Dick & Jane Art

Posted on May 16, 2008 Under Design

See Dick get vintage cool. See Jane become art. See Dick and Jane on your wall as a whimsical conversation piece. Whether they're part of your memories of early childhood education or not, the nostalgic kick of Dick and Jane…

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Penguin UK's New 007 Covers

Posted on May 14, 2008 Under Design

So this morning I woke up in a James Bond kind of mood. Maybe it was the fact I fell asleep reading about how Amy Winehouse and her bouffant were too cracked out to record the theme song for the…

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WALK Travel Guides

Posted on May 2, 2008 Under Books

What do you normally do when you go on vacation? Pay too much for dinner? Get lost? Argue with your significant other? Sure, but mostly you take lots of pictures. The jetsetters over at WALK photographic travel guides recognize that…

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Kate T. Williamson: At a Crossroads

Posted on May 1, 2008 Under Books

There's a certain ennui that sets in right after college graduation. It's the first time that you're free from an academic life you've been enduring since you were five, but it's also the first time that you really have to…

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Speartalks: Aaron Rose

Posted on April 25, 2008 Under Art

Several months ago, we about lost our crap when we heard that Beautiful Losers "“ the museum exhibit-turned-most brilliant coffee table book ever bound by mechanical means "“ would soon be joined by another extension of arty rectitude. Beautiful Losers,…

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Squeaky Green!

Posted on April 25, 2008 Under Eco

I went to visit my best friend last night. She still lives in the apartment we lived in together for eighteen months, and despite the fact that it's a lot cleaner now than it was when I was there --…

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Jorge Pardo

Posted on April 25, 2008 Under Art

LA-based artist Jorge Pardo turns us on mostly because his design looks delicious. Sure it has a fresh breath of a minimalist modern aesthetic that evokes a...blah, blah, blah. But honestly, his pendant lamp fixtures kind of look like marzipan.…

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Ethan Bodnar

Posted on April 10, 2008 Under Design

Most eighteen year olds preparing to shove off to college in the fall are doing so to learn how they can change the world. Ethan Bodnar is not most eighteen year olds. In fact, this young whipper snapper has already…

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EtsyFound: First Thoughts

Posted on April 8, 2008 Under Books

As most creative personages are aware, capturing the essence of an original thought is vital to the genesis of a brilliant idea. Often times those seeking to innovate lay in bed with a computer or notepad nearby just in case…

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Jessica Joslin: Strange Nature

Posted on April 4, 2008 Under Books

Jessica Joslin is the kind of artist who would worry Darwin: bones, brass, glass, and pieces of musical instrument are all soldered together to form impossible skeletal animals that either, a) you'd find in a backwater taxidermy shop from the…

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