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Why NORQAIN Might Be the Best Swiss Watch Brand You Haven’t Looked at Yet
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How PITAKA’s Sunset Collection Is Shaping the Future of Emotional Design

High-performance tech gear meets pure visual poetry.

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Wellen Performance-Lined Swim Trunks, Reviewed by a Swim Trunk Skeptic

Could these be the shorts to end all my swimwear complaints? Tried, tested, reviewed.

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G-SHOCK’s 10-Year Pursuit of Perfection: The Fine Metallic Series Delivers Unseen Innovation

It took a decade to create this watch band innovation. And it was worth the wait.

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The Field Study Handbook

Jan Chipchase is a renowned designer, photographer, entrepreneur and researcher that runs the San Francisco-based design consultancy Studio D. He's taken over two decades of his work and immersive research on everything from Tokyo teens and Afghan arms dealers and turned it into a coffee table tome called The Field Study…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Famous Brands Turned Into Action Figures

Swiss artist and illustrator Dexter Maurer has taken some of the worlds most iconic brands and turned them into unique action figures for his Brand Knight project. Puma becomes The Wild Knight, a purple cat-like figure with two puma claws and one wild halberd. Nike becomes The Night Knight, a…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Listen to More Than 25,000 Digitized 78rpm Records for Free

If you haven't heard of it already, the Great 78 Project is a collection of digitized 78rpm discs that the Internet Archive has been putting together for almost a year with the help of of volunteer collectors, George Blood LP and the Archive of Contemporary Music. As of this writing…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Nothing Left Behind: Burning Man

Anders Overgaard is a Danish born photographer and director who's worked with everyone from GQ and Vogue to Nautica and BMW. He recently turned his considerable talents towards Black Rock Desert and the iconic Burning Man festival to create this fantastic coffee table book Nothing Left Behind: Burning Man. The…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Where to Drink Coffee

Phaidon's "Where to" books are as indispensable as Trip Advisor, Untappd and Google Maps when it comes to travel resources. Joining the likes of Where Bartenders Drink and Where Chefs Eat on your coffee table this fall is their latest tome, Where to Drink Coffee. The "insider's guide to where the world's…

By Cooper Fleishman
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