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Flat-pack platforms, Playboy's archive for iPads, a sneaker encyclopedia and more in this week's look at the web
1. Inception Chair
Designer Vivian Chiu created this fascinating chair within a chair within a chair. The conceptual seating is so enchanting I almost can't remember whose dream I'm in.
2. Female Foosball
Showing up in NYC for ICFF, the first-ever female foosball player finally puts the ladies in power on the table.
3. Build Your Own Platform
Fashion-forward shoe designer United Nude teamed up with Spanish performance artist Alicia Framis for a carbon-fiber flat-pack shoe you build yourself, based on the belief "that humans will one day live in outer-space."
4. Lockitron
Between all the devices and accessories the modern human has to lug around, carrying (and not loosing) keys can be a pain. Enter Lockitron, a new mobile app that lets users lock and unlock doors from their phones.
5. Social Memories
For all our digital prowess, there's still nothing like a photo album for a leisurely stroll down memory lane. Enter Social Memories, Deutsche Post DHL's infographic-heavy book based on data and photos gleaned from your Facebook page.
6. Venice in Venice
Curated by Tim Nye and Jacqueline Miro, Venice in Venice bring Italy's most famous films to California, such as Federico Fellini’s Il Casanova and more.
7. Hermes and Vans
The blank canvases that are Vans sneakers have inspired many a masterpiece but none quite blend high and low fashion as ingeniously as this unofficial collaboration that customizes a pair with Hermes scarves.
8. Slew of Brooklyn Vendors Confirmed for Rockaway Boardwalk
In a win for urban revivification and low-key restaurant development, several of Brooklyn's finest restaurants—among them Roberta's, Caracas and Blue Bottle—are banding together to open up shop this summer nearby the popular Rockaway Taco.
9. This is My Dream
Full of insights like "I'm just interested in how to cut the clothing," the trailer for the forthcoming documentary on world-renowned designer Yohji Yamamoto promises a must-see film when it comes out this fall.
10. Richard Chai for Acura
Fashion designer Richard Chai created an elegant set of limited-edition driving gloves for Acura, inspired by the new film Thor made using the automaker's leather and based on the curves of the vehicle's interior.
11. Sneakerpedia
On the heels of an upswing, Foot Locker is launching Sneakerpedia on 17 May 2011. The encyclopedic sight will offer info on when the shoe hit the market, materials, style and pretty much anything else a sneaker freaker would want.
12. Playboy for iPad
The final element has fallen into place to make reading on the iPad a classy experience for any debonair gent with the release of Playboy for iPad. Hef and company have finally gone totally digital, offering ever issue since the magazines inception (1953) for mobile viewing.
Nose navigation for iPhones, urban futures, pretzel keyrings and more in our weekly web survey
1. Finger Nose Stylus
For those of you who always wanted a convenient way to navigate touch-screens without dorky traditional styluses, Dominic Wilcox crafted a solution. His stylus conveniently straps to your face, allowing for complete hands-free navigation.
2. Land Rover U.K.
Land Rover's recent print ad for their iconic Defender cleverly captures the vehicle's singular ability to take you places beyond the local Whole Foods.
3. Pretzel Keyring
Designed by Ototo, this functional key-holder has a carabiner-style clip for that "lesbian who loves pretzels" look. It's $15 from Animi Causa.
4. Looking at Music 3.0
The third in a series exploring music's influence on art, MoMA takes up the the '80s and '90s with over 70 works by artists including Kathleen Hanna, Keith Haring, Run DMC, Christian Marclay and Cey Adams (graphic designer for the Beastie Boys, among other hip hop luminaries).
5. Navy Seal Dogs
The media has been buzzing about the K-9 compatriots who helped in the killing of Osama Bin Laden, and the more we learn the tougher these pups looks. According to The Daily the Navy Seal dogs are equipped with head top cameras to send feedback to Seals on the ground, earpieces to receive orders wirelessly, body armor and titanium cover teeth to provide extra damage.
6. NYC's Future Nissan Taxi
The conclusion of the heated competition to win the bid for the design of NYC's future taxi fleet has come to a close. After beating out the Turkish firm Karsan and several others, Nissan has takes home the golden egg with their winning design for the taxi of tomorrow.
7. Part 3: Audi Urban Future
Incorporated into a stunning 3D map of the city, the five architecture firms behind “Audi Urban Future: Project New York” beautifully reinterpreted the winning concepts originally selected for an Audi Urban Future Award at the 2010 Venice Biennale. The map is part of the New Museum's "Festival of Ideas for the New City," an effort that aims to generate urban innovation by tapping the city's many creative minds.
8. Replenish Reusable Bottle
The Replenish Reusable Bottle takes a crack at wasteful cleaning habits. Instead of refilling with huge jugs of Windex or, even worse, throwing the empties away when finished, Replenish uses an attachable cartridge to refuel their spray bottle. Just add water, insert the canister, clean and reuse.
Bike-powered sewing machines, the secret iPhone tracker and eggshell carvings in this week's look at the web
1. The Bicycle Cap by peSeta for the New Museum
Spanish bike accessories brand PeSeta tells the charming story of how their clever bike-powered sewing machine came to be, as well as all the details of the biking hat for the New Museum that they made using it.
2. The California Deck
An homage to the Golden State of skateboarding, the California Deck is a handcrafted board made of 100% Canadian maple in the shape of the state.
3. Symmetry
This fantastic video, a sister piece to Radiolab's recent podcast, explores symmetry in a series of split-screen images that just might make you think.
4. A Tiny Day in the Jackson Hole Backcountry
Impressive for its length and accuracy, Tristan Greszko's tilt-shift film is the culmination of Photoshop, After Effects and Final Cut Express skills. Set to Pink Floyd's classic Dark Side song "Time" (the Pretty Lights Remix), "A Tiny Day in the Jackson Hole Backcountry." really captures just how epic skiing a massive mountain can be.
5. Audi A7 Papercraft Model
This video documents graphic artist Taras Lesko making the Audi-commissioned model of the A7 (the brand's new "first grown-up car" model) using 285 sheets of paper.
6. Par Avion
Sherwood Forlee and Mihoko Ouchi, who form the design team The., apply the stylings of a classic airmail envelope to a ringspun tee for an entirely new way to "go postal."
7. Keith Haring at MOCA "Art in the Streets"
Of all the reasons to check out Deitch's mega-show, the extensive collection of works by Keith Haring (including a car covered in his trademark squiggles) may be the most appealing.
8. iPhone Tracker
When two app developers stumbled across a secret iPhone log containing its complete location history, they released this free app to let you view and track the data—not that there's any purpose for it...yet.
9. Eggshell Carvings
Instructable user Bbstudio decided to discover the limitations of nature's greatest design, the eggshell. After experimenting with how much shell could be carved away while still retaining the egg's shape, the resulting visually stunning sculptures seem to defy gravity.
10. Ziiiro Watches
With an inner swirl that tells the hour and an outer swirl to tell minutes, Ziiiro watches poetically tell time in either turquoise or fuschia.
11. Spiral Ballpoint Pen
Designers Han Chi-hoon, Kim Yeon-soo, Park Byong-gon and Kim Sung-geun collaborated on a new ballpoint ink cartridge in a spiral form, an innovation that holds twice as much ink as a traditional pen.
12. WeFund
Like a Kickstarter specific to the artistic community, WeFund, a new web-based program, links creative projects with potential funders in exchange for non-monetary incentives.
Heritage seeds, the definitive Lee "Scratch" Perry film, Vimeo's app and more in our week in review
1. The Upsetter
Billed as "the definitive life story" of dub godfather, Bob Marley mentor, and living music legend Lee "Scratch" Perry, the trailer for The Upsetter hints at a film that explores reggae culture through the many sides of one of its greats.
2. Alphabet Series
Brooklyn-based graphic designer Mark McGinnis humors adults with his flash card-inspired Alphabet Series. Custom silkscreened, the 23" x 17" prints are a framable way to add a little levity to a wall.
3. Hart's Heritage Seeds
A family-run business founded Wethersfield, CT in 1892, Chas. C. Hart Seed Company recently culled their knowledge to create a seed collection of the most flavorful heirloom seeds, each featuring historical color lithograph artwork—an accurate reproduction of Hart's original packages from the turn of the century.
4. Teach 4 Amerika
A Creative Time project, NYC art collective Bruce High Quality Foundation recently set out on a national tour in a limo painted to look like school bus to cross "state lines and institutional boundaries to inspire and enable local art students to define the future of their own educational experience."
5. Vimeo iPhone App
Vimeo has just released their new iPhone app, which lets you manage your Vimeo account, watch vidoes, "like" other peoples work and easily share videos via email or social networks. In addition, the app lets you use your iPhone camera to makes videos and then edit them on the phone, adding titles, transitions and basic graphic effects. Check out the tutorial here.
6. Pinel & Pinel Trunks for Ricola
Pinel & Pinel customized one of their effortlessly classy trunks toforSwiss candy and lozenge purveyor Ricola, supplying 11 trunks for 11 Ricola flavors including Alpine Fresh Sea Buckthorn, Cassis, Lemon Balm, Cranberry, Eucalyptus & Plants, Flowers elderberry, Menthol, Orange Mint and Lemon Verbena.
7. Holocene
Matthew Davidson made this enchanting video using his Arc4 to demonstrate an app he created for the hardware. The app, tentatively called Dharma Wheels, lets you shift between harmonies with gestures.
8. Solar System Scope
Solar System Scope is a new web based interactive 3D model of our solar system. It lets you browse through the planets and surrounding stars in a super smooth and attractive interface. It's great for anyone interested in astronomy or for those of us who forgot Pluto is no longer a planet.
9. Supreme and Adam Kimmel Capsule Collection
Supreme tapped fellow NY menswear brand Adam Kimmel for a suit in Italian cotton twill just in time for wedding season. The unlined two-button suit jacket and custom fit pant has a contemporary cut and the breeziness to get you through summer formal occasions.
10. Victorian Dress Made From Insects
Covered in the naturally shed wings of the jewel beetle, the green gown worn by stage star Ellen Terry when she played Lady Macbeth at London's Lyceum Theatre in 1888 was recently restored, a project that took 1,300 hours to complete.
11. Folding Steel Grocery Bag
An experimental Tsteel grocery bag, developed by engineers Weina Wu and Zhong You, uses the principles of rigid origami to create a firm structure that folds completely flat.
12. Glenn O'Brien Reads Hilarious Passages from His New Book
In anticipation of his forthcoming behemoth book "How to Be a Man: A Guide to Style and Behavior for the Modern Man," Glenn O'Brien gives a sneak preview in the form of a video reading.
Rapha rides for Japan, Maeda on craft, dry-transfer Field Notes and more in this week's online snapshot
1. Vinyl Factory
Celebrating "the tangible and the rare in an age of rapid digital consumption," the label The Vinyl Factory has popped up at London's St. Martin's Lane Hotel with a shop showcasing their extensive assortment of records and limited-edition box sets—from Bryan Ferry's Kate moss-graced albums to prints of Grace Jones by Chris Levine. The temporary store will be in the hotel's Front Room through 29 May 2010.
2. Wilhelm Scream
Playing to a sold-out audience in Brooklyn that included Bjork before inspiring more buzz at SXSW recently, 22-year-old classically-trained pianist James Blake has been winning music-nerd hearts with his ethereal dubstep and slow-paced riffs on soul and R&B that evoke everyone from Bon Iver and Antony Hegarty to Jai Paul. While we've been hooked on "I Never Learnt to Share," his new video for "Wilhelm Scream" makes a good excuse to check out his intensely-detailed production style and effective use of silence.
3. Rapha Rides For Tohoku
To do what they can in light of the recent disasters that continue to unfold in Japan, the bike gurus at Rapha have organized worldwide charity rides. If you can't cruise for a cause, you can still make a donation through the Rapha website, which they will match.
4. John Maeda: Atoms + Bits = the neue Craft (ABC)
Billed as an "interactive lecture," starting 23 March 2011 and running through 31 December 2011, Adobe's online museum presents an exhibit featuring a "digital representation" of RISD president and technology theorist John Maeda speaking on the relationship between old-world craft and our digital age.
5. Insight Lights
Belarus design firm Solovyodesign recently produced a very thoughtful lightbulb. Shaping the twisted contours of a normal compact fluorescent bulb into the shape of a human brain, the industrious design couple offer a beautiful rethinking of the CF bulb while making a humorous play on the classic "good idea" lightbulb bit from Saturday morning cartoons.
6. Doug Aitken’s Patterns & Repetitions: James Murphy
In a recent installment of artist Doug Aitken's video series (bringing conversations on "nothing less than the future of art itself" to the NYT), LCD Soundsystem James Murphy keeps it down-to-earth, opening up about the mundane sounds like refrigerator hums and snowbanks that inspire his music.
7. The Power of Babble
Deb Roy of MIT, has been videotaping the last three years of his son's life. In an effort to better understand how humans learn language and how to improve the ways we can teach it to machines, Roy has logged over 120,000 hours of footage from cameras placed all over his home. Wired talked to Roy about how the project has helped learning about speech and given birth to some interesting new methods for handling huge amounts of data, including fantastic search functions that have potential applications for research and online.
8. Any Color You Like (Pyramid IV)
Multidisciplinary artist Dev Harlan combines a foam and plaster sculpture with 3D video-mapping to fully-engaging psychedelic effect.
9. Hunter Outerwear
Any rainy day in NYC showa how successfully Hunter has been in helping to introduce wellies to the urban masses. Their Fall 2011 collection of peacoats, waxed-cotton jackets and trenches may see them similarly influencing inclement-weather toppers, posing the question, as a Twitter friend asked is it " like cooler Barbour?"
10. Dry Transfer Customizable Field Note Notebooks
Field Notes, known for their elegantly functional note-taking products, released a set that includes dry-transfer lettering, allowing users to customize the titles.
11. The Internet is Over
While Oliver Burkeman won't ruffle the feathers of anyone working in the digital space (or under 30), his reporting on SXSW's interactive festival this year addresses the many issues raised—from game theory to biomimicry—by the ever-more-tenuous division between offline and online life.
12. Bobos out. Huffington Post, Biz Stone and The Rise of the Crocus Class
Attempting to define a post-Bobo class in light of the recession, Haydn Shaughnessy explores a " new naturalism" that encompasses economies based on sharing like Zipcar and Groupon, signaling a shift away from a focus on ideas to personal responsibility and actions.
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Stumptown's bottled cold brew, a letterpress iPad app and Deitch speaks—all in this week's link list
1. Caffeine
German electronic trio Brandt Brauer Frick recently released this crisply-drawn animation, set to their track "Caffeine." Berlin-based illustrator Danae Diaz and Patricia Luna co-wrote and -directed the piece.
2. Core77 Design Awards
Taking on I.D.'s annual design awards, Core77 announced last week their plans to celebrate "excellence, enterprise and intent" in design with their annual juried competition. The reinvented format tasks judges (of the likes of former I.D. editor in chief Julie Lasky and design writer-slash-curator Aric Chen) to reach out to local colleagues to help weigh-in on submissions spanning 15 categories.
3. LetterMpress
A new iPad app from Bonadies Creative aims to bring the classic art of letterpress to a modern medium. John Bonadies's Kickstarter project creates a beautiful virtual environment for creating authentic letterpress projects and, designed to almost exactly mimic a real letterpress studio, the app includes multiple steps of the process.
4. Roll & Mix
Designed by Brussels-based Ahsayane Studio, Roll & Mix is a clever multifunctional rolling pin that splits in two. One end holds oil, the other serves as a mortar for grinding and, when joined together, the unit works as a roller for baking.
5. Google Person Finder
Tokyo developer Shu Sigashi had Google's person finder application running just 2.5 hours after the recent tsunami hit Japan, helping people report the missing using realtime technology.
6. Stumptown Coffee Cold Brew
Available at their Portland, OR location (and hitting NYC soon), the Stumptown Coffee "Cold Brew" bottles present an iced version of the revered West Coast coffee purveyor's classic blend with design by Jessie Whipple Vicke.
7. Out of Memory
Architect Patrick Tighe carved this polyurethane foam structure based on composer Ken Uen's music to explore memory. The experiential installation is currently on view at the Southern California Institute of Architecture.
8. Street Wise
MoCA director Jeffrey Deitch tackles the uneasy relationship between institutions and the movement head-on in his first blockbuster exhibit for the museum. Interview magazine helps position the show, pairing both Fred Brathwaite (better known as Fab Five Freddy) and genre impresario Aaron Rose with Deitch for a dual-interview that covers everything from skateboarding and Warhol to Barry McGee and more.
Best-yet cases for iPads and iPhones, auto-tattoos, Slinkachu's new work and more in our weekly web round-up
1. Concrete Ocean
Concrete Ocean, a solo exhibition of London-based artist Slinkachu's miniature installations, continues to explore themes that "reflect the loneliness and melancholy of living in a big city."
2. Traumgedanken
Budding designer Maria Fischer's thesis project on dreams, Traumgedanken, uses string to weave together literary, philosophical, psychological and scientific texts for a tangible interpretation of how "pieces of reality are assembled to build a story."
3. Auto Ink
Artist Chris Eckert put together Auto Ink, an interactive sculpture consisting of an automated tattooing machine. If you dare to insert your arm and flip the switch, the machine will automatically assign you a religion and needle a symbol associated with it into your skin.
4. IPad 2 Smart Cover
Sure the new iPad ushers in just enough bells and whistles to rev up sales again, but we think the way the slim all-in-one cover remedies some of the device's biggest form-factor problems is the real step forward.
5. Non-Sign II
Reduced to negative space framed by a haze of blackened stainless steel sticks, this poetic vision of a billboard by Seattle's artsiest architects Lead Pencil Studio continues to make the Internet rounds for good reason.
6. Brit Insurance Design Awards 2011
Phaidon shows highlights from the fourth annual Brit Insurance Design Awards, a culling of the design world's best additions in the categories of architecture, fashion, furniture, graphics, interactive, product and transport. Flipboard took home the Interactive Award this year, and the highly-addictive game Angry Birds got a nod for its entertaining design.
7. TCase
LifeProof's iPhone 4 Tcase is perfect for the techie adventurer. Designed to be super shock-, water- and dirt-resistant, the case can withstand falls from nearly seven feet and can survive the same depth underwater. While you can't talk while swimming, an attachment connects headphones through a water seal so you can sing along to Adele in the tub without worrying about trying to save your device with rice.
8. Secret Stash Project
If you missed this when it made the web rounds the first time, this pretty video outlines design student Yiting Cheng's "Secret Stash Project". Chang takes everyday objects and modifies them to conceal anything from cash to a laptop, essentially hiding everything in plain sight with secret compartments meshing seamlessly into the environment.
Personal submarines, Scott Campbell's tattoo art, and "guess who" sunglasses in this week's best of the web
3. Jeremy Scott and Linda Farrow Sunglasses
1. NYFW: Polka-Dot Buildings
In honor of fashion week, Architizer's street photographer snaps two New York building with polka-dotted facades.
2. En Selle Marcel
"Superior bicycles and timeless vintage accessories" sell at En Selle Marcel, Paris' new luxury concept dedicated to highlighting the raw beauty of well-crafted bicycles. Stocking limited editions, special collaborations and high-caliber bikes, hopefully they will also supply the world's best locks.
3. Jeremy Scott and Linda Farrow Sunglasses
For his latest line of Linda Farrow sunglasses, British fashion designer Jeremy Scott includes a series of impish pairs that make life into a permanent game of peek-a-boo.
4. Noblesse Oblige
Tattoo artist Scott Campbell opens OHWOW's new L.A. gallery with an exhibition of his latest works. Called Noblesse Oblige, the collection includes 3D carvings and sculptures created from uncut sheets of dollars sourced directly from the U.S. Mint.
5. Greplin Search Bar
Greplin, a new search utility, doesn't scan the web to find you the best deal on Panama Jack flip flops, but rather works as a personal search engine for all the data you keep floating in the great cloud. Give Greplin access to your Facebook, Gmail, Twitter or any number of other online services, and it presents you with a Google-like search box to browse all the data you have locked away online.
6. Ego Personal Submarine
If you get jealous watching handsome, aging scientists climb into tiny glass orbs to descend to the greatest depths of the ocean, then the Ego might just be for you. Produced by Raonhaje, the Ego is a pontoon-like seacraft with a glass-encased viewing station below deck so you can lounge under water and enjoy the sights of the blue deep.
7. DIY Photorealistic Pouches
The great folks over at Photojojo have published an easy-to-use guide detailing how to construct your own photorealistic pouches. Follow these steps and you can make a cassette tape case to tote your iPod or Nintendo controller change purses.
8. Jersey Shore Infographic
Online Schools developed an infographic outlining the salaries of your favorite Jersey Shore cast members. From vodka sponsorships to book deals, the kids from the Tristate are cleaning up. Don't look if you don't appreciate unconventional talent.
Self-washing fabric, underground NYC (literally) and recycled-magazine Nikes round out this week's look at the web
1. Boardwalk Empire VFX Breakdowns of Season 1
The graphics effects team from Boardwalk Empire has given the public a glimpse of their amazing compositing skills. In this video you can see how the editors create the classic Atlantic City landscape and create a simulated war injury.
2. Inside Ralph’s Garage
Ralph Lauren recently moved his legendary car collection—perhaps the most beautiful and valuable in the world—to a garage that he converted into a museum-like environment. Vanity Fair ran a recent exclusive with images of to-die-for models like the 1958 Ferrari Testa Rossa, 1938 Alfa Romeo Mille Miglia Spyder, 2010 Lamborghini Murciélago Super Veloce and many more dream cars.
3. Nike Makes Shoes From Shredded Magazines
Hackneyed commentary about the death of print and creative re-use aside, Nike's new sneakers win not just for the unexpected use of castoff magazines but for how they incorporate the material. The clean, rational lines make for a Matrix-like effect, which nicely contrasts with the chaos of the one-of-a-kind patterns.
4. Francis Ford Coppola: On Risk, Money, Craft and Collaboration
Behance spends some time with the living cinema legend to learn what they can about creative productivity from his 45 years of experience.
5. Dream of the '90s
This video teaser for the upcoming comedy series "Portlandia" gets a lot about the city hilariously right. With SNL's Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein of Sleater-Kinney, we're looking forward to the show's debut 21 January 2011 on IFC.
6. The Wilderness Below Your Feet
Writer Alan Feuer takes on the endlessly-fascinating world of underground NYC by spending a few days adventuring through the city's sewers and transit tunnels and chronicling the experience for the New York Times.
7. Pulp-Based Computing
By incorporating "electrically active inks, conductive threads, and smart materials" into paper, this new material developed by MIT's Media lab has all sorts of potential applications.
8. The Man-Made Rainbow Machine
Professor and artist Michael Jones Mckean designed a machine comprised of commercial jet pumps and custom-designed nozzles that creates gigantic, man made rainbows.
9. Nanotube Yarns Let Smart Clothing Survive the Laundry
New developments in the treatment of carbon nanotube fibers show potential for more widespread use in the garment industry. Researchers at the Univeristy of Texas in Dallas are working on using this tech to produce self-washing clothing.
10. Lade Gaga for Polaroid
Polaroid's Lady Gaga-designed camera glasses (consisting of a built-in camera and dual LCD screens), along with a digital camera and printer, debuted this week at CES, though the whole being able to see through the glasses thing hasn't quite been figured out yet.
Augmented reality translation, wild nail art and your own digital scoreboard in our weekly web review
1. Word Lens
Augmented reality just got a step closer to reality with the release of the new Word Lens from Quest Visual. The app instantly translates text from one language to another (currently it only supports English and Spanish) using the built-in camera on an iPhone or iPod touch. It doesn't work so well with handwriting but performs impressively when viewing signs, books or other printed text.
2. StartHere Mart
Little Fury, a New York-based packaging design studio, decides to do their part to aid global poverty by setting up StartHere Mart, an adorable online shop selling functional wares from independent designers with 5% of each purchase going towards charity.
3. The Standard Hotel NY Ice Rink
While it doesn't boast the bird's-eye view of the Boom Boom Room, The Standard Hotel NY's 3000-square-foot ice skating rink is another enticing reason to visit. Open to the public seven days a week, tickets and skates will only set you back $15.
4. Puma: Life Scoreboard
Friend of CH and resident computer whisperer Joel Niedfeldt helped build Puma's customizable scoreboard, an elegantly-designed way to put whatever you want—whether its iPhone vs. Blackberry or WikiLeaks vs. The Man—head to head.
5. A Brooklyn Manicurist's Insane Nail Art
From ice cream cones to dollar bills, Japanese nail artist Naomi Yasuda creates intricately "insane" nail art at her Brooklyn salon Hello Beautiful.
6. Auntie Carols
London agency Inferno is sending their holiday cheer in the form of singing aunties, who take requests via webcam. Both named Carol, the ladies will warble anything from Jay-Z's "99 Problems"to "Good King Wenceslas."
7. Siwa
Minimalissimo recently uncovered Siwa, a new collaboration between famed Industrial Designer Naoto Fukasawa and Japanese paper maker ONAO. The line of bags, shoes, cases, and book covers—all minimally constructed out of paper—are delicate in appearance but actually strong and water resistant thanks to the washi-suki paper method.
8. Muji’s Festive Human Vending Machines
Combining Japan's penchant for the automat with a little Muji clever practicality, the housewares brand came up with a human-enabled "Noel Machine" that can be found in the streets of Barcelona and Madrid during the Christmas shopping period.
Limited edition slingshots, Matthew Marks' pop up, Rodarte for Lula and more in our survey of the past week online
1. Marc Then Marks: A New Art Book Boutique
Interview reports on the new pop up shop at Matthew Marks, where, other than rare art books, Phillipe Starck Santa stools and a Roy Lichtenstein-designed silk shirt are all from the gallery's archives and yours for the taking.
2. Marc Then Marks: A New Art Book Boutique
Singaporean designer Tan Lun Cheak of Little Thoughts Group dreamed up the Glowbelly Steamboat, a lamp that doubles as a hot pot. As showcased on Dezeen the fixture, based on a Singaporean tradition, houses a pot of boiling water for cooking food.
3. Christopher Jarrett's Handmade Slingshots for Moss
Made from forked wood collected from Epping forest in England and painted one of five colors, this collection of 30 slingshots sells from Moss for $75.
4. Peek the Fall/Winter 2010 Issue of Lula Magazine Guest Edited by Rodarte
Laura and Kate Mulleavy, the sisters behind the fashion label Rodarte (and Black Swan's gorgeous ballet costumes) also recently guest edited an upcoming issue of the fashion periodical Lula Magazine. Fashionologie gives us a sneak peak of the spread, which contains ethereal photos of actresses Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kirsten Dunst, Natalie Portman and Elle Fanning in head-to-toe Rodarte.
5. Actors Acting
The New York Times Magazine's interactive piece for their Hollywood Issue features fourteen Oscar frontrunners filmed in high drama scenes, all shot in stark black and white. The modern melodrama of each score by the young talent Owen Pallett underscore the Hitchcockian hyperbole. If you only have time for one, Javier Bardem's hits all the right marks.
6. Noun Project
Noun Project is an online archive of vectorized visual iconography and symbols “that can be understood by all cultures and people.” Their collection is extensive, minimal, and free for anyone to take and use.
7. Aedas Designs Receive International Acclaims
Architecture firm Aedas received several awards this year, including one for the nine-story, seeming Storm Trooper-inspired Integrated Civic, Cultural, Retail and Entertainment Hub in Singapore pictured above.
8. Vik & Fougere Bench Rack
A simple solution for urban apartments or collegiate life, Contemporary Standard offers a glimpse of the Bench Rack by Canadian design studio Vik & Fougere, which will debut at the IDS Prototype Exhibit in Toronto Canada in January 2011.
Unicorn tears, Martha's iPad app and behind the windows at Bergdorf's in our survey of the past week online
1. Hook, Line & Dinner
Tha Lobstah Pushah Ben Sargent provides "aquatic infotainment" in his new Cooking Channel show, which tours the Eastern Seaboard with tips on how to catch, prepare and enjoy regional seafood.
2. Tron Legacy by Opening Ceremony
A logical follow-up to Opening Ceremony's fashion collection based on Spike Jonze's "Where The Wild Things Are," the much-hyped Disney sequel "Tron Legacy gets its own line with contributions from enduring NYC design collective threeasfour. Neoprene, laser cut details, and electric hues make the men's and women's collections an equally futuristic, though less expensive, alternative to the higher priced items featured here earlier this week.
3. Bergdorf's Holiday Windows
For those who can't witness the beautifully decorated window displays at Bergdorf Goodman's this holiday season in person, The Moment's slideshow allows for behin-the-scenes viewing of the David Hoey-designed installations in all their whimsical glory—fullscreen viewing recommended.
4. NYC Pop-Ups
While we have our personal favorite, pop-up shops have been popping up everywhere for the holidays and The Scout published a smattering of the others, among them CH favorites Wired and Project No. 8.
5. Martha Stewart Living iPad App
The homemaking mogul continues to develop the digital side of her publishing enterprise in true Martha style with the introduction earlier this month of her gorgeously-designed new iPad app, a special issue of her magazine that relays valuable tips on gardening, decorating, cooking and more in a glossy, multimedia-rich format.
6. Pinch
We may have only just discovered Pinch, but this British husband-and-wife furniture studio that began in 2004 successfully captures an elegantly timeless aesthetic that catches our eye every time.
7. 826DC
The latest from the team behind the retail-meets-tutoring center gems like San Francisco's Pirate Supply Co. and the Superhero Supply Co. in Brooklyn, The Museum of Unnatural History in D.C. features an excellent assortment of spoils and specimen designed by the talented Oliver Munday.
8. Solo
While still in pre-launch, the new project management software for freelancers, Solo has us hopeful that the promises of functionality lives up to the bold design and branding .
Bionic legs, Star Wars rugs, Baldessari boards and more in our weekly web survey
1. Dress the Part
Focusing on the stand-out men's style from each film, Moxy Creative redesigned ten movie posters.
2. Handcrafted Modern: At Home With Midcentury Designers
T Magazine reviews a new book by photographer Leslie Williamson, called Handcrafted Modern: At Home With Midcentury Designers. The book takes you inside the treasure-filled homes of the masters of modernism themselves, including Charles and Ray Eames, George Nakashima, and Walter Gropius.
3. ELegs
Berkeley Bionics released this video showcasing their new exoskeleton, eLEGS. BB claims to be the "first company in the world to develop a practical exoskeleton" and focuses on giving wheelchair users a chance to walk again.
4. Moleskine iPhone and iPad covers
Combining the best of analog and digital utilities, Moleskine introduced a line of their classic notebooks designed to protect and fit right over your iDevices.
5. John Baldessari x Supreme
Supreme taps Los Angeles-based painter John Baldessari for their latest artist-designed decks.
6. House of Waris Tea Shop
Renaissance man Waris Ahluwalia gets back to his East Indian roots with a newly-opened tea shop underneath NYC's The Highline in a space designed by architect Christian Wassmann.
7. Wampa Rug
Only for the most comitted of Star Wars fans, this Wampa rug offers the memory of Luke's battle with the snow beast in the mountain caves of Hoth.
8. Evil Boy Video
Die Antwoord's latest video takes the genius dick slanging of their earlier work to a whole new level with plenty of phalluses and a coat made of rats to balance it out.
The best Sesame Street guest appearances, ejection-seat bicycles, smoking a pig and more in our weekly look at the web
1. The Nine Best Sesame Street Guest Appearances
From Johnny Cash and Oscar's duet to Richard Pryor's alphabet and the self-aware Ricky Gervais skits with Elmo, this list put together by Good is a testament to the classic TV show's knack for clever casting and its far-reaching influence.
2. Olaf Breuning at Surface To Air
As seen on Curated, the edgy French label Surface To Air hosts a selection of Olaf Breuning's work now through 11 January 2011 at their Paris flagship.
3. V Magazine's iPad and iPhone App
Fashion and culture magazine V expands their editorial reach with the introduction of their iPad and iPhone apps. Priced at just $1 each, cover costar Marc Jacobs joins in as a launch sponsor, and interactive features include a DIY cover, along with an embedded fashion quiz.
4. The Cricket Trailer
Yatzer covered the incredibly compact Cricket Trailer, a new built-to-order design for the outdoor adventurer looking for a spatially flexible accommodation.
5. Rockaway Taco, A Selby Film
Photo blog success story Todd Selby debuted his first film, visiting Rockaway Taco to explore the neo-strip mall, bee farm and community that have all sprung up around the restaurant.
6. (Untitled)
Margiela's ad for the perfume called "(Untitled)" (which launched earlier this year ), is a seductively-edited collage, mixing in the label's more iconic images and showing the process for the bottle's gorgeous paint-dipped design. High-contrast shots, footage played in reverse and a guitar-heavy soundtrack hit all the right '90s-tinged aesthetic notes.
7. The Paris Review Interviews
Perfect for reading while curled up with an iPad and a cup of tea on a chilly autumn day, The Paris Review recently made six decades worth of interviews with literary greats—R. Crumb, Dorothy Parker, Borges, Vonnegut, Philip Roth and Don DeLillo, to name a few—available on their site.
8. Look at What the Light Did Now
A documentary on the making of Feist's Grammy-winning The Reminder, "Look at What the Light Did Now" peeks into the artist's process and creative community to show "the synergy of collaboration, art as magnifying glass, and the power of trust." Check out the trailer to get a taste and look for it playing at a film festive near you.
9. How Your Pork Gets Smoked at Fatty 'Cue
Brooklyn-based filmmaker, future prolific director, and one of the latest additions to Team CH, Gregory Stefano produced this video for Gothamist, giving the audience an inside look into the processing and smoking of a whole pig at Fatty 'Cue in Williamsburg.
10. Ultimate Urban Commuter Bike
U.K.-based insurance company ETA has released a video of their "ultimate urban commuter bike." This "theft proof" bike has it all, including a back tire with a tank-style tread, a ski blade, an ejector seat and of course a flame thrower.
11. Bench10 by The Lollipop Shoppe
During London's Design Festival, local design merchant The Lollipop Shoppe asked 11 different furniture designers to each create their own public bench. The finished designs, scattered throughout Old Spitalfields Market, spread awareness of the mostly banal public spaces we use.
12. Surface To Air, JCDC, Andre and Yorgo Touplas for Range Rover
Leading up to the launch of the new Range Rover Evoque, sculptor Benedict Radcliffe created a three dimensional wireframe of the vehicle which was then reinterpreted by four artists as installations around Paris.
Multi-account ATM cards, A.P.C. quilts, mini macaroons and more in our look at the week on the web
1. Minifood and Modular Dollhouses
From tiny boxes of Laudurée macaroons to finely-detailed salmon steaks, architect Stéphanie Kilgast’s miniatures are Lilliputian works of wonder.
2. In Search of the Miraculous or One Thing Leads to Another
In Search of the Miraculous or One Thing Leads to Another" explores esteemed designer Milton Glaser's sources of inspiration and how a single source can inspire a range of very different, though intrinsically-related, work. The show's currently on view at AIGA's New York City Gallery.
3. Roberu iPhone Case Natural
Another Something just updated their Another Shop, adding three key products—The Royal Treatment shoe polish along with a handmade leather camera strap and iPhone case from esteemed Japanese label Roberu.
4. IDEO's Future of the Book
Design and innovation consultants IDEO explore the future of the book in their video about three new concepts, Nelson, Coupland and Alice. The experimental concepts explore how technology can influence the way we interact with books through discussion, social networking and constructing a community around the content.
5. Chromeo-poo
The PICNIC Festival just wrapped up in Amsterdam (stay tuned for our highlights next week) and Core77 picked up Alexander Daisy Ginsberg's conceptual presentation on E.Chromi. The color-changing pigment could be used to alert you of disease.
6. Milk Carton Castle
Spanish architect students claimed the Guiness Book of Record for largest sculpture built out of recyclable materials with a large-scale milk carton castle. With school children helping to collect and donate 50,000 milk cartons, the tower stands at 29 meters (about 95 feet) long, 14.07 meters (46 feet) wide and seven meters (almost 23 feet) high.
7. FollowUpThen
With the onslaught of email in our daily lives, it's easy for messages that need your reply to get buried or for responses you're waiting on to become forgotten. By simply cc'ing or bcc'ing a time interval at followupthen.com (e.g. 2days@followupthen.com) you or both parties are sent a friendly reminder if the anticipated reply hasn't been sent within the specified period.
8. A.P.C. Quilt Project
Selectism announced that Jessica Ogden's quilt collaboration with A.P.C.'s Jean Touitou will be hitting stores later this month. Seven different designs will be reproduced in runs of 30, each using materials from the extensive A.P.C. archive.
9. Sperone Westwater Gallery
Of the many architectural marvels of the new Foster + Partners-designed Sperone Westwater building, the 12' x 20' "moving gallery" is perhaps the most clever. The giant elevator adds dynamic space for showing art and the shaft both shades the art and cuts down on heat gain.
10. See the Leaves Video
Adding yet another nude music video to their eclectic collection, The Flaming Lips release their latest music video, See the Leaves (from the Embryonic album), featuring a nude girl walking through everyday life scenarios after she drinks from a stream released from a giant vulva-like ball.
11. MultiAccount and Hidden Credit Cards
Dyamics Inc. gives a short presentation outlining two of their new products directed at debit and credit card customers. So far they have rolled out the MultiAccount and the Hidden which requires the user to type in a PIN code to reveal the number on the card and activate the magnetic strip.
12. You Are the City
Petra Kempf's You Are the City is difficult to classify. Not quite a book, the set of 22 individual cells each feature a breakdown of the different forces that make the modern city tick, from bus lines to immigration patterns. There's a charm in the non-linearity and simple, colorful illustrations that should appeal to more than just architects, urban planners, and hardcore nerds.
Gaga's PSA, gadget style, Barbara Kruger in NYC and more in this week's web roundup
1. Lady Gaga PSA
Lady Gaga recently released a seven-minute homemade PSA speaking out against "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," asking fans and local senators to repeal Clinton's controversial policy towards gays and lesbians in the military. Her timely video comes out as the policy faces senate vote on 21 September 10.
2. Display
Ever wanted to know more about midcentury modern graphic design and where grid systems came from? Fortunately for those who do, Swissmissshows us Display is a beautiful new website archiving and selling a variety of rare books on the subject.
3. The Story of Eames Furniture
Designers and modern furniture fans alike will no doubt want to get their hands on The Story of Eames Furniture, a new book that documents the rise of the designers behind the most iconic and timeless furniture pieces in our history.
4. Barbara Kruger Downtown New York
In anticipation of the Whitney's new location in Manhattan's Meatpacking district, the museum commissioned three artists to create installations on the site. Currently Barbara Kruger's trademark black-and-white text delivers striking messages to passersby on the Highline.
5. Door Wedge
The Artist and His Model points us to the clever Door Wedge, designed by Singapore-based studio The Bureau. Converted hardback books, the wedges were created as part of a recycling and repurposing project and are actually strong enough to stop slamming doors.
6. Act Up x Opening Ceremony T-Shirts
Debuted during Fashion's Night Out, Opening Ceremony has made a series of tees resurrecting designs from the '90s heyday of the AIDS activist group Act Up.
7. Typography for Lawyers
Matthew Butterick, an attorney with a strong graphic design background, must have read one too many legal documents with poor typographic structure that provoked him to make Typography for Lawyers. The attorney-centric typography how-to guide provides a strong (and extensive) enough argument against anyone who dares to challenge its importance or acceptance in the legal world.
8. Techpeek
Profiling people and their devices, Techpeek.me is a blog that acknowledges the role of gadgets as an element of personal style. Sometimes posts include an intriguing piece of technology and other times someone stylistically clever, but the best are when the two combine.
1. Kjaer Weis Makeup
Recently debuted, the high-end organic makeup line Kjaer Weis bills itself as the first fully refillable makeup system. The gorgeous Marc Atlan-designed packaging and natural ingredients has us looking forward to its U.S. launch later this year .
2. A.P.C. x Aesop Fine Fabric Care
Following the news of A.P.C.'s online journal (a nice selection of news and behind-the-scenes stories), Hypebeast highlights the collaboration between the cult French label and Australian skin care line Aesop, who teamed up on new fabric wash designed for delicates.
3. Auditorium Toy Company
With only a single toy so far in its collection, the Auditorium Toy Company already has drawn a lot of attention for the handcrafted design and high-quality appeal of its first limited-edition toy—Boattail Racer. Images of The Committee look just as appealing, if not more.
4. Ball Man
A 3-D image of a soccer player blown up 21 meters tall, Nike's "Ball Man" sculpture is an impressive mass of 5,500 yellow mini soccer balls suspended from the atrium of the Carlton Centre in Johannesburg. Check out Notcot to get the whole story and see plenty of images, if you're not in South Africa.
5. Tree Hotel
Channeling the salad days spent in the backyard, the new Tree Hotel in Harads, Sweden offers guests an upscale respite, complete with eco-friendly floor heating—an alternative heating source for coping with the country's harsh winter weather.
6. Inspiration Pad
Recently featured on Swiss Miss, the Inspiration Pad by Brussels-based designer Marc Thomasset puts a new twist on the regular journal or notepad. Warping the lines of the otherwise traditional piece of ruled paper probably more aptly represents most student's minds anyway.
7. IdentiGene DNA Paternity Test
Mothers, children and potential baby daddies out there with questions no longer need to go on Maury to get some answers. The IdentiGene kit, available at several pharmacy chains (including CVS and Walgreens), offers paternity test results in 3-5 business days. Privacy and convenience come at a price, though—$150 to be exact.
8. Auto-Defense by Stéphane Malka
BldgBlog spotlights a study of architectural hijacking at the Arche de la Défense in Paris, envisioned by architect Stéphane Malka.
9. Shadb "Aurora" Hand-Dyed T-shirt
Via Selectism, a t-shirt by Shabd embraces the tie-dye moment, taking the hippie-dippie craft to a new level of beautiful sophistication—again, a $150 level to be exact.
10. Ultimate Flash Flash
Ultimate Flash Face allows users to recreate police-style composite sketches with none of the drawing skills and all of the creep factor.
11. Live-Image Augmented Reality Trick for iPhones
Cult of Mac shares how the image-detection feature of the latest iPhone OS can produce a real-time trick through augmented reality with the Junaio app.
12. Lekar iPhone app
Ikea creates an iPhone app for kids and adults alike, inspiring playtime and creativity. Called Lekar, the app entices children with games like musical chairs, hide-and-seek and more.
13. Tony Stark Innovation Challenge
Winning Audi's innovation challenge, Natan Linder presents LuminAR—a projector-based medium for viewing the Internet.
14. Richardson
After a seven-year hiatus, Richardson magazine returns. Dazed Digital interviews founder Andrew Richardson, who reveals his early influences and current interests in the world of art porn, as well as his experiences with famed photographer Richard Avedon.
15. Radical Cartography
The Very Short List points out the strategically overlaid maps on Radical Cartography, which plot everything from "the physical expansion of Boston since 1630" to "what the world needs now."
16. A Year at War
With their non-fiction multimedia feature the The New York Times proves they've still got it, combining Grey Lady-calibre reporting with video updates from the front lines. The subject it documents, the First Batallion in the 87th infantry, is part of the new surge in Afghanistan that will be deployed for a year to fulfill a new mission—training local police and strengthening the government.
1. Star Wars Meets Today's Fashion
Making it far and wide on the web this week, "He Wears It," a series of illustrations by Hong Kong-based artist John Woo, dresses the iconic Star Wars characters in cult fashion favorites like Band of Outsiders and Comme des Garçons.
2. Loud Cloud Interviews Scott Dadich
An interview with Scott Dadich, the creative mind behind Wired's bestselling iPad app, talks about the creative process of producing the touchscreen version of the magazine.
3. Crayon Cuties
WFDJ takes a look at a bygone era of coloring supplies, exploring vibrant products beyond Crayola, in this quirky gallery of retro crayon, pastel, chalk and watercolor packaging.
4. Matthew Lyons's Imagined Movie Titles
Flavorwire reports on a new project from the ever-talented 21-year-old illustrator Matthew Lyons. The collection of imaginative movie title stills in his retro-inspired signature style has us wishing they were actual films.
5. Somewhere
While some of the buzz around Sofia Coppola's newest film "Somewhere" is negative—critics comparing Stephen Dorff's character, a Hollywood actor, with Bill Murray's celebrity status in "Lost in Translation" insinuate she's made another mid-life crisis feature—from the looks of the trailer, it's at least a beautifully charming mid-life crisis feature.
6. Prison Valley
Every news outlet has multimedia features, but Prison Valley has set the bar much higher. An interactive documentary, readers can fully immerse themselves in Philippe Brault and David Dufrensne's story about Canon City, Colorado's 13 prisons with content that includes extensive video and maps distributed through social media. Outlets include Flash-enabled web browsers, iPhones, Twitter, blogs, and forums.
7. Shut Up, Foodies
Forks and knives drawn, bloggers Julia Childless, Meatball and Snacktime of Shut Up, Foodies call to out elitism, hypocrisy and excess in the food world on their four-month old site.
8. World's Worst Oil Spills
Putting the BP Gulf disaster into a wider context, Fast Company commissioned NG Oil & Gas to create an infographic comparing the sizes, ecological damage and costs of major oil spills.
9. "Got Dat Work" by Memphis Blac featuring Smokahontas Jones
Recently circulating heavily through the league of YouTube-rs across the country, Memphis Blac and Smokahontas Jones discuss life as working girls in their new video for "Got Dat Work." Their straightforward rhymes about the everyday life of a prostitute mix clever lyrics, catchy hooks, and a dose of shock value—in other words, the perfect pop recipe for a YouTube sensation.
10. Twelve iPad Covers
As with any new Apple product, cases designed with the new shape and functions of the iPad in mind flooded the market immediately following its release. Unfortunately, also in accordance with gadgets past, most of the cases are tacky, flimsy or just aesthetically unappealing. Thankfully the good people over at Refinery29 have compiled a list of the least abrasive models, including those made of leather, cork or even wood.
1. The Creators Project
Intel and Vice Magazine teamed up to launch The Creators Project, featuring installations, artworks, and performances that celebrate the creative world. The Creators Project kicks off with an event in New York City on 26 June 2010 before traveling to other locations.
2. Key to the City
Creative Time's latest project, Key to the City, involves artist Paul Ramirez Jonas and the City of New York, inviting citizens of New York City to "pay it forward" by handing out keys to the city which unlock a variety of hidden treasures and public spaces.
3. The CFDA Incubator Project
Vogue introduces us to the 12 chosen designers of the CFDA Incubator Project, which gives its members low-rent studio space in Manhattan to help start their fashion enterprises.
4. L.A.'s Newest Barber
A Contiunous Lean goes inside Baxter of California's new men's barber shop in L.A. provides a grooming experience housed in striking old-fashioned interior .
5. Mood Indigo
Visual artist Keren Richter and a team of talented creatives put the spotlight on denim—playing of Depression-era style and Texas Tuxedos—in an exclusive photo shoot for Style Caster.
6. Passenger Terminal Expo 2010
The Wall Street Journal's reviews the ins and outs of airport furniture design, covering this year's Passenger Terminal Expo in Brussels and the great ongoing debate of form over function.
7. E-Werk
Using sheer pedal power as its energy source, E-Werk charges gadgets while you ride around town. As Urban Daddy points out, turning into your own personal power plant has its advantages (like blasting our new summer warm-up playlist from your ride).
8. Inntel Hotel Amsterdam
Tweeted by CH colleague Jose Mejia, the new Inntel Hotel Amsterdam, comprised of 12 houses stacked on top of each other is an intriguing architectural feat and seemingly stellar spot to hang out.
9. Write The Future
As the world gears up for World Cup 2010, Nike takes the excitement to a new level with their Wieden+Kennedy-produced video Write The Future. The action-packed short, directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu (whose new film Biutiful has been getting some attention at Cannes), makes some clever predictions about football players, capturing the competition in its full glory—from the obsessed fans to the brawny footballers and all the life in between.
10. Paul McCarthy
Famed American artist Paul McCarthy finds a home for his monumental masterpiece Pig Island at Milan's recently reopened Palazzo Citterio.
11. Marijuana Kitchen Culture
The New York Times features the recent rise in haute stoner cuisine, highlighting the respected chefs around town that find inspiration for new recipes with a little help from their leafy friends, and causing thousands of stoners all over the world to say (for the hundredth time), "I totally had that idea."
12. Take Care of Our Planet Pledge
Levi's teams up with Goodwill in a pledge to care for our planet, emphasizing the power of line drying garments, donating them to charity once they've served their purpose and instituting a program that repurposes old jeans into insulation.
1. The Geocitiesizer
Featured on Refinery29, the Geocitiesizer transforms any site to resemble one built with the defunct Geocities, where Comic Sans and tiled backgrounds ruled. Yes, the animated GIF of Ally McBeal's dancing baby is as creepy now as it was in the '90s.
2. I Ride For Livestrong
Altruistic agency Purpose created I Ride For Livestrong—a simulation of the 12-day-long Tour of California tasking visitors to join the ride as part of a global movement to end cancer.
3. Pitchforkquotes
Twitter's Pitchforkquotes keeps followers entertained tweeting the music website's overblown declarations like "cultural backseat drivers, weaving hushed, ornate arrangements" and head-scratching phrases such as "genuine earworms, both unfailingly hip and often wonderfully associative."
4. Shades Spotting
Designer I Am Jet throws us some major love, highlighting editorial intern Roman Espejo's sweet new site Shade Spotting and his latest subject, contributing editor Karen Day.
5. Brospotting
Not to be outshined by the cast of Jersey Shore, the popped-collar, keg-standing set find Internet posterity on Brospotting. It's worth noting that one of our own, CH contributor Seth Brau, had the same idea with the more cleverly named, but mothballed Brotorialist.
6. Yuketen Spring 2010
On their recently-redesigned site, Inventory Magazine has us coveting the handcrafted moccasin boots and canvas packs from Americana heritage brand Yuketen.
7. Paul Thurlby's Alphabet Soup
Hyperakt describes the retro-1950s style posters comprising illustrator Paul Thurlby's Alphabet Soup as the perfect kids room decoration or collectors piece for graphic design aficionados.
8. What The Fuck Should I Make For Dinner
If you can't decide what to make for dinner, and care for some humorous caps-locked profanity to go with your meal suggestions, look no further than What The Fuck Should I Make For Dinner? Keep refreshing the page until you find a meal you like, then just click to get to the recipe page.
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