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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.

News report from 1981 – discussing a crazy new form of “electronic journalism”. This pre-internet technology is quite amusing. Still, I find it of poignant interest that this was already available to consumers in the year I was born. Apparently it took an entire two hours to download the electronic version of the newspaper over [...]

I stumbled across this really interesting post about the existence of Batman in 1960′s Japan. Being of Japanese background and being a Batman buff – I really should have known this, but this was fascinating and new to me. Apparently in 1966 Jiro Kuwata (who’s most famous for writing the original 8 Man manga) was commissioned to [...]

These guys are handy if you’re in the LA area – Retro metal office furniture from RecycledDesk.Com It’s US$500 for a packages like the one above. While the site espouses the environmental angle going on about the atmosphere, saving whales and other cute cold requiring wildlife, which is all well and good, for me the [...]