Cool Hunting Video: Rockwell Unscripted for Knoll

David Rockwell shares the details of the brands' latest collaboration

When Knoll was looking for a design partner to collaborate on a collection of furniture that suited modern work styles and environments “there was only one person to call, and that was David Rockwell,” says Benjamin Pardo, Knoll’s Creative Director. Two very different sensibilities that may at first not seem like the most obvious partnership leverage the design firm’s expertise in theater, play, co-working and …

Brooklyn-Designed Carpenter Watches

Limited edition automatic timepieces drawing inspiration from old pocket watches

After successfully funding on Kickstarter in 2015 and delivering pieces this spring, Brooklyn’s Carpenter Watches now exists as a fledgling company in its own right. Based out of Park Slope, founder and designer Neil Carpenter continues to offer his three limited edition aviation-inspired wristwatches, which he developed over seven years while holding a nine-to-five job as an industrial designer. Everything that drew initial backers still …

A Magical “Eyedropper” for Typeface

Spector is just as magical as its James Bond-sounding name: it’s a small tool that captures fonts from the real world and imports them into InDesign for use on your own project. This is a working prototype made by Fiona O’Leary, for her graduation project at the Royal College of Art—and at the moment, can identify seven fonts. The fervor for this handy designer’s tool …