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 [...]
Tags: Accessories, Design Glut, New York, Products, Smoking Gun
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
Time Out asked us to think up a new use for doorknobs. Always up for a challenge, we looked to find a new place where something that size, shape, and material would be completely functional. That’s where the candlestick idea came from. A brass doorknob, when turned vertical, is really pretty similar to an old [...]
Tags: Accessories, Candles, Design Glut, Housewares, New York, Products
Ben Kaufman is a 22-year-old serial entrepreneur. Who knew that was even possible? His newest venture, Quirky, enables anyone with a good idea to get it manufactured. Even better, anyone who helps develop the product – whether than means picking the color or designing the logo – gets a royalty percentage. Sound too good to [...]
Tags: Business, Creative, Design, East Village, Interview, Manufacturing, New York, Products, Websites
Lichen creates sustainably-minded housewares and accessories that beg to be touched – whether it’s enjoying the tactile quality of felt, or playing with the movable magnetic parts that many of their products feature. The beauty of trade shows is getting to see these kinds of objects in person. Rounding out our coverage of last week’s [...]
Tags: Accessories, Business, Creative, Design, Interview, Products, Seattle, Sustainability
TOUCH works with designers and manufacturers to create meaningful, socially-responsible products, with a common goal of doing good together. It’s run by Zoë Melo – who for years has worked as a consultant helping companies develop products, and recently has slowly started to represent products herself. She also exhibits products and holds events in TOUCH’s [...]
Tags: Business, Consulting, Creative, Design, Interview, Los Angeles, Manufacturing, Products, Sustainability
One of the things that really caught our eye at the gift fair last week were these amazing pillows from K Studio. Mary and Shelly Klein are a mother/daughter duo who’ve been in business for six years, and clearly love what they do. Working on products like these all day, how could you not be [...]
Tags: Accessories, Business, Creative, Design, Embroidery, Interview, Products
At the gift fair last week we had a chance to meet the masterminds behind Poketo. Their goal is to make art accessible and usable, to twist what’s normal, and to make life more creative. In Ted’s words: “It’s not just about the products, but it’s about the people who are involved.”
Poketo’s Art vs Music [...]
Tags: Accessories, Art, Business, Creative, Design, Gallery, Interview, Los Angeles, Products
Beth single-handedly runs her own perfume company here in New York. She launched her first fragrance completely independently, even though everyone thought she was crazy to try and do it. About her perfume house, she says, “They were used to dealing with Procter & Gamble or Estée Lauder. A girl who just wanted to start [...]
