Rob Forbes, the founder, left Design Within Reach and started his blog about good design, StudioForbes.

Someone else has apparently taken over writing for DWR. Their cool new holiday gift line has a category they call “Future People” – I guess to them the point a child becomes a person is somewhere in their 20s or so. I don’t know about you, but even as an old person without children I find this very offensive.

I was looking over the featured stationary products. They offer the Rhodia Essential Box (pads of note paper in a box, $20). Might be nice, but here’s how they describe the included pencil – “… two Rhodia pencils that are triangulated so they won’t roll away.” Triangulate means divide or form into triangles. They meant triangular – shaped like a triangle.

This isn’t so hard – most of us learned about triangles back when we were still future grown-ups.

originally posted Nov 1 2007
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Add to that the fact that the standard hexagonal pencils don’t roll away either and what are you left with?