Cool Hunting
| 23 May 2006view entries from: this week | this month | view previous day | view next day |
Ikea Everyday Fabulous Takes on NYC
by Evan Orensten
Ikea has been making over parts of NYC in celebration of their Everyday Fabulous Exhibit (which ended today). Their stylists took on parks, turned hot dog stands into outdoor cafés, bustops into living rooms and strung up hammocks on street corners, bringing smiles to jaded New Yorkers and ICFF visitors, and looks of bewilderment on tourists. Cheeky and clever.
Matthew Herbert: Scale
by Mike Reger
Tireless musical innovator Matthew Herbert has never been one to simply rest on his laurels or make a simple pop record for entertainment value alone. In a career spanning jazz, house, techno and avant-garde, Herbert has always pushed boundaries stylistically, technically and thematically. Scale, his latest full length album, masterfully works on both the micro and the macro levels. It surprises, delights and questions in its many levels of depth of character and beauty.
On the surface, Scale is his most celebratory and harmonious album to date. Frequent vocal collaborator Dani Siciliano is featured prominently, along side singers Neil Thomas and Dave Okumu. Scale also features a chamber orchestra, woodwind section, horns and many of the big band players heard on Herbert's 2003 album Goodbye Swingtime making for an immediately accessible, sumptuous listening experience.
Ducduc Dining Table
by Ted Cahill
Ducduc is a NYC-based design collaborative that creates children's furniture, textiles and accessories using durable, eco-friendly materials including sustainable hardwoods. Their new walnut dining room table solves the familiar problem of what to do with the kids during meals.
Panels on the table rotate between wood (suitable for adults) and white board (perfect for kids) on the other. Underneath the panels are built-in storage compartments for tableware or art supplies. The accompanying bench, also with extra storage, is covered in stain- water- and bacteria-resistant Crypton fabric, and fits with a specially designed high chair and booster seat that you can add to the set.
The table is available for $8,500, the benches are $1,100 each, and the booster or high chair add-ons are $125 each.
Hungry Zine
by Lost At E Minor
The concept behind Australian zine Hungry is pretty simple. Born out of a cold Melbourne night and a few drinks, the creative team behind the low-budget publication decided that each issue will have a different theme. The illustrators interpret this theme as they wish. But the main focus of the zine is to have fun without the confines of a tight brief. It’s a creative and vibrant publication, just one issue old but worth keeping a close eye on.
Nike x Apple = Nike Plus
by Evan Orensten
Mark Parker and Steve Jobs, CEOs of Nike and Apple, announced the first collaboration between the two companies. Eighteen months in the making, Nike Plus is the first of many (we hope) products from these two much-admired consumer product brands. And while this is a great first step, the big story is what other products the two will introduce over time.
Nike Plus is a technology that allows runner’s shoes to communicate with their iPod Nanos. The Nike+iPod Sport kit consists of a small oval pod that you insert under the liner of your shoe (much like a SIM card), and a small transmitter that attaches to your Nano. The kit will cost $29. You load up your Nano with selections from the iTunes Store’s new Nike Sport Music section, manage your workout on the NikePlus site, put on your Nike Plus gear (see details on all of these after the jump), and you are good to go.
More details and photos after the jump.
