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This is Aaron Draplin telling a story about a sign. He’s a graphic designer and very passionate about what he does. This clip is an extra from a mini documentary called ‘America is F*cked’. Strong language- mostly lots of F words.
If you like what you saw here, checkout Aaron Draplin’s site.

Every once and a while I see a poster that I really like. If you can’t guess already, I really like this one. It’s simple and to the point, not to mention slick and very graphic. It is a  silkscreened edition printed on ‘Plike Black’ 140 GSM paper from GF Smith.
You can purchase your very [...]

Many people are completely content with the desktop wallpapers that come pre-installed on their computer. You know the type… those people who still have the classic Apple close up of the leopard print fur photo. But for people (like me) who spend most of their time awake in front of a computer, picking out a [...]

Another art show in the Hamptons?!?!?! Who would have thought! This Saturday from 5-10pm @ 307 Butter Lane in Bridgehampton the boys from Edgewood Goodies, Create Build Destroy, and Don Clothing are putting on a kick ass show titled: Mind or Material - The Journey from Inspiration to Fruition.
PJ Monte, Jake Patterson, and Alex [...]

If you are near Southampton this weekend you should defintely come down to the Parrish Art Museum for Project Sandstorm! Project Sandstorm is a one night art performance and sand installation inspired by the current exhibition on view at the Parrish Sand: Memory, Meaning, and Metaphor. Created by over forty artists from Long Island art [...]

If you didn’t make it to the 711 Gallery opening, then you need to stop slacking. The gallery is three floors, has a winding staircase, skylights, and 20 foot (maybe more, I forgot to measure) ceilings. The openings may be crowded and sweaty, but it’s okay, there are plenty of beautiful art pieces, hot girls, [...]

Apparently the Clinton campaign heard about all the great press Obama has been getting for his campaign’s well designed swag and they want in. Hillary Clinton’s website has added a new threadless-esque feature encouraging visitors to post their own t-shirt designs. The five best rated t-shirts will be printed and sold via the Clinton Campaign [...]

Every girl on the planet day dreams about being cat woman for one day.
Every girl on the planet covets Christian Louboutins.
Now with the collaboration of Christian Louboutins and Rodarte, your day dream got one step closer to coming true.

Christian Louboutins has joined forces with designers such as Chloe, Lanvin, McQueen and YSL and this seasons [...]

For the past couples seasons, High Fashion designers have explored the modern mens fashion by designing sneakers. This year Alber Elbaz of Lanvin, the nearly century old french fashion house, came with a collection of silk, suede, mesh and metallic patent leather high-tops (pictured above).
Of course when you say think high fashion the price tag [...]

‘Sticker cars’ is a phrase you may not be too familiar with, but if you live in New Orleans it’s very possible you do. It’s a new breed of “customization” that’s hitting the car scene hard down south. You make the car “your own” by getting it vinyl wrapped, or, stickered.
I personally don’t see how [...]

‘Martin the Tailor’ is a story about Martin Greenfield, a tailor. He began working with clothes in a concentration camp in Germany, and ended up in the USA years later as the owner of a very successful garment factory.
The video is beautifully shot by Ed David and directed by Galen Summer. The dialog, the music, [...]

Musician Feist is far from just a musician, she’s an artist. Probably her most famous song, 1234, has a great music video that was filmed in all one shot (watch 1,2,3,4 here).
She recently performed 1,2,3,4 with some of your very favorite fuzzy creatures on Sesame Street, but with a slight twist. Feist switched the [...]

Since Flickr has a public API, people can create all sorts of fun applications to go play with the extensive photo website. The Multicolr Search Lab by Idée Inc lets you search the entire Flickr library by color. You can pick up to 10 colors. Above I did a search using primary colors: red, yellow, [...]

I ran across Kiosk’s website tonight and was amazed with what I found. It may be old news to some, but it’s new to me so I’m going to share it.
The idea behind the website is so simple, and yet so perfect. They travel across the world and find products that make you “why don’t [...]

Lab[au], a design firm based out of Belgium, has installed windows with advanced lighting technology in a building in Brussels. Every night there are light shows at the Dexia Towers, where 4,200 of the 6,000 windows on the building are lit up with the help of 150,000 leds.
CR Blog explains how the lighting techology [...]

Artist Laura Gilbert was featured today on CNN for her stunt “The Zero Dollar.” Laura passed out 10,000 fake “zero dollars” at the New York Stock Exchange to passerby’s. Who knows, maybe those bills will be worth something one day, being that they were signed by Laura.
Laura stated that the zero dollar project was [...]

Most people won’t make the effort to bend over and pickup a penny from the street. Chevrolet tested this idea by creating placing a 20 foot billboard in London and covering it with over 20,000 pennies. The pennies were all plucked from the billboard in less than 30 minutes.
Chevrolet’s Les Turton said: “There have been some [...]

You’re probably wondering why I chose to write about the inventor of the Pringles can dying, and not Yves Saint Laurent’s death. Well, it’s obviously because this is much more interesting.

Anyways. Fredric J. Baur, of Cincinnati, died at age 89. Apparently he was so proud of his invention that a portion of his ashes was [...]