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Optimus Kanguru Colored Pens campaign

Wearable typography by Amandine Alessandra. More details and photos here.

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‘When it comes to their lines of work, fashion designer Stella McCartney and American artist Ed Ruscha love to push the envelope. Stella and Ed get together to chat about Stella’s burning passion for clothes and Ed’s zest for painting.’

Preview above. Watch the complete episode in its entirety here (note: small fee required via iTunes or Netflix).

Part of Sundance’s Iconoclasts series.

Found via sfgirlbybay

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‘Listing their influences as Courtney Love, Nirvana and Led Zeppelin, The Pretty Reckless is completed by guitarist Ben Phillips, bassist Mark Damon and drummer Jamie Perkins’ –Social Butterflies

Stardom hits younger these days – and with the success of Gossip Girl, the kid sister on the show – 16-year-old badger-eyed Taylor Momsen – is fronting a new band, The Pretty Reckless. [Read more →]

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Alexa Chung Stella cover, art by clara0502

If you’ve been following my blog, you’ll have noticed that I really enjoyed this British import that found her way to MTV last year.

Unfortunately, MTV didn’t know what the hell to do with Alexa Chung. (She recently, came clean with her take on what went wrong with her MTV show.) She’s smart, funny and today is still working on conquering the US – one way or another. [Read more →]

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Photoshoot by Derek Kettela for 25magazine, the new Austrian fashion pub created by Anja Rubik and Sasha Knezevic.

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‘The Valentine Notebook, shares the Olivetti Valentine’s red case, pullout keyboard form and functional beauty’

Design students Julia Kaisinger, Pia Weitgasser, Martin Zopf and Tony Weichselbraun of the University of Applied Arts Vienna have rethunk Olivetti‘s Valentine typewriter. More info here.

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An Olivetti Manual typewriter at Urban Outfitters? Cool comeback.

Back in the 1950s, Italian business machine manufacturer Olivetti developed a super cool house style under the design leadership of Giovanni Pintori. The work of Paul Rand, Herbert Bayer, Walter Ballmer, Ettore Sottsass, Milton Glazer followed. [Read more →]

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Disney’s Magic Highway USA remixed  . . .  Music by Legowelt, from the ep Klaus Kinski.

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‘London architects Tonkin Liu have completed a wind-powered metal flower beside the River Mersey in England’

Found via Dezeen

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‘If you wanna be masculine. Really masculine. Charles Bronson masculine. You need Man Dom cologne. Pour that shit everywhere. All over ya.’ -Jason Malmberg

1970s Japanese tv spot. With Bert Lahr (from the Wizard of Oz) working the door.

Found via Jason

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Safeway has a new reusable, old west-styled typographic beef cuts bag – picked it up last night. Reminds me of the CBS Gastrotypographicalassemblage.

Begging dog sold separately.

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