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Experibass
(16 October 2009) - Sound artist Diego Stocco—featured here previously for his Music From a Tree—has gone and reinvented a musical instrument again. When he contacted us recently to tell us about it, he could barely contain his excitement. “I have a new video that I'd like to show you,” he wrote. “I created an instrument by combining a violin, a viola, a cello and a double bass!”...
(16 October 2009) - Sound artist Diego Stocco—featured here previously for his Music From a Tree—has gone and reinvented a musical instrument again. When he contacted us recently to tell us about it, he could barely contain his excitement. “I have a new video that I'd like to show you,” he wrote. “I created an instrument by combining a violin, a viola, a cello and a double bass!”...
Cut & Paste Global Championship 2009
(12 October 2009) - A competition of ideas, this year's Cut & Paste digital design tournament goes global for with 48 prior champions from around the world competing in the fields of 2D, 3D and motion design. Cool Hunting's own Josh Rubin will be one of the judges for the 3D segment. The battle of the best showcases savvy designers performing their own work in multiple rounds on...
(12 October 2009) - A competition of ideas, this year's Cut & Paste digital design tournament goes global for with 48 prior champions from around the world competing in the fields of 2D, 3D and motion design. Cool Hunting's own Josh Rubin will be one of the judges for the 3D segment. The battle of the best showcases savvy designers performing their own work in multiple rounds on...
All Day Buffet Feast Conference
(25 September 2009) - Exploring the ever-increasing way creativity in business impacts the world in a positive way, the All Day Buffet Feast conference explores this cross-disciplinary concept by celebrating the people who do it. With philanthropic speakers like poker player Annie Duke, grammy-nominated musician Kenna and athletic entrepreneur Brian Bordainick, to name a few, the roster makes clear that any type of person can effect change in...
(25 September 2009) - Exploring the ever-increasing way creativity in business impacts the world in a positive way, the All Day Buffet Feast conference explores this cross-disciplinary concept by celebrating the people who do it. With philanthropic speakers like poker player Annie Duke, grammy-nominated musician Kenna and athletic entrepreneur Brian Bordainick, to name a few, the roster makes clear that any type of person can effect change in...
The Melbourne Design Guide
(05 August 2009) - by Kara Macleod A clever little book created and edited by industrial designers, The Melbourne Design Guide one-ups most guidebooks. The 450-page flip book teems with current design intelligence from Melbourne’s creative community, making the publication as attractive to design professionals as it is to savvy locals or travelers wanting a different take on the scene. Its twofold construction simplifies what can often be...
(05 August 2009) - by Kara Macleod A clever little book created and edited by industrial designers, The Melbourne Design Guide one-ups most guidebooks. The 450-page flip book teems with current design intelligence from Melbourne’s creative community, making the publication as attractive to design professionals as it is to savvy locals or travelers wanting a different take on the scene. Its twofold construction simplifies what can often be...
This is Art
(29 July 2009) - by Alex PolierWhile artists go to great pains to express themselves through paint, clay, light and sound, many often forget the power of the written word. In the endless to search to answer the question, "What is art?" artist Susan Jennings taps fellow creators with her book, "This is Art," to find out what's on the minds of today’s artists, giving them free reign...
(29 July 2009) - by Alex PolierWhile artists go to great pains to express themselves through paint, clay, light and sound, many often forget the power of the written word. In the endless to search to answer the question, "What is art?" artist Susan Jennings taps fellow creators with her book, "This is Art," to find out what's on the minds of today’s artists, giving them free reign...
Significant Objects
(13 July 2009) - Drawing on the rich sense of history of thrift store objects, Rob Walker and Joshua Glenn founded SignificantObjects.com. The site is a collaborative experiment pairing cheap thrift store/yard sale finds with creative writers who create a unique personality for it. Items include cat figurines printed with chilis (above left), ceramic hot dogs (above right), smiling coffee mugs and buttons lauding professional "necking." These random...
(13 July 2009) - Drawing on the rich sense of history of thrift store objects, Rob Walker and Joshua Glenn founded SignificantObjects.com. The site is a collaborative experiment pairing cheap thrift store/yard sale finds with creative writers who create a unique personality for it. Items include cat figurines printed with chilis (above left), ceramic hot dogs (above right), smiling coffee mugs and buttons lauding professional "necking." These random...
Photographer Julia Fullerton-Batten
(29 June 2009) - by Alison Zavos for Feature Shoot Born in Germany and partly raised in the U.S., Julia Fullerton-Batten moved at the age of sixteen to England followed by extensive travels throughout the world. When she eventually returned to London, her still-life photographs won a number of awards. Soon after, came her first big commission, a cigarette campaign in Australia. Your personal work, advertising, and fashion work...
(29 June 2009) - by Alison Zavos for Feature Shoot Born in Germany and partly raised in the U.S., Julia Fullerton-Batten moved at the age of sixteen to England followed by extensive travels throughout the world. When she eventually returned to London, her still-life photographs won a number of awards. Soon after, came her first big commission, a cigarette campaign in Australia. Your personal work, advertising, and fashion work...
Cool Hunting Video Presents: Ji Lee at The 99% Conference
(15 May 2009) - by Gregory MitnickFor CH's second video documenting our recent 99% Conference, we check in with Google Creative Labs' Creative Director Ji Lee to find out how personal and professional work relate. We get a taste of his famed Bubble Project and what makes one of the most subversive minds in the corporate world tick. ...
(15 May 2009) - by Gregory MitnickFor CH's second video documenting our recent 99% Conference, we check in with Google Creative Labs' Creative Director Ji Lee to find out how personal and professional work relate. We get a taste of his famed Bubble Project and what makes one of the most subversive minds in the corporate world tick. ...
Interview with Designer Emerson Taymor
(14 May 2009) - A recent UCLA graduate, Emerson Taymor has been making waves in the online ocean with his clever takes on everyday items. Part designer, part magician, the Cali-native effortlessly merges creative design with business acumen. CH caught up with the all-around creative talent for a better look at where he gets his vision. How did you come up with the idea of the business card?...
(14 May 2009) - A recent UCLA graduate, Emerson Taymor has been making waves in the online ocean with his clever takes on everyday items. Part designer, part magician, the Cali-native effortlessly merges creative design with business acumen. CH caught up with the all-around creative talent for a better look at where he gets his vision. How did you come up with the idea of the business card?...
LVHRD's WRK/PLY Conference
(27 March 2009) - Tomorrow, 28 March 2009 from 12-7pm, LVHRD is holding a day-long creativity "conference" that features six professional WRK/PLYers in different areas of the creative industry—extremely beneficial for pushing the line between work and play and channeling your inner child into a career. The six pros, including graphic designers Dress Code (pictured below) and the lovely fashion designer Rebecca Turbow, will speak from experience to...
(27 March 2009) - Tomorrow, 28 March 2009 from 12-7pm, LVHRD is holding a day-long creativity "conference" that features six professional WRK/PLYers in different areas of the creative industry—extremely beneficial for pushing the line between work and play and channeling your inner child into a career. The six pros, including graphic designers Dress Code (pictured below) and the lovely fashion designer Rebecca Turbow, will speak from experience to...
The 99% Conference Update
(26 January 2009) - As the 99% conference draws near the speaker roster continues to grow. Confirmed speakers include greatly productive talents such as Google Creative Director, Ji Lee, partner at the multi-disciplinary design studio Pentagram, Michael Bierut, the fellas that started Threadless and marketing guru, Seth Godin. Stay tuned because there are more speakers to come. A collaborative effort with Behance, the conference is a look at...
(26 January 2009) - As the 99% conference draws near the speaker roster continues to grow. Confirmed speakers include greatly productive talents such as Google Creative Director, Ji Lee, partner at the multi-disciplinary design studio Pentagram, Michael Bierut, the fellas that started Threadless and marketing guru, Seth Godin. Stay tuned because there are more speakers to come. A collaborative effort with Behance, the conference is a look at...
The 99% Conference
(10 December 2008) - We're proud and excited to announce our partnership with Behance on The 99% Conference, taking place next 16-17 April 2009 in NYC. Our thinking in joining forces with Behance, the organizational gurus of the creative class, is to look at how the inspiring art, design and culture that CH represents comes to be. Borrowing a name from Edison's famous quote about genius, we're assembling...
(10 December 2008) - We're proud and excited to announce our partnership with Behance on The 99% Conference, taking place next 16-17 April 2009 in NYC. Our thinking in joining forces with Behance, the organizational gurus of the creative class, is to look at how the inspiring art, design and culture that CH represents comes to be. Borrowing a name from Edison's famous quote about genius, we're assembling...
Cool Hunting Video Presents: Playing the Building
(25 August 2008) - In conjunction with Creative Time, Playing the Building is an installation by David Byrne that transformed a 9,000 square foot abandoned room in Lower Manhattan's Battery Maritime Building into an instrument for the summer. An antique pump organ controls devices that create sounds using the building's infrastructure, including heating pipes, metal beams and pillars. For a special event last month, curator Mark Beasley invited...
(25 August 2008) - In conjunction with Creative Time, Playing the Building is an installation by David Byrne that transformed a 9,000 square foot abandoned room in Lower Manhattan's Battery Maritime Building into an instrument for the summer. An antique pump organ controls devices that create sounds using the building's infrastructure, including heating pipes, metal beams and pillars. For a special event last month, curator Mark Beasley invited...
Veer Ideas
(19 June 2008) - When Van Gogh dreamed of a utopian community of artists in the south of France, he probably wasn't thinking of the online possibilities. Fortunately for us (over 100 years after the painter's vision), there's Veer Ideas, a social networking site where creatives and design lovers can create original content and connect with each other. It's a creative playground defined by each participant as they...
(19 June 2008) - When Van Gogh dreamed of a utopian community of artists in the south of France, he probably wasn't thinking of the online possibilities. Fortunately for us (over 100 years after the painter's vision), there's Veer Ideas, a social networking site where creatives and design lovers can create original content and connect with each other. It's a creative playground defined by each participant as they...
Interview with Scott Patt, Creative Director of Converse
(07 May 2008) - Scott Patt is the Creative Director at Converse. In addition to more than 11 years of design experience in commercial footwear and fashion, he also exhibits his artwork everywhere from San Francisco to Tokyo. He spearheaded 1HUND(RED), a collaboration with the (PRODUCT) RED initiative to fight AIDS in Africa in which Converse is releasing 100 exclusively designed shoes from artists around the world. Patt's...
(07 May 2008) - Scott Patt is the Creative Director at Converse. In addition to more than 11 years of design experience in commercial footwear and fashion, he also exhibits his artwork everywhere from San Francisco to Tokyo. He spearheaded 1HUND(RED), a collaboration with the (PRODUCT) RED initiative to fight AIDS in Africa in which Converse is releasing 100 exclusively designed shoes from artists around the world. Patt's...
Gadget Nation
(30 April 2008) - When considering the success of the iPod it's easy to forget the thousands of failed inventions left in its wake. Steve Greenberg's new book, Gadget Nation, attempts to shine a light on some of the homegrown entrepreneurs who face the daunting climb toward widespread acceptance. Subtitled "A Journey Through the Eccentric World of Invention," the book looks at average Americans' creations, which run the...
(30 April 2008) - When considering the success of the iPod it's easy to forget the thousands of failed inventions left in its wake. Steve Greenberg's new book, Gadget Nation, attempts to shine a light on some of the homegrown entrepreneurs who face the daunting climb toward widespread acceptance. Subtitled "A Journey Through the Eccentric World of Invention," the book looks at average Americans' creations, which run the...
Creative Index
(24 April 2008) - In response to feedback from agencies and companies that search for creative talent and wanted a "one-stop shop," our friends at Behance developed another great tool: Creative Index, an open and free service for creative professionals and those who search for them. The service makes it near effortless and far more efficient to find photographers, designers, dancers and even confectionery artists. Clean, attractive and...
(24 April 2008) - In response to feedback from agencies and companies that search for creative talent and wanted a "one-stop shop," our friends at Behance developed another great tool: Creative Index, an open and free service for creative professionals and those who search for them. The service makes it near effortless and far more efficient to find photographers, designers, dancers and even confectionery artists. Clean, attractive and...
Laje
(24 August 2007) - When Homer Olivetti and his partner were procuring an office for their film production company Ouro 21 in São Paulo, they knew they wanted to be part of the energy inside the multi-story alternative shopping mall Galeria Ouro Fino. The top floor of the building was dilapidated, practically all of the shops were vacant and upon inquiring into the possibility of renting some space...
(24 August 2007) - When Homer Olivetti and his partner were procuring an office for their film production company Ouro 21 in São Paulo, they knew they wanted to be part of the energy inside the multi-story alternative shopping mall Galeria Ouro Fino. The top floor of the building was dilapidated, practically all of the shops were vacant and upon inquiring into the possibility of renting some space...
The Creators Series: Ticket Giveaway
(01 June 2007) - Tomorrow Unlimited presents the first annual Creators Series, a multidisciplinary conference that highlights emerging creative cultures and social change through discussion panels, musical events and a free art exhibition. The series will be held over successive weekends starting in New York and ending in Los Angeles. Bringing together some Cool Hunting favorites, the Social Interfaces Panel of the series will investigate new platforms of...
(01 June 2007) - Tomorrow Unlimited presents the first annual Creators Series, a multidisciplinary conference that highlights emerging creative cultures and social change through discussion panels, musical events and a free art exhibition. The series will be held over successive weekends starting in New York and ending in Los Angeles. Bringing together some Cool Hunting favorites, the Social Interfaces Panel of the series will investigate new platforms of...
David Lynch Giveaway
(10 April 2007) - In the past year David Lynch released his epic experimental film Inland Empire (shot entirely on mini-DV), wrote a book on transcendental meditation called Catching the Big Fish (and inaugurated an annual conference on the subject) and debuted his line of signature coffee. In honor of the iconoclast's many achievements we have a trio of prizes—his coffee, a copy of Catching the Big Fish...
(10 April 2007) - In the past year David Lynch released his epic experimental film Inland Empire (shot entirely on mini-DV), wrote a book on transcendental meditation called Catching the Big Fish (and inaugurated an annual conference on the subject) and debuted his line of signature coffee. In honor of the iconoclast's many achievements we have a trio of prizes—his coffee, a copy of Catching the Big Fish...
Puzzler by Emigre
(19 October 2005) - We love Zuzana Licko and we love Emigre. Her newest font, Puzzler, allows you to create an endless source of patterns based on halftone dots, moiré and floral elements. The samples alone will inspire you for days, and thinking about all of the things you can design with Puzzler will send you into a creative trance. The font ($95), premade patterns ($25) and wrapping...
(19 October 2005) - We love Zuzana Licko and we love Emigre. Her newest font, Puzzler, allows you to create an endless source of patterns based on halftone dots, moiré and floral elements. The samples alone will inspire you for days, and thinking about all of the things you can design with Puzzler will send you into a creative trance. The font ($95), premade patterns ($25) and wrapping...
3rd Annual Creativity Now Conference
(05 October 2005) - Billed as the "definitive yearbook of popular culture for 2005," Tokion's 3rd annual Creativity Now Conference, brings together today's brightest like Antony (of Antony & the Johnsons), some of the more obscure, such as filmmaker Todd Haynes, and, on the design side, multimedia artist Julie Verhoeven. The progressive summit takes place this October 15th and 16th at Cooper Union's Great Hall in NYC. Panels...
(05 October 2005) - Billed as the "definitive yearbook of popular culture for 2005," Tokion's 3rd annual Creativity Now Conference, brings together today's brightest like Antony (of Antony & the Johnsons), some of the more obscure, such as filmmaker Todd Haynes, and, on the design side, multimedia artist Julie Verhoeven. The progressive summit takes place this October 15th and 16th at Cooper Union's Great Hall in NYC. Panels...
Tokion Creativity Now Conference
(04 October 2004) - Tokion Magazine held a conference this past weekend called Creativity Now. Carol Tan Chung attended Saturday's sessions. Here's her report: Tokion second annual Creativity Now conference: Not as good as it could be, but hope remains as correlations between multiple disciplines can be distinguished. ...
(04 October 2004) - Tokion Magazine held a conference this past weekend called Creativity Now. Carol Tan Chung attended Saturday's sessions. Here's her report: Tokion second annual Creativity Now conference: Not as good as it could be, but hope remains as correlations between multiple disciplines can be distinguished. ...
John Maeda: Creative Code
(10 August 2004) - John Maeda's newest book will hit the shelves next month. Creative Code is a documentation of his pedagogical experiments at the MIT Media Lab. Maeda's thoughts on the book: My evolved focus is on the global economy, and how creativity might reshape our society. I hope that a world that endears the arts just as much as it endears its weapons of destruction might...
(10 August 2004) - John Maeda's newest book will hit the shelves next month. Creative Code is a documentation of his pedagogical experiments at the MIT Media Lab. Maeda's thoughts on the book: My evolved focus is on the global economy, and how creativity might reshape our society. I hope that a world that endears the arts just as much as it endears its weapons of destruction might...
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