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Adrian K // TRASH: anycoloryoulike: Kim Gold
1 recommendation
"Yes, folks the next frontier is designer trash. You read it here first. TRASH: anycoloryoulike is a vivid art intervention for urban beautification and environmental awareness. The project consists of select city blocks in which new artist-created trash bags transform standard piles of trash into vivid sculptures of color through the participation of local business owners and residents. The pro..."
The Urban Girl's Manifesto
1 recommendation
"Ok, gals...these manifestos will give you the scoop on what every girl wants and where to get it WITHOUT the hassle of time-consuming research. Pick up the manifesto for your city and get ready to explore!"
Minneapolis, MN
1 recommendation
"I am ridiculously in love with this city. There is culture, fabulous shopping, a healthy lifestyle, and a huge biking community. Now cross your fingers that the University of Minnesota likes me enough to take me into their kinesiology ph.d program!"
World of Where - Geography Software for Mac or PC
1 recommendation
"Big wake-up call: my 9-year-old son knows more about the solar system than I do. With Google and Wikipedia and hundreds of news channels merely one click away from me, I have no excuse for my ignorance. But "World of Where" comes to my educational rescue with a three-dimensional, interactive, user-propelled tour of nearly every nook and cranny of our universe . . . and makes it almost as much..."
Planning and Urban Design Standards
1 recommendation
"Planning and Urban Design Standards is the most comprehensive reference book on urban planning, design, and development available today. It has contributions from more than two hundred professionals providing rules of thumb and best practices for mitigating such environmental impacts as noise, traffic, aesthetics, preservation of green space and wildlife, water quality and more. This thing is ..."
City Wallpaper
1 recommendation
"Travel to Berlin, Paris, or LA via this fantastically detailed wallpaper. Panoramic views, taken at normal eye level of Berlin, Paris or Los Angeles in one continuous print, over 13 feet (4 m) long, and roughly 5 inches (13 cm) wide. Shaped more like a border, wouldn't it be cool to have a stripe of Paris across your wall?"
Ork Posters! City Neighborhood Posters
6 recommendations
"Very cool use of information visualization. They're also coming out with one for Toronto this year. Awesome stuff"
Authentic New York Hot Dog Vendor Cart
1 recommendation
"I have NO idea what I would do with it but that doesn't seem to stop me from really, really wanting it. Now I just need to find $5500 in the couch cushions to pay for it. From the site: This is the authentic hot dog vendor's cart, found on the streets and in the parks of New York City today, continuing the city's robust street food tradition that began in the late 19th century."
Not for Tourists - Guide to New York City
5 recommendations
"This book is insanely useful for anyone - tourist or local. With maps of each neighborhood broken down by essentials, sundries/entertainment and transportation, I use it for everything from finding the nearest Citibank to giving friends directions to my picnic spot in Central Park to figuring out just what the current colors on the Empire State Building mean. I'd love it if the sections dedicat..."
ORK Neighborhood Posters
4 recommendations
"new take on neighborhood posters for the typographically inclined. posters are printed with soy based inks on recycled paper in a dark crimson color--the chicago poster with light gray grid lines, referencing the city's street grid in the background. posters are also made for brooklyn neighborhoods."
Citi Tumblers by Bribe International
1 recommendation
"Bribe is a new company and one of the exhibitors at Maison et Object. I love this set of four small glasses with city skylines on them. But I have no idea where you can buy them, so for now, enjoy looking at them."
notNeutral - Shanghai City Plate
8 recommendations
"Shanghai City Plate. One of four featured cities - Los Angeles, Shanghai, Cairo, and Berlin. I love maps and I love the graphic aspect of this!"
MONOCLE Magazine
8 recommendations
"The new magazine from Tyler Brûlé, the man behind Wallpaper magazine."
City Plate - Los Angeles :: Rios Clementi Hale Studios
4 recommendations
"I like maps. I like dishes. So, I like map dishes. They now have the entire collection of not neutral's map city plates by Rios Clementi Hale Studios: Twelve City Plates from Collection #1, #2 and #3. Collection #1: Berlin, Shanghai, Los Angeles and Cairo. Collection #2: New Orleans, Washington DC., Las Vegas and Dubai. Collection #3: Brasilia, New York, Melbourne and St. Petersburg. • ..."
Wake me up at
4 recommendations
"Strickers for London undergound passengers! On each stickers is wrote the name of station where him want to be wake up, so he can sleep in relax. Sure if everyone will use its, the system doesn't work..."
A LA CARTE - City Maps - THE DESIGN GIFT SHOP
2 recommendations
"Handdrawn city maps, they look just great, are full of insider tips and very practical too, because they fit in your pocket. And you get access to their data base to get additional always up to date information! What an unusual gift idea!"
Urban Gridded Notebook
1 recommendation
"A notebook that uses 127 different city street patterns from all over the world on 256 pages as the book's gridding. Each spread double page is a different city, to inspire you while you write, scribble and draw! Great for urbanists, artists, designers, architects and psychogeographers; anyone who enjoys urban environments."
NYC Oversized Tee
1 recommendation
"I'm in a New York state of mind... which makes me want this tee! Reminds me of something the models would be wearing backstage at fashion week. This would look great over tights or leggings. So chic, love the asymmetrical design. Mad affordable too!"
Beijing, China - Iconic Structures | EN AVANT - Features
1 recommendation
"Straddled between multitude of ideals on cultural, political, and design, the host of this year Summer Olympics will present to the world a cityscape unlike any other in the world. The scope of this urban renewal is breathtaking, there isn’t one district untouched by teams of engineers, workers, and construction equipments. For visitors, the city is similar to a sculpture garden of sort, with exce..."
Never Been to Tehran
1 recommendation
"Imagine a city that you've only seen in reproductions or perhaps have merely heard about. A place, like many others, that only exists for you through indirect sources--the nightly news, hearsay, literature, magazines, movies, and the Internet. Using these secondhand clues as firsthand research materials, invited worldwide participants--who have Never Been to Tehran--are taking photographs (exclusi..."
Streetwise Washington, DC
1 recommendation
"Streetwise maps are the best urban maps around. They're sturdy enough to hold up against being tossed in and out of purses and bags. I've used them in numerous cities - always accurate (even when MapQuest isn't!)"
snowdenflood - pillows with a view
1 recommendation
"Loads more from all over the world. Beautifully made in velvet."
SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition: PC
1 recommendation
"Another absolutely fantastic computer game. Remember when a natural disaster would come and ruin your city, I would get so pissed."
Analaog Weather Forecast System by Kurt Riedi and Steffi Gloor
1 recommendation
"the most charming weather service I've seen so far"
12 Days of XMas Cards for Different US Cities
1 recommendation
"Shown is San Francisco (think "six sourdoughs a rising") but many more cities are to be found on the site."
LAist: Los Angeles News, Food, Arts & Events
2 recommendations
"LAist is a website with articles and features based on the occurences and events in Los Angeles."
