Cool Hunting
| 02 March 2005view entries from: this week | this month | view previous day | view next day |
First Glimpse: The Puma Bike
by Josh Rubin
Puma, Vexed and Biomega teamed up to create this highly functional, yet totally minimal bike. I had the chance to try it out last week and was pleasantly surprised. I was expecting the looks would exceed the comfort and function. As it turns out, they're evenly matched. This team has managed to create an urban apartment friendly, folding bike that rides like it has a regular single piece frame. With one gear, oversized tires and upright handlebars, it's perfect for conquering city streets.
The Puma Bike will be produced in limited quantities, is available in black or silver and should be available in May 2005. It will only be available at Puma stores and will retail for $775.
The Sydney Morning Herald: Clique and Drag
by Josh Rubin
This site is so good I almost kept it to myself. But as it was included in The Guardian’slist of the top 100 most useful sites last December, it’s scarcely a secret. Elegantly laid out, the site displays a keen eye for timeless design and appreciates the fun of |a good gimmick. The best thing about it is it feels like a global, roving report and doesn’t have a narrow, US-centred view of the world. Rubin set it up in February 2003 as a daily update on the intersection of design, culture and technology and fills his own brief brilliantly. Plus, Rubin likes dogs and is a dish.
by Helen Greenwood
Dolk Lundgren: Puppy Love
by Josh Rubin
This shot of a stencil by Norwegian, Dolk Lundgren has been making the rounds this week, but I have to post it anyway because every time I look at it it makes me snicker.
via Wooster Collective, print available at Pictures on Walls, photo by Deepwarren.
Cai Guo-Qiang: Inopportune
by Josh Rubin
The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Commissioned New York based artist Cai Guo-Qiang to create a work expressing his view on the current state of global affairs. The result is Inopportune, a four stage installation, an eerie dream of dazzling lights and ghostly cars, tigers and arrows, explosions and stillness.
These images are of Stage One, the brilliant centerpiece of the show. Nine cars explode and flip in sequence with illuminations radiating like fireworks or comic book explosions. This is by far the most fresh and exciting work I've seen recently!
More pictures after the jump.
Sneakers, Size Isn't Everything
by Josh Rubin
Sneakers, Size Isn't Everything is a 1998 homage to the design, production and culture of Sneakers. It's a beautifully designed, highly visual book that covers brands big and small, and scans from Japanese school girls to LA gangs to Skater kids. It's a great glimpse at how much and yet how little has changed in the last 7 years.
