CH Video iMix

If you've been watching Cool Hunting Video you may have also tuned in to our soundtracks. For each episode we select music from young and innovative artists that fit the story we're reporting. m ss ng p eces producer Ari Kuschnir has been curating music since 2003 under his Nugroove title and brings that wealth of experience to making these selections. Some of the artists …

Cool Hunting Video Presents: Amorphophallus Titanum

We go to the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens to visit to the biggest celebrity in the plant world: Amorphophallus Titanum

Designers have long been plagiarizing nature’s organic shapes and colors, but even the most creative don’t rival the ingenious, stunning—and in this case peculiar—examples of flora and fauna. A celebrity of the plant world, the Amorphophallus Titanum, or “the corpse flower,” is a rare bloom that’s native to Indonesia and known for the extreme smell that it emits when it opens. Last week at the …

The Urban Forest Project

The Urban Forest Project is a design-centric socially conscious event in two parts. The first is a collection of 185 banners that will be on display in Times Square (from 1 September to 31 October 2006). The tree-themed banners (a selection can be seen above) represent work by a who's who of the creative community. All of them can be seen (and enlarged) on The …