It’s unlikely that you’ll ever get us into the coloring book fad but when a copy of A.R. Coffelt’s I Draw On Cats: A Connect-The-Dots Activity Book showed up in our mailbox, we got the markers out. If you haven’t…
This video. There’s maybe no one more excited about virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) than advertisers, who can’t wait to create immersive experiences and additional layers that you’ll interact with and that might maybe even make you want…
Some people have an abundance of time. This is not for them. For the rest of us, there’s Google’s Design Sprint framework, which assumes you have five days (if even that sounds like a luxury to you, read on. We’ve…
Basque cuisine and culture appeal to the most passionate of epicures, though that doesn’t make them in any way inaccessible to the rest of us, either. In The Basque Book: A Love Letter in Recipes from the Kitchen of Txikito,…
…because that’s what Radiohead’s been doing for the last several hours, deleting their social media accounts. And their website, too, while they’re at it, which faded away gradually with some handy javascript. Why? Well, who knows. It should be obvious,…
Chatbots. They’re so hot right now. Chatbots. Really, though, you can’t spend more than 20 seconds on Twitter these days without encountering some kind of tweet about chatbots, Facebook Messenger, AI, conversational commerce, etc, etc… and yeah, we’ve chugged the…
“Trippy; something that attracts you and turns up all the senses.” Not how you’d describe your typical IKEA collection, but that’s how Katie Eary – the British menswear designer – describes her Giltig collection for IKEA, with its bright colors,…
The editors of Lucky Peach do some of the best food journalism out there, so it’s awesome that they’ve started cranking out cookbooks. We are still enjoying their 101 Easy Asian Recipes and were thus excited to also receive The…
Ray Eames is often given her due when people talk about Charles as well as independently, but you don’t near nearly as much about Alvar Aalto’s wife, Aino Marsio-Aalto. Which is a shame because she was not just a designer…
From WSJ, we just noted there’s a new record price for a Hermès Birkin handbag – this one in braise crocodile with diamond hardware. The selling price? $298,000. (Previous record was $222K.) Seems when you’re considering a limited-production icon, it’s…
