I’ll always love certain retro items, and an old-fashioned cassette tape is absolutely one of them. The AirCassette is a music-playing app for the iPhone that takes you back to the days of mixtapes and taping favorite songs off the radio to listen to them over and over under the covers. The tape spins as your music plays and all feels right with the world again.

Don’t sleep on the collaboration between AiAiAi and Fool’s Gold Records, the Gold TMA-1, available in our shop and online starting today. Only 2,000 produced, this is a sharp design tweak of the classic TMA design — a great headphone for use at home, on the street or behind the decks.



In other Fool’s Gold news, they’ve just released the video for Duck Sauce’s “Big Bad Wolf,” directed by the king-of-music-video-weirdness Keith Schofield. Watch it above — it’s not exactly NSFW, but it’s not entirely not NSFW, either. I guess we’ll call it NENSFW, but NENNSFW? Either way, it’s hilarious.

The Braun image originally championed by industrial design giant Dieter Rams — form and function rendered beautiful in its simplicity — lives on in these watches re-issued earlier this year with the blessing of Dietrich Lubs, Rams’ design partner. You’ll find throughout this Braun collection that God is in the details, as in the model above the muted yellow of the second hand sets off the stark black-and-white contrast to make a watch that’d be perfectly at home on the wrist of any interior designer, museum curator, book editor or you. These are absolutely classic designs we’re happy to carry both in-store and online. Come in and take a look.

EARONIC, by Collabcubed, I kind of really want these. and pretend I have huge ear plugs or something. Or bunny ears! Thanks swiss-miss, you always make me want a lot of things.

I Want You To Want Me by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar

[People] talk about themselves in 200 words and say the most important things about themselves, so it is very fertile ground for building a mosaic of humanity.

Jonathan Harris is another one of my personal heros. This installation is titled “I Want you to Want Me” and was commissioned by the MOMA for Valentines Day, 2008. The project was presented on a 56″ touch screen and the little balloons are profiles pulled from the various dating sites on the web. Read the project’s mission statement here.

I Want You To Want Me explores the search for love
and self in the world of online dating.

It’s not valentines day but I’m getting post-summer blues. New York City feel serene after the hurricane; we’re all still here, looking for someone.

Accessories made of concrete? Sounds like something from a dystopian novel. This office supply set designed by Sung-Ching Chang features a stapler, calculator, tape dispenser and pen holder, which form a miniature city. The designs are not only dashing, but great fun as well. The stapler can create emoticon imprints, the tape dispenser has a little roulette of activity suggestions, and the pen holder will shoot the adorable eraser flying when a pen is placed in a random slot. All this can be done with the soundtrack from the calculator which translates your calculations into music. I can imagine playing with the pen holder all day like it’s the pop up pirate game from my childhood.

More information available at mocoloco.com

“Life’s a beach, and then you die…”

Mounting this Birdie Light in your studio is a good way to say ‘I’d rather be at the beach’ while still getting some work done like the grownup you are. Part of the American Design Collection, you can find it online from Steven Alan.