If we could build the perfect room from scratch, what would it look like? What features would it contain? Let's have ourselves a little daydream...Last week I made the egregious (and massively out of character) error of leaving my step stool at one of my client's. I've been not reaching anything since, which is perhaps why I can't think beyond today's ideal closet feature. Pull down closet rods are an invention short and/or handicapped people ...

"I can't put it away; I'm going to use it again tomorrow."  The fact that you're going to use/wear/eat/play with/work on something tomorrow should have no bearing on whether or not you put it away today. You're going to get dirty again tomorrow, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't shower today. You're probably going to use your car again tomorrow, but you wouldn't leave the motor running all night long. You're most certainly going to ...

For the moment, let's suspend the conversation of whether or not New Year's resolutions are stupid. I don't make them, but plenty of you do, and that's reason enough to throw some words of encouragement out into the world. Maybe you bit off a little more than you could chew. Maybe you weren't imaginative enough, and you jumped on the bandwagon of someone else's resolution, rather than dreaming up your own. January 1st blew in, as ...

The speed at which our society moves can be overwhelming. In response, we've adopted an array of habits meant to--at least give us the impression that--we're keeping up. We have become somewhat robotic in our day to day dealings because we have had to; the distractions are unrelenting, the advertising profuse, the options for every decision available to us so copious that we have had no choice but to shield ourselves with what means we ...

The best one can hope for in life, or school, is to make a lasting friend on the first day of class. Possibly better still, and also more confusing for everyone else, if that partner shares an identical design aesthetic and a first name. Thus did Caitlin McCarthy and Caitlin Murray find each other out of a sea of other eager soon-to-be-designers at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising, vow to become joined at the hip, ...