Cool Hunting Video Presents: Terrapin Stationers

Behind the scenes at the world's most fun and offensive printing press

In our final video that premiered at this year’s 99u, we spent the day in midtown Manhattan with Terrapin Stationers. Operating for nearly a century, this printing house has kept up with the times by adding a contemporary element to their business with some catchy—and possibly offensive—stationery. Still using traditional techniques, with a focus on hand-crafted quality, Terrapin offers beautiful engraved stationery with some very …

Bomma’s Hi-Tech Crystal

Czech designers stray from tradition to produce an innovative collection of precision-cut glassware

by Adam tch The Czech Republic is famous for traditional handmade glass. Czech glass is associated with precise, handmade work created in old-fashioned factories using time-honored techniques. But two years ago the forward-thinking company Bohemia Machinelocated in Svtl, the cradle of genuine Bohemian cut crystallooked to create a way of producing high-end glassware using robotic technology. Bohemia Machine was founded in 1992 as a company …

Hollywood Star Chart by Dorothy

The British design studio reimagines constellations as cherished classic and modern American films

British design and ideas studio Dorothy has just unveiled two Hollywood Star Chart prints, each of which re-imagine, and re-name, the constellations after some of the most culturally significant films to have emerged from American cinema since 1927. The Golden Age Star Chart is, Dorothy tells us, “based on the night sky over Los Angeles on 6 October 1927, the release date of Al Jolson’s …