Letterboard for iPad

Weird shoes and swaddled booze meet vintage video games and custom bikes in this week's link round-up

Riffing on the design of a classic felt letterboard, Culture Three Limited’s just-released a iPad app is a simple way to display a message with tons of analog charm. Available for iPod or iPad for $1 from iTunes and with limitless uses, it’s a minuscule price to pay to turn next Thanksgiving into an AA meeting.

Hennessy Very Special Flask Sleeve

Weird shoes and swaddled booze meet vintage video games and custom bikes in this week's link round-up

Notcot’s obsession over the new king of all drink cozies, the Hennessy Very Special Flask Sleeve results in a photo essay of the detail and bendiness of the silicon sleeve. Like iPod or phone cases of the same material, it snugly wraps around a flask-sized bottle of Hennessy—a perfect alternative to the sippy cup for the butterfingers out there that still enjoy a good hard …

Porter Spring/Summer 2011

The latest bags from a Japanese cult brand

Renowned for their attention to detail, practical construction and timeless aesthetic, Porter‘s Spring/Summer 2011 collection combines these attributes with exciting new features such as reissued WWII Waldes zippers, goat skin zipper pulls and stonewashed PVC fabrics. Highlights from the 75-year-old cult Japanese brand’s latest collection include the Worker series, which integrates Zimbabwean cotton with Californian sun-form cotton for an “antique brown duck” fabric and the …