Shopping with Kiel Mead: Recliners

A one-off Maybach, architectural shoes, chambray city and more bests of the web this week

Our boy and founder of the American Design Club, Kiel Mead, goes looking for a chair worthy of Super Bowl watching.

Le Programme de ma Semaine

Plan week by week with this Francophile notebook

Combining their love of French tendance with clean and playful design, Tokyo stationery brand Mark’s Inc. aptly call their striking weekly planner “Le programme de ma semaine.” Each page features a blank calendar with the days divided into two sections, while the unprinted reverse side provides ample room for jotting down notes. The spiral-bound style helps both for laying it open on a desk or …

Cool Hunting Rough Cut: LoSiento

Watch our video on how a burgeoning design studio takes typography to the fourth dimension

by Gregory Stefano While in Barcelona recently (thanks to Red) we visited Borja Martínez, the founder of LoSiento, a studio that specializes in 3D typography, packaging and product design. Young and imaginative, the small firm is constantly pushing the limits of what can be accomplished with paper as a medium. One of Borja’s founding philosophies is encouraging self-initiated projects at the studio, an approach of …