If you’re in NY between April 4 and May 9 be sure you’ll visit the Josée Bienvenu Gallery. Justin McAllister is showing his paintings and drawings of fires that were set and documented by the artist in northeastern Pennsylvania during the summers of 2007 and 2008.

— Bonfires and campfires are sites of bonding and exchange … At the core of their function was the ability to quickly send a message over great distances. Imagining a scenario that involves the use of this archaic technology as the result of a loss of current ones, the paintings suggest an unknown cultural failure on a grand scale.
This feel of estrangement creates a romantic narrative for the work to develop in. The paintings reference the Hudson River School, its loaded iconography rich in symbolism and its masterful technique … The headlights of cars passing in the background are warning signals of the awareness that the paintings are not swept up in the nostalgia for the majestic landscapes but rather are theaters of manipulated information, mirror-signals of our time. —

We are happy to announce the first giveaway at Anothersomething. It’s one of the essentials when hitting the road, traveling with your safe stored treasures, like your 17″ macbook, your Rangefinder and your Uber classics…

We will give away one QWSTION Light Olive Sportsbag to one of the first 20 people who buy Something (that black glossy something) at Anothershop.

As you may have noticed the header of Anothercompany.org & Anothersomething.org changed.

We’ve made Anothershop.

A sellection of beautiful products carefully selected by Anothercompany. Most of the products we are selling are made/initiated by Anothercompany & friends. Out of all the projects we do, we make a selection of high quality, often hand made products to feature at Anothershop.
We are starting with a photo book, something, the Thank You cards, the official replica of the Texelseboys bag and My Dear.
In the coming weeks we will add more items to the shop such as the ymyl Holster and the Tenue de Nîmes shirts.
Start shopping.

my favorite photographers of today is Stockholm based Martin Vallin. Keep an eye on Some kind of blog for friends & likes to get a clear and interesting view on is way of looking/working…

Last year we’ve had an amazing camping weekend with Waacs in Friesland in order to create a creative camping book. After 10 months there is a beautiful book with lots of handy advises, ideas and lovely stories by Waacs & Spinhex&Industrie with Marcel Kampman. Order your copy of Taste at Waacs and enjoy the new way of camp trips next summer.

The lovely canvas and leather bags by Ally Capellino are definitely a must have… For Tate Ally made a special series of bags and accessories, available here.
“People should add something of themselves, so that the bags become theirs not mine,” comments Ally.

I like images of US based photographer Matthew Gamber who made this beautiful and simpel series of pictures of chalcboards. As an almost forgotten medium I think it deserves some more attention.

— …Currently, projectors and interactive LCD displays enable presenters to integrate graphics rendered more clearly than the unintelligible, temporary schematics drawn on these boards to emphasize abstract ideas. What is most alluring is not the layered decades of chalk residue, but the partial obscurity of what is written on the board – once public, now secretive. —

Monocle is publishing a signed and numbered special issue of the forthcoming book by Alain de Botton – The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, which will be released this summer. I’m quite curious about this book since I really enjoyed the past books by de Botton, such as The Art of Travel.

Keep an eye on monocle.com for more information on the special issue of this book.

— We spend much of our lives at work – but surprisingly little gets written about what makes work both one of the most exciting and most painful of all our activities.

The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work is an exploration of the joys and perils of the modern workplace, beautifully evoking what other people get up to all day – and night – to make the frenzied contemporary world function. With a philosophical eye and his characteristic combination of wit and wisdom, Alain de Botton leads us on a journey around a deliberately eclectic range of occupations, from rocket science to biscuit manufacture, accountancy to art – in search of what make jobs either fulfilling or soul-destroying.

The book amounts to a celebration and investigation of an activity as central to a good life as love – but which we often find remarkably hard to reflect on properly. As de Botton points out, most of us are still working at jobs chosen for us by our sixteen-year-old selves. Here is the perfect guide to the vicious anxieties and enticing hopes thrown up by our journey through the working world. —

Why I started another something?

The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something.

From my inspirator Seth Godin

Acne’s stylish outlet is now online. And don’t forget to check the new arrivals as well. Lovely stuff again!
Thank you nolegacy for sharing.

The Company of People is an international community art project which showcases a collection of work by Marlene Marino, Agnes Thor, Chiara Balza & Nicholas Haggard a.o.

I like the idea of re-arrange and re-edit found books and bound anew. The Infinite Library, a project by Daniel Gustav Cramer and Haris Epaminonda, does this with their expanding archive now shown online.

“The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.”

— Samuel Johnson

These quotes inspires me to travel and see other places and experience other cultures…

With Tenue de Nîmes we are building a label which will include all the highly needed of today’s gentleman. All the Tenue de Nîmes garments are hand made in Europe. We started off by defining our ideal male shirt. It consists of a prolonged narrow fit, a cramped colar, a T stich line on the back, a narrow cuff and a ton-sur-ton Tenue de Nîmes embroidery in the colours white, black, dimgray, sapphire (blue lined), noir (black bold & thin lined) and blake (black lined).

For the next items, we would like to know what you would consider as the basic essential in your gentleman’s wardrobe? Let us know on twitter @Anothercompany or via mail.

I just found this interesting share on Issuu. It is one of the most comprehensive studies on luxury ever undertaken. Done by atelier.

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Luxury is changing dramatically:
The old model of luxury, based on affluence and exclusivity, is now only one part of the story:
- Only 7% of luxury consumers agree ‘luxury is all about being part of an exclusive club’.
Luxury now means many things to many people:
- 68% of luxury consumers agree ‘time is the biggest luxury’.
Luxury has expanded and includes a broad array of elements:
- This new research has discovered 14 key dimensions in the luxury market.
Traditional elements within luxury remain important, but new forms of luxury have also emerged:
- Status, extravagance, connoisseurship, seduction and brands being uber-premium (the ultimate of their kind) are still key dimensions with luxury.
- The research has also found nine new dimensions in the luxury market.

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I love the strange crocheted spicies in the handmade cabinet of curiosity by Jessica Polka. Be sure you’ll check her flickr, etsy and supernaturale article. ‘These “specimens” were inspired by Seba’s Cabinet of Natural Curiosities – an early pre-museum that collected the most unusual samples of natural history known at the time.’

Cultures In Between made an update on their website and now bringing more fine and aesthetic news on fashion, design and photography.
— Cultures In Between documents and observes contemporary culture with an open-minded, independent and inclusive perspective. Contemporary culture of Mode, Design and Photography are each given equal thought, exploring its individuality but importantly to discover its relationship and link to Design is the website’s focus. —

Picture shown above from the article A Journey From Within: Lars Stoten and Mjölk

The beautiful work of Marlene Marino is featured in a Purple Book, the special edition for Purple Fashion Magazine #11, with her Cubsa series.

My friend and colleague Luis Mendo from Good Inc is having a break and staying in tokyo for 3 months. He made a small webpage where he’s publishing some drawings and photographs, and regularly updating flickr with some very nice pictures of Tokyo …Lost in translation…

Today we made a new window at Tenue de Nîmes for Buddy Lee. A huge glass bell of 170 cm high with the blow-up Buddy Lee chambray shirt and a collection of buddy’s underneath. If you’re around, take a look at the Elandsgracht in Amsterdam.