Josh Spear

A member of the global COOL HUNTING network of contributors.

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Laboratory5

Laboratory5 is a husband and wife team that makes a nice line of progressive greeting cards, stationary, note cards, and other hand made and unique goodies. I particularly like the note card …

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Pare Umbrellas

I don’t think I’ve ever really owned a quality umbrella– or an umbrella at all for that matter. If I were to get one, I’d naturally want to get a quality one, …

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Dephect Clothing

London based Depecht Clothing has a nice collection of t-shirts, clearly inspired by street culture and graffiti. Lots of turntables and scratching references, graffiti hand styles and more. I think this “Scratch” …

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The Zoom Quilt

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There isn’t much you can say about this collaborative art project called “The Zoom Quilt“, you just need to see it for yourself. Take a look, and you’ll be impressed, and you’ll …

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Shift Bicycle

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Shift Bicycle was designed by Scott Shim, Ryan Lightbody and Matt Grossman, and it won them top honors in a bicycle design competition held by the Taiwanese Government. The technology is simple, …

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NIN + Garageband

Whether you’re a Trent Reznor fan or not, this is a pretty damn inventive way to release a single. We now know Trent Reznor is a Macintosh user, because he has released …

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Google Maps Meets Craigslist

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In my mind this little utility is simply just a genius mix. The cross pollination of two of the best resources available on the internet– Google’s new mapping service, and the classified …

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Volcano Stadium

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Studio Massaud, clearly have a wonderful imagination. These are computer generated images of a new soccer stadium set to look like a mexican volcano–they won a competition to design this new stadium. …

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Freebord S2 Bindings

Freebord (covered witness both the old school and the new school–one guy riding a larger board in flip flops and another riding a smaller board with bindings. It was wild, to say …