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Cargo: Color Coders
(18 September 2005) - "ColorWare seems to have hit the market at just the right time," says Josh Rubin, creator and editor of the design Web site Cool Hunting (coolhunting.com)> Now that everyone has a cell phone, laptopp, and iPod, Rubin says, more people are demanding that their gear express their individuality. --Michael Joseph Gross download pdf ...
Outside Magazine: Customization
(16 September 2005) - Whether you're after a one-off design for your new shoes or a pair of jeans, technological advances have made mass customization easier than ever. "Even big manufacturers like Nike are offering products that allow for personal expression," says 31-year-old New York designer Josh Rubin whose Web site, www.coolhunting.com, has become a style arbiter for fashionistas and urban hipsters. --John Bradley view site download pdf...
PR Week: Interview: Josh Rubin
(15 September 2005) - Josh Rubin publishes the website Cool Hunting and provides consulting services that include design strategy, trend research and mobile marketing. He spoke to PRWeek.com about consumer-driven media, PR's role in it, and where large companies make mistakes in online initiatives. copied after the jump. view site ...
Boston Globe: Design Blogs
(01 September 2005) - Josh Rubin, the fellow behind www.Coolhunting.com, actually does live in New York, which retains its design-capital status even in the blogger age. He agrees with Pikus that a central effect of the design blogosphere has been to organize more information than was ever before possible. ''Prior to creating my website, any of these references were either bookmarked in my browser or torn out of...
Time Out Chicago: Just for Kicks
(18 August 2005) - Josh Rubin, who runs the trend-spotting blog Cool Hunting, was among the first to try it out in Manhattan this past Spring. "I liked the fact that it takes customization away from the computer and in to your hands," he says. "You get a better sense of the different colors and materials that you're choosing. I also really liked that there's a bit of...
Feedster Top 500: August
(18 August 2005) - With 3,726 links in, Cool Hunting ranked 66 in this month's Feedster Top 500! ...
Sunday Times: All aboard for a journey to the wild side
(14 August 2005) - GADGET ORACLE Josh, a designer living in New York, brings you his pick of what’s cool at the intersection of new design, culture and technology. The website is a success because he has a genuinely good and eclectic eye, and it is great fun flicking from his experience of the Adidas_1 trainer (which contains a microchip to adjust cushioning as you run); to Clocky,...
Footwear News: Small World
(02 August 2005) - Cool Hunting sneaker freaks around the globe are taking their latest obsession online-- and discovering they're not alone. "Similar to any other topic, the Internet has helped spread communication more quickly," said Josh Rubin, founding editor of Coolhunting.com, a New York-based blog he began just over two years ago as "a running database of things I like. In the case of sneakers, news used...
New York Times: Blogs 101
(26 July 2005) - Rich Meislin's directory of blogs. view site...
WWD Fast: Fast Track. Blogger Josh Rubin Solves the Puzzle of Cool
(21 July 2005) - Feature story: Don't be put off by the name. Coolhunting.com isn't about digital image banks of edgy kids or data collected by scouts armed with digital cameras. It isn't about trend reports or demographic surveys, either. In fact, it's much more simple-- and effective-- than all of that in relaying the truly cool in everything, from a design experiment by Dutch artists, to the...
Vanity Fair: Where One Design Guru Surfs
(06 July 2005) - Paul Warwick Thompson might not be an Internet junkie—he spends only a few hours a day online—but he knows a well-designed Web site when he sees one. That's because Thompson, 45, is the director of the Smithsonian's New York City–based Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, the only museum in the United States exclusively devoted to design... Given his credentials, it's no surprise that Thompson has...
if.psfk.com: Interview With Josh Rubin, Mr. Cool Hunter
(28 June 2005) - Since February 2003 Josh Rubin's Cool Hunting has been a daily update on stuff from the "intersection of design, culture and technology." The readers of Coolhunting.com tend to be 24 - 35 year old international urban dwelling males with backgrounds in design, technology, media, marketing and education. IF decided to ask the Cool Hunter a few questions about the site and the consultancy he...
Yahoo! Picks: Cool Hunting
(05 June 2005) - From designer and strategist Josh Rubin comes this daily dose of "stuff from the intersection of design, culture and technology." Culled from the interests of a 12-member staff, Cool Hunting offers brief postings on items in such categories as food, future, T-shirts, and mobility (check out the bicycles). We uncovered reviews of a 17-year-old blues singer from Canada, a delectable-sounding Argentinian cookie, and the...
Blogebrity: The Interview: Josh Rubin
(02 June 2005) - This week at Blogebrity: The Interview, we had the privilege of speaking with Josh Rubin, of Coolhunting. His blog has become a regular read for those in the know, not to mention a healthy revenue stream for Josh Rubin, Inc. The full interview is live now. Do yourself a favor and check it out. view site ...
Business 2.0: The New Instant Companies
(01 June 2005) - Of course, "going after" bloggers can backfire because they can smell a desperate pitch a mile away. But have no fear: If you have the next hot product, they'll find you. That's what happened at Freebord, a skateboard company founded in 2001 that still has just five employees. In November, 36-year-old CEO Bayard Winthrop got an e-mail from a designer in New York asking...
G4TV: Attack of the Show
(11 May 2005) - Episode #5079 There’s a plethora of sites on the web that promise cool things, but there’s only one CoolHunting.com. Run by Josh Rubin with pieces by writer Carol Chung, CoolHunting.com investigates the places where technology and design intersect. Started up two years ago, the site garners around 100,000 unique visitors a month. With all the other blogs on the net promising to deliver cool...
Trendwatching.com: Tryvertising
(04 April 2005) - Think of TRYVERTISING as a new breed of product placement* in the real world, integrating your goods and services into daily life in a relevant way, so that consumers can make up their minds based on their experience, not your messages. * Mind you, this is not about increasingly sophisticated product placement in movies, TV series or games; no doubt an improvement on intrusive...
The Sydney Morning Herald: Clique and Drag
(02 March 2005) - This site is so good I almost kept it to myself. But as it was included in The Guardian’slist of the top 100 most useful sites last December, it’s scarcely a secret. Elegantly laid out, the site displays a keen eye for timeless design and appreciates the fun of |a good gimmick. The best thing about it is it feels like a global, roving...
New York Observer: [ ]
(24 February 2005) - Josh Rubin, the Soho-based designer behind the Web site Josh Rubin: Cool Hunting, said that Pattern Recognition didn’t so much change his behavior or buying habits as it provided a "label" for his madness. Mr. Rubin said he experiences a "gut response" to logos. "I’ll be razor-blading off a label and think, ‘That’s so Cayce Pollard,’" he said. "Like the other day, I cut...
The Boston Globe: The Life Athletic
(30 January 2005) - "I haven't been able to get a response from anyone in Marketing or Product Development," emails Josh Rubin, whose "Cool Hunting" website has become a nexus for the petition drive. "But Customer Service assures me they are aware of (and quite grateful for) the attention." That "Life Aquatic" -- easily the limpest of Anderson's films to date, puffed out with props and gimmickry --...
Vanity Fair: Daily Dose
(21 January 2005) - Listed as one of the Editors' favorite Arts, Culture and The Zeitgeist sites. view site ...
USA Today: Steve Zissou's Cool Shoes Prove Tough to Fill
(14 January 2005) - Josh Rubin, 30, a New York-based software designer who blogs about eye-catching products on his site Cool Hunting (coolhunting.com), was quite taken with the unique sneak. "I liked the color combination — or 'colorway,' as it is called in sneaker design," he says. But just like The Life Aquatic's spotted shark, the Zissou shoe doesn't exist in the real world. But that hasn't stopped...
Sports Illustrated: The Life Shoequatic Of The Week
(10 January 2005) - The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou disappointed me, but when I saw the movie I noticed the Team Zissou adidas the crew wore and wondered if they'd be available in stores. For now, the answer is no, but here's how you can make a difference [link to Cool Hunting]. by Lang Whitaker view site download pdf ...
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