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A La Carte Map Guides
(02 September 2009) - by Laura Neilson For globe-trotters looking to creatively plot out a future destination, A La Carte's hand-drawn maps buck the trend of the technology-driven applications in favor of a unique analog map that doubles as a crafty souvenir or an artful gift for an impending traveler. Each beautifully-designed folding map comes with a welcome letter offering important information about the destination. It includes details like...
(02 September 2009) - by Laura Neilson For globe-trotters looking to creatively plot out a future destination, A La Carte's hand-drawn maps buck the trend of the technology-driven applications in favor of a unique analog map that doubles as a crafty souvenir or an artful gift for an impending traveler. Each beautifully-designed folding map comes with a welcome letter offering important information about the destination. It includes details like...
Humble Vintage Bike Hire
(25 August 2009) - by Rebecca Harkins-Cross For moonlighting in Melbourne's obsessive cycling scene, The Humble Vintage steps in like a long-lost friend, offering vintage bicycles for short-term hire. Not just a more aesthetically pleasing way to explore the city, the experience allows tourists to roll incognito by skipping logos, mountain bikes and fluorescent helmets. Born in July 2009, after founder Matthew Hurst rented a bike during a...
(25 August 2009) - by Rebecca Harkins-Cross For moonlighting in Melbourne's obsessive cycling scene, The Humble Vintage steps in like a long-lost friend, offering vintage bicycles for short-term hire. Not just a more aesthetically pleasing way to explore the city, the experience allows tourists to roll incognito by skipping logos, mountain bikes and fluorescent helmets. Born in July 2009, after founder Matthew Hurst rented a bike during a...
Streets.to: A Virtual Guide
(24 August 2007) - Planning a visit to Canada's largest city? Look no further than Streets.to, Toronto's visual search engine, to set you up with a personal tour. Taking you on a simulated 3-D city excursion, Streets.to is touted as "the world's first and only patent-pending virtual cityscape." It's purpose: to turn virtual into reality, giving you a comprehensive visual depiction of what one can expect in and...
(24 August 2007) - Planning a visit to Canada's largest city? Look no further than Streets.to, Toronto's visual search engine, to set you up with a personal tour. Taking you on a simulated 3-D city excursion, Streets.to is touted as "the world's first and only patent-pending virtual cityscape." It's purpose: to turn virtual into reality, giving you a comprehensive visual depiction of what one can expect in and...
Yutaka Loves London
(15 February 2006) - Yutaka Loves London, a slick flash-based guide to the city that's as amusing as it is useful. Yutaka cheekily narrates, describing everything from galleries to flights in terse yet detail-rich anecdotes that charmingly lapse into the third person. While lodging options seem to be lacking, the recommendations give detailed information about each location and they can be added to a downloadable 'to do' list. via...
(15 February 2006) - Yutaka Loves London, a slick flash-based guide to the city that's as amusing as it is useful. Yutaka cheekily narrates, describing everything from galleries to flights in terse yet detail-rich anecdotes that charmingly lapse into the third person. While lodging options seem to be lacking, the recommendations give detailed information about each location and they can be added to a downloadable 'to do' list. via...
Tokyo Art Beat T-shirts
(02 December 2005) - Tokyo Art Beat is an essential guide to the Tokyo art and design scene. The site is published in both Japanese and English and is free, making it a must for anyone living in or traveling to Tokyo. They have recently released a series of T-shirts by famed designers Jonathan Barnbrook, Paul Cox, Power Graphixx, Noboru Tsubaki and Buro Destruct. The shirts cost ¥3000...
(02 December 2005) - Tokyo Art Beat is an essential guide to the Tokyo art and design scene. The site is published in both Japanese and English and is free, making it a must for anyone living in or traveling to Tokyo. They have recently released a series of T-shirts by famed designers Jonathan Barnbrook, Paul Cox, Power Graphixx, Noboru Tsubaki and Buro Destruct. The shirts cost ¥3000...
This Week in Refinery29
(25 November 2005) - This week at Refinery29, while everyone is busy returning to their hometowns for Thanksgiving, Refinery has traveled to Paris to bring you the first installment in a new series titled 'Postcard from Paris'. Taking on the City of Light one neighborhood at a time, this first episode explores the great shopping of Le Marais. Back home in NYC, Shelly Steffee gives a tour of...
(25 November 2005) - This week at Refinery29, while everyone is busy returning to their hometowns for Thanksgiving, Refinery has traveled to Paris to bring you the first installment in a new series titled 'Postcard from Paris'. Taking on the City of Light one neighborhood at a time, this first episode explores the great shopping of Le Marais. Back home in NYC, Shelly Steffee gives a tour of...
Go East LES Guide
(23 November 2005) - In time for holiday shoppers looking for an alternative to Soho madness, the Go East guide condenses an assortment of the neighborhood's shops, services, and restaurants into a take along brochure-sized pamphlet. The free booklet comes with a "Shopping & Rewards Program" card, giving users discounts at the featured locations and, after accumulating $500 in receipts, a $50 credit at top LES restaurants. From...
(23 November 2005) - In time for holiday shoppers looking for an alternative to Soho madness, the Go East guide condenses an assortment of the neighborhood's shops, services, and restaurants into a take along brochure-sized pamphlet. The free booklet comes with a "Shopping & Rewards Program" card, giving users discounts at the featured locations and, after accumulating $500 in receipts, a $50 credit at top LES restaurants. From...
This Week at Refinery29
(18 November 2005) - This week at Refinery29, the crew has gone to Antwerp to bring you the definitive shopping guide to that underacknowledged fashion capital. Back at the home office, Cloak Bespoke are words on everyone's lips as Beck's favorite gentlemen's shop adds Old World-style bespoke tailoring to its already refined repertoire. But men aren't the only ones who can enjoy fine Italian textiles when jackson, johnston,...
(18 November 2005) - This week at Refinery29, the crew has gone to Antwerp to bring you the definitive shopping guide to that underacknowledged fashion capital. Back at the home office, Cloak Bespoke are words on everyone's lips as Beck's favorite gentlemen's shop adds Old World-style bespoke tailoring to its already refined repertoire. But men aren't the only ones who can enjoy fine Italian textiles when jackson, johnston,...
Smart Travelling
(04 November 2005) - Based in a travel boutique down an alleyway in Berlin's Mitte district, Smart Travelling is a web-based service that provides members with info about 24 European cities. Following a "less is more approach," listings must be unusual and meet criteria for originality. Users can search for entries by what type of vacation (e.g. "Stylish/Stage" or "Authentic/Local") they want and whether they're travelling for business,...
(04 November 2005) - Based in a travel boutique down an alleyway in Berlin's Mitte district, Smart Travelling is a web-based service that provides members with info about 24 European cities. Following a "less is more approach," listings must be unusual and meet criteria for originality. Users can search for entries by what type of vacation (e.g. "Stylish/Stage" or "Authentic/Local") they want and whether they're travelling for business,...
Berlin Bound
(17 October 2005) - I'm off to Berlin, well-prepped with Very Style Guides (pictured), suggestions from a German expat, and friends to visit. Nearly 10 years have passed since I was last in Berlin and at the time there was a palpable sense of a city reeling from one of the century's historic events; every other building seemed to be under construction, the art was amazing, and, by...
(17 October 2005) - I'm off to Berlin, well-prepped with Very Style Guides (pictured), suggestions from a German expat, and friends to visit. Nearly 10 years have passed since I was last in Berlin and at the time there was a palpable sense of a city reeling from one of the century's historic events; every other building seemed to be under construction, the art was amazing, and, by...
Luxe's Asian Grand Tour Box Set
(20 September 2005) - Luxe's new handmade red box packed full of 12 of their mini-guides to Asia makes the massive continent seem almost manageable. As we've noted here before, their concise descriptions, spunky tone, and conveniently pocketable size, are user-friendly answers to their bulky counterparts. Content includes curated selections of hotels, restaurants, clubs, shops, and (well-suited for the business traveller pressed for time) easy-to-follow suggested half-day tours....
(20 September 2005) - Luxe's new handmade red box packed full of 12 of their mini-guides to Asia makes the massive continent seem almost manageable. As we've noted here before, their concise descriptions, spunky tone, and conveniently pocketable size, are user-friendly answers to their bulky counterparts. Content includes curated selections of hotels, restaurants, clubs, shops, and (well-suited for the business traveller pressed for time) easy-to-follow suggested half-day tours....
Refinery29
(07 July 2005) - New York is turning into a giant shopping mall...in a good way. Based on an easily navigable flash-based floorplan, Refinery29 is a website launched just over three weeks ago that is dedicated to the best shops in the five boroughs. Their clean design (thanks to Agnieszka Gasparska, the lauded graphic artist and sometime Fischerspooner collaborator), along with friendly info-icons, handy "receipt" sidebars highlighting store...
(07 July 2005) - New York is turning into a giant shopping mall...in a good way. Based on an easily navigable flash-based floorplan, Refinery29 is a website launched just over three weeks ago that is dedicated to the best shops in the five boroughs. Their clean design (thanks to Agnieszka Gasparska, the lauded graphic artist and sometime Fischerspooner collaborator), along with friendly info-icons, handy "receipt" sidebars highlighting store...
In the Know
(23 June 2005) - “I hate shopping” are the famous last words for Cool Hunting’s Ranjani Gopalarathinam, who finally understands that shopping is a talent, and not merely a consumerist distraction from "more important things in life". Her fabulous new book, "New York’s 50+ Best Little Shops" (Rizzoli/Universe, 2005), maps the city out as a macrocosm of style and imagination, staying pretty clear of chains and corporate clones...
(23 June 2005) - “I hate shopping” are the famous last words for Cool Hunting’s Ranjani Gopalarathinam, who finally understands that shopping is a talent, and not merely a consumerist distraction from "more important things in life". Her fabulous new book, "New York’s 50+ Best Little Shops" (Rizzoli/Universe, 2005), maps the city out as a macrocosm of style and imagination, staying pretty clear of chains and corporate clones...
Luxe Tokyo
(01 April 2005) - Luxe City Guide, Tokyo edition. Made from a durable paper stock and folded in to just the right size to fit in a jacket pocket, the Luxe guide will certainly be there with me whenever I find that mysterious sponsor who's going to pay my way. The Luxe guide, as the name suggests, features all top notch shopping, dining and lifestyle info you need....
(01 April 2005) - Luxe City Guide, Tokyo edition. Made from a durable paper stock and folded in to just the right size to fit in a jacket pocket, the Luxe guide will certainly be there with me whenever I find that mysterious sponsor who's going to pay my way. The Luxe guide, as the name suggests, features all top notch shopping, dining and lifestyle info you need....
SuperFuture City
(13 June 2003) - Superfuture is another food, fashion, hotel, and nightlife city guide. But this one is only about the cool stuff. Created by Wayne Berkowitz, here's his Superfuture scenario: >> the scenario >> I regularly have friends [and others] visit me in Tokyo, however in the last few years rarely find time to show people around. Instead, it goes something like this ::::: Rendezvous at friends...
(13 June 2003) - Superfuture is another food, fashion, hotel, and nightlife city guide. But this one is only about the cool stuff. Created by Wayne Berkowitz, here's his Superfuture scenario: >> the scenario >> I regularly have friends [and others] visit me in Tokyo, however in the last few years rarely find time to show people around. Instead, it goes something like this ::::: Rendezvous at friends...
A Photo of Every Address in Paris
(04 April 2003) - Isabel Mendes, a young Brazilian photographer, is photographing every single address in Paris. She is doing this project for a French mapping company that is creating a digital index of the city. You can enter an address or navigate a map of the city on France TÈlÈcom's Yellow Pages site pagesjaunes.fr, demandez c'est trouvÈ ! her story was recently covered in the New York Times....
(04 April 2003) - Isabel Mendes, a young Brazilian photographer, is photographing every single address in Paris. She is doing this project for a French mapping company that is creating a digital index of the city. You can enter an address or navigate a map of the city on France TÈlÈcom's Yellow Pages site pagesjaunes.fr, demandez c'est trouvÈ ! her story was recently covered in the New York Times....
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