American Madness

Intelligent Criticism in the Service of a Better Nation

Good Head on Your Shoulders

Ever find a nice piece of design that you like and wonder where the ideas and everything came from? I did recently when I stumbled across HeadHoods (which even has a nicely designed website).
I decided that this time around I wasn’t going to just sit here and wonder but actually try and find some information [...]

Ice Ice Baby

At first when I read this I found myself thinking – “You’ve got to be kidding.” Then I took a second to think about it and it all just seemed so obvious. The next logical step from bottled and designer water: Designer Ice.
Ice rocks are pre-packaged ice cubes. Well, they are ice cube-shaped trays of [...]

Loving It

I am an occasional tie wearer. I have come to terms with this fact, but for a while it deeply disturbed me. I felt like ties were the evil manifestation of Corporate America. While I have out grown this belief (for the most part), I still like subversive ties. Little details like an all black [...]

On the Water Front

Well, it looks like it is a good thing that Coke decided to buy Glaceau, makers of Smart Water. It takes, between 50 and 60 gallons of water to produce a 1 liter bottle of coke. Considering that Coke is one of the most popular beverages around the world, that is a whole lot of [...]

Beer for Bags

Each year (okay, well, this year and last year, at least) Crumpler has run a promotion where instead of going into their store with money or a credit card in hand to buy one of their bags, you bring in some beer.
No, they don’t want your Bud Tall Boy, they have some specific requests for [...]

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