For the Birds

Jeff Canham and Luke Bartels' cheeky mini cityscape for feathered friends

Painter Jeff Canham and woodworker Luke Bartels stumbled upon the idea to make birdhouses while sharing a studio space together in San Francisco. Now on view at local boutique The Curiosity Shoppe, their show “For the Birds” shows the mix of complimentary skills born of this friendship, a collection of birdhouses cleverly trimmed to mimic “seedy” urban counterparts. Well-known for signage and design work for …

Cool Hunting iPad App

Our spanking-new interface for stories and videos on Apple's latest innovative device

The most exciting new hardware launched by Apple since the iPhone, the iPad presents a brand new platform for consuming online content. To perfectly tailor our publication to the touch-screen medium, we developed the Cool Hunting application—a free app (downloadable now from iTunes). Pulling off a project like this takes an amazing team. In our case we worked on the design with BBH and development …

P&M Whiskey

A brewery and distillery team up to make premium whiskey on the island of Corsica

From the island of Corsica, P&M Whiskies represent the joint efforts of two local businesses, the Pietra Brewery and Domaine Mavela, a producer of liqueurs and other spirits. Combining Pietra’s expertise in brewing and fermenting with Mavela’s distillation experience (whiskey is, after all, distilled beer), the two brands came up with the first Corsican whiskey, which they’ve been producing since 2001. The process starts with …