Of course, modern man can’t live by wardrobe alone, he needs fashionably accessorized furnishings to pull that lifestyle look together. The Diesel Duii Mini helps the cause, taking Diesel style to personal lighting via a design partnership with progressive Italian let-there-be-light specialist, Foscarini. It’s a mini version of their duck-footed Duii desk lamp, this one...
A concept stacked on a concept, and the result sounds exceptionally…hot! The BMW i Pedelec Concept E-bike is an ultralight, quick-folding, aluminum-and-carbon fiber accessory for BMW’s i3 electric concept car—a pair of i Pedelecs can dock and recharge in the i3′s boot. Engineering and user friendliness are both striking. A three-speed gearbox automatically adjusts pedal...
“Adventures in the world of drinking” is the inspiring tagline for Hot Rum Cow Magazine, a new labour of love indulging a healthy fascination with great alcohol. Beer, wine and hard stuff are given equal attention. Issue #1 spends some quality time with gin, ponders the women-and-beer dynamic, helps out with the quest for free...
Giving a bit of a death nod to the declining plain ol’ compact camera market, Schneider Kreuznach Mirrorless System Lenses signals the turn to interchangeable lens mirrorless cameras with this upcoming line of high-end optics. As a teaser, renderings have been released for a tasty 14mm F2.0 lens for the Micro Four Thirds system. Innovative,...
Been hunting high and low for a comment-inducing antique heavy brass clip for your cash? May we present the Money Clip by Kazuya Kobo, a repurposed collection of vintage objects whose original use remains unclear. Designer Kobo’s enquiries at a flea market indicate they may have been furniture decoration, but does it really matter? We...
Lightweight, super-comfortable, rain-resistant, the new Outlier Supermarine Rain Shirt combines a new, lighter weave of Outlier’s cool low-tech-meets-high, water-shedding Supermarine fabric, with their new-classic Pivot Sleeve shirt design. As we have mentioned here before, Supermarine is an update of a fabric invented by the Brits to keep downed pilots alive in the cold, cold sea....
Groundbreaking, game-changing sports apparel technology, is the sound of it, with Columbia Omni-Freeze ZERO, a radically new fabric for handling perspiration and body cooling. Far different from current technical materials that work to get rid of sweat by wicking it away from the skin, Omni-Freeze ZERO uses sweat as an activator for tiny polymer rings...
It’s back to the Latin—”on firm ground”—for the Terra Firma by Gary Fidele for Clomm collection of unisex wristwaches that match up precision engineering with down-to-earth, each-piece-unique natural material dials. The design, as you can see, is elegantly minimal and geometric, with dials in oak (above), rosewood, cork and black and white ceramic. Premium materials...
Expanding on the cool guy classic G9 jacket, the Baracuta 2013 Spring/Summer Blue Label Collection Preview highlights one of two upcoming extended lines, the Ivory and the Blue. This one features 10 styles of enduringly crafted outwear, including the G9, the G4, a trench coat, a three-quarter field jacket, and vests, designed by Japan’s Kenichi...
