CH Edition: Budnitz Bicycles Model No. 1 Scorcher

Our latest collaboration results in the ultimate city bike, and we're giving it away

The contest concluded Wednesday 19 June at 4PM EST. Thank you to everyone who entered. In recent months we’ve teamed up with Tumi to design our ideal travel backpack and 3×1 for a denim apron worthy of the finest cook-outs. And now, to inspire further outdoor exploration in the coming summer months, we’ve collaborated with our friends at Budnitz Bicycles to create the ultimate single-speed …

“Design Feeling” and Neo-Transitional Objects

Designer objects fraught with meaning counterbalance uncertainty in the digitally dependent reality

by Stefano Caggiano Everyday objects shape our lives into cognitive patterns. Often, however, these objects are ill-designed. Design thinking is then called in to untangle the not-always-coherent running of our object-related routines. However important, this design thinking—or making user-experience more seamless—cannot solve all problems. The greater meaning of an object experience has at least as much importance as the function in the perceived quality of …

CH Edition: 3×1 Denim Pitmaster Apron

We teamed up with NYC's preeminent denim depot for a selvedge summer time essential

For city dwellers, it’s rooftop season. For everyone else, it’s time for backyard parties. Either way, nothing makes good company better than a BBQ and some cold ones. With this in mind we recently teamed up with NYC’s preeminent denim heads, our friends at 3×1, for our latest CH Edition, the Pitmaster Apron. Handmade of rare Barber Pole denim from Cone Mills—specially selected for its …