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Design Showcase: Highlights Week #1

Posted on June 20, 2007 Under Design

We get so many emails from artists, designers, publicists and fans that sometimes there's no way we can get around to posting them all -- that's why three weeks ago, thanks to the folks at Kohler, we launched our Showcase…

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Tonal Irreverence: White Stripes, Art Brut, etc.

Posted on June 19, 2007 Under Music

Tonal Irreverence is, in short, a weekly summary of new (and new-ish) music releases, the print and e-buzz surrounding them, followed by our honest opinions...without the pretentious crap that often accompanies in unneccessarily long reviews. We're not music journalists...we just…

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Packaging for Re-Use

Posted on June 19, 2007 Under Design

Being such a huge cheerleader for industrial design rockstar Eion McNally (as well as his sometime co-conspirator, Ian Walton), I get super-excited when I get wind of any new project he's got going on -- and I wasn't at all…

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Uhuru

Posted on June 19, 2007 Under Design

Most of the buzz surrounding Uhuru, a furniture design shop based in Red Hook, Brooklyn has focused on its commitment to making environmentally sustainable designs -- something that has, of late, moved beyond a trend to a absolute necessity for…

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Hush Studios

Posted on June 19, 2007 Under Design

Hush Studios does something really interesting, the kind of thing you see in ReadyMade's "HYGTFAJ?" column. Looking at their website is a little like finding out there's no such thing as Santa Claus. Well, maybe it's not as emotionally scaring…

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I-Manifest Summer Addendums

Posted on June 18, 2007 Under Fashion

Spear Collective superstars I-Manifest just released another mid-season collection, and if you're up for wowing the ladies with some badass superpowers, these freshies will make a good addition to your summer wardrobe. A couple of this seasons standouts are "Urban…

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NY Designs

Posted on June 15, 2007 Under Design

NY Designs would be a great resource for a lot of people -- if only they knew about it. A one-stop-shopping destination for designers, NY Designs offers affordable studio space, workshop facilities, and classes to help designers to improve both…

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The Alligator Says 'Ouch'

Posted on June 14, 2007 Under Design

It's hard for me to admit this, but there's been a void in my life. I love to sit on piles of stuffed animals, and I love to sit on chairs. But there's never been a chair made of stuffed…

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Kiva.org

Posted on June 14, 2007 Under Life

Micro-lending has been in the news a lot lately, since Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Prize for his pioneering work in the field and wrote a book about it, called Banker to the Poor: Micro-lending and the Battle Against World…

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Hey! Hey You!

Posted on June 13, 2007 Under Design

Have you submitted your entry to our Showcase, for your chance to win your very own $100 Spout gift certificate? No? Well, get on it there, champ. We can't give you money for DVDs if you won't let us.

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