I’d love to get my grubby little hands on this painting of Clint Eastwood hanging on Trent Walton’s wall. /via chris glass
bits
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2013-03-20
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2013-03-13
Swarm by Mark Tipple. /via kottke
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2013-02-09
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2013-02-07
Clutchers
A mechanical pencil with it’s own built in lead sharpener.
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2013-01-07
Below the Boat
Starting with a bathymetric chart (the underwater equivalent of a topographic map), the contours are laser-cut into sheets of Baltic birch and glued together to create a powerful visual depth. Select layers are hand-colored blue so it’s easy to discern land from water, major byways are etched into the land, the whole thing’s framed in a custom, solid-wood frame and protected seamlessly with a sheet of durable, ultra-transparent Plexiglas.
Beautiful maps and a nice e-commerce site (built on Shopify).
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2013-01-03
The unique bullet point system used in Word. Notebooks lets you organize your tasks efficiently. Simply fill in the bullet point when writing an item on that line. Trace the circle around it when it’s important and add a slash when you’ve started work on it. Once the task is complete, simply mark down an “X” and move on to the next item on your list. It’s an easy way to keep track of all your notes.
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2012-12-05
This Is the Greatest Hoodie Ever Made
Made in America using heavy weight cotton and sold only online (eliminating middle man costs). Sadly, the full zip hoodie is out of stock. /via nextdraft
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2012-09-18
Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Not Visited and Never Will
Judith Schalansky was born in 1980 on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall. The Soviets wouldn’t let anyone travel so everything she learnt about the world came from her parents’ battered old atlas. An acclaimed novelist and award-winning graphic designer, she has spent years creating this, her own imaginative atlas of the world’s loneliest places. These islands are so difficult to reach that until the late 1990s more people had set foot on the moon than on Peter I Island in the Antarctic.
On one page are perfect maps, on the other unfold bizarre stories from the history of the islands themselves. Rare animals and strange people abound: from marooned slaves to lonely scientists, lost explorers to confused lighthouse keepers, mutinous sailors to forgotten castaways; a collection of Robinson Crusoes of all kinds. Recently awarded the prize of Germany’s most beautiful book, the Atlas of Remote Islands is an intricately designed masterpiece that will delight map lovers everywhere. Judith Schalansky lures us across all the oceans of the world to fifty remote islands - from St Kilda to Easter Island and from Tristan da Cunha to Disappointment Island - and proves that some of the most memorable journeys can be taken by armchair travelers.
I’d love to get my hands on a copy of this. /via things
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2012-09-12
Secret club tags, classic hotel key chains. Nice and only 6 smackers. /via bb-blog
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2012-09-05
Poler Wunder Bundler
It’s like a swaddle for your beer.
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Archer Air Superiority, a manly air freshener
Hmmmm … should my condo smell of hunting lodge or distillery? /via uncrate.com
