Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Outdoor adventures, poisonous cronuts, the First Lady of hip-hop and everyone's favorite amateur painter in our weekly look at the web

1. Iconic Music Logos, Explained Back in March, Red Bull Music Academy compiled an impressive list of iconic music logos from bands, record labels and even clubs, with the story behind each emblem’s inception. DFA Records rediscovered this gem: Tweeting their surprise for being considered “iconic” when the disco-punk label turns only 12 this year. Although the origin of the logo dates back to a …

Hawt Sauce by Holloway Kitchen

London-based Telegramme spice it up with sumptuous packaging for the newly-released, small-batch condiment

Made from just 10 ingredients, Hawt Sauce is the result of a year’s experimentation and is the very first product to emerge from Adam Brooks’ start-up culinary enterprise, Holloway Kitchen. “It’s unusual in that it’s very thick, almost like a salsa,” he says. “The idea is that it’s more versatile than your average hot sauce—it’s just as at home topping burgers as it is stirred …

“Osmosi” by Emmanuel Babled

The designer teams up with Italian craftsmen for a pairing of marble and glass

Some products own the rare ability to combine magic and technology, craftsmanship and digitalization, uniqueness and industrial processesbut Emmanuel Babled‘s latest project, called “Osmosi,” incorporates all of that. Babled’s pre-production research has two distinct directions: product and edition. While the first holds truer to a traditional approach in the design world, the latter is definitely experimental and often encourages his clients to raise the bar, …