classic New York wit and attitude.  Here’s [...]

Photos from the ITP Spring Show 2010. Full set on Flickr. Estrella Intersects The Plane by Matthew Richard Significant Other by Diego Rioja The Life Dress by Elizabeth Fuller