British brand Sunspel has collaborated with Postalco to produce a limited edition collection of notebooks, wallets and cardholders. The inspiration behind the offerings is a prototype fabric sketch conceived by a Sunspel technician in the 1950s. All pieces were handcrafted in Japan, where Postalco is now based.
Available through Sunspel.com, the card holder retails for $217, notebook for $82.60 and the wallet for $273.
Our good friends over at Acquire have turned us to Moleskine’s latest offerings — the Black Collection. It’s a new collection of books designed for photos, scrapbooking, art, and good ol’ doodling. Fluorescent gel pens and pencils are available as well as they’ll definitely flow well with the blacked-out pages. More info over at Moleskine.
Moleskine has released “Inspiration and Process in Architecture”, a new series of cloth-bound monographs that look to explore the design process of various contemporary architects. With direction from Francesca Serranzanetti and Matteo Schubert, the works provide an intimate look into the creative process of an architect and emphasize the value of freehand drawing as part of the creative process. The first monograph series features four editions, each filled with interviews, bios and images from its respective architect: Zaha Hadid, Giancarlo De Carlo, Bolles+Wilson and Alberto Kalach. (via superfuture)
We recently had the opportunity to preview the Fall 2011 offerings from one of our favorite accessories designers – Alexander Olch. The New York-based creative is dishing out another solid fall collection. As usual, expect a lot of wool fabric atop a range of product from neckties and bowties to suspenders and notebooks. The prints are really well curated and, at the same time, extremely wearable.
Look for Alexander Olch Fall 2011 pieces to begin hitting fine stockists worldwide starting around August.
Attention early adopters: Apple’s updated their line of MacBook Pros with some beefed up performance. The aluminum shells remain but one of the standout features is something that most probably haven’t ever heard of. The Thunderbolt port allows you to connect high-performance peripherals and high-res displays to a single port. Transfer rates are theoretically upto 10 Gbps which is just nuts. There aren’t that many Thunderbolt-compatible peripherals out right now but that should change over the coming months.
Sleeker and much more refined than its predecessors, the HP Mini 5101 is probably one of the best netbooks to hit the market. The 95-percent chiclet keyboard is really got us excited but there’s much more to it on the inside. The 7200RPM hard drive is standard, as it is with most laptops, blurring the line between netbooks and real laptops even more. There’s also an accelerometer in it for sudden motion protection. It’s still got an Atom processor and is displayed with Vista, but we’re sure that won’t stay for long with anyone.
“An optional, integrated Gobi-powered HP Mobile Broadband module allows users to conveniently access the Internet, corporate intranet, email and other critical information around the world. Other wireless technologies include integrated Wi-Fi Certified WLAN and optional Bluetooth 2.0. An integrated 2-megapixel webcam allows for easy still-image capture, web-conferencing or video-enhanced instant messaging with no additional hardware.” Also, HP’s QuickSync software will be available for downloan in September, giving users the ability to quickly synchronize the HP Mini with notebooks or desktops so users can avoid maintaining multiple documents, media files and email. This information can also be synced to portable storage devices.
All-in-all, the 5101 will go on sale next month for $449. Hit the jump for images and the press release. (more…)
Paul Smith and Rhodia initially teamed up for a collection back in 2005 which was a tremendous success, but when Rhodia’s 75th anniversary came around, Sir Paul Smith could not resist. He signed a new Limited Series where his fancy and his particularly English sense of style led him: on the famous card marked Rhodia orange or black, a true support for the fashion designer’s creation, his falsely naïve pencil sketches, underlined with his emblematic stripes.
More images after the jump. (more…)
After all that wait, and all those renderings, not many people probably thought Sony’s P Series would look as sleek and slim as it did at CES today. It’s about as long as a business envelope and as thin as a cell phone. The 8-inch screen has a 2.08:1 aspect ratio (yes, that’s 1600×768!) plus an 8 hour battery life and the whole package weighs about 1.4 pounds. (more…)
This month’s Vogue gave light to notebook sleeves by one of the world’s finest bag makers. The laptop bags are by Goyard and that explains the unique design and detail as well as the hefty pricetag.
It may be out of my budget, but some guy out there might be willing to dish out the cash to pick one up. They come in a few different colors and are sure to be in limited quantity.
Buy It: $830 at Goyard
The HP Pavilion dv3505tx Special Edition with Gold colorway has the classy look that many PCs apart from Sonys really lack. The Gold Edition HP is packed with a 2.26GHz Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 processor, a 250GB HDD and 2GB DDR2 RAM, GeForce 9300M GS graphics card, and a DVD/RW Multi-drive.
Release date isn’t out yet and neither is the price, but let’s hope they’re appealing as the design.
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