Though the majority of our game-playing time these days is spent staring solitarily at our smartphones moving pixelated candy, nothing quite beats a good old-fashioned board game. While a game like Monopoly is a classic, the newly unveiled );…
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Pixies: Indie Cindy Perhaps a nod to the years during their reign, the video for Pixies’ “Indie Cindy”—a preview track from their surprising forthcoming EP—is bound by a VHS aesthetic. While the legendary Boston-based band is…
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Located just four doors down from Paul Kasmin’s white cube space on 27th street in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood sits a quiet jewel-box shop that serves as the ever-evolving home of the gallery’s newest venture, the …
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For more than 80 years, Virginia-based Moore & Giles have designed some of the best natural leather products. With that same handcrafted attention to detail, they have just launched…
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New York atelier Seize sur Vingt is renowned for its craftsmanship and attention to detail. Specializing in tailored shirts and suiting, the esteemed label is not afraid to boldly experiment with design and fabric, while…
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by Gavin Lucas London-based illustrator Von is no stranger to Cool Hunting, we’ve featured his distinctive monochromatic artwork several times in recent years, because it never ceases to impress us. His latest work, a limited…
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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…
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Resurrecting a 1920s design in burgundy cordovan leather
Heritage brand Wolverine is launching today the 744 LTD, a work boot based on a design originally introduced in the 1920s. The company gave us an exclusive first look at the cordovan leather beauties, which have been hyped in menswear circles for the last few months. Wolverine partnered with…
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From Phil Manzanera to Zsou, our look at the London concept shop’s collection of rare vinyl and audio goods
Late Night Chameleon Cafe—known by most as the covetable e-shop LN-CC—is a cosmic place of wonder, both online and at its Gary Card-designed brick-and-mortar location in the heart of Dalston. With an inventory of esoteric goods filling out the striking, cocoon-like space, it’s easy to feel intimidated by LN-CC’s…
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Mike Abelson sets up a unique print shop at NYC’s Creatures of Comfort
Designers are typically inspired people, and those who have a natural talent can often spot a creative use for even the most familiar object—like the wheel, for example. Such is the case for Postalco‘s imaginative co-founder Mike Abelson, who became obsessed with wheels after seeing the mark that one left on a piece of paper trapped in the sliding glass door of his Tokyo home. This fascination with an object’s unintended purpose led Abelson to create a wheel printer that could add a distinct set of stripes to his finely crafted Postalco notebooks. “If you really step back and think about what printing is, and think about it as mark-making, then in a way this is printing too,” he explained to us at NYC boutique Creatures of Comfort, where he has set up the printer for a one-week residency.
Made entirely from scratch out of household products, the Postalco Wheel Printer is a bit of a Rube Goldberg machine, but Abelson delights in its ability to produce rough, imperfect stripes—an aesthetic that the Japanese have a difficult time allowing. A trained product designer (he helped launch Jack Spade), Abelson spent six months building the printer, experimenting with different wheels and methods.
With Postalco products safely in the hands of quality craftsman, for Abelson the printer is a way to get in on the production side of things, as well as to add to the notebooks’ notoriously handsome but monotone colorways. “Our products are really plain and simple, and are really just sort of geometric. I thought it would be interesting to have something that took place on the surfaces,” he says.
With tiny soy sauce bottles holding the ink, the Postalco Printer operates off of a wooden wheel that Abelson cranks on the side as a notebook passes through, and the carefully placed wheels leave their distinct marks. Those in NYC can pick up one of the one-off notebooks at Creatures of Comfort, which feature special blue and yellow colorways.
The Postalco Wheel Printer will be on display at Creatures of Comfort starting today through 10 July 2012, alongside a new film by Koki Tanaka, which shows the mixed-media artist using various Postalco products in humorous, unconventional scenarios.
See more images of the Wheel Printer in the slideshow below.
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