Cool Hunting
Cool Hunting: finding things in the intersection of design, culture and technology that excite the imagination and inspire creativity.
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Choccywoccydoodah Chocolatier
On a recent trip to London we felt the beach calling and headed south to Brighton, where we discovered Choccywoccydoodah. Meandering the streets of the seaside town, we came upon a shop with strange sculptures in the window and it took a minute to sort out that the shining Victorian skull wasn't in …
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Asgar/Gabriel: Bucolica Obscura
Since 2005, the young Vienna-based artists Daryoush Asgar and Elisabeth Gabriel of Asgar/Gabriel, have been collaborating on a radically contemporary form of figurative painting. Drawing upon historical movements such as baroque, pop art, and abstract expressionism, while referencing contemporary d …
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Shepard Fairey Inauguration Poster
by Ariston AndersonYesterday Obama's Presidential Inaugural Committee unveiled street artist Shepard Fairey's design commissioned for the official inaugural poster. While Obama's top volunteers across the country anxiously await their assigned tickets for the swearing-in ceremony, we expect Fairey w …
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Newton Motion AW
Newton's sneakers are as close to running barefoot as a person can get. Much has been made recently of returning to the elemental movement of walking or running. The logic suggests that our bodily structure is best served when motion is as close as possible to its primal state (i.e. running while ba …
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Lane Marinho Accessories
São Paulo-based Lane Marinho's marvelous eponymous accessories line is a new takes on classic brooches and necklaces. Painstakingly constructed by hand—in some cases taking more than an entire day to finish just one—her Rococo-inspired creations are stunning examples of her close …
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Vanessa Prager: Hunting and Gaming
Los Feliz artist Vanessa Prager has been exhibited at the Robert Berman Gallery, Gallery 1988 and the Santa Monica Museum of Art. Her series, Hunting and Gaming, explores the "nature of sinister play." Prager paints "starkly-lit scenes of surrealistic moments in daily life; untangling holiday decora …
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Spranq Ecofont
by Ariston Anderson If one of your resolutions was to start shifting toward a green lifestyle, we've got an easy way for you to start that involves little more than using a new eco-friendly font. While it may seem that a change in typography won't have a big impact, consider that electronic polluti …
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Ryan McGinness: Aesthetic Comfort and No Sin/No Future
It's likely that Ryan McGinness doesn't need the help of his benefactress and art-loving fashion designer Agnès b. anymore, but we have a feeling the skateboarder from Virginia Beach isn't the type to forget where he came from no matter how successful he is today, both in his stomping ground …
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Glass Beverage Bottles
This version of a glass bottle in the shape of a plastic one continues the trend of doing up disposables in nicer materials and is, indeed, a Crate and Barrel knock-off of a similar concept by Roost (also makers of home furnishings but without the corporate baggage). It does however offer two design …
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Miju Jewelery: Ebony and Ivory
Newly added to Miju, the new collection "Ebony and Ivory" consists of custom, laser-cut pendants featuring two initials in 1/16" thick acrylic. Their selling them as sets of both a white pendant in "Century Schoolbook" and a black one in "Black Letter" fonts. Each set comes with your choice of gold …
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Prague's Hotel Josef
The only thing better than a laid-back stroll around Prague during the winter holidays is to be able to come back to the Hotel Josef. Set on ancient street a short walk from the Old Town Square and on the edge of the old Jewish Quarter, it's an ideal location for exploring the city—if not for …
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Backblaze Online Backup: Mac Beta Access
Perhaps the most intuitive backup solution on the market, Backblaze launched last September as an online data storage center emphasizing simplicity at a reasonable—if perpetual—price. While initially drawing ease-of-use comparisons to Apple's Time Machine, they recently released their ow …
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Alex & Chloe Wedding Rings
by Natalia RachlinElusive jewelry designers Alex & Chloe (rumor has it there's actually just one L.A.-based designer) have become known for edgy but delicate jewelry and also, recently, for launching a t-shirt line. Now, it turns out, they'll also be the perfect duo to turn to if you're in the m …
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Stacey Steers: Phantom Canyon
Stacey Steers' animated film "Phantom Canyon" was created from over four thousand handmade collages incorporating the images from Eadweard Muybridge's famous series of photographs from 1887 called "Human and Animal Locomotion." In this film, which is intended to mirror how we all find meaning in our …
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Raf Simons Beach Towel
Furthering our jealousy of certain CH editors presently sitting on an island beach while we shiver in NYC, this beach towel from Raf Simons' recently released Spring/Summer Accessories 2009 has to be one of my favorite pieces from the collection. For those of us who prefer something a little more un …
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The Details: The Hotel on Rivington
Since the sleek hotel's debut in NYC's formerly grimy Lower East Side in 2004, there's been a lot of talk about The Hotel on Rivington. Opinions mellowed to a simmer over time and a recent stay allowed us to take a second look, experiencing how a few key design details put the hotel a notch above t …
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Sou Brette Jewelry: Fiction Romance
by Ezra Natalia Already known for her illustration and design work, Muqliza Imroni started with making jewelry for herself. When more and more people were asking where to get the pieces, Sou Brette Jewelry was born. Talking with Lizsa (as most call her), we wondered, Why jewelry? Why not somethi …
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MPREIS Supermarkets
by Laura Neilson I know I'm not alone in my love for grocery shopping in foreign countries. It's a great way to get a sense of a country's consumer culture—not just by seeing what the people of that country buy, but also the particular ways that all the product are packaged and displayed. But …
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Best of CH 2008: Top Five Furniture Designs
Whether handsomely storing record collections or melding classic design with the durability of something suited for an office, the picks below represent furniture that goes beyond simply being furniture—in both substance and style. Fire Table Dutch designers Ward Huting and Gerard de Hoop s …
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Best of CH 2008: Top Five Tees
One thing that didn't set 2008 apart was the abundance of tees improving on the classic Hanes. As we tear the final page off the calendar, we reflect on the top five tees featured here on Cool Hunting. We checked back in with Klaus Industries whose irreverent brand of political satire makes us …
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