TENET is an indie pop-up shop bringing men’s fashion to the celebrated skiing and shopping town of Aspen, Colorado. Offering both established and emerging labels, founders Jesse Warren and Josh Warren set out to open a lifestyle store for the high season. This proved to be no easy task, and it makes for a great [...]
Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch met in Hollywood – but later transitioned from designing movie sets to more permanent architecture. And the transition has clearly worked for them! Ten years after starting their architecture firm, recent projects include the Ace Hotel, the Breslin, The Standard, and a ground-up building at 211 Elizabeth St. (Scroll down [...]
We’re all for taking control of your own destiny, and if anyone’s done it, it’s Cindy Gallop. How to properly introduce this amazing lady? In 1998, she founded the New York office of the ad agency BBH, which was named Adweek’s Eastern Agency of the Year just four years later. Cindy resigned as chairman of [...]
Tags: Business, Interview, Micro Actions, Social Change, Social networking, Websites
It’s no secret that kids are looking at porn online. Perhaps the most serious side effect of this? A generation growing up with internet porn as their main form of sex-ed. Pornography is not exactly a guide for real-world sex, hence why Cindy Gallop started makelovenotporn.com to set the record straight.
What gave you the idea [...]
It’s 2009 and, let’s face it, if you’re in the creative world and you don’t have an online portfolio it’s a problem. Luckily there are solutions to that problem which don’t involve cramming your head with HTML until it explodes. Enter Carbonmade. They offer an incredibly easy-to-use platform so that even the Luddites among us [...]
Tags: Business, Creative, Design, Job hunting, New York, Online portfolios, Websites
Nervous System harnesses the power of algorithms to create incredibly beautiful jewelry. I was fascinated when I read on their site:
“We create our designs through an iterative and experimental process. After brainstorming an initial concept, we write a pattern-generating algorithm in the computer through which we further explore our ideas and ultimately create the finished [...]
Tags: Accessories, Architecture, Boston, Business, Creative, Design, Jewelry, Laser cut, Manufacturing, MIT, Products, Rapid prototyping
If you haven’t been out to House of Yes yet, do it. This amazing venue hosts everything from performing arts events to aerial and circus arts classes to sewing workshops… What started as a vague dream to own a theater and a costume shop has quickly turned into a reality. And it was sped up [...]
Adrian Buckmaster creates hauntingly beautiful photographs. He’s managed to shy away from specializing – he handles portrait, fashion, architecture, and nature shot all with the same sensitivity, and he’s made quite a career of it. (And his talents don’t end in the visual realm, he also makes a mean chutney. We couldn’t ask for a [...]
Startup Weekend is an awesome pressure-cooker for starting tech companies. Over the course of one weekend, companies are built – from idea to launch. And it works. About 230 companies have been started, and they’ve gotten almost $800,000 in funding.
We got a chance to interview Clint when he was out here prepping for the upcoming [...]
Tags: Business, Creative, New York, Seattle, Startup, Startup Weekend, Technology
Paperless Post is an awesome new service that allows you to make custom invitations that look like engraved type on a nice thick paper stock – but it’s all digital. Facebook or Evite no more – show your guests that you’re all class. These invites show up just like the *real* thing, envelope and all, [...]
