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Today Photoshop, the application many of us have used longer than any other, turns 20 years old. Happy birthday!...

Josh Rubin: Coolhunting

Promoting their Spring line, Pro-Keds recently debuted a short video telling the story of a shoe-based mission. With settings that will look familiar to NYC residents and a Bond-esque soundtrack, the playfully inventive piece follows a cast of characters who at various points throw shoes over a fence, trade them, pluck pairs from lamp posts, and steal them from sleeping subway riders. The madcap upshot,...

Josh Rubin: Coolhunting

In a move that tackles both the lack of bike racks in NYC and the problem of what to do with obsolete parking meters, the city recently started a campaign transforming 225 of the old metal poles into circular stations for locking up bikes. Calling it a "whole new alchemy of the street," Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan's initiative also saves loot by eliminating the...

Josh Rubin: Coolhunting

After new media professor Hasan Elahi was falsely accused by a neighbor of being a 9/11 terrorist accomplice in 2002, the Bangladesh-born American underwent six months of scrutiny from the FBI. Turning the tables, he personally documented the minutiae of his everyday occurrences now on view in a project called Tracking Transience at the Santa Fe art space SITE. Elahi photographs his meals before...

Josh Rubin: Coolhunting

Perpetually updating their line of removable adhesives for portable devices, GelaSkins adds the National Geographic to their list of intriguing collaborations. (Check out other CH favorites the Boombox series by Lyle Owerko and their recent DIY service, allowing you to upload and customize your own image.) Initially only available for iPhones and laptops, the National Geographic skins include a wide range of choices from...

Josh Rubin: Coolhunting

Perpetually updating their line of removable adhesives for portable devices, GelaSkins adds the National Geographic to their list of intriguing collaborations. (Check out other CH favorites the Boombox series by Lyle Owerko and their recent DIY service, allowing you to upload and customize your own image.) Initially only available...

Josh Rubin: Coolhunting

by Adrienne So Colorado-based Venture Snowboards recently teamed up with environmental advocacy nonprofit POW (Protect Our Winters) for a snowboard graphic contest that will feature winning designs on a run of limited-edition handcrafted Venture snowboards. The public can cast a vote now through 15 March 2010 for one of the top five designs. Some of them are pictured here.) The winning designer will receive a...

Josh Rubin: Coolhunting

by Adrienne So Colorado-based Venture Snowboards recently teamed up with environmental advocacy nonprofit POW (Protect Our Winters) for a snowboard graphic contest that will feature winning designs on a run of limited-edition handcrafted Venture snowboards. The public can cast a vote now through 15 March 2010 for one of the...

Josh Rubin: Coolhunting

For their Spring 2010 collection Nice Collective founders Joe Haller and Ian Hannula brought friends, artists, stylists and models on a camping trip (aka the Gathering) in Northern California "to organically capture imagery of the season's clothing and product through real experience rather than art direction." Among the members of the experimental venture, digital artist Andrew Jones' and photographer Spencer Hansen's combined talents led...

Josh Rubin: Coolhunting

by Tamara Warren A lesson in balanced, immaculate design, the new Aston Martin Rapide sportscar is a sleek, four-door wonder. To match the tone of the gem-like sedan, Aston Martin chose Valencia-based jewelery atelier Trinidad Gracia as its launch site, locking away the keys to the first test drives in the boutique's vault. Aston Martin design director Marek Reichman, involved in every aspect of the...

Josh Rubin: Coolhunting