The High Seas of Tea
Have you ever imagined your cup of afternoon tea as a hot steaming sea of soothing flavor? Well, if you have, have you ever stopped to think that instead of adding some sugar or milk to make that body of…
Continue Reading →EtsyFound: Chewing the Cud
Valentine's Day is right around the corner and since your relationship dodged quite a bullet last year when you waited until the last minute so the sweet shop only had leftover Hannukah gelt, it would probably be a good idea…
Continue Reading →Shepard Fairey: Hope and Progress
Over the last twenty years, either a Bush or Clinton has held sway over the oval office, ruling with an iron fist. While Billary (why has this name not caught on yet, it's better than Bennifer or Brangelina?) vie to…
Continue Reading →Block Party
For the longest time, the easiest way to keep track of what was happening on your block was to spend an entire day positioned at your front door gazing alertly through your favorite pair of binoculars, giving you precious little…
Continue Reading →Christian Lessing
A friend of mine just bought a condo here in Brooklyn. It's quaint, charming, and cost about the same amount of money that a six bedroom house on an acreage in Utah probably does. Expenses aside, it has -- and…
Continue Reading →Jeremy Dower
Welcome to Jeremy Dower's universe. It's a bizarre world inhabited by phenomenally strange symmetrical creatures like Schmoopy and Planky, just begging to be mimicked for a line of mimobots. The Australian character designer and concept artist has created works for…
Continue Reading →Yosoh: Imprint Culture Lab Contest
Our good friend Scott Rench (a.k.a Yosoh) is at it again. Only this time he's in it to win it (uh, again.) Our favorite ceramist/freelance art director/graphic designer has a rather hot entry in Imprint Culture Lab'slatest design contest. The…
Continue Reading →Akemi Tanaka: More Than Meets The Eye
We have always been of the firm belief that a coffee table is not a suitable home base for one's backside, be it clothed or unclothed (preferably clothed). However, after seeing. Designer Akemi Tanaka's line of transformative wooden furnishings we…
Continue Reading →I Am Not a Paper Cup
Dear Nameless Caffeine Addict, I see you every morning at the local java joint, filling up on fuel before your workday begins, and just like you, I feel that if I were to break this cycle, my life might come…
Continue Reading →Studio Joseph Shaeffer
It would not do Joseph Shaeffer justice to simply adorn him with the titles sculptor, fabricator and conceptual artist. You'd be hard pressed to encompass to overall scope of his talents using just those terms. The Boulder, Colorado based principle…
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