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 →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 →Comics meet couture in a clever mashup at Barney's New York. This display for fashion designer Azzedine Alaia repurposes two mannequins as the iconic black and white spies from Mad's long-running comic, Spy vs. Spy. Barney's is known for its…
Continue Reading →Atlanta-based designer Brooke Serson Cernonok has come up with a creative way to "upcycle" your old cashmere sweaters: she turns them into one-of-a-kind plush bears, bunnies and elephants. You can donate your sweaters to Teddylux and leave it at that,…
Continue Reading →Gallery1988 was once snubbed by Juxtapoz, but it now celebrates its fifth anniversary as one of the most relevant art galleries of our generation. On April 2, G1988: LA presents Idiot Box, 100 artists paying tribute to icons of the…
Continue Reading →Last week we posted about The Sound Advice Project and how its tangible soundwave technology might better translate into an anniversary gift. A reader wrote in suggesting that the idea had been co-opted by David Bizer who also sells soundwave-based…
Continue Reading →Maybe you got outbid on yesterday's DEVO art bike and you'd like to use your current bike to make your own art. For that you need the Contrail, a tool that attaches to your bike's seat tube and leaves a…
Continue Reading →The Kaws bike just got some unlikely company by way of the original spud boys, DEVO. Created and donated by Michael Hammond of Trek Bicycles, this fixed gear bike is a piece of rolling artwork, complete with DEVO lyrics integrated…
Continue Reading →Gig poster artist, painter, illustrator and musician Tara McPherson is finally getting a mini-figure series for the characters who inhabit her world. The Gamma Mutant Space Friends series includes 10 figures and 2 chases and will be blind"“boxed for $7.95…
Continue Reading →BlackOink was the recent resin diversion from Singapore's Simon Kang. His company BlackOinkDesign has a pig mascot that Simon brought to life with an incredibly slick, ultra-limited-edition set of 12 BlackOink figures. The figures came in four colorways, with handmade…
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