We recently caught up with designer entrepreneur Jeff Staple (of Staple Design) to find out more about his latest creation: the Rain Chamo for Kia.

A little while ago on PSFK we let you know about creative mastermind Rick Klotz’s new campaign to make Freshjive clothing logoless and brandless. PSFK spoke to the man behind the line…

Photographer Amy Stein creates engaging images of strange worlds that are simultaneously familiar and yet some how off-kilter. The Rumpus explains:
Stein creates dioramas using taxidermied animals to explore the evolution of the opposing instincts of humans and animals and how that affects our behavior around each other. Stein is interested in the positions of “submission and dominance,” that are played out in our encounters with the elements and our conflicting impulses to both hang back from and bridle the wild. Homes also figure largely in her tableaus, but these are not the homes of Ozzie and Harriet, Family Ties, or [...]

Director David Lynch has released an interesting new venture called the Interview Project.  Each interview is a fascinating look into unique people from across the USA.
Lynch on the project:
Interview Project is a road trip where people have been found and interviewed.  There was no plan for the Interview Project.  It’s a twenty-thousand mile road trip over seventy days across the USA.  The team found the people going into bars, going into different locations and there they were.  The people told their story.  It’s so fascinating to look and listen to people.  What I hope people will get out of the [...]

“Twenty4 Hours of Perfect Content” (www.twenty4.tv) is a new digital art project that aims to turns your browser into a TV set using crowd-sourced content.

The brainchild of Michael Romanowicz (right), Twenty4.tv creates a channel-surfing experience by streaming a slideshow of preexisting websites. Next he’s asking you, “the crowd,” to help him populate a database of sites like these. When he has more than enough to work with, Romanowicz will attempt to curate 24 Hours of Perfect Content contextual to time of day and a number of other themes.
We caught up with Romanowicz to talk about his inspiration and why [...]

Boing Boing Gadgets got together with Objectified director Gary Hustwit, and explored questions about his new industrial design movie, and about design in general. Hustwit shares some great insights on quality design, consumption and streamlining our lives.
He talks about the sped-up process of product evolution:
30 or 40 years ago consumers put more thought into every purchase, took better care of their manufactured objects, and repaired them when they were broken. Who repairs their DVD player now? Come to think of it, who even buys a new DVD player now? We’ve had a totally new technology like DVD go from introduction, [...]

Hipster Runoff is one of the more curious anomalies of the internet at the moment. It started off as an MP3 blog and has evolved into a strange admixture of seemingly banal textspeak and hipster cultural criticism. Carles, the anonymous blogger behind the site recently talked with the Village Voice, and cryptically sheds some light on what’s the real meaning and purpose behind HRO.
The Village Voice reports:
You’d told me you’re not in New York, right? Do you get out here at all? Do you interact regularly, or at all, with “altbros” and “altbags”? Or is your study of them mostly [...]

We’ve come across an interview by Holy Ghost Megazine with some members and participants from The Temporary School of Thought. They’re a group of squatters, formerly housed in an opulent London mansion who have started up a unique free school promoting open source learning. The interview gives some interesting insight into the unique dynamics and benefits of collective living and learning.
About the school:
HG: What exactly is the Temporary School of Thought?
LB: A school based on the ideal of the exchange of free knowledge, letting people come in, attend various workshops. If you feel there is something you would like to [...]

The economy has hit the traditional brick-and-mortar book business especially hard. Even landmark literary institutions like Cody’s have not been spared. In contrast, Avalon.ph – a Manila-based online specialist in second hand books – has been thriving. Its founder, Jasper Ong, manages to maintain an independent shopkeeper’s touch by giving customers the chance to close transactions personally in select coffee shops during weekends. We sat down with Jasper to see if we could learn something from his success (which seems to be out-of-print these days).
1. What guides you in your book selection process? Does the weakening economy influence that process [...]

Graphic designer and infamous graffiti writer Kunie Martins stars in an interview by Austin Peters which gives the viewer a fascinating look inside his head. More commonly known by his tag,  “Earsnot“, he shares his creative and lifestyle philosophy, and how and why he does the work that he does. It’s a truly fascinating look behind an unbridled creative force who is living his life on his own terms, consequences, rules and others, be dammed. Check out the video below.
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[via Freshness]