With Summer in full-swing, it’s time to packup the duffle bag and head to the beach. Perfect for a “Summer Friday” at the office but appropriate enough to wear all weekend long. Available from Quoddy for $275.
T. SHELF
Almost more of a sculpture than a piece of furniture, the T.SHELF (an abbreviation for Triangle shelf) literally reshapes the way you may think about bookshelves. Designed by J1Studio, these beautiful shelf systems are completely modular, allowing you to create your own bookshelf landscape in any size or shape you may desire. The T.SHELF is easy to setup and pack flat for space saving transportation. The system uses doesn’t use any screws, and relies entirely on cables and zipties to tie its pieces together.
8Faces Magazine
If you could only use eight typefaces for the rest of your life, which would you choose?
8 Faces is a new magazine for devotees of typography that asks this question — and many more — to eight leading designers from the fields of web design, print design, illustration, and of course type design itself. The first issue includes interviews with the likes of Erik Spiekermann, Jason Santa Maria, Jon Tan and more. Be sure to grab your copy quickly today as each issue is limited to 1,000 copies.
Scandyna Retro Modern Speakers
Speakers tend to be ugly black boxes with cloth fronts, so we featured Joey Roth’s beautiful ceramic speakers before, but let’s get a little more crazy. Scandyna Speakers produces some of the most unique looking speakers available—while still providing high quality sound. Driven by the in-speaker acoustics, the organic shape of speakers is as striking as it is functional. Prices for their most popular speakers range from $100 to $700.
Typographic Pillows
These typographic pillows, handmade by Etsy seller myadobecottage, are sure to make great additions to any graphic designer’s living room. Inspired by vintage French industrial design, these pillows can be yours for $30-35.
Brooklyn Tailors
There are a few essentials in life: food, water, family and a set of perfectly fitting dress shirts. Meet Brooklyn Tailors, a small collective of highly detailed artisans creating both great fitting off-the-shelf shirts as well as custom-made shirts for just about every occasion. We’re fans of their Pinpoint Oxford for $145.
Whiskey Stones
If you want to sip your Scotch like Don Draper—but don’t want to let the ice dilute your 50 year-old single malt—we’ve got the solution: Whiskey Stones (Amazon, $20). It’s really quite simple, since stones don’t melt, you get all the benefits of the chill of ice without adding a drop of water to your drink. Made from Vermont Soapstone and designed by Teroforma, there’s no longer any shame in asking for your whiskey on the rocks. Cheers.
Cumulous & Foam Typeface
Cumulous & Foam is the new unruly typeface from Iceland-by-way-of-Atlanta designer, Stéfan Kjartansson. The lovechild of utter chaos and simple perfection is this set of amazingly beautiful letters. Available July 12th. Price TBD.
FitBit
Everyone knows they should exercise – in fact, some don’t even need to but want to track their activity anyways. Meet FitBit. FitBit completely stays out of your life by being as unobtrusive as possible – just a little bit bigger than a stick of gum. Powered by the same tools found in your Wii Remote and with an amazingly beautiful set of data visualizations to check-in on your activity online, FitBit is a steal for $99.
Dive Slates
We were taken by surprise this morning when Cameron Moll recommended using a diving slate for capturing ideas while in the shower. We’ve all had those lightbulb moments while standing under the fall of water, but remembering them by the time you dry off is a challenge. No more! Dive slates are used by scuba divers to take notes underwater, so the drip-drop from your shower won’t keep you from documenting ‘the next big thing.’
Amazon has a variety of diving slates in a range of sizes and prices ranging from about $7 to $20.
Photo by Cameron Moll