Kitchen central

Rethinking the kitchen, via Designboom and Dornob.

Feel the flow

Jennifer Tran is a recent graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, and is now based in Brooklyn. The last photo features Tran's Flow Chair, which was featured at this year's International Contemporary Furniture Fair.

"The Flow Chair was born from extensive form exploration, trial and error, and pure chance," said, a native of Texas. She would heat the plastic until it was malleable, then free-form shape it by hand. Sure beats playing with Play-Doh. Or does it?

More than just OK

The Camera Club of New York is featuring a mesmerizing collection of work by Rian Dundon and Wayne Liu. The black and white series is based on the artists' recent travels in China. The show, called OK China, runs through August 12.























Don't live in New York? Check out Time Out's slideshow of some of the photos.

Home sweet home

Maybe it's all the great interior design ideas. Maybe it's that it's just a wee bit voyeuristic. Regardless, I thoroughly enjoy Todd Selby's Web site, which depicts creative minds at home, in their own spaces. (Plus, he wears fabulous glasses.)

Selby's latest installment features fashion designers Susien Chong and Nic Briand in their home in Sydney, Australia. The couple runs the label LOVER. Loved — not just liked — it.

Soaked

Speaking of rain, here are some other goodies for wet weather.

Wear: United Bamboo, run by Miho Aoki and Thuy Pham have quite a few cute rain coat candidates. I like the slimming lines of the classic black trench coat and the big 'ole buttons.

Give: The "thank you umbrella card" from the goofy online store, The Curiosity Shoppe.

Eat: Monsoon restaurant in Seattle "marries traditional Vietnamese cuisine with Pacific Northwest innovation" according to its Web site. Two locations, called Monsoon and Monsoon East, are run by brother and sister chefs Eric and Sophie Banh.

Coffee, illustrated

It's dreary — yet again — here on the East Coast, which makes me crave a cup of coffee and a good book so I can curl up under a blanket and cozy the day away. Alas.

At any rate, I'll admire this spiffy coffee graphic by Lokesh Dhakar, of Baltimore. Buy T-shirts and mugs here. Mmmm...mocha...

Slim Vin

Wow. Love these.

Big bags are a necessity in my business. As a journalist, I'm constantly lugging around a mishmash of computer cords, recording devices, notebooks and miscellany.... Pens, tape, thumb drives, chapsticks, you name it.

All this makes the purses and totes from the Brooklyn-based company Skinny Vinny seem like a fashionable investment. Founder Vincent Lai is a 2006 graduate of Carnegie Mellon. He spent time at a design consultancy in Soho before launching his own line.

"I wanted to combine my product design education with the soft goods and pattern-making knowledge I gained growing up in a garment factory," he said.

Lai, who named the company after a teasing nickname, makes the product samples himself. They are then reproduced at a small factory in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Hooray for handbags!

Snaps

Bonnie Tsang does gorgeous photography work from Los Angeles. Browse her lovely Flickr, or learn more about her and what she's all about at projectwedding.com. That's Bonnie, pictured hard at work below.