Beta Unit

A Southern California streetwear label's multifunctional clothes for modern mystics

Southern California’s Beta Unit introduces streetwear to an apocalyptic aesthetic that’s usually reserved for the runway. In the upcoming fall collection, knits with mystical-looking geometric patterns bring crop formations to mind and functional details fit for nomads, like a hood that converts into a scarf, feature prominently. “Like many of our other projects, we were driven by simply wanting to see an idea we had …

Link About It: This Week’s Picks

The textbook of iPads, DVF hospital gowns, getting lost on purpose and more in our look back at the week on the web

1. Kno Of the many iPad rivals popping up recently, the Kno’s dual-screen design makes some of the most exciting promises. The new hardware company, positioning the device as “everything a textbook was and will be,” might just be able to pull it off with a $46 million investment from Netscape founder Marc Andreessen’s firm. 2. Getting Lost Follow Matt Gross, the former New York …

Kno

The textbook of iPads, DVF hospital gowns, getting lost on purpose and more in our look back at the week on the web

Of the many iPad rivals popping up recently, the Kno’s dual-screen design makes some of the most exciting promises. The new hardware company, positioning the device as “everything a textbook was and will be,” might just be able to pull it off with a $46 million investment from Netscape founder Marc Andreessen’s firm.