Digging these Bedouin Bags via High Snobiety. Especially the Barbary Messenger Bag. Quality looks top notch.

Nice stuff. Designed and built in Middle America since 1995. More on their website.

Congrats guys, these are gorgeous!

Biomega renews its curatorial commitment to cherry picking the world’s top designers to design its bicycles. Ross Lovegrove (Bottom) displays his organic essentialist sensibility through his fresh vision of an integrated bicycle. His integrated solutions and groundbreaking design makes the LDN bicycle a true urban tool. While Danish design super group KiBiSi (top) stirs things up with an innovative newcomer NYC, following Biomega’s heritage of chainless bikes featuring a belt drive for smooth urban commuting and an integrated mudguard.

Dowling Duncan wants to renovate America’s image abroad, by redesigning our money. Check out the other entries in the Dollar ReDe$ign Project. These particular bills are designed lengthwise:

Dowling Duncan say they conducted extensive research on how people deal money and discovered that transactions are almost always carried out vertically. It’s true: How often do you hand someone a bill clutching the center widthwise? How many money machines accept cash horizontally? The new orientation would obviously take some getting used to, but in Dowling Duncan’s view, it’s ultimately more instinctual. More here.

An ingenius cookie dipping mug designed by Entresuelo.1A. Reminds me of the now infamous Dunk Mug I posted back in 2004 (wow that was a long time ago).

This design adds an ingenious touch to a mug with a rim shaped in such a way that you can dunk in the whole cookie, sideways. Now only if you can master the art of putting the cookie fast enough into your mouth….before the soggy end falls off! Via Yanko Design

Wallets, card holders, and general handmade accessories. Made with love by R&L Goods.

Sexy Paul Smith x Burton snowboard. But how does it ride? I guess I’ll have to find out.

We’ve all chewed the cap of a Bic pen at least once in our lives. If you haven’t, you’re totally lying (or missing out). This necklace from Chewed By Tuesday is for you. All of you. (And for Penlid chewing virgins, there is also an un-chewed version). Both are made from solid sterling silver and are $250.

In her own words, designer Viv Gibson says:

Are you a penlid chewer from way back? We are. That’s why we created the chewed bic penlid, it’s more like what you might find at the end of your pen. With some genuine teeth marks up top and a nervously twisted tail, this penlid has some bite. Replicating an actual bic penlid in size and shape and cast in solid sterling silver, this pencil case favourite is transformed into a high quality necklace. Each piece is handmade in Melbourne and individually numbered with a signed authentication from the designer.

Congrats to the team at Nooka for the newly launched website. Looking very good! Check it out…

Razorpit: Razor blade sharpening. I love this. I hate how wasteful (and expensive) razorblades are– but it’s the only way to go.  Electronic razors don’t work for me.  And neither does a big beard. I hear this thing works great. Via Coolhunting

myLight is a “Do It Yourself” luminaire intended to provide a user with a memorable experience and appreciation for design and fabrication. Made from durable mylar, myLight is hand assembled by the user following a video as a guide. This is the companies first creation, entitled the Teardrop for $375.

Nice feature story on the Terrafugia designed by my friend Jens Martin Skibsted (Biomega) and his partners at KiBiSi. He has one of the best jobs in the world, I think. Next up, the electric car!

These little guys from The Nonlife Zoo are so awesome. More than one kind of species vanishes from earth daily. And human activities have resulted in the extinction of 736 kinds of biological species as of 1600. Some proceeds of all sales go to the WWF. Via Lo’s List

Craftedsystems was Founded by Aurelie Tu, award-winning industrial designer. Basically, it’s a community-based project built to help support local manufacturing and the women’s community in Portland OR.

We are a new company creating custom and modern felt handwoven products for wall and floor, to table, lights and vessels. We celebrate “Modern Craft”; we are redefining handcraft in our society by giving it to those in need, and with the time to do handwork. Instead of working with artisans, we are partnering with the YWCA homeless women’s shelters to create our product.

Completely handcrafted from 100% wool felt with no fasteners, our products are completely sustainable and we only use local eco-friendly production methods such as waterjet cutting and diecutting.

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As a young professional, I am already interested in the finer things in life (food, watches, etc), so it was not a stretch to reconsider the pen I was using. I have a legal pad or a Moleskin with me at all times and am constantly taking notes in meetings for work or at various non-profit events I participate in. My attraction to pens is that there is so much variety; so much too choose from and so much to learn. And because of this variety, it’s a relatively inexpensive hobby. You can buy a very good pen for $60 (not too bad if you write with one all day long) but you can also buy a nice one for $1.50.

Initially, I did not touch fountain pens because I was intimidated by them but last week I took the plunge and ordered a 3 oz bottle of Air-Man Blue-Black ink produced by Noodler’s, a New England based ink company started by Nathan Tardiff. Fearing the fountain pen was being abandoned by ink companies, Tardiff started Noodler’s Ink as a way to save the market and offer options to users. The company (the last American ink company, as far as I know), produces small batches of inks in a variety of options, to fit all needs. They have a range of bulletproof inks which are waterproof and fraud-proof, a highlighter line, and even invisible ink. Of course you can go with just standard ink in a variety of colors.

Along with my bottle of ink ($13), I added a piston fill fountain pen to my cart, their newest item. The $14 pen looks like a slightly nicer one you might find at an office supply store but performs wonderfully as a beginner’s fountain pen. The nib size is fine-medium which is perfectly smooth, as fine as you need it to be, and not scratchy in the least. The fill system is intuitive and quick and the window makes it easy to see when you need a refill.

If you want to get started with a fountain pen, you can’t beat the Noodler’s combination. You can find their products along with hundreds of other writing tools at Jet Pens and Goldspot.