The Hill-Side SS13 Animated Lookbook

Blossoming neckties, swirling scarves and peeping pocket squares come out in GIFs

To accompany their just-released SS13 accessories collection, Brooklyn-based design outlet The Hill-Side created a dynamic lookbook of 10 cheeky gifs animating exploding neckties, swirling scarves and peeping pocket squares as their wearers try to sit still. The Hill-Side once again collaborated with director Alan Poon of interactive agency Folkloric to put together the pseudo-stop-action frames (Poon also directed their “How to Tie a Bowtie” instructional …

Interview: Chris Brown of Refueled Magazine

The magazine's founder talks about his passion for print and offers a sneak peek at the next issue

by Madison Kahn Born and raised in Texas, Chris Brown cultivated his penchant for the publishing world at an early age. At a meager eight-years-old, Brown created an illustrated zine about his neighborhood, and has been working hard ever since to both tell the stories of people he encounters and format them in a thoughtfully constructed package. This is best seen in Refueled, a magazine …

Hard Candy by Yan Rui

Jewelry inspired by Eastern reincarnation philosophy, Nine Inch Nails and more

by Alessandro De Toni In the last few years Beijing’s Central Academy of Fine Arts has become an epicenter of the capital’s creativity, producing an array of talented artists and designers each year. Included among the group of elite graduates is Yan Rui, who after finishing her studies at CAFA in 2006 has gone on to become a professor at the school as well as …