Quite expensive, but probably my new camera! The new R-D1xG from Epson. ‘The retro body is a rangefinder camera, which means manual focusing using the matched images familiar to anyone who has used a film rangefinder. It even takes Leica lenses, making it a passable alternative to Leica’s own M8, and cheaper at $3000. Weirdly, Epson hasn’t upped the pixel-count of the CCD sensor — it still holds just 6MP. This could either be fantastic news (a new, ultra low-light sensor) or terrible (old, 2006 technology).’
Via Wired

Cole, Rood and Haan Co. A beautiful heritage collection! A preview at A Continuous Lean

Valetmag, a lifestyle blog delivering all the style and substance for the contemporary men. Be sure you’ll check the hand book for all your essential knowhow on etiquettes, personal care and travel tips.

8 Ways to Inspire Others:
Stick With What You Love
Think Big and Noble
Be Expressive
Practice What You Preach
Keep an Open Door
Offer a Guiding Hand
Be Consistent
Stay Positive
By Marc and Angel Hack Life
Merci Luis

“If you’re looking for the perfect pair of jeans, denim store Tenue de Nîmes in Amsterdam is the ideal pit-stop.” Tenue de Nîmes in Monocle issue 21.

Wow! Thanks for sharing Seroj

I love Issuu, the online (magazine) publication tool! But now I found the MagCloud. MagCloud enables you to publish your own magazines. All you have to do is upload a PDF and they’ll take care of the rest: printing, mailing, subscription management, and more. I’m curious about the quality is! Kalina is one of these nice examples.

A beautiful laser etched wine bottle by /M/A/S/H/. “The words actually cut into the surface of the glass giving a great tactile and very raw feel. Something that screen printing could not achieve. The result was a cross between contemporary luxury and
personalised roughness.”

Nice: Inspired-Inspirers is a place for people who inspire the world to show us who inspires them. Every 2 weeks a new issue is released showcasing 4 new inspirers from all over the world.

“Getting inspired is like a journey, you take your bike and just start traveling. Thereby you are influenced by your natural surrounding, at crossroads you decide to turn left or right spontaneously. Hence your journey could always lead to a different place, depending on your mood. The inspiration arises from the way you choose.”

— Sebastian Onufszak

A colorful view on Eastern Europe by Kudász Gábor Arion.

Strange but beautyful jewellery inspired by the Memento Mori jewellery of the fifteenth centuries by Disce Mori / Julia deVille.

“Style is the dress of thought; a modest dress, Neat, but not gaudy”

— Samuel Wesley
Via The impossible cool

Style for The generic man.
The generic man doesn’t need branding and logos to make him feel confident or stylish. He understand the significance of quality construction and clean, simple, refined lines.
The generic man is confident enough in himself to accept simplicity.
So nice, so true!

I just found out about Dripbook, a nice way to promote youre work and build a personal portfolio website! Dripbook offers its worldwide community of professional visual artists the easiest, most stylish way to display, promote and distribute their portfolios online.

Beautiful work by Paris based graphic design studio Eem. Can’t wait to see their new website!

Last days I’m quite into Japanese furniture. Hiromatsu Furniture is another one you might want to check if you like the fine and detailed japanese wooden style. I love it!

“If you’re not prepared to be wrong,
you’ll never come up with anything original.”
— Sir Ken Robinson

Beautiful pictures by Werner Amann.
Thank you Bas for sharing.


from Xavier Chassaing

The World as Flatland – Reports is a series of three books on the systematic design of complex information. The first one in row is Designing universal knowledge.

“Knowledge is power. If one possesses a collection of the ‘universal knowledge’ of the world, one has ultimate power. Establishing comprehensive, global collections of knowledge already fascinated mankind thousands of years ago. Today, modern communication and information technologies offer quick and prompt collecting, high memory capacities and wide-ranging access. In addition, globalization and the Internet advance a mentality which moves away from the local and regional towards the international and universal. Collections of knowledge, such as archives, encyclopaedias, databases and libraries, also follow this trend. They are engaged in a race against time in both the technological and creative area.
Their clearly formulated aim is to establish for us a complete and up-to-date collection of ‘universal knowledge’…” Continue reading