With their latest collection, Coach has fashionistas singing, “Take Me Out to the Ball Game!” with newfound joy. For the ultimate in American heritage, Coach scouted out vintage baseball mitts—only those over 70 years old– to use for beautifully worn-in leather wallets in their new Heritage Baseball Collection. The men’s collection was inspired by Coach’s founder’s love of baseball and the company’s founding tenet that all leather goods should wear beautifully over time, just like a baseball mitt. We think this is a perfect catch for Father’s Day!

Filed Under: Inside Outside Lands’ Redesign

This year, Outside Lands is standing out for more than just its awesome lineup. Now in its fifth year, this San Francisco music festival just keeps getting exponentially better, from bigger headliners and more emerging artists to even more local food and wine choices from the city by the bay. 

The standout upgrade for 2012 is Outside Lands’ new brand identity, created by Andrew Holder. Graphic illustrations of nature, music, and SF architecture come together in a triangular pattern to create a bold yet playful final result. Perfect for this easy-going, yet hard-rocking, music festival itself. 

Filed Under: Design Find- Stamp Ring

Why print when you can stamp? Stamping is already a throwback alternative to printing; it’s limitless what you can throw a design onto—cards, letterheads, foreheads, etc. Get even more hands-on with these Stamp Rings from Michelle Romo of Crowded Teeth. Interchangeable magnetic stamps allow you to punch away at paper to create adorable flourishes on everyday notes.  Functional, wearable, and cute. This well-designed package is a guaranteed great gift. 

Check out the Stamp Ring project on Kickstarter!

Filed Under: Moonrise Kingdom Rises

Yes, we’re all (very) excited about Wes Anderson’s latest film Moonrise Kingdom coming out on May 25; a welcome cerebral respite from the slew of big blockbusters blowing up (and tanking) at the box office. In addition to the inherent awesomeness that surrounds every Anderson project, some impressive, albeit unofficial, fan posters have cropped up. Apparently the world’s graphic design talent will be augmenting box office sales. 

(Bottom poster is official.)

Every high school movie and music video I can think of at the moment features a panning in on this clock ticking away, second by second, until the thundering of the school bell (From Ferris Bueller to Hit Me Baby One More Time to Pop, Lock and Drop It). And for a whopping $235 from Schoolhouse Electric & Supply Co., you can have the iconic IBM standard issue school clock all to yourself, to count down the work day second by second; only in the adult world, there is no school bell at 3:00pm. How weird are we, Ys?

Filed Under: Literary Paint Chips

I love this new interactive feature from the Paris Review, Literary Paint Chips, that highlights colors found in literature—it’s the Pretty Colors tumblr with an academic bent. It’s great to see a publication as old and renowned as Paris Review embracing new technology in such a fun and funny way. A+! 

The steller design team at the Artefact Group just released a Kickstarter project that looks to gamify conserving. The 999Bottle is a reusable water that lets you keep track of every time you fill it up/avoid another plastic bottle that would most likely make its way to a landfill, and a iPhone app that brings to life what your conservation has led to. At 14, the bottle just paid for itself and at 138 you would have been able to stack those plastic bottles as high as a 10-story building.

Color blocking makes its way to mousepads- we love it. 

(Source: Apartment Therapy)

Filed Under: If Angry Birds Were Born in ‘82

This is too good.

OKGO’s new Skyscrapers video is a lesson in the same color color-blocking trend (now moving into the larger realm of design), that we have told you about in the past, and in flamenco dance. Wonderful song, great video, check it out.

Some day, our grandchildren will see icons like the manilla folder, or the envelope, and wonder aloud, “What are these weird shapes grandma?” Still, these are pretty cute. Still in its conceptual phase, the Finger Folder by Art Lebedev.

Filed Under: The Real BBQ Pizza

Screw burgers and ribs, this is about to be the summer of pizza, y’all! The KettlePizza is designed to fit most standard round kettle grills, so this stainless steel pizza oven sleeve can be enjoyed by everyone that doesn’t have a stone pizza oven in their home…i.e. pretty much all of us. Can’t wait to cook me some pizza pies on the patio!