Hey All! I wanted to point out what some of our designers have been up to lately. Erich Ginder recently wrote us to tell u s about a show he had up at Design Commission last month. There are some fun flickr shots of it here.

In addition to showing the work currently in production, there was an indoor gazebo prototype called Den on display. He created an edible bar – comprised of airplane sized cast gelatin liquor bottles and ashtrays in varying alcohol and fruit combinations that were served with bubble gum cigarettes and were very high in protein. Son of Rose created some beautiful music for the evening by sampling Mary Stewart’s live harp performance and synthesizing it into a sparkling electronicsoundscape.

In other news, Thomas Wold landed a plum plug in the LA Times recently. Lisa Boone describes Thomas in” MADE IN CALIFORNIA: Building on Blocks”:

Trained in painting and sculpture at the San Francisco Art Institute and what is now known as the California College of the Arts, Thomas Wold was inspired by abstraction when designing his Block Party series of bookcases and credenzas. “I had this drawing that had layer upon layer of doors and sliders,” he says from his Bay Area studio. “It ended up like a HansHofmann painting, where the shapes stack on top of each other.” Wold’s pieces are composed of solid woods and laminates in two palettes: neutral blond and ash, or walnut paired with orange, citron, lime, slate and antique white. Grommet holes on the backs of both pieces allow for audio-video cables, and leg levelers adjust for uneven floors. Wold even designed the lower shelf to accommodateLPs.