You might be familiar with Cedric Bixler-Zavala from The Mars Volta, At the Drive-In, or Antemasque (or various other projects). He’s just released a couple of limited edition shirts now with original art – “Rabaul” and “Sable” – and both…
Tile is much more than stark subway walls or large-format utilitarian flooring. When elevated to include rich variations in color, texture and material, it becomes an art form. Heath Ceramics is perhaps the best known “tile house”, founded in 1948…
Today’s email edition of California Home and Design heralded the resurgence of wicker (or return of rattan, if you’d rather; on the whole rattan vs. wicker thing, we decided to consult Google Trends, and learned “wicker” is more commonly used…
If you took calculus in college you probably used an edition of the same calculus book we did: James Stewart’s Calculus With Analytic Geometry. It was pricey, but at least it covered three semesters of calc classes at my college.…
Complex ran a story recently about teenage sneaker restorer Jose Armando Bustamante, founder of RetroSnickers. In addition to finding a lucrative niche early, he’s also built up quite the YouTube following. Here’s what goes into restoring one of these classic…
It’s National Coffee Day, and we’re enjoying our brew per usual. We can’t help but think it would be a lot more celebratory if we had this stainless steel/vaporized copper coffee set by Tom Dixon. Per Dixon, the set acknowledges…
Pedro E. Guerrero’s career spanned seven decades, starting at age 22 photographing the work of none other than Frank Lloyd Wright – you’ve likely seen his iconic images of Taliesin West, and much of his other work as well. A…
Running September 22-26 this year, the Detroit Design Festival is North America’s festival of independent design. Concentrated in Detroit’s Creative Corridor with events and installations throughout the city, DDF showcases cutting-edge Detroit design, including maker workshops, a design village, lectures…
Apartment Therapy’s not just for apartments any more. Their blog has run over a decade and evolved from what we remember as a focus on small-space living for your average NYC apartment-dweller to a sprawling site with glorious home tours…
There’s a good marketing lesson in here: particularly, that when you’re in a competitive field, you have to find a creative way to make someone want your product, even though any of your competitors’ products would do what they need,…
