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Custom 52 Cycle I Card Deck

Posted on October 5, 2007 Under Art

"Hey, stop looking at my cards!" isn't an uncommon refrain heard during a friendly card game between buddies, but Custom 52's Cycle I cards are all but designed to prevent you from sneaking a peek. The group struck on an…

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Baby Tattooville

Posted on October 3, 2007 Under Art

If you've got, say, $1,500 lying around and count artists Gary Baseman, Tim Biskup, Frank Kozik and Jeff Soto amongst your heroes, you're probably already registered for this weekend's Baby Tattooville gathering happening in Riverside, California. Around 100 diehard fans…

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Matilda

Posted on October 2, 2007 Under Design

There's no question about it: Brazil's right on the money when it comes to graphic design and graffiti. With motion graphics, though, the due is still locked up in a dark drawer in accounts payable somewhere. Outside of the few…

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Monsieur T Bwana Spoons/Dekline Sneakers

Posted on October 1, 2007 Under Fashion

Monsieur T is towing the line of awesomeness again, this time with a drool-worthy new Bwana Spoons/Dekline hi-top shoe out now in limited availability of 35 pairs on their website, so go play your cards accordingly. The Portland artist used…

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Schwipe's Eyes Don't Lies

Posted on September 28, 2007 Under Fashion

If you were to take ecstasy laced with acid and drank it down with a couple of shots of high-grade tequila, it'd likely compare to the resulting psychotropic effect given off by Aussie label Schwipe's Eyes Don't Lies collection. Their…

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Imaginary Foundation Art Prints

Posted on September 27, 2007 Under Art

Twenty-first century surreal art pusher Imaginary Foundation is adding to its mondo-successful line of tees with the debut of a new art prints line, which takes the inspiring, progressive-thinking images and messaging that drive its apparel offerings and puts them…

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Takashi Murakami for Supreme Skateboards

Posted on September 26, 2007 Under Life

There's no doubt about it: we're unabashedly devoted groupies of Takashi Murakami, who we featured here a few weeks ago and continues to hold his place as one of the main powerhouses behind the Japanese pop art movement. With a…

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Carlo Giovani Studio

Posted on September 24, 2007 Under Design

Talk about cutting edge; it's rare to find a graphic designer who goes one step beyond the tablet-and-pen rigamarole, but the Brazilian Carlo Giovani and his team of illustrators and graphic designers gladly pull out the scissors and paper for…

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Surface Tension's Arcade Coffee Table

Posted on September 19, 2007 Under Design

My suburban childhood was marked by the Friday nights my parents would splurge and take us to a certain unnamed pizza chain for pipin' hot pie. Those short trips out of the house also meant I'd again get to kick…

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LaCie Golden Disk

Posted on September 18, 2007 Under Gadgetry

Information is gold -- and that's what seems to have inspired the idea behind the blinged-out design of LaCie's new Golden Disk hard drive, the latest in its designer series. Packing 500g's (gigabytes, that is), the digital storage unit's wavy,…

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