Synth-pop is best done by Brits who have the formula down: 808 style beats, shrill keyboards and grinding bass. Throw in a vocoder and nicely placed live covers of Devo's "Whip it" and you've got Does It Offend You, Yeah?…
Continue Reading →For those who find themselves filling awkward silences with off-time table tapping, an effortless creative outlet now exists. Tor Clausen creates modular coffee tables that can house four, eight, nine, and 16 percussive components including tambourine, snare, cowbell and three…
Continue Reading →No one expects a hip-hop producer to be a guy named Alfred Darlington, but that's exactly what long-haired, tuxedo and top hat wearing hipster Daedelus is. Named for the mythological Greek artisan said to have invented images, the L.A.-based beatsmith…
Continue Reading →I just received the 'Spear Edition Waffle Racers', I designed a few weeks ago at the 255 Elizabeth Nike iD Design Studio. They turned out really nice, slate grey with a metallic shine, grey suede, and yellow stitched highlights. They…
Continue Reading →Last week only a few hours before my flight to Paris, I had the chance to finally use my invitation to the Nike iD Design Studio, at 255 Elizabeth, which I had heard so much about. The studio was really…
Continue Reading →I really love the original Barber Osgerby flight stool, which she recently turned into a limited edition collection for Pantone. These flight stools made the blog circuit a few months ago, as they were everywhere during ICFF. The Pantone versions…
Continue Reading →The Michael Lau and Nike Mr. Shoe boggle heads were a bit of a mystery until all the Nike Hong Kong pages were translated for me-- so here's what I know. They're are a few different mass-produced versions for sale,…
Continue Reading →I've mentioned Veer before-- but they really deserve another mention. They are slowly becoming one of my favorite resources--and clearly after all designers hearts. In the past they had classic typography t-shirts, great souvenirs and goodies, and they just introduced…
Continue Reading →Color snobs will just eat up Pantones new "Color Cue"--which can identify any color in 3 seconds. It gives you Pantone color ink formulas and CMYK, Adobe RGB, sRGB, HTML, Hexachrome and a slew of other incredibly nerdy ways to…
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