Retro clock maker furni has announced the winner of their Show Us Your Skills contest - wherein designers were invited to hack their clock. The winning entry, Emily by Greg Wolos, is a wall clock with a twist, it looks like a tabletop set but it attaches to the wall and the display shows the time so that you can read it when your head is on a pillow. Another ergo feature, you grab the unit for snooze, the buttons are on the back edge of the unit. Wolos went all out to win, he even mocked up photos so that it would fit right into the furni catalog. furni is now planning to put Emily into production for their upcoming collection and share the profits with the winner. Check out the “making of” Flickr set. More designs after the jump.

When we built our addition, we knew that the secret to making a small house feel big is lots of storage. Thats why we planned over 40 linear feet of floor to ceiling storage. Unfortunately when we decided to finish our kitchen with this project we used up all our budget and were [...]

Always on the forefront of contemporary design, Orange Skin, based in Chicago, presents an abundant amount of product and design inspiration from home and abroad. In addition to showcasing products from such well known collections as Kartell, Minotti, and Magis, Orange Skin offers modern design from international icons as well as “up and comers.” [...]

Yesterday, I was absolutely horrified to learn that Keanu Reeves has been tapped to star in a totally unnecessary remake of one of the finest Science Fiction films of all time, The Day the Earth Stood Still. I cannot begin to imagine how much this movie will suck with Mr. “I know Kung-fu” feebly trying to fill the giant shoes of Michael Rennie, who originally assayed the role of noble spaceman, Klaatu, . The only way this could possibly get any worse would be finding out that Eddie Murphy had been cast in the role of Gort….on second thought, that might not be so bad.

I’m Gort, dammit! I am supreme!

Seriously, Hollywood is dead. The corpse stinks. Bury it now.

+ New work from Solv includes Lu-Be, a vinyl billboard chair in Solv’s signature style.

+ Modern Critter presents a human-friendly bent plywood cat scratcher can be hung or placed flat on the floor and is available in a wide variety of Velcro-backed carpet tile options.

+ His mother’s knitting inspired Kwangho Lee when he created the Weave Your Lighting. Rubber wires are knitted into lengths that range from 10 to 300 metres.

+ These limited edition fresh plate designs by Pierre Charpin were produced in Limoges for Craft and Bernard Chauveau.

+ Gabriela Gomes has a new collection of wool felt bags and purses at Planeta Clix.

+ Amy Tischer’s tea light holders cast playful and intricate reflections.

+ And Thomas Blotter sends us his Modern Art Table, which looks like a well-lit drafting table.

It’s 2008 and new years resolutions abound. Ours is to finally get some decent storage built into our 1,300 square foot house, and we’re well on our way. We spent the weekend assembling this Ikea GORM shelving and filling it up with tools and other random stuff that had been hanging out in our [...]

To kick things off in 2008, here are a few of the design-related New Year cards I received on January 1st (in Japan, all New Year cards are delivered on that day). Keep in mind that 2008 is the year of the rat, according to Chinese astrology, which explains the recurring motif.

To the left, a few shades of gray from Klein Dytham Architecture (KDa), to the right, from IMG SRC/NON-GRID/S2 Factory/Tagle. The smaller card pops out and acts as an invitation ticket for an event the companies have planned at the end of the month. More after the jump.

As we pack up the Holiday decorations and kick off a fresh new year in design, we would like to thank Family Circle Magazine for the wonderful article on blinkdecor.com in their December issue. “All is Bright: A Festive Holiday Home” highlights co-founder Anne Carr’s lovely home, and her sophisticated approach to design [...]

On the other hand, I posted a number of things in 2007 that I thought were the bees knees, only to have them completely ignored, so here’s my top-ten list of EotG posts that should’ve caught the attention of every right-thinking denizen of the Æthernet, but for whatever reason, didn’t:

1. Meryl, Moonlight, and a Dummy: Meryl Streep does a creepy duet with a ventriloquist’s dummy in an aloha shirt. I guess I should just be thankful she didn’t pull a Wynona and boink it
2. Bad Cocktails and the Bartenders Who Mix Them: over at DrinksTV, the world’s shittiest bartenders show you how to make…um…really shitty cocktails
3. Shiftin’ With Woo Woo: a gallery of ultra-bitchin’ hotrod gearshift knobs by movie legend, Woo Woo Grabowski
4. Who Is Hoverboy?: it’s Hoverboy, scourge of Godless Canadians!
5. Cartwright Rips CBGBs: my old high-school advisor reviews the classic punk LP Live At CBGBs
6. Forgotten Electronics of the 70s and 80s: remember 8-bit pr0n and the Bone Fone?
7. Beehives in Paradise: the retro-Exotic gals of the 1966 Mai Kai Restaurant calendar
8. Streams of Monkeys: my PCL pal splogman mashes up the Pogues and dancing chimps
9. Bally Hula!: politically-incorrect page scans from the 1935 issue of Ballyhoo Magazine
10. Think Small: a 1961 promotional brochure of VW Beetle cartoons

Okay, all you sites out there that’re looking for fresh material, get linking!

I’m nowhere near as obsessive about checking my weblog stats as I used to be, but I thought it’d be fun to compile a list of the posts that garnered the most visitors in 2007. I received almost 4.5 million page hits last year, which was definitely a huge increase over 2006. I’m not bigger than bOINGbOING yet, but I’m doing okay. Speaking of bb, I owe Mark F. a huge debt of thanks for linking here as often as he did last year. It definitely put me over the top. Thanks also to other big referrers: Coudal, The Cartoonist, Table of Malcontents (defunct)/Ectoplasmosis, and PCL.

So, without further ado, here’s my list of the 10 most-viewed Eye of the Goof posts of 2007:

1. Tony’s Hot Nuts Redux: proof positive that sleazy cheese rules teh Intarwebs
2. The 5,000 Contract Hotties of Dr. T: who doesn’t love this movie?
3. The Psychotronic Guide to Archive.org: my list of free, incredibly strange film downloads
4. Gordon’s Jet Flight: a nostalgic look at a time when air travel didn’t suck
5. In Soviet Russia, Tiki Mugs You!: Stalin and Lenin go Polynesian Pop
6. Quick, the Mental Bleach!: a jaw-dropping collection of highly disturbing album covers
7. Hobo Soup for the Junkyard Soul: the attention of the blogosphere is riveted by a can of 45-year old soup
8. X-8’s 30 Years of Flipside Tribute: the best punk fanzine of all time
9. Shriner Mini Cars: in which I reveal just who’s pimping the Shriners’ tiny parade rides (post is actually from 2006, but it’s still getting tons of hits)
10. Plop!: a collection of 24 Basil Wolverton covers from Plop! Magazine

Here’s hoping I can come up with 10 equally great posts in 2008!