It's amazing to us how Craigslist can be all at once indispensable and cumbersome. Browsing through tons of irrelevant postings takes a lot out of a man who just wants to sell a pink 1956 Philco refrigerator in Chicago, find…
Continue Reading →Unlike most of IKEA's offerings, the French furniture designers at Domestic makes plywood sexy. These functional birch-wood pieces are reminiscent of those balsa wood model kits you used to make dinosaur skeletons out of. Vases, occassional tables, birdcages, hanging planters...there's…
Continue Reading →If you feel that Helvetica isn't living up to its potential (cough, heathen, cough) and there's nothing new about Times New, typographical design site Reserves could be the graphic tool you're looking for. The site is the brainchild of Mike…
Continue Reading →It's our party and we'll use a mass invite site if we want to. Preferring the superior Crusher to the mind-numbing Evite, yet another option in the e-invitation scene has emerged. Pingg (you can decide what the extra consonant is…
Continue Reading →If you picked up the New York Times yesterday, chances are you've seen illustrator Brian Stauffer's work. The Miami-based artist is front-and-center on the Home & Garden section of the paper, for an article titled "The Terrible Toll of Art…
Continue Reading →While Black History Month never fails to recognize important African-Americans like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Rosa Parks, WRG? (What's Really Good) Magazine celebrates February with icons that get little notice from the historical society: skateboarders. Pop…
Continue Reading →There are a lot of things we take for granted in an industrialized nation: a roof over every head, a chicken in every pot, and a macchiato in every post-consumer recycled paper cup. According to UNICEF, there are 1.1 billion…
Continue Reading →You may have heard the name Evan Hecox pop up on this site once or twice. Frankly we've always known the guy makes a killer skateboard graphic for Chocolate, but he's come into his own as an artist. Hecox's new…
Continue Reading →For anyone that thinks a house really isn't a home until it has chairs with intertwining wooden tentacles, Toronto-based designer Rob Southcott is a like-minded individual. His Werkstate studio seems to find clever ways to coax nature from some standard…
Continue Reading →When Ethan Allen just isn't quite the Americana vibe you're looking for, the aptly named American Furnishings can get you squared away. Their rustic, industrial (and pre-industrial) craftsmanship is evident in pieces like a cement table stamped "Cincinnati Lithograph Co."…
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