A+: The Young Designers’ Platform

Our favorite three emerging designers from the American Design Club's latest show

An opportunity for emerging designers to showcase their work, A+: The Young Designers’ Platform took place earlier this month during the Accent on Design event at New York’s International Gift Fair. The American Design Club curated the event, aiming to highlight raw new creatives and their recent contributions to the design world. Seven out of ten of this year’s winners also had a focus on …

Gilpin Family Whiskey

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For this weekend’s gross-out conversation starter, go no further than researcher and diabetic James Gilpin’s extreme DIY project. Pointing out the ways we can “harvest the biological resources that our elderly already process in abundance,” he recently started purifying the naturally sugar-rich urine of diabetics to make “pisskey.”

A Night Club Map of Harlem

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Originally published in a 1932 issue of Manhattan Magazine, ” A Night Club Map of Harlem” plots out points of interest and places to be during the NYC neighborhood’s heyday. The painstakingly-detailed illustration is the work of Elmer Simms Campbell, the first African-American cartoonist to be published in national publications like The New Yorker, Esquire, and Cosmopolitan.