Happy Labor Day, friends; I hope you are enjoying the last few weeks of summer bliss! While I had to work a few hours at my part-time job (the new gig doesn't start for another week), I did get a chance to cook some great meals, watch a couple awesome movies, and go for a few long walks with my honey. Speaking of my honey, I thought I'd totally deviate from the whole general theme of my website to talk about a different kind of novel--as in innovative. That's right, people! My latest "celebrity" crush is none other than the super creative, undeniably innovative, and by the way did I mention he was British knight, Sir James Dyson, aka inventor of some outrageous vacuums and fans. How cool is it that he just completely questions the status quo when it comes to everyday appliances? Vacuums are rad, but why do they need all this bag junk? And why can't they swivel? Oh, and fans, they're totally cool, but uh...blades? Lame! Let's just multiply some air through a crazy vortex instead! Genius, genius, genius!
Anyway, as a kind of ode to my newest celebrity crush, I thought I'd feature a super awesome book regarding the design of ordinary objects: Super Normal, by designers Jasper Morrison and Naoto Fukasawa. This compendium of 204 everyday objects offers readers the chance to stop and think about the utterly simple, yet totally right product designs that punctuate our lives everyday. Like a breath of fresh air, this book provides an opportunity to reflect on those objects and what it means to be super normal. Is the title an oxymoron or a superlative--you decide!
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