I’ve written (gushed, maybe) about Romka magazine a few times in the past and it remains one of my favorite photography publications.
If you’re not familiar with Romka, here’s what you need to know: each issue asks 50-100 photographers to choose their favorite photos and write about them. What you end up with is a publication almost completely devoid of any pretense and let’s be honest, that’s pretty rare with these kinds of things. Some photos and their stories are funny, cryptic and personal or just fully heartbreaking. I’m always eager to land one of these in the mail.
You can pick up a copy at Romka’s website. More spreads below the jump!
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Two of my favorite illustrators, Saddo and Aitch, who are coincidentally also a couple have just released what I believe is their first small screen printed poster series. The money made from the sales go towards shipping the artists over the Canada from Romania for their first North American gallery show. Show some love!
As a small business owner, like most other small biz owners I imagine, we don’t use a landline at our office. Everyone just works off of their iPhone, which is great. Most of the time. But there are those times when I want to rip a phone off the ringer and scream, “WHAT?!” like an alternate universe Don Draper.
I’ve seen plenty of those old-school-rotary-phone-looking iPhone attachments but you know, I hate irony. And most things on that knick knacks wall at Urban Outfitters. The Curve BT iDock serves more as a phone than a hipster conversation piece. Placing an order now; slamming a phone down like a bawse next week.
The great dudes behind Hoppy Press had a genius idea. Why not create quality art for homebrewers? There are only so many homebrew kits you can buy your brother-in-law, right?
More info, pics and screenprinting process picks after the jump!
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Giulia Ruffatti is an Italian artist creating pieces of wearable history, or more simply, jewelry about you. If you have a certain memory, passion, dream or identifiable trait, Ruffatti (with the help of several people now that her business has grown) will select and create a variety of bobbles, creatures, symbols and materials to create a necklace, bracelet or even a compass to represent her customer. Oh, and she’ll pair each piece with an original poem that further describes you, the wearer.
On the surface, if I hadn’t seen the actual pieces, this description alone might make me cringe and think of patchouli. That may just be because I’m a fairly cynical, judgemental beotch. However, I’m also incredibly self-absorbed and the idea that someone could make a piece of loudly over-sized jewelry that would describe my deepest desires and nightmares for all to see around my neck – well that made me look.
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One of my guilty addictions: The weather. Raureif, a design consultancy based in Berlin, has just released an amazing app that’s getting quite a lot of press, and rightfully so—Partly Cloudy may be the most beautiful and unconventional weather app ever made. It reconfigures the visual language we are used to in identifying weather, and makes it more precise and beautiful. Totally worth it.
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Holy crap! We’ve got an awesome product, interview AND giveaway right cheyeah, righ cheyeah! The one and only CUPPOW is here for your visual drinking pleasure. If you haven’t heard of this little wonder product, well, then I ask you, how were all those late night convos with Bin Laden in that cave y’all have been hiding in?
OK, so here’s the deal – we’ve had Cuppow answer some very important questions below, including “what’s the coolest way to drink out of a cuppow?”
If you’d like to be entered into this giveaway and have a chance to get your very own cuppow, then leave a comment telling us a little about how you’re going to use it, what you’re going to wear with it, what you’ll put into it, etc etc. You get bonus points for tweeting this post as well. Of course. You have until Monday, April 9th 11:47PM to enter.
Watch the very, very cool Cuppow reel and read their interview after the jump!
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I’ve been swimming in coffee and tea packaging inspiration, so I thought I’d share my world with you today. HAM is about to launch into a very exciting rebrand for a local bev maker here in NH. We’re very excited. Not to mention totally jacked up on the high quality coffee our client keeps generously sending us away with after meetings. Life is good.
Oh, and we here at Okay Great have a very exciting giveaway coming up (that’s related to this post, actually!) so keep reading and be on the lookout for that soon!
More bev porn after the jump!
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¡Oh! ¡Un zig-zag! is a new little book by Spanish designer and illustrator Antonio Ladrillo. Twelve double page illustrations talking about the color and the shape. Basic color and simple geometrical shapes turned into characters that reflect through a simple text about their condition. ‘We are lines!’, ‘We are curves!’
You can pick up a copy for cheap @ Antonio’s shop!
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What’s our pal Jason Dean from The Best Part (one of our favorite, now defunct blogs) been up to lately? A lot. Namely, he’s been churning out sweet ass posters of his own work like every other day. Check ‘em out. Then buy ‘em.
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