Arts & Design

Love the outdoors? Run and hike often? Excellent. Pick up those $150 running shoes and get ready to invest another $60 in them. You’ll be getting a set of Microspikes; designed and produced by Kahtoola. Think snow chains for your shoes. As you hike and jog over icy surfaces, you’ll be laughing with total confidence. Those other hikers? Amateurs. You’re ...

I’m not going to print designer (and possibly musician?) Nick Cave’s little manifesto on why he created furry penis costumes. That’s between him, god and his altar boy but regardless, some of these designs are pretty unique (read: penis-shaped). As the head of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Cave calls his “Soundsuits” wearable costumes that hide every ...

I love the graphic: “Data flow.” Cute, you know, ’cause it’s a fucking tampon. Get it in 1GB, 8GB or 16GB. If it fucks up, you can probably recover the data but you’ll never recover your pride. Link [via]

One of my favorite movies of all time, behind the The Dark Knight, is Bambi. The ending is just so choice. Why not bring the big screen into your living room with this papercraft deer. It’s easy to print out and construct and when you and your friends get wasted, you can shout names at it and crush it with ...

Here’s a creative idea: take an old, radical skateboard deck and turn it into a usable chair. Aside from recycling and bringing new design to the living room, the Skede chair is available with a deck from Control or without a deck. That means you can add your own or Ryan Ash can add his broken NOFX skate deck. No ...

Those shady motherfuckers at Apple decided to mention a Mac Pro update an hour after I caught the original update on the iMac and Mac Mini. The new Mac Pros cost $300 less than before, feature new Intel “Nehalem” Xeon CPUs (read: hella fuckin’ fast) and better graphics cards standard. Some bullshit about DDR3 RAM and that about sums it ...

Want the muscles of Bruce Wayne without the annoying butler or billions of dollars? Exactly. Throw down $78 and pick up this full-zip hoodie from Lot 29 Urban Wear. Batman’s face is screened onto the hood so your face will even be disguised whilst you rob a bank save a bank being robbed. I’d prefer a little more color on ...

R2DJ, RJD2, R2D2 – whatever your poison, you gotta respect the original droid. This boombox is crafted to look like R2D2, except there’s no midget inside controlling it. Unfortunately, it’s a non-working model, effectively shattering your dreams of a Death Star breakdance competition. Link

I’m not quite sure what the Type Cube is supposed to be but from what I can gather, you can design your own fonts using cubes with painted shapes on them. Use black squares and quarter-leaves to spell out classic words like “BONER” and “TOOL.” Actually, Type Cubes look like a fun way to teach children about letters, design and ...

This purple suede skull is called “Vanity” and is one of the many impressive works from designer Natalia Brilli. If you don’t visit her website, who knows what’ll happen. You might wake up with your dick covered in green leather. Link [via]