Stuck Up Piece of Crap – STICKER Book, T-Shirt and StuckUp Stickers iPhone App
STICKERS: From Punk Rock to Contemporary Art from Rizzoli New York has been available for quite some time now. If you’re not hip to the book, it features over 4,000 stickers ranging from the worlds of skateboarding, street art, DIY culture, music, and branding. The voluminous treasure trove pof inspiration also includes introductory essays by Shepard...continue reading
Cyclepedia: A Tour of Iconic Bicycle Designs – Book + iPad App
Design geeks and bike aficionados alike are in for a treat, ‘Cyclepedia: A Tour of Iconic Bicycle Designs’ is bike porn at its finest. The book is both sleek and gorgeous just like your favorite road bike, yet it leaves room for the iPad App to take the content to the next level. True to...continue reading
Tauba Auerbach: 50/50
Tauba Auerbach’s 50/50 Book – 100 Pages 100 Patterns, 50% Black 50% White. In her drawings, paintings and artist’s books, San Francisco-based Tauba Auerbach investigates the relationship between spoken and written language, focusing especially on those points where the familiar structure...continue reading
Design Research: The Store That Brought Modern Living to American Homes
When Ben Thompson opened Design Research in Boston in 1953, his innovative store became synonymous with modern interior design, lighting a public spark that still burns today, though the store itself is no longer. When the mass-produced furniture of impersonal department stores reigned supreme, this boutique retailer dared to provide a learned yet unpretentious environment...continue reading
Everyone Must Be Announced by Aaron Stern
Aaron Stern’s Everyone Must Be Announced is a music photography book that shifts the focus away from the artist, the candid images document the architecture of venues, marriage of light and sound, expressions in the crowd – and how they all interact for the ultimate concert experience. Images were taken at shows of bands that...continue reading
Icons of Men’s Style
It’s not what you wear, it’s how you wear it. More importantly it’s who you are and how much confidence you wear it with. If you can’t love yourself you can’t love anybody else. Do you love yourself? We hope so. If you do, lead and let others follow. It is this air of confidence...continue reading
Counter Space: Design + The Modern Kitchen
Counter Space: Design + The Modern Kitchen was a Museum of Modern Art exhibit that ran from September 15, 2010 – May 2, 2011. MOMA introduced the exhibit with the following statement, “Meal machine, experimental laboratory, status symbol, domestic prison, or the creative and spiritual heart of the home? Over the course of the past...continue reading
Selected Reading – Mission Street Food
Mission Street Food is a restaurant. But it’s also a charitable organization, a taco truck, a burger stand, and a clubhouse for inventive cooks tucked inside an unassuming Chinese take-out place. In all its various incarnations, it upends traditional restaurant conventions, in search of moral and culinary satisfaction. Like Mission Street Food itself, this book...continue reading
Scanwiches by Jon Chonko
Scanwiches takes the sandwich and spreads it out for all to see. From full-frontal, cross sections of monsters like the Dagwood and club, to minute, geometric tea sandwiches whose construction looks more like minimalist art than culinary creation, Scanwiches presents unabashed food porn that satiates even the most severe sandwich fetish. Buy Scanwiches at Powerhouse...continue reading
Selected Reading – The Craft of Stone Brewing
The Craft of Stone Brewing Co. – Liquid Lore, Epic Recipes, and Unabashed Arrogance from Stone co-founders Greg Koch and Steve Wagner, with Randy Clemens is a must have for any craft beer aficionado. About the Book The story of the 15 year history of Stone Brewing Co., straight from the source! Insights into the...continue reading
Made in Russia: Unsung Icons of Soviet Design
Made in Russia: Unsung Icons of Soviet Design from Rizzoli is a must for any design geek. This irreverent survey celebrates the more populist and enduring work in graphic and industrial design that was a product of the Soviet era – a period that remain politically sensitive and under-explored, yet whose influence on the objects...continue reading
Celebrations of Curious Characters – Ricky Jay
Celebrations of Curious Characters cracks open the personal vaults of Ricky Jay—raconteur, historian, and one of the world’s great sleight-of-hand artists—exposing a wonderful world of amusing and arcane knowledge. Adapted from his popular radio series “Jay’s Journal of the Air,” Celebrations of Curious Characters features one-page anecdotes of mind-bending performers (limbless jugglers, banjo-picking birds, Anglo-Texan...continue reading
