Entoto Beth Artisan

Beautiful jewelry made in Ethiopia aims to empower women and restore the HIV-affected region

Farmers till the fields in Ethiopia, harvesting artillery shells and re-purposing the casings left from the African nation’s civil war. Such is the inspiration for Entoto Beth Artisans, a fair-trade business helping transform destruction into beauty. Named for the Entoto Mountains set in central Ethiopia, a holy site that has attracted a community of HIV positive individuals in search of healing, Entoto Beth Artisans aims …

Stix Toys

Stay-at-home dads and the delight of imagination inspire this build-your-own toy set

Colin O’Dowd is a young designer and a young father. Having seen firsthand how dads’ roles have evolved in recent times, the Central Saint Martins grad launched a project based on the fact there are more stay-at-home dads now than ever before. Named Stix Toys, the mission is to encourage fathers to share and teach their children in a playful way. Each Stix pack contains …

Affinity Kissena World Champion Edition Track Bike

The Brooklyn-based shop celebrates the unrivaled success of their proprietary design with a limited-edition frame

Since its founding in 2006, Brooklyn’s Affinity Cycles has made quite the name for themselves worldwide thanks to a knack for developing innovative track and road frame designs—not to mention an impressively stocked Williamsburg shop. While each frame that bears the CNC-machined Affinity “A” badge is one to behold, their Kissena track frame (named for the infamous Kissena Velodrome in Queens, NY) is the most …