The 99% Conference 2012

Day one of this year's conference on idea execution

Today marks the first day of this year’s 99% Conference, our annual ideas-focused event we co-founded with Behance four years ago. For the 2012 conference we’re looking forward to hearing from inspirational speakers like design legend James Victore, co-founder of Warby Parker Neil Blumenthal and StumbleUpon founder Garrett Camp, to name a few, as well as events, workshops and an exciting round of Cool Hunting …

Andrew YES and The BOFFO Show House

Our interview with the honorary designer and co-curator of the NYC-based art and design showcase

by Matt Domino BOFFO was founded in 2008 as a means of fostering artist collaboration and inspiration in the design world during a time of financial and, for many young architects and designers, spiritual crisis. Nearly four years later, Faris Al-Shathir and Gregory Sparks, BOFFO ‘s founders, asked designer Andrew YES to be the honorary designer and co-curator of the first BOFFO Show House, running …

A Girl and Her Pig

April Bloomfield on cookbooks, swine and the flavors of childhood

Having established both her talent and an unassuming sense of cool, April Bloomfield has chosen an appropriate cover shot for her new cookbook, “A Girl and Her Pig“, which shows the chef nonchalantly posed with a very dead hog slung across her shoulders. Her landmark restaurant The Spotted Pig and its follow-up The Breslin both welcome a whole pig each week to be butchered at …