American Apparel may claim to wear its conscience on its ribbed thermal sleeve, but Apolis Activism lives up to its claim of socially responsible fashion. Raan, Shea, and Sten Parton started their designer couture rooted firmly in charitable work. They've…
Continue Reading →After Monday's Federer versus Sampras exhibition at MSG, we were all set to play winner. The striped socks were half way up when we realized: we suck at tennis. Luckily Lane, Steve, and their Wii-equipped Wiinnebago are coming to your…
Continue Reading →Every time an ingenious Web app comes out, one (or in this case two) of the millions of users has to go along and make it faster and less annoying. Just like crgslst which we blogged about last week, two…
Continue Reading →If Stanley Kubrick were to design a Murphy bed, this would be that furniture piece. This one comes to us from the good, surface area concerned Frenchies over at Décadrages. They recognized that one of the major problems of having…
Continue Reading →Not since Frank Perdue and his poultry-looking family sold us on his "all natural" birds have we been so taken with an advertisement for chicken. Foster Farms has taken Dove's "Campaign for Real Beauty" ads (the he ones where models…
Continue Reading →Attention George Foreman, you're about to be knocked out. At least, it would is the inspired collective that visits NOTCOT had their way. In an attempt to fuse fun, creativity, and design, the site introduced by NOTConcepts and Hero Design…
Continue Reading →When Energizer came out with the Energi To Go -- the battery operated chargers that can perk up your cell or iPod "on the go" -- mobile tech geeks found it a fair solution to their energy crisis. But, the…
Continue Reading →Favorite JS booksmith/art publisher Viction:ary has a few new titles that you won't find at your local Barnes & Noble, which are well worth your cash/credit spendage: Simply Material is a visual compendium of media to use as your canvas.…
Continue Reading →Founded in 1901, the Society of Illustrators is the grand mac daddy of this artistic genre. And, like every established society, once a year (for the past 50, at least) they pat themselves on the back, drink champagne, and laugh…
Continue Reading →R.E.M. didn't really sing about the world ending in a fashinable way, but Dutch clothes hounds Ontour have come up with an interesting spin on the hipster t-shirt: impending disaster. They descrbe their work as: "a pandemic combination of Bermuda…
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