Rare Levi’s Auction

Ray Bradbury's library love, Umami Burger's sauce shop, Venus in transit and more in our weekly look at the web

To raise money for the retiree and employee emergency fund at Levi Strauss & Co., the Red Tab Foundation launched an eBay auction featuring 150 rare, limited edition and one-off Levi’s products. From 1920s buckle-back jeans to Rolling Stones’ signed memorabilia, the auction is certain to offer a fix for denim nerds and collectors alike.

The Feast Presents: The World’s Fare

Ray Bradbury's library love, Umami Burger's sauce shop, Venus in transit and more in our weekly look at the web

Expanding upon their mission to unite creative thinkers working for the betterment of humanity, the Feast Conference is now aiming to create the World’s Fare—hundreds of small dinner parties across the country with a massive final celebration of innovation in New York City.

The Onion’s Great Escape

The story of one vegetable's survival in an interactive children's book

As a cross between illustration, philosophy and paper engineering, Sara Fanelli‘s most recent children’s book “The Onion’s Great Escape” challenges the limitations of reading as an interactive experience. Following the quest of an onion as it attempts to escape its apparent fate of death by frying, the book’s perforated core is removed page-by-page until, at the end, the onion is literally freed from the book. …