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 artistic direction. That's not to say your superhero fandom can't still shine brightly in your office, foyer or other room you paid no attention to ... continue reading
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 darlings like you would have if this were ten years ago. Etsy seller/designer John Woo (not to be confused ... continue reading
For a no-frills flask that's perfect to toss in your bag when you're out camping or exploring, turn to Stanley. The classic brand has been crafting solid, well-made food and drink gear since 1913. Their latest flask is the first in the Adventure Series which is aimed at being both essential and rugged. With more grip ... continue reading
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 Jamie Sneddon and photographer Kevin Rozario-Johnson, 8-bitscapes combines fantastic pictures ... continue reading
"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 us (phrase one: "Doing the deed"). Yet, when it comes to displaying our bedroom activities in an artistic way, we'd like to think we're a ... continue reading
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 you place it above eye level, strain your neck in the process. Each Litograph design features a simple ... continue reading
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 name should sound familiar (we've mentioned them more than once before). For those of you who haven't caught glimpse ... continue reading
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 where you're going at any given moment. But what about a long term solution for personal use that's also a design ... continue reading
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, there you have it. (Or there's a lot more hipsters out there than we thought.) In our quest for finding new ... continue reading
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 were plotting something. Displaying an artistically done map of a random spot is totally different. When you place an order ... continue reading
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 explain how everything works on a globe or a map, but world geography changes frequently enough that ... continue reading
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 be Ron Swanson. We can however, strive to eat as much bacon as we possibly can while keeping track of our progress, and we don't mean ... continue reading
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 art-eest). As we look for clever and inventive ways to show off our work to the world, we stumble upon more ... continue reading
Not all things are greater than the sum of their parts. We love inhaling cheap tacos and we love rollercoasters, but we don't love cleaning puke out of our Nikes. Beer, clearly, does not fall into this category. Don't believe us, go eat a yeast packet. Something magical happens when hops, malted barley and ... continue reading
For an artistic reminder of the streets you traversed in a drunken stupor, these University Map Prints are a far better purchase than anything you'd find in the campus bookstore. Sure those streets are covered in the haze of bong hits and the dizziness of happy hour specials, but they'll always remind you of the good ... continue reading
Super Heroes are enjoying a sort of renaissance as of late, and to say you have a few options to display your childhood celebs as fine art would be a vast understatement. Re-imagined prints are popping up faster than, well, a speeding bullet. The latest we've found are these polygon prints from The Blackening Co., ... continue reading
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