Pacemaker

When one of CH's designers tipped us to the Pacemaker, the world's first hand-held DJ system, (right after we also heard about it when in Europe recently), we knew it was worth checking out. Fortunately for us, we had the chance to experience it first hand when co-founder Ola Sars stopped by our offices earlier this week. In person, the "PSP of music's" look, feel …

Design: Logos 01

Logos 01 is an "essential primer" by designers for designers with blow-by-blow accounts of the logo design process. Since it showed up on my desk, it's been catching the eye of designers in the office and prompting them to say things like "I love books like this!" Compiled by Minneapolis-based firm Capsule, the book uses six case studies and a logo gallery (both featuring Capsule's …

Kristen Lee/The Reform Party Shoes

by Loryn Hatch Constructing shoes is no easy feat. As designer Kristen Lee explains, "They're the only piece of fashion that you actually walk in—they have to perform." Lee launched her women's modern-by-way-of-slightly vintage line as an answer to all the "shoes out there being designed by men for this idea of a sexy woman," she says. "I wanted to make feminine shoes with an …