Cool Hunting

Flavorpill Sundance
Describing Flavorpill Sundance, a blog devoted to the happenings of the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, one is tempted to say it’s all over that indiefest like a cheap suit. But that would be wrong. Flavorpill isn’t a cheap suit, it’s much more urbane than any draped piece of polyester. With its team of dozens of editors, reporters, and stringers, digging down...

2006 Bloggie Nominations Begin
Nominations for the 6th annual Bloggies began today and, well, Cool Hunting's a blog! Obviously, we fit the American, Group, and, ahem, Best of the Year, among others, but our just-launched Cool Hunting Podcast is already rated #13 in Arts and Entertainment at iTunes and makes us happy to be a contender in that category as well. Vote here....

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"...

MOG
As social networking sites become bigger and bigger people have a harder time finding new friends or meaningful stuff to share. As a result there is an increasing number of niche or topic focused sites coming on to the scene. The latest, MOG, is music focused and includes obvious but useful features like favorite artist this month or most recently played track. But what...

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...