CH Winter 2013 Playlist

Heat it up indoors with 13 tunes sure to spice up the new year

The magic of the holiday season may be behind us, but as winter grows colder things are certainly warming up inside. Whether you’re getting sweaty at a secret dance party in a yurt or raising the temperature under the covers, our CH Winter 2013 Playlist inspires all the right moves when the heat is on. Grab someone to get steamy with and enjoy this myriad …

Barton Damer

Skateboarding, faith and Dalí influence the Dallas-based digital artist

Barton Damer is a Dallas-based digital artist whose hyper-detailed and dizzyingly surreal work, with its up-to-the-minute pop culture sensibility, has garnered attention from companies as big as Nike, Facebook and Supra Footwear, and from musicians as diverse as rapper Lil Wayne, Owl City and Wolfmother. “It’s all over the board,” Damer says of his work. “I’m pleased that it’s not just one trick or one …

OD-11

Swedish design firm Teenage Engineering returns with the world's first cloud speaker

The enfants terribles of the industrial design world return with yet another potential banger of a product, hot on the heels of the OP-1, the synthesizer that made it cool to tickle the ivories. This time Swedish firm Teenage Engineering plundered the license cabinet of Stig Carlsson, the Swedish engineer who dared to challenge the audio establishment with his speakers meant for use in a …