Secret Squirrel Cold Brew

Creating the ultimate all-American cold brew coffee with Hawaiian beans and LA illustrators

Trevor and Rebecca Smith began their love affair with cold brew coffee by experimenting at home. Their adventures with beans, roasting profiles, brew times, filters and recipes led them to launch Secret Squirrel Cold Brew. The duo transforms organic fair-trade coffee into a cold-brewed concentrate, double filtering each batch for 18 to 24 hours. The 16 oz. bottles yield about seven servings (of eight oz. …

Interview: Sam Walton of Hole & Corner

A British magazine that celebrates the kind of quiet, dedicated craftsmanship that rarely gets indulgent editorial

Hole & Corner is a brand new bi-annual print magazine devoted to “celebrating craft, beauty, passion and skill.” Hot off the press, issue one takes a look at how Chris King carefully handcrafts the world’s best cricket bats, profiles young British cheese maker Becky Dyball and documents a day in the life of family-run Dorset millers Stoate & Sons. Also featured is an interview with …

Bec Brittain

The New York-based lighting designer's flamboyant and playful solo show for NYCxDesign

by LinYee Yuan Since establishing her own studio in 2009, New York-based lighting designer Bec Brittain has established herself with stripped down, crystalline forms in brass and glass. During this year’s New York design week, the designer showed a more flamboyant and playful perspective, debuting four new pieces in her first solo show at E.R. Butler’s SoHo showroom. The exhibition expands on the design vocabulary …