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 […]

With models touting perfectly red painted lips, seductive stares and a playful sensuality, Ellen von Unwerth captures moments of sublime female sexuality in her new hardcover, Fräulein. In this collection of photos spanning fifteen years of von Unwerth’s work, women are portrayed as cute, assertive, overtly sexual, soft and contemplative to explore all expressions of […]

Twenty years worth of diligent exploration and cratedigging in auction houses, garage sales, flea markets and online led Moss Lipow, an eyewear designer and collector, to amass a massive collection of glasses and their photographs. Now he’s compiled the highest quality examples from his collection, as well as prominent collections from around the world, into a […]

Vintage is in, case you haven’t heard. No we aren’t talking about vintage ’70s era porn (though we don’t discriminate) we’re referring to the fact that along with fashion, vintage photography has exploded with the popularity of apps like Instagram — which with the touch of a button you can take a photo from your cellphone […]

Is there anything more that needs to be said beyond the title? I mean, if the devil is in the details then the divine is in the profoundly simple. Case in point: photographer Ben Watts takes a bunch of naked models, throws some superfluous biking accessories on them, and has them ride around on some […]

Post-WWII Japan led to a lot of change for the visual makeup of the country. Given a nearly blank slate by the massive devastation the country suffered during the war, a group of architects, artists and designers worked to plan and think of new ways to rebuild the country once again. With a super-creative bureaucracy […]

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 […]

Photographer Alan Sailer really likes to destroy shit. In fact, he probably spends more time trying to find ways to blow things up than most of us have time to consume or use the very things he likes to wreck. Now that’s a good gig. He has more work on his flickr, but to view […]