Cool Hunting
| 10 December 2004view entries from: this week | this month | view previous day | view next day |
Samsung Digitall: Rebels with a Cause: Fame and Fortune
by Josh Rubin
...Not surprisingly, they failed to find a Rosetta Stone of cool. However, a younger generation of cool hunters, like designer Josh Rubin, are as creative as the alpha-consumers they watch from blinds in Paris, Tokyo, and the Lower East Side. Rubin blogs daily at JoshRubin.com and holds down a day job as vice president of product development at mobile messaging software maker Upoc Networks. In his blog, Rubin turns his discoveries into inspiration for interface design. “Coolhunting today is truly about understanding the target, designing specifically for them, then showing them how great it is,” he says. “It’s about creative leadership, not trend reaction.
by Greg Lindsay
Shoewawa
by Josh Rubin
I'm not so good about covering stuff for the ladies-- especially when it come to footwear. Fortunately there's a brand new blog from the creators of Shiny Shiny (the girl gadget guide). Shoewawa delivers a sassy report on shoes and even gets a bit in to the trainers. They even have an eBay Watch category to make your hunting easier.
Win a Shepard Fairey
by Josh Rubin
Shepard Fairey, the mind behind Obey-- the most prevalent urban street meme in stencil art propaganda history, has created a new series of prints. This one is called Worldwide Delivery and comes in an edition of 300. One40Five Store has print number 278, signed. Want it? You can win it! All you need to do is check out this t-shirt with the logo from The Cramps. Then answer the following question:
When were The Cramps formed and what was the name of their first release?
Send your answers to info@one40fivestore.com (not me!). More images from this series and some info on One40five after the jump.
Burton Series 13
by Josh Rubin
All the kids love customizing their stuff, right? Ok, fine-- us grown-ups do to. Anyway, this season Burton is running a customized board program called Series 13. You can choose from 4 different boards and configure the colors for a dozen different deck patterns and several different base patterns. All Series 13 boards are individually built by hand at the Burton Manufacturing Center in Burlington Vermont and shipped to your local board shop for pick-up. With over a million different possibilities, you'll never again see someone else on the lift with the same board as you.
