Yeah, that’s right. It’s a laptop case in a hardcover book. Thank you, Twelve South.

“Motivation comes from the relentless desire to get back to that briefest pause on the mountaintop. It’s as simple and as hard as that.”—Martin Lawless, 300million
From Logo Design Love: A Guide to Creating Iconic Brand Identities.

I recently sat in for a friend of mine, Ben Liddle. I also just so happened to have gotten a new haircut that day, but that’s besides the point. This was part of one project he’s been working on, and the second is a part of other painted portraits. Unfortunately, he doesn’t have either one [...]

With abbreviated messaging available in the form of Twitter and text messaging, of course there would be a website dedicated to photographs and the short stories associated with them. Pictory does this (as well as the trend of combining key words à la “Vimeo” and “Blog”) for a quick convenient sift and scroll for the [...]

I had the pleasure of working on a 30-second commercial this past spring for a very ambitious and talented friend of mine, Jason McLagan. It just started out as a pet project for him as a contest entry for Bombers Burrito Bar in Albany. But for any normal matriculated student, projects pile up and he [...]

I’ve been meaning to post this for a while now. I sketched this in my little Moleskine while I was still interning for Studio D at Hearst. It was inspired by a lovely image by the resident bad-ass photographer, Sarra Fleur. Like many of my sketches they begin with a little object and then [...]

The Rake is a finely tailored suit with gold cuff-links and a monogrammed pocket-square. It’s a polished parlour with the scent of tobacco leaves and scotch. It doesn’t aim to shock or be the latest in the cutting edge, it aims to preserve exquisite traditions of the fine tailors of Milan and Savile Row. With [...]

A few years ago I attended a wedding in Chinatown in New York City. Just before, I explored some of the neat– albeit, sketchy– shops on Canal Street. I had come across a normal looking high heel shoe, but it eliminated the arch in the middle. Of course it didn’t look very comfortable and [...]

It’s an inevitable occurence that when one thinks of New York City, the smell is such a distinctive reminder, after all smell is the strongest sense linked to memory. And we all have different experiences, whether it’s Magnolia’s Cupcakes when you’re walking down Bleecker or the smell of pizza dough rising from an oven [...]

Shel Silverstein answers that for us.