Nerve Action, Jeff Beene, Product and Furniture Design, Somerville, MA, 617-642-5873 Nerve Action, Jeff Beene, Product and Furniture Design, Somerville, MA, 617-642-5873

Thursday, February 18th, 2010 | No Comments »

Haitian Relief Gala

Haitian Relief Benefit

I’m pleased to be donating a Cable Table to a charity auction organized by Massachusetts General Hospital and the Organization of Minority Residents and Fellows.

 


Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 | No Comments »

ONE Zero gets going

ONE Zero

ONE Condoms are adding a new product to the brand with some sweet packaging mods. The tin (which we are pretty proud of, BTW) maintains it’s awesomeness. Pic below the fold.

 


Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 | No Comments »

It’s a pretty big book. I guess.

GIANT BOOK!

I recently attended a dinner party hosted by a friend who was house-sitting. The home-owners happened to own a copy of Bhutan, the largest book in the world. It is, of course, absolutely gorgeous (as it should be, for $30,000). I took some snaps.

 


Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 | No Comments »

Design Award Finalism!

Award Finalist

A product line (which I co-designed) is so new that it isn’t even Google-able, but it still managed to get itself named a Finalist for the International Housewares Design Awards. Sneak peak below the fold.

 


Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 | No Comments »

All Access: Design Annex Tour

Design Annex

I recently had the opportunity to tour the soon-to-open Design Annex co-working environment in Union Sq, Somerville. It’s a really exciting space focused on helping creatives build a strong community and leverage each other’s skills.


Friday, November 6th, 2009 | No Comments »

ONE Going Strong

Target

Congratulations to the team over at ONE: they’ve secured a really great position with Target! Starting next March, ONE Condoms will be available from the retailer nation-wide, and sold, of course, in the packaging designed here at Nerve Action.

To celebrate, I put a sneak peak of ONE’s newest Nerve Action-designed product below the fold.


Thursday, August 13th, 2009 | 1 Comment »

On the Origin of Robot Species

CYLONS!

Clearly, robots evolve. Cylons, for example, first got badder ass and then grew skin. But please, art directors and engineers, you need to stop fetishizing white robots with black mechanical guts.

 

It’s getting a little played out, dudes.


Friday, July 17th, 2009 | No Comments »

The Kid Stayed in the Picture

Mass Inno

 
The Mass Innovation Night presentation went great, as I mentioned previously. While I was there, PermissionTV walked around to each booth, asking us to yell into the camera. Never one to reject internet publicity, of course I acquiesced.

It’s up now, although sadly without embedding. However, check it out.


Thursday, June 11th, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Presentation verdict: Meeting People Is Easy.

Mass Inno

Last night’s Mass Innovation Night was an interesting experiment, and quite successful. Chris Raia and I used the event as an opportunity to test out a new project, the Urban Animal Design Collaborative, and we got a lot of great feedback.


Sunday, June 7th, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Presentin’ at MassInno

MassInno

Gonna be at the Mass Innovation Night trade-show-slash-science-fair again this month. BUT: this time from the other side of the business-card-fumbling. We’re there as part of the Urban Animal Design Collaborative, a new-ish venture that allows independent creatives to market their skills in concert, thereby offering a more complete package of services than any individual member could on their own.