http://www.teague.com Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:19:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Having grown up in a culture where people had little, I’ve always had an old-fashioned, time-consuming relationship with the things in my life that seemed to be at odds with American material culture. Designers may notice the thought that went into banal objects, but for the most part the public ... http://www.teague.com/2010/08/the-designer-and-the-commonplace/ Earlier this week Teague Creative Director, Tad Toulis, headed down to Brazil for the annual International MOB Design Conference. While he was there he had a chance to speak with Valor Econômico,’ the country’s largest economic newspaper. 1) Do you think that design and architecture have overcome fashion as creators and ... http://www.teague.com/2010/08/tad-toulis-does-sao-paulo/ Brenthaven’s new Elite bag, co-design by Teague, has finally hit store shelves! Inspired by origami and constructed for smart expansion, Elite offers sleek laptop protection without compromising aesthetics. At last, a laptop bag that still looks great when actually used as a bag! The process began with paper folding, a la ... http://www.teague.com/2010/08/pretty-and-smart/ http://www.teague.com/2010/08/brenthaven-elite/ "I can't believe we're doing this!" I said. It was 5 AM on a bright pinkish-blue Seattle July morning. It was one of those Seattle summer mornings that people dream of for the other 364 days of the year...and we were headed to the airport to leave it behind. "I know! ... http://www.teague.com/2010/08/rolling-the-dice-on-a-weekend-in-madrid/ I recently visited the Wisconsin State Fair and man, was I in for an experience. It was about 75 degrees and sunny with about 60% humidity, which on a summer day in Wisconsin, is somewhat bearable. My Midwestern fair experience started off with a bang by witnessing a sea of people ... http://www.teague.com/2010/08/not-for-those-on-a-diet/ I’ve long been aware that not only is the future not evenly distributed, but time isn’t experienced the same way by all, despite our capability to measure and keep time with precisions of billionths of a second. Stepping into different cultures, as close as the back roads of Washington, we ... http://www.teague.com/2010/08/slow-life/ The photo above is all that’s left of the UA 150/70 Cinema that once graced downtown Seattle.  This little piece of terrazzo and tile is a mini shrine for me.  As a kid I shuffled right past it with my dad, in May of 1977, to see Star Wars. You may ... http://www.teague.com/2010/08/a-long-time-ago/