Rooms is an innovative international tradeshow, stemming from the idea that designers have concepts to transmit to the world around them. Literally, Rooms provides a "room" to exhibit those ideas, each an intersection for designers, buyers and journalists to create…
Continue Reading →We were blown away by the beauty and love rippling through New York photographer Phillip Toledano's lovely "Days With My Father". In the days leading up to the U.S. election, Toledano switches from the personal to the political with his…
Continue Reading →TokyoFlash watches have made their way around the Internet for their creative watch faces and amazing design. They've just launched a new watch that may be the most straight forward watch in their inventory, but it is so smooth. The…
Continue Reading →Ridiculous design rules: If you design, you probably have some, and they're likely as laughable as the ways our grandmothers told us we could get pregnant (kissing; freeze tag). I don't design, I'm a copywriter, but it may be fair…
Continue Reading →Here at JoshSpear.com we follow the lyrical example in Michael Jackson's 1991 Song "Heal The World," by attempting to "heal the world, make it a better place, for you and for me and the entire human race." It's this dedication…
Continue Reading →We've all had little house parties or been to events where you end up sitting on cheap little plastic stools that even the skinniest person fears will snap in half. The folks at Mocha answers these cheap seats with self-stabilizing…
Continue Reading →While partnerships between urban artists and urban brands are nothing unusual, a collaboration between Brooklyn-based designer Dalek and Serbia's Carrot Clothing is exciting news. As Serbia's first streetwear company, Carrot Clothing aims to infuse the global art, skate and street…
Continue Reading →PatchTogether is an almost year-old community project for character designers and toy collectors. Initially based on the model of several T-shirt websites, PatchTogether presents a space to submit toy designs and have them critiqued, voted on and possibly put into…
Continue Reading →Hiroshi Fujiwara, Junya Watanabe, Takashi Murakami. These are all household names by now, and if you are not familiar with them, you should be. I think the late Amy Spindler said it best in her 2002 NY Times article: Japan…
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