Tinker Hatfield on the Air Max Zero

Since its introduction in 1987, the Nike Air Max 1 has become a global icon in sneaker design, yet very few know its origin story—until now. To celebrate its self-proclaimed Air Max Day on 26 March 2015, Nike will launch the Air Max Zero, the very first shoe design to include a built-in, see-through bubble, which was eventually scrapped due to marketing issues. To learn …

Cool Hunting Video: Taxi Amulets of Bangkok

The many religious and pop culture shrines inside Thailand's cabs

While traveling in Bangkok, we asked American-turned-Bangkokian, Dale Konstanz, if he could give us a glimpse into the day-to-day on the city’s bustling streets. Creator of the blog “Still Life in Moving Vehicles” and the book Thai Taxi Talismans, Konstanz has a fascination with Bangkok’s taxi culture—particularly their objects of taxi adornment. He took us around markets and street venders to see the variety in …

Architect Michael Graves Dies at 80

Michael Graves, one of the most influential architects in modern American design, died on 12 March 2015 at the age of 80. Graves was an early member of The New York Five, a group of architects whose works stood as the pinnacle of modernist design in the 1970s, but later defected from the group to pursue post-modernist design in the ‘80s. Aside from the staggering …