Archive: February 27, 2011
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I’m really impressed with the storage capacity and design of the Thule Crossover 30 Liter Backpack. The bag comes with a crush-proof top compartment for goggles and accessories and a huge main compartment for just about everything else. Beautiful all around in my opinion.

Japan Airlines (JAL) CEO Haruka Nishimatsu cut his own pay to an amount below that of his company’s own pilots when hard times hit the airline. He was forced to ask older employees to retire early and had to cut many jobs to keep the company afloat. But rather than simply doing that to his [...]

The Boston IDEO office has created this C60 music player that uses RFID tags embedded in physical cards to make mixtapes. It’s an idea that attempts to put the physical nature back into creating mixtapes which have largely become an act of clicking and dragging files on a computer. It’s kind of a low-tech + [...]

cocktails

Look at this beautiful cocktails chart by Konstantin Datz. The chart breaks down 30 popular cocktail drinks and shows them as dissected visualizations of what make up that particular drink. The close-up details on the project website are phenomenal.

The High Line is set to unveil Kim Beck’s outdoor sculpture installation called Space Available this week. The work will be featured along the current High Line Park route and show 2D cutouts of billboard skeletons that appear 3D at particular angles. If you’re a fan of the High Line, this should be something to [...]

The sounds of Volkswagen vehicles, direct from the mouths of those who experience it first hand. This is a great commercial.