Just as I was running out of items to publish for Silly Saturday, this cute post on the Architects and Artisans blog came to my attention by way of Architizer.

In 1956 California paper boy Jim Berger asked architect Frank Lloyd Wright to build a dog house for his black lab, Eddie. Berger’s father was a client of Mr. Wright’s. Not one to turn down a challenging commission, Wright designed a modernist home for Eddie. Berger, however, never got around to building the home Wright designed for his beloved pet. According to Architects and Artisans, “His father and brother took up the project, completing it in 1963.”

Filmmaker Michael Miner obtained permission to rebuild the dog house as part of his documentary film, “Romanza,” about Wright’s work in California.

For more about the Frank Lloyd Wright dog house read the full story at Architects and Artisans.

For details on Michael Miner’s documentary on Wright visit Designed by Wright.

Frank Lloyd Wright, plans for Berger Dog House, 1956. Photo credit: photograher unknown,
Source: http://www.architizer.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/FLWdoghouse-600x402.jpg

This cartoon posted on artdepartmental’s blog made me laugh out loud! Thanks for sharing, Alison.

Liquid Angel, 2011.
Source: http://www.wherethepunis.com/changing-tone-tone-dont-pun-378.html

Happy Holidays to you all! Design and Desire will be back again in 2012 with more posts on Twentieth Century Design.

With Christmas at close hand we’re rerunning a Silly Saturday post on everyone’s favorite toy, LEGOS. This post orignally ran on January 15, 2011.

LEGOs - they’re not just for kids anymore! Former architect Adam Reed Tucker builds iconic skyscrapers out of LEGOs. His work is on display at the National Building Museum in Washington DC.

Not only has Prairie Mod posted Grant W. Scholbrock’s Gamble House and Robie House built out of LEGOs, but they’ve also designed their own version of Frank Lloyd Wright, the architect himself, in LEGOs using LEGO Digital Designer.

LEGO Frank Lloyd Wright presents a LEGO model of his Guggenheim Museum.
Source: http://www.prairiemod.com/.a/6a00d8341bf72a53ef013485fb117f970c-300wi

Interested in emulating Frank Lloyd Wright’s buildings in LEGOs? Check out these LEGO Architecture kits of Wright’s most famous works: Fallingwater and the Guggenheim Museum.

LEGO’s Landmark series features kits on the Empire State Building, the John Hancock Building, and the Seattle Space Needle.

Slightly blasphemous but nonetheless amusing are W. Lynn Garrett’s Patron Saints of Graphic Design. As a survivor of both Catholic school and art school, I hope these “saints” are watching out for me.

Thanks to Jacob Cass of Just Creative Design for sharing.

W. Lynn Garrett, Saint Typo (2003).
Source: http://images4.cpcache.com/nocache/product/11119214v2147483647_150x150_Front.jpg

As if ten reasons weren’t enough and one would need fifty reasons not to date a graphic designer, we’re sharing the fifty reasons that were originally posted on A Bourbon for Silvia blog. Thank you to @klad2688 of Kevin Lee Allen Design for bringing this hilarious post to our attention.

Some of our favorite reasons NOT to date a graphic designer:

7. You’ll come last out of the movies because you have to see the full list of credits.
27. Do not know how to dress without consulting the Pantone book.
28. They hate Excel.
45. They see ordinary objects and laugh.

Read the entire list.

Microsoft, 2008. Wireframe from patent for mobile dating application.
Source: http://blog.dialaphone.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/miscrosoftdating1_29_02_08.jpg

While doing a recent Google search for “Design History” these ads displayed in paid search:

These offers may be just too good to be true, but Design and Desire, however, goes them one better — we give you design history for free!

Who’s not feeling a little older? This hilarious cartoon shows even mid-century modern design is having a difficult time aging gracefully. Thanks to Core77 for sharing, and you can view the entire mid-modern design cartoon on their blog.

Craighton Berman. Cartoon (2011), originally posted on FueledByCoffee
Source: http://blog.fueledbycoffee.com/photo/1280/5865659382/1/tumblr_llt42bPoCc1qb5vt3

We’ve heard of flipping houses, but this is insane! You certainly don’t want to get drunk and come home to one of these!

Upside-down house, architect and date unknown.
Source: http://www.home-reviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/clip_image007_thumb25.jpg

For more crazy examples visit the Home Reviews blog.

And on a related note, here’s a cartoon by Colin Tedford:

Colin Tedford, 2008.
Source:http://www.colintedford.com/comics/misc-strips/tedford-house.gif