Kim Smits & Matthijs Maat release “Custom Kicks” a compilation of some of the worlds best customized kicks.

              If you thought sex toys were ghastly and simply not beautiful, think again. If you can't get to New York for the show, flip through a few examples of "Sex in Design", at the virtual gallery. Design has the power to shape experience; lending intensity to sexual encounters [...]

I guess it was in the making, I mean you can’t have an iconic Television commercial for a rather iconic product without some young entrepreneur making the most of it. Presenting the: InterOffice Mac Envelope Sleeve, the functional version of the envelope Steve Jobs used to unveil the new MacBook Air in Apples new TV [...]

Zurich based bag makers still sustainable, 14 years on.

At a sunset performance on at beach in Ishikawa Prefecture, western Japan, the 66-year-old Yamashita, wearing a firefighter’s uniform, recently played an improvised jazz piece before about 500 spectators seated in a wide semicircle around him. No sooner had he begun playing, the piano burst into performance for a full ten minutes before all the [...]

The niche opportunities still to be discovered online never cease to amaze us here at Cartel, though one specific site that definitley went around our office the past week is that of Shoetube, a new video-sharing site for those obsessed with shoes; launched about two weeks ago by Massachusetts-based Powderhouse Productions, Shoetube aims to use [...]

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Marclay’s fascination with music, or more specifically sound, has produced a rather interesting exhibition showcasing her latest body of works. From attaching a guitar to the back of a pick-up truck (Guitar Drag, 2000) to a quad of continually holstering guns set on four walls of a square room (Crossfire, 2007), vinyl covers, cut and [...]

Viktor Schreckengost, who died late Saturday night in Florida, aged 101, was a prolific industrial designer, artist, and teacher who managed in a 70-year career to produce everyday objects from ceramic dinnerware and frying pans to metal lawn chairs for Sears, and everyone’s childhood favorite—the banana-seat bicycle. Schreckengost was born on June 26, 1906 in [...]