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The Summer Edit: 10 Pieces That Make Getting Dressed Ridiculously Easy

The smartest summer wardrobes aren't the biggest ones. They're the ones where every piece works with every other piece.

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The Golf Round That Built a Bourbon Empire
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The Luxury Lover’s Guide to Puerto Vallarta
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Your One-Bag Weekend Getaway Packing Guide

Cover all the bases with versatile selections for your EDC, your outdoor kit, and some R&R afterwards.

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Bring the Soundtrack With You This Summer

The best outdoor portable speakers for beach trips, lake weekends, backyard hangs, and every adventure that calls for a little music.

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The Anti-Algorithm Guide to Discovering New Music
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The Color Combos I’m Wearing a Lot Right Now
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Your One-Bag Weekend Getaway Packing Guide

Cover all the bases with versatile selections for your EDC, your outdoor kit, and some R&R afterwards.

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What We're Buying
Bring the Soundtrack With You This Summer

The best outdoor portable speakers for beach trips, lake weekends, backyard hangs, and every adventure that calls for a little music.

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Lifestyle
The Anti-Algorithm Guide to Discovering New Music

Streaming made music infinite. Which made discovery harder. Here’s how we’re finding our way back.

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The Color Combos I’m Wearing a Lot Right Now

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America’s Most Historic Golf Trip

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Summer’s Best Watches Under $1,500

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The Luxury Lover’s Guide to Puerto Vallarta

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The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

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How This Cryptic Vinegar Estate in Germany Sparked My Cocktail Shrub Era

Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide
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Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide

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The American Watchmaker Rebuilding a Lost Craft

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A Pilgrimage to Italy’s Iconic Superbikes and Supercars in Emilia-Romagna

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The Italian Art of Dressing Well in the Heat

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Meet ‘Purveyors of Packaging,’ the Team Salvaging Incredible Vintage Packaging

We're suckers for great packaging. Toss a product in something with a cool font and some nice colors and you'll have our attention. And while some items on the shelves these days make us stop and take notice, most pale in comparison to the products of yore. Don't believe us?…

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Playing Card Notebooks Let You Draw Your Own Deck

If you're looking for a new pocket notebook that has some sort of utility other than being archived when you're done with it, you need to check out Suck UK's Playing Card Notebook. Printed on genuine playing card stock with red or blue backs and a blank face, the 52-page…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Nikola’s Hybrid Big Rig

Nikola Motor Company just released details and renderings of their hybrid semi-truck dubbed One that are both completely absurd and mind-blowing. The Nikola One is a hybrid big rig that uses a combination of electric engines and a fuel agnostic turbine to give you: 3,700 ft. lbs of torque, 1,200…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Inside the Studio that Makes the World’s Most Interesting Furniture

There's a small group of mad furniture scientists hard at work in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. It's a tiny group that form a company you've probably never heard of., and they're building the world's most interesting furniture. If there's one piece from RockPaperRobot you might be familiar with, it's the Float…

By Mike Newman
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NOMO Designs Auto Icon Prints

Whether you're staring at the front end in the rearview, or admiring it up close, there are iconic automobiles that you'll immediately recognize from only a quick glance; NOMO Designs has immortalized almost all of them in their Auto Icon Screen Print Series. Aston Martin. Audi. BMW. Ferrari. GM. Jaguar.…

By Cooper Fleishman
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