Cool Hunting
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Nate Duval Rock Posters
by Julie Wolfson While artist Nate Duval's online bio lists trip planning and de-fingerprinting his iPhone screen among his favorite activities, the bulk oh his interests relate to music. So it's no wonder that the fan of Neon India, The Band, Mulatu Astatke, Hacienda, Phoenix, Blind Pilot, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, among many, many other bands, has garnered quite a reputation in a...
by Julie Wolfson While artist Nate Duval's online bio lists trip planning and de-fingerprinting his iPhone screen among his favorite activities, the bulk oh his interests relate to music. So it's no wonder that the fan of Neon India, The Band, Mulatu Astatke, Hacienda, Phoenix, Blind Pilot, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, among many, many other bands, has garnered quite a reputation in a...
Viesso Hang & Paste Wallpaper
Known for their brilliantly-easy customizable furniture, Viesso recently launched an equally successful wallpaper boutique, Hang & Paste. With favorites like Cole & Son Fornasetti and independent illustrators proffering enticing motifs, Viesso brings an exciting atmosphere to a design element that has in recent years become considered outdated, making it welcome in any home. Navigable by brand, style or color, the site is an efficient...
Known for their brilliantly-easy customizable furniture, Viesso recently launched an equally successful wallpaper boutique, Hang & Paste. With favorites like Cole & Son Fornasetti and independent illustrators proffering enticing motifs, Viesso brings an exciting atmosphere to a design element that has in recent years become considered outdated, making it welcome in any home. Navigable by brand, style or color, the site is an efficient...
Julie Parker Black Jewls Collection
by Rebecca Harkins-Cross For the Tin man and Scarecrow in all of us, Julie Parker's latest collection Black Jewls offers an exquisite range of anatomically-correct wearable human organs cast in solid sterling silver and strung on hand-finished chains. Packaged in glass test tubes with cork stoppers, the collection of bodily charms include hearts, brains, vertebrae, ribcages and livers. By externalizing human internal organs, the Melbourne-based...
by Rebecca Harkins-Cross For the Tin man and Scarecrow in all of us, Julie Parker's latest collection Black Jewls offers an exquisite range of anatomically-correct wearable human organs cast in solid sterling silver and strung on hand-finished chains. Packaged in glass test tubes with cork stoppers, the collection of bodily charms include hearts, brains, vertebrae, ribcages and livers. By externalizing human internal organs, the Melbourne-based...
Mormor Tableware by Gry Fager
An intelligent riff on kitchen textiles, Gry Fager's Mormor collection of tableware for Normann Copenhagen combines modern form and traditional pattern with the most gratifying results. Mormor's distinct patterns—a graphic interpretation of the typical blue and white tea towel and a textural nod to the classic dish cloth—grace a variety of dining objects such as bowls, cups, platters, plates and decanters. The collection manages...
An intelligent riff on kitchen textiles, Gry Fager's Mormor collection of tableware for Normann Copenhagen combines modern form and traditional pattern with the most gratifying results. Mormor's distinct patterns—a graphic interpretation of the typical blue and white tea towel and a textural nod to the classic dish cloth—grace a variety of dining objects such as bowls, cups, platters, plates and decanters. The collection manages...
Facet Design Trend PDF
by Laura Neilson The creative hub Everyone is an Art Director, a website sharing art and design for all, recently launched its first trend publication—a 217-page visual study on Facet Design and its widespread use in contemporary design. The PDF—free for download—serves as a digital inspiration board, featuring an array of stellar examples of this visually-arresting design theory. The concept of flat surfaces taking...
by Laura Neilson The creative hub Everyone is an Art Director, a website sharing art and design for all, recently launched its first trend publication—a 217-page visual study on Facet Design and its widespread use in contemporary design. The PDF—free for download—serves as a digital inspiration board, featuring an array of stellar examples of this visually-arresting design theory. The concept of flat surfaces taking...
Memolio Picture Albums
For archivists or self-promoters, Memolio publishes small decks of multiple images. Whether handing them out as mini portfolios, creating albums to commemorate special events or giving them as gifts, the unlimited options make them endlessly useful. Much like Moo cards, the service works by uploading images, which you have the ability to edit and preview before ordering. An "explore" feature encourages browsing around to...
For archivists or self-promoters, Memolio publishes small decks of multiple images. Whether handing them out as mini portfolios, creating albums to commemorate special events or giving them as gifts, the unlimited options make them endlessly useful. Much like Moo cards, the service works by uploading images, which you have the ability to edit and preview before ordering. An "explore" feature encourages browsing around to...
Hack2Work: Core77's Essential Tips for the Design Professional
The indispensable design blog Core77 just launched an exhaustive help section called Hack2Work: Essential Tips for the Design Professional. Divided into five sections—Clients, Office, Staff, Process and Promotion—each contains dozens of tips, tricks and lifehacks for people who work in design fields. Some interesting highlights from seasoned insiders include: "How to Make Your Client's Logo Bigger Without Making Their Logo Bigger" by Michael Beirut,...
The indispensable design blog Core77 just launched an exhaustive help section called Hack2Work: Essential Tips for the Design Professional. Divided into five sections—Clients, Office, Staff, Process and Promotion—each contains dozens of tips, tricks and lifehacks for people who work in design fields. Some interesting highlights from seasoned insiders include: "How to Make Your Client's Logo Bigger Without Making Their Logo Bigger" by Michael Beirut,...
Four New Tea Products
Tea is almost more of a staple than coffee at CH HQ and we know we're not alone. We always have a keen eye for new teas, tea-based beverages and gear for making tea. These new products reinvent how we consume the ancient, antioxidant-rich beverage for a generation that can do without the doilies and teacups. Harney & Sons Bottled Iced TeasHarney & Sons...
Tea is almost more of a staple than coffee at CH HQ and we know we're not alone. We always have a keen eye for new teas, tea-based beverages and gear for making tea. These new products reinvent how we consume the ancient, antioxidant-rich beverage for a generation that can do without the doilies and teacups. Harney & Sons Bottled Iced TeasHarney & Sons...
Panos Tsagaris
Panos Tsagaris uses the projection of light and geometric angles to create mystical images and photographs. Hailing from Athens, Greece but working and residing New York, Tsagaris recently collaborated with Kimberley Norcott, creating works that play with the ideas of emerging light, the human perception of eternity and the symbolism of the sun. While the images speak to a sense of time and inspiration,...
Panos Tsagaris uses the projection of light and geometric angles to create mystical images and photographs. Hailing from Athens, Greece but working and residing New York, Tsagaris recently collaborated with Kimberley Norcott, creating works that play with the ideas of emerging light, the human perception of eternity and the symbolism of the sun. While the images speak to a sense of time and inspiration,...
Copenhagen Bike Share Competition
Challenging cyclists to create "an attractive and modern bike share system," Copenhagen pushes their standing as a forward-thinking, eco-friendly city with a competition open to designers around the globe. Updating their 1995 bike sharing system (the first of its kind), the major goal is to create a transportation system effective in increasing the percentage of cyclists around Copenhagen while decreasing the number of injuries—geared...
Challenging cyclists to create "an attractive and modern bike share system," Copenhagen pushes their standing as a forward-thinking, eco-friendly city with a competition open to designers around the globe. Updating their 1995 bike sharing system (the first of its kind), the major goal is to create a transportation system effective in increasing the percentage of cyclists around Copenhagen while decreasing the number of injuries—geared...
Interview with Photographer Horst A. Friedrichs
by Alison Zavos for Feature Shoot Born in Frankfurt in 1966, Horst Friedrichs studied at the Munich Academy of Photography and has worked as freelance photo-journalist for numerous publications, The New York Times and The Independent among them. He has exhibited his photography globally and in 2008 received a prestigious Gold Lead award for documentary photography. This month saw the release of "I'm One:...
by Alison Zavos for Feature Shoot Born in Frankfurt in 1966, Horst Friedrichs studied at the Munich Academy of Photography and has worked as freelance photo-journalist for numerous publications, The New York Times and The Independent among them. He has exhibited his photography globally and in 2008 received a prestigious Gold Lead award for documentary photography. This month saw the release of "I'm One:...
Ivory Skies T-Shirts
Offering a point of difference in the very overcrowded graphic tee market, Ivory Skies base all their shirts on rare ancient artwork. The London outfit prints the images on nicely fitting white tees, making for a line that co-founder and designer Carlo Salanitri describes as "a rare style representation of the mystical past blended with today’s indie street fashion." Making big inroads with the...
Offering a point of difference in the very overcrowded graphic tee market, Ivory Skies base all their shirts on rare ancient artwork. The London outfit prints the images on nicely fitting white tees, making for a line that co-founder and designer Carlo Salanitri describes as "a rare style representation of the mystical past blended with today’s indie street fashion." Making big inroads with the...
Black Tattoo Art: Modern Expressions Of The Tribal
Exploring the world of blackwork tattoos, a style dedicated to the singular use of black ink, the new book "Black Tattoo Art: Modern Expressions Of The Tribal" by tattoo zealot and expert Marisa Kakoulas traces the art's origins and scope. Never before written about in English, blackwork tattoos have their roots in indigenous designs, but today include a broad spectrum of styles—from simple to...
Exploring the world of blackwork tattoos, a style dedicated to the singular use of black ink, the new book "Black Tattoo Art: Modern Expressions Of The Tribal" by tattoo zealot and expert Marisa Kakoulas traces the art's origins and scope. Never before written about in English, blackwork tattoos have their roots in indigenous designs, but today include a broad spectrum of styles—from simple to...
The Indie Rock Coloring Book
by Julie Wolfson Already on a roll with their t-shirts that raise money for good causes, Yellow Bird Project's recently-launched whimsical Indie Rock Coloring Book offers kids, and the music fans that care for them, many pages of fun and games. From the psychedelic cover of a hand drawing an explosion of instruments and swirls topped with a bird head to the 31 pages...
by Julie Wolfson Already on a roll with their t-shirts that raise money for good causes, Yellow Bird Project's recently-launched whimsical Indie Rock Coloring Book offers kids, and the music fans that care for them, many pages of fun and games. From the psychedelic cover of a hand drawing an explosion of instruments and swirls topped with a bird head to the 31 pages...
OuTable
OuTable, a collection of conceptual plastic utensils for outdoor dining, brings the poetry of nature to such humble items as the spoon. Designed by the clever Israeli-based firm d-Vision, the "neo-naturist" project takes inspiration from the simple beauty of eating outdoors with friends or family. With varying shapes and sizes that echo the organic forms found in nature, the collection also speaks to an...
OuTable, a collection of conceptual plastic utensils for outdoor dining, brings the poetry of nature to such humble items as the spoon. Designed by the clever Israeli-based firm d-Vision, the "neo-naturist" project takes inspiration from the simple beauty of eating outdoors with friends or family. With varying shapes and sizes that echo the organic forms found in nature, the collection also speaks to an...
Shoot: Photography in the Moment
by Tisha Leung Getting back to basics, curator and former Tokion magazine editor-in-chief Ken Miller's new book "Shoot" presents the work of 26 photographers who go au natural using only a single-lens reflex camera and natural light. Their work focuses on capturing a moment without the aid of elaborate lighting, sets or manufactured scenes, instead relying more on instinct, intimacy with subjects and happenstance...
by Tisha Leung Getting back to basics, curator and former Tokion magazine editor-in-chief Ken Miller's new book "Shoot" presents the work of 26 photographers who go au natural using only a single-lens reflex camera and natural light. Their work focuses on capturing a moment without the aid of elaborate lighting, sets or manufactured scenes, instead relying more on instinct, intimacy with subjects and happenstance...
Spindrift x J.X. Williams Tour
Spaghetti Western rockers Spindrift are making their way west where their reverberated guitars hang on a minor chord like a magenta sunset over a high desert playa. Unique to this tour, they've been granted permission to use imagery from the reclusive J.X. Williams, whose all-but-lost horror spectaculars changed cinema forever. Director Noel L awrence, the keeper of William's archives, secured permission from the elder...
Spaghetti Western rockers Spindrift are making their way west where their reverberated guitars hang on a minor chord like a magenta sunset over a high desert playa. Unique to this tour, they've been granted permission to use imagery from the reclusive J.X. Williams, whose all-but-lost horror spectaculars changed cinema forever. Director Noel L awrence, the keeper of William's archives, secured permission from the elder...
Mike Shinoda: Glorious Excess (Dies)
Little more than a year after his "Glorious Excess (Born)" exhibit, Mike Shinoda recently released a 128-page book and four skate decks in conjunction with his follow-up show, "Glorious Excess (Dies)," currently on view at L.A.'s Japanese American National Museum. Shinoda's exploration of the celebrity-dom theme—one he knows well as a member of the band Linkin Park—runs full circle, with acrylic works that chronicle...
Little more than a year after his "Glorious Excess (Born)" exhibit, Mike Shinoda recently released a 128-page book and four skate decks in conjunction with his follow-up show, "Glorious Excess (Dies)," currently on view at L.A.'s Japanese American National Museum. Shinoda's exploration of the celebrity-dom theme—one he knows well as a member of the band Linkin Park—runs full circle, with acrylic works that chronicle...
Design Night's "Nature" Planter
Portland-based husband and wife designers Dominic D'Andrea and Tram Pham have just launched their ceramic Nature planter. The unique design requires a six-part mold and seventeen cuts and is hand finished. There are eleven areas for planting and the largest one on the top is long enough for deep-rooting plants. The Nature planter (18" tall and 22" wide) comes in white, yellow and grey...
Portland-based husband and wife designers Dominic D'Andrea and Tram Pham have just launched their ceramic Nature planter. The unique design requires a six-part mold and seventeen cuts and is hand finished. There are eleven areas for planting and the largest one on the top is long enough for deep-rooting plants. The Nature planter (18" tall and 22" wide) comes in white, yellow and grey...
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