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City Scenes: Chicago Factories by David Harmantas

Over the weekend I put together a post for a Design Milk “Friday Five” column that features furniture designer Jason Lewis‘ inspirations. One of the Chicago-based designer’s pics is the U.S. Adhesives building in an industrial neighborhood near his studio. I was quite taken with the photograph and how it evokes the country’s industrial roots. The photographer, David Harmantas, posted the series, taken on Chicago’s Kinzie Street industrial corridor, on his blog, Inexorable Solitude: The Cycle the Ghost Round. There were also similar images on his Flickr photostream.

Photos by David Harmantas

MoMA’s Open Call for NYC Designers

MoMA has put out an open call to designers based in New York City.

 While designers from all over the world can submit items year round, this is the first time the MoMA Store has specifically asked designers in New York City for American made products.

The MoMA Design Store is inviting local designers living and working in the city’s five boroughs to submit items for a product collection launching in 2013. Product categories will include, but are not limited to, paper (note cards, postcards, journals), home (tabletop, kitchen, home textiles, desk, gadgets/tools), kids’, games and toys, and personal accessories (bags, jewelry, scarves, wallets, pouches, and other small accessories), furniture (wall clocks, stools, lighting), and books.

In order for your submission to be considered, products must already be in, or close to, production, manufactured in the continental United States, and able to be delivered to MoMA in saleable condition. Visit MoMAStore.org/NYC for more information about the submission process. Deadline:  June 30, 2012.

Let me  know if you plan to submit, or if you’re item is chosen. I’d love to hear and blog about it!

Take your place among the elite—Eames, George Nelson, Castiglioni.

Your clock could hang here. Hey, you never know.

I love pretty much everything in the MoMA Store. (And the museum.)

The market could stand for more design-y kid toys, in my opinion.

M O R E    M o M A   G O O D N E S S

•  My interview with MoMA Store president, Kathy Thornton-Bias on Design Milk.

•  ARTmonday: My Visit to MoMA

• MoMA Design Store: Destination: Mexico

MoMA Store, SoHo

Boston Giveaway: Chef Wheeler del Torro’s Small Bytes

Boston chef Wheeler del Torro has closed the Barrio pop-up for the season, but is re-launching another culinary adventure, Small Bytes. Del Torro’s company launched Small Bytes back in 1993 in San Francisco. Now he lives in Boston, and we all know that Cambridge is the new S.F. . .

Small Bytes is a forum for connections and discussions between start ups, tech folk, and investors over a tapas menu. The Boston launch is June 19 at the French Cultural Center, 8:30 – 10 p.m.. He has offered us a pair of tickets worth $350 each to give away.

TO ENTER:  “Like” StyleCarrot on Facebook AND leave a comment on this post naming a tech company with offices in the Boston/Cambridge area. Deadline to enter is Tuesday, June 5, 2012, midnight E.S.T.

Chef Wheeler del Torro

Jamaican-born Wheeler del Torro is best known in Boston for  his vegan and liquor-laced ice cream company.

Inspired by John Walker’s The Hacker’s Diet, del Torro aims to bring healthy, high quality food to the tech community through his Small Bytes events. He promotes the intrinsic connection between excellent food and energy, thought processes, and endurance. He will also be launching his black truffle tasting menu.

Watch It: Pinterest Spoof

If you follow me on Pinterest or Facebook (if you don’t, please do!), you know I have a bit of a Pinterest obsession. It’s hard not too, when you’re as visually motivated and compulsive as I. Of course, I’m not the only one with Pinterst issues.Enter, Pinsanity.

The video, which landed in my inbox via Styleite today, and was also posted by HuffPo yesterday, mocks the current cultural interest in curating shiny, pretty, things in cyberspace.

Follow StyleCarrot on Pinterest. You’ll swoon.