Cool Hunting Video Presents: Diesel:U:Music Tour 2009

Santigold and Kid Cudi chart how the arrived at their genre-bending styles.

by Diesel to check out the Miami stop of their annual Diesel:U:Music Tour last month, we shot a video taking it back to rock and roll basics with headliners Kid Cudi and Santigold. Talking to them about how the genre influences their own multi-hyphenate sound, we also see the two artists perform (complete with Santigold’s clever dancers channeling everything from Public Enemy’s S1W to West …

Brian Ulrich: Ghosts of Shopping Past

In a timely if sobering reminder of the ever changing retail landscape around us, The Morning News recently posted "The Ghosts of Shopping Past," an online gallery of photographs by Chicago-based lensman Brian Ulrich, whose Copia project we covered in 2008. A collection of exterior and interior retail wastelands, the images starkly implicate our collective failure to not only repurpose the abandoned spaces but to …

Ten Calendars For 2010

For all the uses of a calendar—marking engagements, identifying days, counting down time and organizing schedules—digital might suffice but nothing beats the charm of a well-designed paper version. More than just a simple record of duties and celebrations, calendars themselves add a chic touch to environments with beautiful illustrations and images. Past years, we've highlighted calendars from MWM, Tielen, Studio On Fire and Stephen Turbeck …