Talk Shop Fridays: A Gift Guides Field Guide

Posted on November 23, 2007 Under Life

It's that time of the year, good ol' Black Friday where things around here start to get very gift-oriented, as we do our darndest to help all of you score the ultimate present for yourself or loved ones. But, as…

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Top 5 Gifts for the Home

Posted on November 23, 2007 Under Design

blik Wall Decals: Read JS Review | Buy It (prices vary; shown as 2) There isn't much to not love about blik; it's a product which allows instant transformation to any wall, any space, without the application of paint or…

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SWIMming In The Rain

Posted on November 21, 2007 Under Design

As the saying goes, "into every life, a little rain must fall." What the saying doesn't go on to tell you though is how often and that if you're not wearing the right shoes for the occasion, your socks get…

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Uniqlo Grid Playground

Posted on November 21, 2007 Under Design

Since launching their flagship store here in NYC -- their only US outlet, according to their site -- Uniqlo has taken the US market by storm. Their simple clothes and funky Japanese design sensibilities have completely ingrained themselves in our…

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Well Done

Posted on November 20, 2007 Under Books

You can't eat this one, but you'll have to cook it to see what you're getting: in what is a sumptuous and scrumptious idea pointed out to us from Dezeen, Croatia's Bruketa & Zinic agency designed part of food company's…

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Takashi Okada

Posted on November 20, 2007 Under Design

Typography is one of those intensely underappreciated areas of web design that, used correctly, it can make your site jump off the screen and embed itself in your viewers long after they've departed -- in fact, I just read a…

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Update: Doane Paper Version 2.0

Posted on November 20, 2007 Under Design

Back in June we told you about Doane Paper, the brainchild of Chad Doane, who decided it was a fine idea to combine good ol' horizontal-lined legal paper with grid paper to create one genetically engineered super-paper that would grow…

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Married To The MOB: Holiday '07

Posted on November 20, 2007 Under Fashion

Boyfriend-friendly women's streetwear line, Married To The MOB NYC, just dropped some goodies in time for the holidays, and we're as psyched over the new tees and hoodies as -- well, every other blog that will cover the occasion in…

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Working Class Heroes

Posted on November 20, 2007 Under Design

We get up at all times of the day. We work into all times of the night. We don't wear blue collars, but like the carpenter's belt or the laborer's lunch box, we bear the mark of our social class…

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WSDIA

Posted on November 20, 2007 Under Design

WSDIA, also known as We Should Do it All, is a Brooklyn-based graphic, architectural and interactive studio, founded on the exact principle that their name implies. Based around the beliefs that no professional should feel constrained to their singular expertise,…

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