I found this fun video via superstar photostylist Annette Joseph’s site the other day and thought I would share:

Thank you Annette!

Message Received Detroit. I love to keep track of what’s going on there, but the commercial is right, I don’t know Detroit. I haven’t been there since my 7th grade field trip to Greenfield Village, well, unless you count flying in and immediately jumping in a rental car and going to  Ann Arbor thirteen years ago, which I don’t. This commercial gives me so many goosebumps it actually almost makes me want to buy a Chrysler, and ahhh, tell ‘em Lee Iaccoca sent me. At the very least, it made me put 8 Mile in my Netflix queue, put on some Eminem (hope the city comes back like he has), and oh, it also makes me want to pull out my Chapelle DVDs and watch the one where he raps “Jokes and jokes and jokes and spaghetti…8 MILE!”

P.S. Does anyone know if the murals they show during the beginning are by the same artist who did the murals in Cincinnati’s amazing Art Deco Union Terminal (some of which are now in the Cincinnati airport)?

Our recent addition of the Zikmu speakers by Parrot on Design Public need a little explanation but the only way I thought we could truly do their story justice was by finding an interview in French. So, here is an Philippe Starck. Don’t worry…there are English subtitles.

Oh, and Lady Gaga likes the Zikmu:

Massachusetts is notorious for discount, “bargain basement” furniture retailers. Many times my brother Drew (DP co-founder) and I have joked about doing mock Design Public TV commercials a la Bob’s or Bernie & Phyl’s Furniture. Well, it looks like another set of brothers beat us to it — kids I went to high school with no less.

Hats off to the Hurley brothers and Improv Boston for a job well done.

Not too long ago, in a land not too far away, the DP staff sat around and talked about the Eames Elephants.

We love them.

We love them so much we could spend (actually, have spent) hours watching this video by eamesdemetrios:

Hats off to Vitra for going into production with the elephants! Although we love the plywood originals, the new plastic version from Vitra will do just fine.