Karim Rashid versus Black&Decker

The company I now work for talks about 'creating desire' through design. And the best way of doing that, in my opinion, is by transforming things you live with into things you can't live without. Hence, my apartment cleaning this weekend.

This is what I desired:


This is what I bought:


(It actually looks much cooler as a graphic). The thing that really gets my goat is the fact that I forked out 50 bucks for the thing because I wanted it right away. I love supporting local business, but Bruno's is a total ripoff. Bed Bath and Beyond, why are you not in Brooklyn???

The two things that make me feel better for not going all Karim Rashid on my dustbuster are the facts that: 1)this actually works, and 2) this picture:



Now all I need is a cute puppy to knock things over. And ironically, it's the same pup as the one in the Dirt Devil ads, just grown up! Maybe that's supposed to mean something.