For those of us that don’t like the idea of becoming grub food underground or becoming a literal burden on our family on our way to our next destination, after we have or have not passed onto the next world, cremation has always been the cleaner more portable option. The Los Angeles Times, published an article, on funeral urns outside your standard stone or brass cylinder and happened to mention two of our partners, Joan Takayama-Ogawa and Randall Wilson.
Hillside Memorial Park recently approached Otis College of Art & Design, to start a class focusing on alternative, highly styled and personalized funeral urn options, creating a greater sense of the importance of meaning in commercial wares. Check out the full article here.
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We are happy to welcome Robert Apodaca into the Shibui Designs family. As the newest partner Robert carries with him a lot of experience and expertise that will bring lots of new creative talent to the Shibui designs offerings. Himself a designer whose style focuses on simplicity of form, economy of materials and an elegant approach to problem solving he currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
Robert graduated from Otis College of Art and Design’s Architecture/Landscape/Interiors program in 2003 and spent several years working with various architecture and design firms, exploring what the design world had to offer. Robert was greatly inspired by the creative possibilities that lay within the intersections of art, design, and architecture, and knew that he wanted to do more. Driven by his entrepreneurial spirit, Robert has taken those ideas into the heart of a number of exciting projects including his own creative space, Fifth Floor, and now Shibui Designs.
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It looks like the Los Angeles Times is as tired with big box stores and gift cards to big box stores as we are this season. We too, are deeply into the notion that we should all be supporting creative diversity instead of buying stock schlock from orange box, or red box, or blue with yellow tag box.
Katherine Gray’s Either/Or Vase is hardly what one would consider a stock shape for a vase nor something you’ll find anywhere else. Each is a one off from recycled glass, making it a bit trickier to make then some of the other things you’ll see on shelves this season, but we wouldn’t have it any other way. See it mentioned here.
The Los Angeles Times was also keen enough to feature the work of our own Jason Burton and his elegant, and sustainable recycled pallet shelf units in the home section this holiday season.
Thanks guys (and gals) we all appreciate the nod, and it couldn’t be for a more eco-conscious object. It’s great to see that inspiredly earth friendly products can have a place front and center.
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