We actually covered the the Comic Shelf by Oscar Nuñez several years ago, but back then it was just a commission piece some clever Mexican designer had come up with. Well now the Comic Shelf is seeing the light of production via Groopti, after Nuñez won their Creative Shelving Contest. A pretty clever way to […]

Any day is a happy day that brings a little Wes Anderson into your life. Today is such a day. The trailer for his new film Moonrise Kingdom shows no signs of the endlessly whimsical and creative auteur slowing down. I mean, dude’s only like 40 but still — so many good films and they […]

Legendary ad-man George Lois, known best for his groundbreaking Esquire covers (which we’ve covered before) wrote a book to give advice for people with talent, and it’s damn good advice too. Perhaps Lois has been accused in the advertising world for taking credit for others’ work, but in this Phaidon book the art director/designer/author offers […]

Chuck Norris jokes aside, this might be the most inventive writing pad we’ve seen since Moleskine’s suede-lined Folio Digital collection. The black Armed Notebooks from Megawing feature three distinctive designs, each with its own way of transforming symbols of violence into tools of creativity. Featuring a 3-dimensional embossed cover of either a hand grenade, revolver […]

Charles and Ray Eames are almost as synonymous with Los Angeles — namely Venice Beach where their studio was located — as Frank Lloyd Wright was to Chicago. They made their indelible mark as monumental designers inextricably linked to the fields of modern architecture and furniture for over a half century. The Eames Office, widely […]

Freshjive’s founder and creative director Rick Klotz has done a nice job navigating his Los Angeles label, banishing all branding from garments to create a very clean, simple look. His Nude Study Series tshirt collection features the model Sabrine as its muse, utilizing sensual black & white nude photography to capture attention instead of conspicuous […]

Martin Eberle is a German photographer who has lived in Berlin since 1992 and whose work has been featured in numerous galleries and institutions throughout Germany. One such book includes Temporary Spaces, a hardcover tome from Gestalten documenting the photography series he created in the 1990s. After the Berlin wall fell, artists from around the […]

Yesterday we noted that Spike Jonze and Arcade Fire’s short film Scenes From the Suburbs was now available online… Unless You Live In America or Canada. Well guess what? It’s once again OK to live in America, as Scenes From the Suburbs has made its indirect way onto YouTube. America, Fuck Yeah! Directed by Spike […]