Adam Green: Hot Chicks: The musician and artist’s latest gallery offering, with a cast of friends

Adam Green: Hot Chicks


In a vibrant, mesmerizing match of childlike wonder and moderate perversion, musician and artist Adam Green’s latest show at NYC’s The Hole gallery features the exploratory wit for which…

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California Surfing and Climbing in the Fifties: Yvon Chouinard takes a scenic look at a decade of youthful adventure through imagery and essays

California Surfing and Climbing in the Fifties


Some 60 years ago the Golden State saw a golden era for surfing and climbing. Offering a spot-on retrospective look at the period of innovation spanning from 1948 to late 1958, newly published “California Surfing and…

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Best of CH 2013: Cool Hunting Video: From pinball machines to vintage planetarium projectors, we take a look back at some of this year’s best videos

Best of CH 2013: Cool Hunting Video


As people around the world prepare for the holidays and the new year, what better time then to look back on all of the standout Cool Hunting content from 2013. CH Video traveled from California to Georgia, met some memorable characters and got to go behind the scenes in…

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Best of CH 2013: Interviews: A look back at a few of our top interviews with creative minds on the cutting edge of their fields

Best of CH 2013: Interviews


With the year drawing to a close, it’s time to pop some bottles and reminisce about some of our favorite moments from 2013. We’re searching through the year’s content for the best of CH 2013—looking back at the people, designs, destinations and moments that we fondly remember. This year…

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Birdbnb: An artfully crafted ad campaign that captures the unconventional beauty of the Airbnb experience

Birdbnb


Airbnb, a service just five years young, has rapidly become the largest lodging brand in the hotel industry and somehow, it’s managed to fly under the radar for so many in the traveling world. The hugely…

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CH Gift Guide: The Printed Page: “Madonna NYC 83,” Questlove’s “Mo’ Meta Blues,” Tom Dixon’s “Dixonary” and more books and magazines that make the perfect present

CH Gift Guide: The Printed Page


Whether you’re looking for the ultimate book for the budding Thomas Jefferson in your life or you simply need to pick up a thoughtful last-minute gift, the printed page is always a solid option. Show how much you care by giving the gift of intellectual entertainment on a subject dear…

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Stipla Magazine: Pushing the boundaries of digital publishing, this new interactive iPad app brings powerful stories of people around the world to life

Stipla Magazine


Instead of trying to configure print or website content to fit onto iPad screen, a team in London decided to take advantage of the tablet’s capabilities and employ it as a unique medium for sharing stories. …

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Free World Reader: A print quarterly that presents a holistic view of conflict in the DR Congo in a graphically stunning fashion

Free World Reader


Political, historical and academic texts rarely offer captivating graphic design and artwork to accompany—and do justice to—the information they hold. The newly minted quarterly Free World Reader presents a holistic…

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Cool Hunting Video: Rachel Levit: From sad children to balding business men, the fantastic work of an up-and-coming Brooklyn illustrator

Cool Hunting Video: Rachel Levit


CH recently trekked over to the Bushwick neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY to visit the studio space of illustrator Rachel Levit. With strong influences from Mexican folk art, Levit has developed a distinct style of figure…

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Interview: Ruben Nusz: Examining color, dimension and the bigger picture with the Minneapolis-based artist’s new show

Interview: Ruben Nusz


by Mason Riddle “Severed Hues”—currently on view at Minneappolis’ Weinstein Gallery—has prompted a lot of people to reconsider color, abstraction and illusionistic space. To create his modestly scaled paintings, …

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