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Lilly Lab

Posted on March 12, 2009 Under Fashion

It's not that us females aren't attracted to some of the skateboard and snowboard designs out there, it's just that some of them are a bit much. We're not asking for our decks to be splashed with images of male…

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Barbie Jawbone

Posted on March 11, 2009 Under Gadgetry

Barbie's always been plugged in to the latest and greatest -- from her pink Corvette to her Malibu dream house, she lives a life of wealth and fame without any of the paparazzi. For her 50th anniversary in France, Colette…

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Vanilla Ice Apologizes

Posted on March 6, 2009 Under Life

Is Vanilla Ice trying to make his third (or is it fourth?) comeback? From "Ice Ice Baby" to his brief hardcore rocker image, to appearing on the Surreal Life, Robert Van Winkle has made a career out of, well, pretty…

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Postalco

Posted on March 6, 2009 Under Design

Tokyo has been a city bursting with innovative design for years, and when husband and wife team Mike and Yuri Albertson (he's a product designer, she's a graphic designer) moved there from New York, their leather and paper company Postalco…

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DWR x K2 Snowboard Contest

Posted on February 24, 2009 Under Design

Design Within Reach may still not quite be within your monetary reach, but at least now they're helping us to lend a hand. For the third year in a row, DWR -- with the help of both its Denver and…

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Mushroom Furniture

Posted on February 20, 2009 Under Design

A while back, in the heyday of ReadyMade, we learned how to build furniture into our lawn. Now, Shinwei Rhoda Yen has taken that concept a step further. By implanting mushroom spores into the furniture wood, it eventually sprouts into…

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DOT's Unvase

Posted on February 19, 2009 Under Design

Now that DOT has fully captured our attention with their first collection, which includes a fat, whimsical, bird-shaped feeder called the cipcip, sweet, buoyant porcelain candleholders that resemble paper boats, an a cutting board they call the ovetto that allows…

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Moody x Pulp Fiction Typography Tees

Posted on February 19, 2009 Under Fashion

We can't get enough of solid movies from the 90s, so we were floored when we spotted art student Jarratt Moody's typographic renderings of classic lines from Pulp Fiction. Now Moody -- who is also a member of the band…

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Limited-Edition Watchmen Coffee

Posted on February 18, 2009 Under Food
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Adam Szary Tees

Posted on February 18, 2009 Under Design

Perhaps you have a penchant for geek chic but you don't want to look like you just walked out of a comic convention. Adam Szary, illustrator and comic artist for the Z Crisis and December 2105 series, has a line…

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