Practicing Feng Shui (shameless plug for my fathers book) is but one way of expressing oneself and opening up your life through the arrangement of furniture. If you’re not in possession of someone to help you move that weighty bookshelf across the room to a more satisfactory spot that enhances your chi, you could probably be content with another way altogether of using furniture to express yourself. Thankfully, Austin-based designer Cody Haltom’s Furniture typeface allows for the perfect marriage of both verbal and design expression of your inner being. Whether you’d like to craft a passive-aggressive message to your roommate for not being around to help you move said bookshelf or just want to bring a nice home-y feel to your words, this impressive typographical display could certainly do the trick.

Update:
The agency that created this work was The Butler Bro’s, and apparently Cody was a designer on the project.

Any job well done requires getting your hands just a little dirty. Unfortunately, the soiling of one’s digits is usually followed by a fierce bout of scrubbing that doesn’t always remove the grit and grime to it’s desired effect. If your maximum amount of elbow grease isn’t up to the task, perhaps you should up your intimidation factor and show that sludge what might happen if it doesn’t take notice of who’s boss. Harlem-based design company Spye has just the thing to send quite a fright through your filthy fingertips. Their soap knuckles cast from the genuine brass kind and made from all natural glycerin soap are sure to make that which is unclean glow anew with a sparkly shine…or else.

My very talented friend Eepmon has created a nice little site showing off all his tour dates and shows this month in Tokyo. Check it out, some gorgeous pieces like none of his work prior are on display, like this mixed media on canvas piece shown here.  If you’re in Japan right now, stop by one of his shows and then tell me all about it, please.

Related: Eepmon Goes Big In Japan

Our friends at Pangea Organics hit us with a couple of Radiance Gift Sets to giveaway this week– just in time to get your skin in perfect shape for the spring and summer sun by the pool. This awesome box set includes a facial cleanser made from Egyptian calendula and blood orange (can I eat that?), a facial scrub from Egyptian geranium with adzuki bean and cranberry (also, can I eat that too), facial mask (Japanese matcha tea with Acai and goji berry), lip balm (Italian red Mandarin with rose) and an eye cream (Turkish rose and white tea).   It all sounds so delicious it’s hard to believe it’s skin care. 

The 1st and 25th persons to comment today will be crowned the winners. Also, you can follow Pangea on Twitter to follow along and win more great stuff.

After more than a year together, our very own Jonathan Stern is, well, no longer our very own Jonathan Stern. Cat’s out of the bag, he has moved on to a dead-sexy job as Senior Editor for the Food Network Magazine– and we’re very happy for him. It’s a great place for him to explore his fanatical obession with all things edible, and a good opportunity for us to sit back and reflect on how far this blog has come. Thanks for all your support and hard work Jonathan, and good luck!

So, naturally now I’m left a bit short-handed day to day. What are we going to do? Well, for now, I’m back to running the show. Watch this space, things are changing, uh oh.

Being a site widely considered ahead of the curve on both the tech and eco-friendly front has it benefits. One of those perks manifested itself towards the end of last week when we were invited to an exclusive pow-wow with smart USA President Dave Schembri, which included our own smart fortwo test drive. Before hitting the road, however, Mr. Schembri was kind enough to share some interesting tidbits about the company and give an overall update on the state of burgeoning branch of the Daimler automotive family via a question and answer session. READ MORE…