World Science Festival 2014: Making science accessible and relevant, this year’s program features a civil discussion of the Big Bang, pie-o-physics and Paul Rudd as Einstein

World Science Festival 2014


While the younger generation may have had entertaining outlets like “The Magic School Bus” book series or “Bill Nye the Science Guy” to make science relevant and accessible, lucky New Yorkers of all ages—especially adults—have the …

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Études Studio on Crossing Creative Lines: Fashion, publishing, a creative agency and a new pop-up are all in a day’s work for this hybrid collective

Études Studio on Crossing Creative Lines


Crossing lines and breaking boundaries is nothing new in the creative community—in fact, it’s largely what the industry is built upon. Communications designers become brand engineers, painters design textiles and ceramicists dabble in industrial engineering. However, few…

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MCMC + Mociun Collaborate on a Scent for Summer: The Brooklyn-based brands join forces and create a bittersweet scent inspired by Sicily

MCMC + Mociun Collaborate on a Scent for Summer


With just one bottle remaining of her favorite fragrance, jewelry designer Caitlin Mociun (founder of a CH favorite, Brooklyn-based Mociun) needed a suitable replacement for her discontinued “hippie musk.” The answer came during a serendipitous conversation…

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Link About It: This Week’s Picks : Well-wishes for Vignelli, NYC’s new 9/11 museum, tributes to two outstanding filmmakers and more in our weekly look at the web

Link About It: This Week's Picks


1. Farewell, Sugar Man Director It surprised no one when Malik Bendjelloul won an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature at the 2013 Academy Awards. His film “Searching for Sugar Man” (which happened to be his directorial debut) won the hearts of fans the…

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Eskayel Playland Capsule Collection: The bright, dreamy fabrics from the Rockaways motel are now available to have at home

Eskayel Playland Capsule Collection


To put together their bespoke suite at New York’s Rockaways’ buzzed-about Playland Motel, designer Shanan Campanaro of Eskayel and interior designer Michelle Zacks of S P A C…

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ICFF Preview: Assembly Design + New Friends’ US Chair: Two NYC studios’ styles collide for a striking, limited-edition furniture collaboration

ICFF Preview: Assembly Design + New Friends' US Chair


In anticipation of the second official NYCxDesign week and this weekend’s opening of ICFF, New York-based furniture studio Assembly Design paired up with textile innovators …

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ICFF 2014 Preview: Wintercheck Factory: Furniture and lighting from the Brooklyn-based design-and-build brand

ICFF 2014 Preview: Wintercheck Factory


Since 2010 Brooklyn’s Wintercheck Factory has routinely rolled out new designs across apparel and homeware, to furniture and lighting. While the urge to design across all platforms is still alive and well, founder Kristen Wentrcek…

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Gambles: You Won’t Remind It: A music video capturing life through the eyes of a homeless man

Gambles: You Won't Remind It


Since their inception—and later rampant explosion as both an artistic endeavor and a promotional tool—music videos have become an important medium for channeling new messages and additional layers to the tracks they accompany. With “You Won’t Remind It,” NYC-based band ,…

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FEIT Shoes: The handmade leather shoes from Sydney have landed stateside at Dover Street Market and now Assembly New York

FEIT Shoes


Founded by the Price brothers, FEIT has been admired for some time—not only for their minimal design aesthetic, but also their dedication to “fighting” the retail system and swimming against the current. This battle includes having…

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Studio Visit: Amelie Mancini: The French-born, Brooklyn-based artist on her process, Left Field Cards and her love of baseball

Studio Visit: Amelie Mancini


by Eva Glettner The multi-talented Amelie Mancini is a Brooklyn-based French artist who works with a variety of mediums—from wood to linen to wool—to create her playful, colorful artworks. Her fascination with baseball, born from the first…

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