Shinola + WorkOf Benefit Auction for Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit

Designers from NYC and LA create one-off holiday ornaments worth keeping

Detroit-based Shinola and online maker marketplace WorkOf have come together to spread some holiday cheer with a special showcase auction run by Paddle8. They’ve tapped designers from the East and West Coasts to create unique, one-off ornaments that put the ubiquitous bauble to shame. Many familiar names abound like Chen & Kai, Helen Levi (who made a hangable miniature of her sought-after ceramic mugs), Surname …

Richard Mille’s RM 07-02 Pink Lady Sapphire Watch

A technically advanced, hand-decorated timepiece inspired by a cocktail

One might not be surprised to learn that most technical advancements in watchmaking (and their subsequent application) occur regarding men’s pieces. This is true of many brands, including Swiss innovator Richard Mille—and yet, with their brand new RM 07-02 Pink Lady Sapphire Watch they’ve taken a technical advancement they introduced to men’s watches in 2012 and applied it in a grand, updated form for a …

Watch a Cardboard Guitar Come to Life

For their latest experimental project, Signal Snowboards—a company known for previously building a skateboard, push bike and surfboard from cardboard—has ventured into the music world. Teaming up with Fender and Ernest Packaging, they built a custom Stratocaster guitar completely from the paper product and then passed it around to factory workers and musicians to test it out. Watch the cardboard guitar come to life at …