How to convert your Apple technology into functional fashion: Step one, buy an iPod Nano. Step two, buy an Elecom wristband for it. Viola! The series includes two options — the first is a leather band (above) for a more classic wristwatch look, in either black or brown. The second option (below) are plastic bands […]

Obviously the plastic problem in the world’s oceans is an immense issue — that Texas-sized “floating island” of plastic in the middle of the Pacific is no myth. It’s a gigantic polyethylene polymer middle finger to Earth, and we just keep making more plastic — cos Gatorade Arctic Freez is so damn delicious! Electrolux is […]

Don’t know how I missed this, but it’s just too funny not to pass on. To promote his new show on TBS (which premiers November 8), Coco buys a 1969 Dodge Dart, loads it up with plastic explosives, fireworks and popcorn, and drives it off a 900 foot cliff. Dude is like Rambo wrapped up […]

Jeremy Scott never fails to entertain with his designs, always managing to make something quite head-turning with tongue lodged firmly in cheek. The new designs from his Spring 2011 collection really possesses some eye popping touches, such as crushed aluminum cans and vinyl Hefty bags. His innovative concept of turning garbage into clothing utilizes cheap […]

This year one of the more iconic furniture pieces in modern design marked its 50th anniversary. Creator Verner Panton first dreamt up the idea of a cantilevered single-piece plastic chair around 1959, not realizing that it would take almost a decade to come to life. When the Panton Chair finally arrived on the market in […]

Now I’m not one to judge — seriously, my life’s messed up in ways that would make some people seek solace in the warm confines of prescription meds and a vacation at Arkham Asylum. And usually people that feel the greatest need to tsk tsk tsk others are the most twisted of all — like […]

Grocery bags, they’re everywhere you look. Fluttering from tree branches, stuck in sewage drains and jammed into that one drawer in the corner of your kitchen. Why do you jam that drawer full of plastic bags? Do you need that many bags? Really the only thing I use them for is wrapping my smoke alarm. […]