Bike To The Beach Bag

Quirky camping meets civilized cycling for the ultimate getaway bag

Popping up at Eastern Mountain Sports‘ NYC locale, San Francisco-based Alite Design brings their colorfully inventive camping gear to the East Coast. To celebrate, they’ve teamed up with the sophisticated cyclists at Outlier on an ergonomic Bike to the Beach Bag. Inspired by a NYC seaside hotspot accessible only by bike, the bag is designed to carry a towel, sandals and food while staying securely …

2010 Puma Bikes

Puma and Biomega's latest remixed and remodeled urban bike

With the anticipated launch of www.puma-bikes.com, Puma and Biomega introduce their newest generation of urban bikes. (CH has covered previous models produced in the collaboration.) Distilling the practical components of continental city and folding bikes, fixed gears, BMXs and cruisers, the 2010 range is a hybrid of European design and American style. Included in the range are five base models—Disko, Funk, Nevis Man, Nevis Lady …

(Bar)barian

New creative studio No. 1 Son teams up with Esque glassblowers for a collection of decadent objects

Born of a meditation on authenticity, the recent collaboration between design studio No. 1 Son and the innovative glassmakers at Portland-based Esque Studio flirts with scale and fantasy for a collection of modern heirlooms “so exotic and unique, that it truly would be an object passed on to generations to come.” Esque artist Andi Kovel continues, the “concept is staged in the future, but just …