Cannondale Bad Boy 1: Urban Performance

On the road with the agile yet street smart ride that's making us rethink hybrids

Hybrid bikes tend to attract unanimously negative connotations from purist cyclists—and often rightly so. Most popular with beginners or those who turn the pedals once a year, hybrids draw on design characteristics from purpose-built classes of bikes like road and mountain bikes to create an easy, smooth, if not performance-minded ride (think overly padded saddles and geometry that feels like it’s designed to constrain power …

A 100% Canadian Vodka from Odd Society Spirits

East Van Vodka is crafted with old-world techniques and is only available in BC

It’s no secret that vodka is a crowded space in the alcohol industry, often with differentiation between brands seeming to begin and end with the label. So when Vancouver native Gordon Glanz set out to develop a distillery in the Canadian city after studying the science and craft in Scotland, he knew it had to be special. Odd Society Spirits is a certified craft distillery—part …

Études Studio on Crossing Creative Lines

Fashion, publishing, a creative agency and a new pop-up are all in a day's work for this hybrid collective

Crossing lines and breaking boundaries is nothing new in the creative community—in fact, it’s largely what the industry is built upon. Communications designers become brand engineers, painters design textiles and ceramicists dabble in industrial engineering. However, few manage to bridge so many fields quite like Études Studio. Founded in 2012, with offices in both Paris and New York City, the collective publishes its own books, …