Burgeoning watch company Skywatch was built on simple principles: to craft a timepiece of Swiss-made quality and precision, with a pricetag that the average man could actually afford. Founded by UCLA grad Gabriel Ibarra, Skywatch has quickly grown to gain distribution in the US, Europe and the Middle East by aiming to make watches […]
3
Apr
A daily wearer timepiece for the Rolex & Hublot crowd
20
Dec
Henry Rollins, The Weeknd, James Blake, Charlie Sheen, SBTRKT, DJ Mehdi, plenty of mixtapes & more
Time for the fourth edition of our Best Of 2011 retrospective series (after ART, BOOKS & STYLE), where we look back on the LIAS Year In Music. Frankly none of these lists are easy — we can trim each down to about 20 but then cutting them down to 10 means we gotta chop some […]
5
Nov
The art of implied violence, feminine wiles & Van Halen logos
Couple weeks back we launched our new artist featured series Rock (Poster Art) Gods! with Dan Stiles, and now we continue with another top illustrator in his field Casey Burns. You might recognize the above poster for Sonic Youth, or one of his many excellently sexy/implicitly malevolent posters for Spoon — most of which feature […]
26
Oct
New Order + Ian Curtis' mistress Annik Honoré contribute
So you’re a Joy Division fan. You own Control, you’ve listened to Unknown Pleasures a gajillion times, and you’ve plastered your bedroom walls with Ian Curtis bus poster art. You think you’ve heard the whole story of love lost, brilliant talent squandered and tragic suicide. Well you haven’t. Filmmaker Grant Gee directs the succinctly named Joy […]
16
Sep
Only 80 pieces of the exclusive typographic furniture to be made
Herman Miller Japan teams up with House Industries to create a highly exclusive edition of classic Eames wire-base tables (also known as LTR or Low Table Rod) featuring fonts lifted from the House Industries’ 2010 Eames Century Modern font collection. Each tabletop is hand-printed in House’s Grand Rapids, Michigan factory, returned to Herman Miller for […]
