Friday, April 17, 2009

Retro And Useful

I‘ve always been attracted to classic fifties and sixties interior design. Nowadays midcentury furniture, houses, appliances and fabric design are back in vogue. Marimekko, a Finnish company founded in 1951, is still making their retro fabric designs into clothing, pillows and other household things, if only their fabric didn’t cost $46 dollars a metre. A cheaper alternative is to download the fabric swatch to use as wallpaper on your computer desktop. They have twelve designs, via apartment therapy.

If you have a Mac, you know you can click on the time in the top right hand corner of the menu bar, another menu drops down displaying the date. Now, thanks to this clever fiddle from Geek Sugar via unplggd, clicking on the time to see the date is so yesterday.

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