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There's no shortage of ways to decorate the walls of your home/office/dorm/bedroom/insert name of other room worth decorating here. You can buy a bunch of artwork from 20x200, Fab or any one of the other [...]

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With The Avengers dominating the box office and the new Dark Knight Rises trailer on loop in our office, we figured it was time we went all-in on our inner fanboy. Making the decision [...]

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If we had to guess Rocco Malatesta's greatest passions in life, we'd go with: Smart design, macho cinema and human hands. We're all on board for two of those three, but the hand thing is a little disconcerting and [...]

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Tossing actual movie posters on your wall may have been cool when you were sleeping in a race car bed, but as a grown ass man, your decor should lean a bit more in the [...]

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Men love movies. Men also care about the way that they look. Band of Outsiders, Maison Martin Margiela and Junya Watanabe are designers you recognize and not monikers you would immediately assume were indie Pitchfork [...]

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Combining reality and fantasy is nothing new, but it's generally more Tumblr and not so much fine art. 8-bitscapes flips that convention on its head with their series of eight prints. Originally created by artist/illustrator [...]

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"Making love" is not a phrase we toss around too often. It's got a feminine feel and we've developed quite a few slang terms for doing the deed that seem to work pretty well for [...]

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You probably already have a few well-designed prints adorning your walls. You also probably spend a grand total of two seconds looking at them on a daily basis. Framing a Litograph design will change that, and if [...]

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Sometimes we wish we lived in a hexagonal house just so we had more walls to put up prints from The Impossible Cool collection Sonic Editions offers. If you've been a loyal Cool Material reader, the [...]

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Tracking your travel has never been easier than it is right now. There are fifteen different apps on Facebook, Foursquare, Google Places and countless other ways to let other people know where you're at and [...]

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In the first 24 hours of Instagram's Android-based life, the app was downloaded a million times. A freakin' million. If you needed proof that the photo network wasn't just for retro filter loving hipsters, [...]

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Locating your hometown or other favorite locale on Google Maps, printing it out and pasting it on your wall is not exactly art. In fact, it's flat-out weird, and if we saw it, we'd assume you [...]

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Truth be told, geography has never really been our thing. We have a difficult enough time remembering our own history that recalling the difference between Burma and Myanmar just doesn't seem possible. It's easy to [...]

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It has long been reported that Ron Swanson once filled out one of these Personal Bacon Trackers in under two hours, only to finish it up with a steak omelet for dessert. We can't all [...]

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Our phones are jam-packed with little pieces of art we created with the help of Instagram. Our favorite camera app has taken us from "weird guy snapping pictures of a crushed beer can" to "artist" (pronounced [...]

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