Cool Hunting
| 19 April 2005view entries from: this week | this month | view previous day | view next day |
CH is Looking for an Intern
by Josh Rubin
Do you like what we do and want to be a part of it? Cool Hunting is looking for a Summer intern so if you want to learn about hunting and publishing, have great writing skills and know your way around the tools of the trade, check out the job description after the jump. Oh, and you need to be based here in NYC.
Potty Mouth T-shirts for Kids
by Evan Orensten
Sometimes Baby Gap just doesn't cut it... Potty Mouth t-shirts.
Eva Zeisel: The Playful Search for Beauty
by Evan Orensten
The lines, shapes and colors of Eva Zeisel's accessible work have inspired us for decades. If you're not familiar with her sensual design a good place to start is this show that opens at the Hillwood Museum in Washington, D.C. on 19 April 2005 and is on view until 4 December 2005.
One of the most important women in design imho, Eva Zeisel is still creating at 98 years old. Her life is as fascinating as her work, including spending time in solitary in Russia when she was (falsely) accused of plotting to assassinate Stalin.
This show includes work not seen in other exhibitions. And if you're not into collecting her earlier work and want the easy way out, check out her new Classic Century collection for Crate&Barrel which brings back some of her best designs from her Century and Tomorrow's Classic patterns for Hall China in the 1950s, reproduced by Royald Stafford. You may also want to check out the Eva Zeisel Forum, which publishes a newsletter, or the Eva Zeisel Designs group on Yahoo.
Photos by Talisman K. Brolin
MOMA: San Francisco
by Josh Spear
SFMOMA has a stellar exhibit going on right now for the 2004 SECA award winners. The artists who won the honor to show in MOMA are all extremely talented--and range from very detailed ink and gouache drawings like this to a 30-foot wide installation made up only of small loops of cellophane tape.
I'd recommend taking some time to look at the work of Shaun O'Dell--which stood out most to me. He's one talented, good humored artist. His work mixes the organic with the mechanical, and touches on a lot of social commentary about human beings and animals in the world--and how we are all interconnected. He grew up in the California forests, and now living in San Francisco he finds himself in conflict spiritually with the non-wild environment of The Bay area. This piece is called "Prophesy Extraction at the Confluence of Kykuit, The Western Medicinal Compact and the Southern Decline of a Blind Consensual Chiming".
Shift Bicycle
by Josh Spear
Shift Bicycle was designed by Scott Shim, Ryan Lightbody and Matt Grossman, and it won them top honors in a bicycle design competition held by the Taiwanese Government. The technology is simple, the back paired wheels come together by an articulated hub when the bike is in motion--but when it's still they spread apart for stability.
via Engadget
