The Hill-Side SS13 Animated Lookbook

Blossoming neckties, swirling scarves and peeping pocket squares come out in GIFs

To accompany their just-released SS13 accessories collection, Brooklyn-based design outlet The Hill-Side created a dynamic lookbook of 10 cheeky gifs animating exploding neckties, swirling scarves and peeping pocket squares as their wearers try to sit still. The Hill-Side once again collaborated with director Alan Poon of interactive agency Folkloric to put together the pseudo-stop-action frames (Poon also directed their “How to Tie a Bowtie” instructional …

Coal + Otter Wax 5 Panel Hat Collaboration

Two companies from the Pacific Northwest collaborate on a weatherproof cotton cap

Yes, it does rain more often than not in the Pacific Northwest, but that doesn’t mean you can’t get out and enjoy the wilderness. To outfit all-weather adventurers this spring, Seattle-based hat brand Coal teamed up with their Portland neighbors Otter Wax on a limited edition run of 5-panel cotton canvas caps. Riffing off the Richmond design, the minimal collaboration hat features just a small …

Hard Candy by Yan Rui

Jewelry inspired by Eastern reincarnation philosophy, Nine Inch Nails and more

by Alessandro De Toni In the last few years Beijing’s Central Academy of Fine Arts has become an epicenter of the capital’s creativity, producing an array of talented artists and designers each year. Included among the group of elite graduates is Yan Rui, who after finishing her studies at CAFA in 2006 has gone on to become a professor at the school as well as …