Cool Hunting
| 19 August 2005view entries from: this week | this month | view previous day | view next day |
Joshua Davis, 6 Questions
by Ami Kealoha
We're in the home stretch leading up to the inaugural American edition of Semi-Permanent, the design conference that's met great success over the last few years in Sydney and London. Held in New York City's Avery Fisher Hall, the event emphasizes creativity, bringing together image-makers and producers at the forefront of diverse fields like advertising, graphic design, web, graffitti, and animation. You may have already noticed that we've had the privledge to showcase some of their work in the above banner. Starting with an interview with tattooed modern American innovator, Joshua Davis, over the course of the next few weeks we'll present a series of q+a's with some of today's main players from Semi-Permanent's line-up.
Joshua Davis park his car, attends to his 2-year-old daughter, and talks to his wife, all while agreeably juggling our interview on his cell phone. Multi-tasking is nothing new to this 34-year-old illustrator, painter, and designer, who, over the last decade has been winning awards, creating work for the likes of Sony, Diesel, and Wired, lecturing globally, and teaching at New York's School of Visual Arts. Here, he homes in on current experiments with proximity-based design, the punk tunes that get him motivated, and the new frontiers of fashion.
Colour Lovers
by Josh Rubin
Colour Lovers is exactly that, a community of creatives dedicated to color. Users create profiles and then submit colors and palettes for each-other to review. It may sound overly simplistic, but it's surprisingly habit forming. Especially when needing a little diversion while in a design-stall.
Flame-top Ceramic Cookware
by Evan Orensten
I have several pots that I love to cook with. Some can also store or reheat the food the day after. Emile Henry has just introduced its new Flame-top Ceramic cookware and it looks pretty amazing. It's ceramic, but it solves an age-old issue with ceramic pots' inability to handle a direct flame. The Flame-top can brown food, sit on the stove, in a fire, in the freezer, in a microwave or happily in the oven. Weighing 30% less than cast iron makes it easier to work with. It comes in a few sizes and in either black or red. The Flame-top is a great technological advancement in cookware.
