Tavis Coburn is kind of a big deal. Not just because we're writing about him twice in a week, his (unknown) stance on the use of Sex Panther or his inevitably discerning taste in sneakers -- but because Nike, the…
Continue Reading →If Steve Nishimoto -- Nish, to the design community -- is as driven by change and culture as he claims, then today's inspiration must be in no meager supply. The designer just returned from his first trip abroad, where a…
Continue Reading →According to Chris Torres, there is a new dandyism. Perhaps born of his own creation, perhaps a child of necessity, his renewal of the term, like its predecessor, defines a gentleman. A particular type of gentleman, to be sure "“…
Continue Reading →Scott Rench (aka: Yosoh) has the kind of story we like to read about. An accidental designer and an unconventional artist, Scott fell into his current jobs in advertising and ceramics by chance, when a friend introduced him to a…
Continue Reading →Federico Slivka Lederer is well-traveled and well-worded. He is a graphic designer (with whom you may be acquainted with, particularly if you've been to a little site called TreeHugger), an art director, and an interaction designer. He is also an…
Continue Reading →I'm going to take a little risk. It's a tame one; there's no jagged cliff or potential pregnancy involved, but it does involve a bit of assumption on my behalf. The thing is; I think you know about Threadless. I…
Continue Reading →Not too long ago, we told you about the design competition Cut&Paste, a timed tournament currently cruising through 11 international cities. Last week, Cut&Paste found its way to NYC, where eight local designers were pitted against one another in an…
Continue Reading →Yesterday evening, in the middle of too much green tea at a local sushi spot, a friend asked me what today's interview was going to be about. I kind of mumbled the answer; "Krudmart, with this guy Steve," expecting the…
Continue Reading →mono.kultur, a bi-monthly magazine from Berlin that features intensely long/interesting interviews, just released their thirteenth issue. Entirely dedicated to a 32-page chat with GZA (who some of you may recognize as the founding member of the Wu-Tang Clan), issue #13…
Continue Reading →We know that "The T-shirt" is a subject on which many of you have been jaded. Overdone, overproduced, overplayed (and we push the play button as much as anybody), t-shirts today are not the simple product they were five years…
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