London Calling

LONDON 2K10

So I am currently planning a little trip over the pond with my sister in the new year and doing hotel research. Of the many many beautiful boutique hotels I have come across, Blakes is at the top of my list FOR SURE.

Anouska Hempel did the design and it is fantastic. Her use of color, texture and scale taps into the fantasy of design and feels like it has the ability to transport you to an old world mentality of design where everything was highly detailed and highly decorated. She has the right amount of "matchy matchy" I can appreciate. I NEED to experience this in person.

Our last trip to London we were lucky enough to stay at the exquisite Lanesborough Hotel where we had a personal butler and proceeded to mingle with the glitterati at The Library Bar which included late night drinks with Courtney Love, Noel Fielding (from the Mighty Boosh) and Drew McConnel from the Baby Shambles. That story deserves it's own post as Courtney spilled strange and personal information to us while the scotch on the rocks kept flowing...

Anyways, I am totally spoiled, but this go-around I still want to find a little taste of that sharp English design... Blakes might be a little more manageable. :)

NEW WORK: gigi rap supahstar launches

Here is a latest branding project from LBR. It's so much fun to be able to work with your friends. The picture below accuratly represents how we get work done... with GIANT glasses of pinot.
More to come...

(new branding for Gigi Ouf)

check out the new blog here:
http://www.gigiouf.blogspot.com/

Where My Mind IS...

Anyone want to make a fort??

THIS IS RAD!

CHECK this out. It has the same style as an iPhone tutorial. LOVE IT.

http://cinegis.com/refracthouse/CineGIS.html

A Model of Sustainable + Holistic Living

2009 Solar Decathalon TEAM CALIFORNIA IS KICKING ASS! 1st Place in Architecture!

The Solar Decathlon is a competition between the top architectural and engineering schools throughout the world challenging students to create the best solar efficient and architecturally functional home. Not only to they design every inch of this home, but they also build a full scale model that competes on “the mall” in Washington DC for the public and judges to tour.

This year, California College of the Arts and Santa Clara University teamed up to tackle to project using the strengths of both schools to create the home. CCA brought the architecture and design, and Santa Clara showed their expertise with the engineering. This combo is proving to be a successful as they took home the First place in architecture and communications beating the likes of Cornell, Germany, Boston and Spain—to name a few. There are a few more categories to be judged, but CCA killed it with the Design/Architecture portion.

As a former student of CCA and a former member of the decathlon team, I am so pumped on the outcome. The amount of time and positive energy put towards this project by Team California was enough to create this innovative and holistic approach to living sustainably!

Great job Team California!
Check out the links here to learn more about the project!

http://www.refracthouse.com/

http://www.solardecathlon.org/

AND i'm back!!

Sorry Kids, I KNOW you missed me. Had to take a little LBR break to focus on launching this-->

http://www.rubiconcollection.com/

Check it out!!

My Home and Lifestyle store in Lake Tahoe is finally online and I am so pumped.

So now that is launched, I will have a little more time between the programming of the new ONLINE STORE that will be a part of the Rubicon Collection Online experience.

Above is an image by Embry Rucker--part of our inspiration for the Look section!

ON HOLD: will return shortly

LBR is content building so please stay tuned and we will be back in action very soon.