Cool Hunting c/o Quarterly Co: Shipment Five

Our latest shipment delivers a handmade Huichol disc celebrating the traditional Mexican art and craft

Our Quarterly Co subscribers know we love to work with artists and are very inspired by our travels. CHQ05, just hitting mailboxes, celebrates Huichol, a traditional Mexican art and craft using small colorful beads to decorate clothing, instruments, animal figures, skulls, and other items in traditional motifs including rain, butterflies, eagles, and the sun. The art is part mystical, part religious, very connected to the …

Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Braun Archive Auction, Chocolate Canon D60, Kiln-Fired Sneakers and more in our weekly look at the web

1. Transporter After a thrillingly successful Kickstarter campaign, the Transporter digital storage solution is now available for purchase. Keep an eye out for our forthcoming review on this device, which allows unlimited online (but not cloud-based) private file sharing through 2.5″ SATA II/III hard drives without recurring fees. 2. Comparing The World’s Richest People Bloomberg Billionaires presents a visual data plot of the world’s richest …

Microsoft Office 365

The old dog learns new, cloud-centric tricks for the modern user

By Evan Orensten and James Thorne We’ve been trying out Windows 8 for a while now—not to mention testing the new generation of tablets and notebooks that has sprung up around the OS. Our overall impression is that it addresses the market’s demand for content on-the-go, cross-platform syncing and the versatility of touch screens matched with the power of a mouse and keyboard. With the …