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You want gourmet coffee? For many people the answer to that question is a resounding, ‘Yes.’ Furthermore, there are a variety of reasons why some people are loyal gourmet coffee drinkers. The following are a few of those reasons. First, gourmet coffee is made by people who truly care about their product. For instance, they [...]

If you’d like to change the look of your home and to also save a little money on your heating and air conditioning cost, consider replacing your existing windows. If you’re loosing cool air in the summer time and warm air in the wintertime, you may need new windows in your home. View Point Windows [...]

Sorry for the delay, we managed to exceed our bandwidth limit for the month and went down temporarily. The good news is the site is back to normal, the bad news is that it has loaded an older backup. We’ve lost some posts – but I will rewrite and repost them as soon as possible. [...]

The French brand LIP has been around 150 years but have been hard to obtain anywhere outside Europe. Now, under the watchful eye of Lip’s new design director Prisca Briquet they have now reissued some of their most important models from a modern collection that remains as visionary today as when first launched 35 years ago.

Us non-Kanyes can’t even begin to understand the fabulousness of the life this man lives. How can we? The concept of waking up surrounded by Louis Vuitton, bathing in Veuve and then having to decide which lambo to drive which bank stuffed with our milions is so far removed from our frame of reference that we don’t stand a hope in hell of ever understanding what Kanye has to go through every day just to be Kanye. Asking us to understand Kanye is just too hard and arduous a task.

Tomy LumiPAD glowing message board actually looks really cute! http://tinyurl.com/f9xx9 # Best little (and I mean little) concept shop in Sydney. VA Concept – http://www.viaalley.com/ #

Supposedly this great period of financial turmoil will be a boon to the arts and self expression as  we all try to make sense of this new paradigm into which we’ve been plunged. Can’t remember where I read that but I’m pretty sure that was the gist of one of the many ‘it won’t be [...]

Hey wow, we have a twitter account now. Social networking party. Lala W00T Real Fandom – Comic Book Tattoos http://www.degourget.com/?p=843 LaCie USB Key. Actually looks like a key. Is brilliant. http://www.degourget.com/?p=2090 Studio Schulab Lightpot. Clearly for stoners who have a thing for aesthetic design. http://www.degourget.com/?p=2126 Literally vinyl scratching with your Ipod. Brilliant short video. http://www.degourget.com/?p=2252

One of our favourite contemporary artists, Audrey Kawasaki is having her first solo show in Japan. You’d think, as famous as she is and a name like Kawasaki – she’d already been having shows there. But alas, she is based in L.A. Her show is going to be at Space Yui in Aoyama, Tokyo. If [...]

Broken skateboards are a byproduct of our culture usually destined for the landfill. The deckstool recycles this waste into a unique and interesting bits of furniture. It seems you can turn skateboards into pretty much anything these days. There is a funny little bit on their site explaining, how you use the deckstool: The deckstool [...]

Yep. They did it again. It’s smaller, better, faster stronger… oh wait. Blah blah blah, it’s latest little gimmick is that it uses VoiceOver technology, which enables the Shuffle to speak your song titles, artists and playlist names. Albeit in a Apple Robot voice. Screen? Who needs a screen? And seriously, they managed to make [...]

Just making some design changes. It’s going to look really weird and some things will not work for a bit. Please bear with us for a short while.

Khoda is a short film by Reza Dolatabadi. A graduation film that has so far won sixteen awards and is creating waves across the net. The film was produced over two years and 6000 paintings were painstakingly produced during to create this five minute animated piece. “Khoda is a psychological thriller; a student project which [...]

Happy (belated) Chinese New Year. Our favorite press photo site, Boston.com Big Picture, as usual brings us some really pretty photos. I love Chine New Year. The mooncakes. The lion dance. The firecrackers. The fireworks. And did I mention the firecrackers? I love firecrackers. And apparently: The OX year is a conservative year, one of [...]

I promised myself I’d stop checking out agency Christmas cards but then I stumbled across this comprehensive list at Bannerblog and promptly lost a few hours of my life. So in the interests of making this week a wee bit bearable for those stuck at the office and in desperate need for a rabbit hole [...]