Cool Hunting
| 24 January 2005view entries from: this week | this month | view previous day | view next day |
Little Paper Planes
by Josh Spear
Little Paper Planes is collection of clothing, accessories, and artwork from a handful of independent artists. The crew spans from NYC to Oakland working on many mediums making jewelry, posters, handbags, clothing, wall paintings and more. The artists designs are inventive and much of the work for sale is one of a kind like this Bang Bang Bag. They are still in baby phases and these next few months will see the introduction of many more artists work.
Core77 Reports on CES
by Josh Rubin
Core77, the Industrial Design Supersite, was also present at the global electronics spectacle we know and love as CES. Sure, it was a few weeks ago, but there was just so much to see that you can't possibly be done trying to get the details. Offering a designer's eye view, the Core77 CES Review is now live.
Boost Mobile's Woodie
by Josh Rubin
Boost Mobile, the youth market flavor of Nextel, is offering limited edition versions of the Motorola i860 handset. There's a tattoo version, which walks a fine line between good and cheesy. The most recent style is this one featuring wood-grain details on the inside and top face. It's a pretty elegant contrast of tech and retro.
Boost is definitely doing good things despite the challenging parents, Motorola and Nextel. And the i860 is really the first iDen (Nextel / Boost) handset that I like.
MobileMag has all the details and a few more pictures.
Kasper Ledet
by Josh Spear
Kasper Ledet has an impressive collection of his design, illustration and artwork on his site. The Copenhagen native has worked with a handful of studios including a design in a book produced by Design Is Kinky. What’s most impressive and eye catching about his works unique style is he is only 17 years old and has no formal design training whatsoever. It's very inspiring to see another young artist at work like this, way to go Kasper.
Bitman Video Bulb
by Josh Rubin
No, it's not high tech chapstick or a mentholated nasal inhaler-- it's a Video Bulb.
Ryota Kuwakubo is a device artist. His wearable LED animation Bitman, a cute little guy that dances around within the confines of the display edges, has gotten plenty of attention in the art-gadget scene. His latest evolution of Bitman is in the form of this RCA video plug. Just pop it in to the input socket on your TV and it will endlessly play a Bitman animation.
$28.50 at Compact Impact
128 Tea Mugs
by Carol T Chung
Onkar Singh Kular has designed something to help the host with a mean perfectionist streak. Each of the 128 tea mugs is a Pantone shade of brown, which allows people to pick out the mug that matches the way they take their tea. Depending on which one they pick, the host with the most can judge how much milk to put in. Domestic goddess made easy!
Tee Museum
by Josh Spear
Tee Museum is a very neat way to shop for limited edition t-shirts. No it's not a real museum although I wish it was. It's an online shop--they call it fine art that you can wear. They feature designs from around the globe, and their first featured artists are NYC’s Cynthia Marlan and Swedish Artist Andreas Lindkvist.
Spear is Here
by Josh Rubin
Josh Spear has been finding some pretty great stuff for us off and on since December. Now he's on board for some more regular contributions. Based in Boulder, Colorado, Josh proves that you don't have to live in the big city to have a pulse on what's going on. Welcome Josh!
Illustrated Mini Cooper
by Josh Spear
Remember the Mini Cooper Convertible we all can't wait to get our hands on? It has a choice of twelve exterior colors, three hood colors, eight potential dash colors, and nine interior trim options. That's darn customizable--but now you can take it one step further with the illustrated version, enhanced by Sydney artist and illustrator Andrew Georgiou. His comic characters have been making a splash across the globe lately.
