Emily Tobias

I came across this company via the core77 blog.

(from the blog)

Toronto-based design group Castor gets called a lot of names, especially sustainable—that S word whose egregious misuse irks us so. Not that Castor isn’t sustainable, there are just so many better ways to describe them.

As far as their actual products are concerned, we suggest descriptors like recycled, or perhaps upcycled. The short doc, Castor is French For Beaver (it is—we checked), recently made by Carling Acthim and Lana Mauro, takes a closer look at two of Castor’s best known lighting designs, the Tank Light and the Tube Light, both of which re-purpose cast off materials like old fire extinguishers and burnt out halogen tubes and turn them into hanging light fixtures whose final form is completely removed from their previous lives.

CASTOR IS FRENCH FOR BEAVER | Carling Acthim & Lana Mauro from Focus Forward Films on Vimeo.

Here are some stills of their final products.

On their Website, the ad firm Boys and Girls states that: We are a creative agency who believe that great work comes from daringly simple ideas. This one is simple and awesome… a board room table made out of legos!

Today, during my special studies Letterforms class, my professor, Tony Dispigna, who is a master of hand drawn Spencerian script, chose my name to draw as the example for the class!! I was so honored. Here are some pictures!!

For my thesis I am examining the role that pattern plays within the field of communications design. For the history part of the thesis I am researching Islamic pattern art, in addition to other parts of art history. As part of my research I went to The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s  new wing on the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia. Here are some of the photos that I took.

Last weekend, Aaron and I were strolling through Chelsea on our way to check out some dots, when we came across this awesome Mural that is part of P.S. 11. It is super cool check it out!

We also came across some awesome ironwork: