Cool Hunting

Reader Finds
Starting today, you'll notice a new little tab in the nav bar above. Reader Finds enables readers to post their own favorite discoveries on CH. To make it happen, we've teamed up with our friends over at ThisNext, so if you don't have an account already you'll need to go here to create one. Every "recommendation" you make on ThisNext tagged with "Cool Hunting"...

renourish: nutrients for the graphic design community
renourish is an online resource for green design and the result of two years of research by Eric Benson, who created the site as his MFA thesis at the University of Texas at Austin. Eric noted the many green resources available to architects and industrial designers, but noticed a lack of resources for graphic designers. The site is an evolving toolkit for the design...

This Week at Refinery29
The highlights this week at Refinery29 include the Australian a completely new look, inspired by childhood fantasies and 50's style hardware stores. And finally, Refinery sits down with British shoe designer Nicholas Kirkwood to discuss his creative process when designing a collection and his architectural inspirations. Priding himself on his well-crafted and well-constructed stilletos, Kirkwood guides us from his initial sketches straight through to...

This Week in Needled
It was a star-studded week at Needled beginning with the fabulous Margaret Cho and her equally fabulous Ed Hardy tattoo. Marisa spoke with Margaret about her motivation for the tattoo and the response is personal and provacative. The next day, Marisa runs into the World's Most Tattooed Person, Lucky Diamond Rich, on the streets of London, and he offers his thoughts on what it's...

This Week in Tropolism
We started with another Shiny-Gold building, Then two artist-itect posts A progress update on the High Line And ended with some wicked Fashion-tecture.Stay tuned next Friday for a Special Announcement!...

This Week in Needled
As Needled was a Yahoo pick this week, it held off on further posts about scantily-clad tattooed burlesque queens. At least for a week. Instead, it stayed focused on tattoos in the news with some potent photos and links to Guatemala gangs and their prison ink, creative ways tattoo artists have adapted to harsh zoning laws, and a public service announcement on why one...