Once upon a time, most of us drew with a physical pen on actual paper. Then in the late 80s computer geniuses gave us Photoshop, an image editing program, where we drew and altered lines and pixels on a screen. “To celebrate the 25th birthday of Photoshop Christoph Niemann and Jon Huang have made the web app ‘You Made That‘, which brings the magic of drawing and painting back to its simpler and messier origin (designboom).”
It’s really fun… play with it here!
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We get very excited and giddy like a 14 year-old girl when we come across well-thought-out designs that are functional and damn good looking.
So it wasn’t a surprise that we felt tingles of excitement when we recently came across Jurij Lozić’s, Musguard, bike fender. Die-cut from a sheet of recycled polypropylene, Musguard rolls up for storage around your bike frame and attaches to your bike without the use of hardware when in use. Lozić’s fender is a brilliant and simple upgrade from the traditional fender in every way possible.
If you like it too, help Musguard raise some money on Kickstarter so that they can manufacture more colors!
MUSGUARD – Manual from Musguard on Vimeo.
MUSGUARD – Testing from Musguard on Vimeo.
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Waking up on my friend’s dorm room floor Sunday morning I was both excited and exhausted. That day we had planned to go to the Sutro Baths, something he had showed me the night before, and a true monument to human achievement and its eventual decay.
Created in 1896 the Sutro Baths of western San Francisco were at the time the world’s largest swimming pool establishment. Originally owned by entrepreneur and former San Francisco mayor, Adolph Sutro, the baths stayed in commission until 1966 when they were abandoned. Today just the shell stands of the original structure, but take it from a first hand observer, the ruins are awe inspiring in their own right. The ruins include seven different swimming pools, six salt water and one fresh, varying in temperature and depth. Nestled on the coast of the Pacific Ocean the Baths are a breathtaking spectacle. Walking the ruins on a perfect spring day one cannot help but be overwhelmed by the sensory overload of ocean juxtaposed against the mesmerizingly still waters of the baths. I strongly advice visiting the baths.  They are in my opinion one of the hidden treasures of the West Coast.
 
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We would really like one of Jonathan Ward’s ICON beauties. “Classic styling, modern performance, and timeless utility”… kind of like how we like our clothes!
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Anywhere you go in The Netherlands, the one thing you will be guaranteed to see are bricks. Brick homes, brick sidewalks, brick bike lanes, brick bridges, etc, etc… It’s no wonder they’ve invented this brick road paving machine! Seems like a pretty fucking sick tool if you ask us. We wonder what other patterns are possible with this tool?
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