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
"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
It might be a rare occasion, but if you have ever dropped your pocket knife in a pond while out camping, you know the annoyance involved in retrieving that sucker. The Cork Knife eliminates any fear of cutting rope on the side of a lake or whittling wood over a creek while you're on your next trip. The cork handle ... 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
If you need dead quiet to get some shut-eye, this is probably not the pillow set you want to toss on your queen-size. If you miss the days of jamming #2 pencils into cassette tapes and watching the levels bounce with the beat of Ice Ice Baby, then this Boombox Pillow Set available from Meninos is the perfect place ... 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
"Qi," "zi" and "zoa" are words you probably had no familiarity with two years ago. After Words with Friends, however, they probably end up getting entered in your phone or Facebook more frequently than some of the more commonly used words to describe dudes with popped collars. It might be called Words with Friends, ... continue reading
We cannot, for the life of us, remember the last time we held a floppy disk in our hands. The little black plastic disks were fun to take apart and hang from the rear view in the car, but they haven't been much use since CDs and the Internet. What they are good at though is looking cool/retro/vintage and that's where ... continue reading
Turning random pieces of hardware into art is possible, but it's not always easy. By the time you're done driving to Home Depot, assembling all the parts on the floor of the store, dealing with the weird looks of everyone in an orange apron and paying $4 a piece for pipe you might as well just buy something that's ... continue reading
Anyone who owned cassette tapes has lived through the torture of respooling at least one of them with a #2 pencil. If it was a cassette single of "U Can't Touch This," it went a little quicker than the mess a 90-minute Maxwell could make, but either way you had the desire to stomp the damn thing to little analog shards ... 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
If you're anything like us, you have a thing (thang?) for rap music. We love listening to the coolest tracks and the hottest jams from East Coast and West Coast alike, but we frequently run into problems when we load up Spotify or Grooveshark to get down. We can't keep track of all the dogs, doggs and dawgs or all ... continue reading
We've never looked up at a transmission tower holding up power lines and thought, "Gotta get one of those for my foyer." To be honest, we've never thought much of them at all. The design must have caught the eyes of the folks at Palette Industries however, and the result is The Nanton Coat Rack. Such a structure ... continue reading
There's a reason they call dogs "man's best friend." Unlike cats, dogs want attention all the time, wait for you to get home from work and won't eat your eyeballs if you happen to kick the bucket. Don't get us wrong, we have cats too, and we love them, but they'll never quite fill the place in a man's heart that Fido ... continue reading
A word of warning before you purchase this Constitutions of Cocktails print: Don't attempt to read it after you've been heavily drinking! Trying to follow the connecting lines after you've been mixing drinks all night will make you puke quicker than a Betty White nip-slip. Just like all the work from Pop Chart Lab, ... continue reading
The names on this print sound like newly added characters to the game of Clue that may or may not attempt to murder someone with a candlestick (poor weapon choice, honestly), but despite the monikers, this print has nothing to do with the classic board game. What this poster does have to do with is two very different ... continue reading
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