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well, i really
a) like it, designwise (but the colors?)
and
b) it wouldn't bother me at all that it looks like Icrashedmybicycle's description :-P

ahhh...my tangerine dream. :)

oh no! must have missed the Dallas book signing-where was it? And the Palomar is very chic indeed...a real gem. It used to be an old ramshackle motel; very seedy. But revamped & now next to Mockingbird Station & the Angelika Theater, it draws some very stylish people. As a former New Yorker & transplanted Dallasite, hope you get to come back & experience the interior world here a bit more.

very Japanese (Tokyo chamber sleeping style). the 'bathroom' is a hole in the floor? do i have that right? or is the girl in the pic sitting on the toilet in the shower? and, i agree with Donsie_Lass...i would imagine the floor to have more sleeping space. this place looks very cool but the way they have shown it...is very "cuddle prohibitive."

my knees are weak with design envy...!

FedEx Kinko's!!! The boxes the copier paper comes in are nice size, uniform in size, sturdy, - and best of all, have LIDS!
Go in way ahead of time though, and ask when their next paper supply drop will be; and ask them to reserve the boxes for you-they're very popular & will get scavenged quickly!

sorry, i LOVE magazines, and love design, but as a graphic designer this is very sub-par...bizarre name, horrid fonts, average photography and if it's for the purpose of selling design, this isn't the way to do it...

LoriSF and zuke, you are correct...

as a former lighting designer for a US-based Taiwanese company...our major bread & butter client was Wal-Mart, although we also sold items to/dealt with Bed Bath & Beyond, Home Depot, Z Gallerie, Staples and occasionally Target as well as a few others.

What happens is that there are a slew of major factories in China-most "specialize" in a material...some are better at wood, or glass/acrylic...some metal specialists etc. At certain points in the year all those retailers go to China to go over line ideas, supervise/check on prototyping for the presentations...and many of the presentations to major retailers occur in Hong Kong/Shanghai etc. One a trend or two of the season is established...a lot of bets are off!

Case en pointe: a sequin lamp I designed as a "Tween" request from Wal-Mart was presented & shown to them...they loved it but their line budget did not allow for extra items that season...so they did not buy it from us. Fast forward a year or two...and I saw the same lamp in Target (tweaked ever-so-slightly) and another I did actually show up in a trade magazine for the manufacturer Tensor!!!! Verbatim from my sketch...color & all. The sketch was clearly passed around the factoryfor the highest bidder...no matter whom. Ditto with a floor lamp that was too modern and high spec for wal-mart-they saw it...and lo & behold following season it showed up in Z Gallerie. Flattering, but frustrating!

Moral of the story: although you can create intellectual property rights in the U.S. between companies for protection...once a hungry factory sees that they have made a prototype for you and your "client" does not buy it...well, they have many other clients waiting to pounce with a lamp that "they just happen to have made a sample" for...and voila, it is sold somewhere else. Target, curiously enough, requires that any sketches or prototypes done on their request for proposal...become automatic property of target, and you lose rights to show it to anyone else. Ergo, the most unique design I ever did... I lost - they did not end up making it that season, but neither did i ever "see" it anywhere else.

And, they can indeed alter slightly to each client's potential buyer's budget (ergo more basic bases, nicer quality shades, the need for knockdown for shipping costs, etc.)

I guess to "sum up..." don't feel guilty for loyalty...as there is none on the other end ;-) Just plain ol' buy what you like, just because you prefer it.