Prior to 9/11 many New York City-based business proudly displayed the Twin Towers as part of their skyline-centric logos. Even though it's been nearly eight years since the tragedy at the World Trade Center, many of those same companies still…
Continue Reading →Walk Score assesses the "walkability" of a prospective area by locating nearby stores, restaurants, schools, parks, etc. The application measures the ease with which you could navigate a neighborhood on foot, not necessarily the safety of doing so. Walk Score…
Continue Reading →Do you think that the air smells like roses and the sun is always shining? Are you constantly enveloped in the warm fuzziness of your being? If you said yes to either of those statements you run the risk of…
Continue Reading →Upper Playground has been supporting street artists in its stores and galleries for ten years, so it only makes sense that they would start stocking the tools to make the art. At the Upper Playground web store's new department for…
Continue Reading →Twitter is a great way for fostering discussion amongst your friends, telling strangers how your doctor's appointment went, or staying up-to-date on Shaq. But sometimes you just need Twitter's important opinions on one particular topic. Thanks to OneRiot's new Twitter…
Continue Reading →Meeting artist and self-proclaimed "geekyfantastic" entrepreneur Willo O'Brien becomes a run down of phases that start with "I like your""¦ angel wing earrings (she makes them by hand), "Eat. Sleep. Rock. Repeat." T-shirt (she sells them on the WilloToons shop…
Continue Reading →With the advent of the Internet, magazines and newspapers fought to keep their readers loyal to the paper versions. When things started looking bad they released some of it online. Now, as publishing companies start hacking and slashing to keep…
Continue Reading →Costa Rican illustrator Jonathan Rodriguez has been futzing around with typography, hellbent on giving characters character through his site Pixel Cannibal. In the case of his Salomon Octopus snowboard, he makes optopus words. This year, in one of his editorial…
Continue Reading →Joachim Baan is more than just "another" artist in the world of talented graphic designers and photographers. The multi-talented Dane is in high demand, as evidenced by his recent work for K-Swiss, Tenue de Nîmes, Nike, and Humanoid. It's a…
Continue Reading →Nudity! Yay! Old men! Boo. Germans! What? Here's a provocative little site where you can click on 24 Naked People from all walks of life (and we mean all walks -- in case you were wondering what that middle-aged accountant…
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