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Frankenstein's Fontster

Typography mishaps, philanthropy and Frankenstein. If it sounds like a genius mashup, then you’d be correct. The Frankenfont project takes Shelley’s classic and incorporates incomplete font sets that commonly plague half-baked PDFs to create a progressively devolving book. The layout begins with the most commonly used characters and worsens into obscure typography — making the [...]

The Italian Bumblebee

We can all agree that the Maserati GranTurismo is one gorgeous automobile. Then there’s its angry brother, the MC Stradale (strah-dahl-ee) with 444 horsepower and a beefed up suspension and chassis. Well, Novitec, the tuner that regularly modifies already blazingly quick Ferraris and Alfa Romeos, has churned out the Novitec Maserati GranTurismo MC Stradale through [...]

Drive Obstinate

Five years from now, preschoolers may look at aftermarket GPS systems in the same puzzled way today’s youth looks at Pong. Despite their doomed existence, though, the idea of having Jeremy Clarkson’s dry voice begrudgingly spout off directions in the TomTom Go Live Top Gear GPS was just too much for us to ignore. Outside [...]

Don't Moc Me

At first glance, you might think the Eastport Handsewn Ranger Boot ($99) is another noble endeavor at the handsewn moc. Look a little further though and you’ll see this boot is not only a fine combination of Native American character and American panache, but one with outstanding appointments as well, including: premium handsewn leather, eight [...]

Hans Solo

With sculpted mid-century lines so handsome that you’ll want to build an entire room around it, the Hans Leather Chair ($1,980) might just be the lounge chair of the season. An homage to Scandinavian woodworking and built entirely in the USA, the Hans is cast of sustainably harvested and engineered European beech secured with water-based [...]

Bubble Wide

Let’s say camping is your thing. The great outdoors, camping trailer and tenting, backpacking, the whole Eagle Scout bit. Occasionally, you’ll camp near a lake and possibly rent a boat to go fishing. What if your trailer could pull double duty and go aquatic? Well, now you can with the Sealander. Count on those Germans [...]

Sperry’s Cloud Logo brand puts a trendier spin on American originals. The shipyard rigger boot features genuine handsewn construction, a removable, full length molded footbed, and Sperry’s own Wave Comfort System for added cushioning and air circulation. $140 | Sperry Top-Sider

Quietly Enormous

HTC’s Titan may be our dark horse favorite smartphone of the fall. It’s biggest claim to fame (literally) is a hipster-pants-tearing 4.7-inch, 480 x 800 Super LCD touchscreen slapped on a body that measures only .35-inches thick. A 1.5Ghz processor, 512MB of Ram, 16GB of on board storage, a MicroSD card slot, 14.4Mbps HSPA+ download [...]

Skiff you could only see

If there’s one item to bowl over in G&G’s freshly launched store, it’s the Garden & Gun Skiff ($24,000). Based on a Dragonfly Boatworks Emerger 16-foot shallow water fishing boat, the innovative skiff not only incorporates classic designs, but extraordinary attention to detail: easily accessible and serviceable components, a generously proportioned poling platform, and wide-stable [...]

Sound Footing

Full-sized, over-the-ear headphones (known as Circumaural cans to you purists) typically provide a level of audio fidelity that measly earbuds can’t match. The trouble is they don’t exactly store nicely when not in use on your desk. These Woo Audio Aluminum Headphone stands ($60-$75) can help remove clutter from your workspace or listening station by [...]

Sage words from Steve Jobs — an icon.

Kicking & Thinking

Judging by how quickly terms like “smartphone” and “smartTV” steamrolled into our vernacular, we may soon be uttering “smartcleats” (or smartboots for readers across the pond) if Adidas has their way. The first generation Adidas Adizero f50s made a splash earlier in 2011 by weighing a mere 5.1 ounces and claiming the title as the [...]

European upstart brand Balibaris offers their take on the fall classic by adding a tailored cut and a slimmer-fit. Made from premium chambray cotton, the addition of a slight sheen makes this shirt slightly more formal, which in this case, is a good thing. $125 | Balibaris

Saturday's Unexpected Turn

With another grueling week under the belts, it’s time to kick back for some R&R. Finally.

For their inaugural film, Made By Hand puts a spotlight on Breuckelen Distilling Company, the first gin distiller in Brooklyn’s first gin distiller since the prohibition era. The first in what looks to be a great series, Made By Hand shares the stories of the objects around us in our daily lives posing questions of [...]