Josh Rubin

Josh Rubin is COOL HUNTING's founder, editor and executive creative director. He brings his background as a photographer and expertise as a user experience designer to his point of view on what makes a good story for CH—this most often include some kind of intersectionality between art, culture, technology and design. Josh is a bit of an urban hippie, obsessed with most things Japanese, a Sealyham Terrier lover and very food motivated.

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Seeking Green Striped Headphones

Our friend Rebecca picked up a pair of these fun green striped Zumreed headphones during her last trip to Tokyo. Unfortunately they were just destroyed in the hands of an adorable yet …

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Reader Contributions

Have a site you want to share with the community of Cool Hunting readers? Utilizing del.icio.us we now have a way for you to do it quickly and easily. Here’s how it …

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Alife Rebirth

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Alife finally reopened last week next to sneaker sporting sister, Alife Rivington Club. The new space is smaller than their their original one on Orchard Street and this time around it's dedicated …

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Fancy Pants Punk

Gossip monger cum fashion designer Jared Paul Stern is best known for his contributions at the New York Post and Star magazine. His new fashion line, Skull & Bones, is a pleasant …

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Polo Skull Slip-ons

I've been a long-standing fan of the skull as graphic, symbol and stylized object. Now that it's chic, artisans like Wings & Horns and mainstreamers like Vans have made skull-adorned products more …

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New DURKL

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Sometimes everyone around me thinks I'm ridiculous for taking a liking to one thing or another. In this case it's DURKL. Maybe it's the result of being a youth in Miami in …

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Recently Needled

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Marisa has a few great posts today over at Needled that are must reads: An artist profile of Leeds based Steve Byrne who's also a painter and architect and has an incredible …

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Gorillaz Mash-up Winner

If you happened to catch Cool Hunting in the right moment a few weeks back you saw that we were running a Gorrilaz mash-up contest. Unfortunately we were asked to take the …