If you glance over the label on any skincare product sitting on your shelves, you’ll most likely find a long list of chemical or synthetic ingredients. Resolutely taking the opposite approach is Brooklyn-based S.W. Basics. To simply label them “all natural” seems inaccurate, since the phrase is tossed around so freely in the unregulated cosmetics industry. Instead, S.W. Basics can be described as a line …
Novalia is a team of seven scientists, programmers and designers from Cambridge, England whose members love all things creative. The small technology firm wants to put their platform in the hands of musicians, artists and other creatives—starting with an interactive drum-kit poster. Simply touching or tapping the printed poster with your fingers triggers seven different sounds that make up the drum-kit. Two different types of …
It’s potentially easier to spot a killer whale off San Diego’s coast than to find a one-stop men’s clothing store that features up-and-coming local designers—at a reasonable price. Seeing the void in the market in the area, Aloha Sunday was started two years ago as a continually evolving retail experiment. The name originates from the familiar Hawaiian phrase for TGIF, “Aloha Friday,” where one says …
