Water Avenue Coffee

Southeast Portland's micro roaster and bean-to-beer experimenter

Portland has developed quite a name for itself over the years as a hub for coffee innovation. Whether it boils down to exotic beans, an experienced roaster, the espresso machine or the whole package, each boutique that opens up has a fresh spin on coffee that goes beyond gimmicks and instead delves into absolute coffee nerdery. One of the more recent shops to open up …

Street Seats

Six Point Resin, Dollar Shave Club, Literary Book Madness and more in our look at the web this week

Developed by Bade Stageberg Cox for the Pier 94 Coffee Bar at The Armory Show this weekend, Street Seats is an assortment of 50 chairs collected from the streets of New York. Painted taxi cab yellow, each one is stamped with the date and location of where it was found.

Invisible Mercedes-Benz

Six Point Resin, Dollar Shave Club, Literary Book Madness and more in our look at the web this week

Demonstrating the invisible carbon footprint of Mercedes’ F-CELL hydrogen fuel cell technology, the car maker sought to render one of their autos truly invisible. A side-mounted 5D Mark II recorded video was projected onto a panel of LEDs on the opposing side, giving the car the appearance of transparency.