Cool Hunting

Reminder: Popdeck x Cool Hunting Skateboard Design Contest
We're about halfway through the Popdeck x Cool Hunting Skateboard Design Contest and we've already seem some fit designs. I've got a few decks in mind that I'd like to roll around on, but I'll keep that to myself for now. A $200 cash prize along with a free deck is up for grabs so head on over to Popdeck to submit your design...

Popdeck x Cool Hunting Skateboard Design Contest
It's time we tap into the CH talent pool again (that means you!), this time for a skateboard design contest with our new friends over at Popdeck. The Threadless of skateboard design, Popdeck is a website that allows users submit and vote on designs with the winner getting a cash prize and their entry made into a limited-edition board. Since we're a bit obsessive...

ReadyMade Shrinky Sheets
Like Legos, shrinky sheets (you may remember them as ShrinkyDinks) are a grade-school era toy that's maybe even better for grown-ups. ReadyMade magazine is staging a comeback of the material with the introduction of it into their online store. With a little inspiration and an oven, the 8½x11 sheets turn brighter, as well as shrink, harden and thicken, transforming into a key chain, fruit...

Furni Meet BigChief
The “Furni Meet BigChief” is a freely downloadable cardboard cutout that you can “glue, cut and paste” into a 3-D little toy guaranteed to make you the freshest kid in the office/world. Conceived as a way for two emerging design companies to give a little back to the community that supports them, this collaboration between Milan design company Bigchief Design and Montreal-based Furni is...

Paper Pilot
Paper Pilot: The Paper Airplane Pilot's Manual is equal parts eye-candy, resource and DIY project. With hundreds of archival photographs of fighter jets, bombers and the like, it's a primer on (primarily U.S.) aviation design spanning over a half-century of innovation. Each plane gets a profile that includes basic info as well as a brief history outlining its strengths, weaknesses and the role it...

Foldschool
Foldschool, Swiss designer Nicola Enrico Stäubli's new series of DIY cardboard furniture for kids takes cardboard furniture in a much more pointy direction—and the best part about it is that it's free. Three different designs, a stool, chair and rocker, exist on his site as downloads that can be easily printed onto standard paper sizes. He includes hints and instructions on his site as...