Conceptual artist Hans-Peter Feldman is important. So important in fact that he was named the recipient of the Hugo Boss Prize last November — a bi-annual award presented to artists who make significant achievements in contemporary art. Attached to winning the award, the German artist received $100,000. In a stroke of artistic inspiration, Feldman — […]

Named after the blue jacket worn by French train engineers working on steam engines in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, French brand Bleu de Chauffe’s latest product is the Plombier Jules Work Bag. Taking their own spin on the modern industrial world, the company’s signature plumber’s bag is re-invented with trends set by the contemporary urban […]

Art In the Streets is kind of a funny name for an exhibit that all happens inside the pricey, heavily guarded, air-conditioned walls of a museum. Obviously this art isn’t in the streets at all. Doesn’t take a genius to figure that out. It’s in the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, in downtown Los Angeles, with […]

In this 176 page book, Tokyo-based authors Ivan Vartanian and Kyoko Wada take a holistic view of Japanese art throughout its 5 millenniums of history and analyze common threads found throughout. See/Saw finds ways to unite such chronologically disparate themes as Giant Robots and ancient Samurai illustrations, or uniting Murakimi’s Superflat school of art with […]

Typography has become this year’s anthem to good design, and Mark Lauckhardt has found yet another way to incorporate it with something usually unrelated to typeface: furniture design. Lauckhardt has created a line that consists of a lamps, tables, chairs and couches all replicating different letters in the alphabet. The clean lines and modern design […]

ALIFE Tokyo contributes to the hiking boot trend with its new Roosevelt Hiker. Part of their 2010 holiday collection, the boot has a classic contemporary look, whilst still maintaining the ruggedness of workmen’s wear. Thick soles, premium leather, logo embossed tongue and last but not least vibrant contrasting laces. The Roosevelt’s come in your choice […]

Cutting corners in style, Italian furniture designers at Florida Furniture have given us the Zip Bed — a contemporary bed that is sleek, modern and best of all cleans up quickly. It’s really quite simple how it works: you just zip up along the mattress hiding your crinkly sheets and blankets underneath a cozy comforter. […]

There are no words for the amount of respect I have for Mr. Kurt Vonnegut, one of the most singular human beings of the 20th and 21st Centuries. Here’s a 5-part video clip series of a 2002 lecture Vonnegut gave at Albion College, titled How to Get Job Like Mine, where he received an honorary […]