Josh Rubin
I'm a NYC-based interaction designer, editor and photographer.
I'm the founder and Editor in Chief of Cool Hunting, I'm the Creative Director at Largetail and I invented Freehands Gloves.
I consult for select brands on the overlapping roles of user experience, content and digital media.
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- On CH: Simple forms in solid walnut in @communedesign's debut furniture collection with @EnvironmentFurn #NYCxDesign http://t.co/if8qpekbMT
- On CH: Five designers free the mirror from its wall-mounted constraints during #NYCxDesign Week http://t.co/HtJTXZbiV9
- On CH: New York-based lighting designer Bec Brittain's flamboyant and playful solo show for #NYCxDesign http://t.co/iCW4dc7Gqk
- On CH: A new alarm app from @tinyheartsyou attempts to make mornings easier http://t.co/LPimuRWVrt
- @JulesHTC I am in HK. Sorry I missed you, though. The One fits in perfectly around here!
- @whippingpost That looks awesome!
- @rebeccaodes You would love it so much!
- Hong Kong from the 75th floor... @ The Apex http://t.co/Mg8biGctTD
- Good morning Hong Kong! @ East Hong Kong 東隅 http://t.co/Bey5kORQNA
- On CH: Copper continues to shine as a material of choice in industrial design at #NYCxDesign Week http://t.co/jKHP0j9OBP
- On CH: Kensington design house @MintShop1 celebrates spring with a special curated collection http://t.co/nRsdoHOCAP
- Goodbye favorite hotel. @ The Opposite House 瑜舍 http://t.co/7oRaYM4p7A
- On CH: Five highlights from Noho Next, #NDD's most captivating exhibit during #NYCxDesign Week http://t.co/UAhbCEGuuV
- On CH: Italy's young photography-inspired fashion label TOTHEM keeps production at home http://t.co/tIIQac3Kok
- On CH: The new Ultimate Ears EU Boom wireless speaker from @LogitechUE sounds great and is drop-me-in-the-pool-proof http://t.co/SkLwwxMeii
- On CH: Apparatus Studio new lighting collection and inaugural fabric line with @ZAKANDFOX at #NYCxDesign http://t.co/5TUBw1qize
- On CH: Beautiful handcrafted accessories, made with antique Japanese textiles, from Portland's Kiriko http://t.co/ElyxbZbbEA
- On CH: Fan Zhang's undulating gold mesh jewelry blends Chinese tradition and contemporary style http://t.co/9UjzNT6CyQ
- A hidden gem in the Beijing Hutong http://t.co/g1lYBBMERo
- On CH: Commander Chris Hadfield's "Space Oddity" and even more out-of-this-world tunes in our weekly music recap http://t.co/ijmaC9sgW0
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- Commune for Environment: Two LA-based companies create a sustainable range of semi-modular furnitureMay 23, 13
While many designers during NYC Design Week staked their savings on exploring the limits of material and form, Los Angeles-based design studio Commune stuck to their guns for their...
Continue Reading... - May 23, 13
The idea of round hanging mirrors with thick leather straps may have blossomed with modernist designer Jacques Adnet’s “Circulaire” mirror—the result of a partnership with Hermés in the 1950s—but over the past two years we’ve seen it bloom even further, becoming both a...
Continue Reading... - Bec Brittain: The New York-based lighting designer's flamboyant and playful solo show for NYCxDesignMay 23, 13
by LinYee Yuan Since establishing her own studio in 2009, New York-based lighting designer Bec Brittain has established herself with stripped down, crystalline forms in brass and glass. During this year's New York design week,...
Continue Reading... - May 23, 13
If your natural reaction to the alarm going off is to cause your phone physical harm, Tiny Hearts' Wake Alarm could be perfect for you. Released today, Wake Alarm was created in an attempt to...
Continue Reading... - May 23, 13
by LinYee Yuan Memphis meets Montreal in Zoë Mowat's sculptural pieces. The young designer fabricates and designs out of her Montreal studio, drawing inspiration from nature, textures and a minimalist approach to form. At this year's...
Continue Reading... - May 23, 13
Over the past decade, Absolut became more synonymous with college parties and dance club bottle service than with its artistically-inclined, sustainably-minded Swedish roots. This shift in reputation is undoubtedly a...
Continue Reading... - May 22, 13
While many brands looking for a new audience during NYC Design Week take the traditional route of exhibiting at one of the many group showcases, contemporary design store and manufacturer Matter chose to do both—showing...
Continue Reading... - May 22, 13
The use of copper in functional industrial design has been on the rise for some time now, especially since seeing it all over London Design Festival last September. We spotted six new products during this year's NYC Design Week that prove even more designers are embracing the multifaceted,...
Continue Reading... - May 22, 13
The second of our videos to premiere at this year's 99u will definitely get you in the mood for lunch. We spoke to the founder of the famous ...
Continue Reading... - May 22, 13
If you're exploring London's Kensington area this week to check out what's on offer at Chelsea Fringe—the alternative garden show that will be sprouting up all over the posh neighborhood from 18 May to 9 June—be...
Continue Reading... - May 22, 13
Continuing his curious exploration of alternative uses for animal bones, Portland's Stephan Alexandr recently released his latest artistic creation—the Fangblade. Carved from alligator jawbones, the handy letter-openers still sport vestigial teeth to remind its user...
Continue Reading... - May 21, 13
by Emily Millett Inside the stark walls of Penindaplinena Gallery in Cyprus, beautiful people flit from one exhibit to another, while outside on the damp pavement, others balance cigarettes and glasses of wine. Standing confidently between...
Continue Reading... - May 21, 13
Always a high point of our NYC Design Week, Noho Design District has fast become a destination for up and coming and established designers looking to introduce their latest work outside the conventional confines of...
Continue Reading... - May 21, 13
The relationship between photography and fashion is very strong today, in particular when it comes to T-shirts. Sometimes the link is purely opportunistic and instrumental, but other times it’s an authentic and deep bond. This is...
Continue Reading... - May 21, 13
In the past few weeks, NYC-based readers may have noticed clusters of grey columns popping up left and right in nearly every neighborhood in lower Manhattan and Brooklyn. Those familiar with bike share programs in numerous metropolises around the world will recognize the...
Continue Reading... - May 21, 13
As technology continues to give us the freedom to experience everything we love in almost any environment, we've seen countless portable speaker designs pass by our eyes—and ears. While some pack substantial power, and others boast the ability to withstand a drop or...
Continue Reading... - May 20, 13
As one of the more exciting seating designs to be introduced to Herman Miller's already near-comprehensive offering of home and office furnishings, the Wireframe Sofa Group blends a comfortably minimal aesthetic with a visual and...
Continue Reading... - May 20, 13
This weekend at ICFF the creative pair behind the lighting design studio Apparatus, Gabriel Hendifar and partner Jeremy Anderson, showed off the...
Continue Reading... - May 20, 13
Since its inception in December 2012, Kiriko—a joint project between graphic designer Dawn Yanagihara and Compound Gallery owner Katsu Tanaka—has taken off. A mere four months after Yanagihara and...
Continue Reading... - May 20, 13
Jewelry in China has historically been perceived as an investment rather than art and, until a few years, ago there were few options to study jewelry design in Beijing. The available training programs used to be focused on the reproduction of old techniques...
Continue Reading... - May 19, 13
Commander Chris Hadfield: Space Oddity For his final bow after months commanding the International Space Station, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield recorded a music video from space. In covering David Bowie's 1969 song, "Space Oddity," Hadfield was...
Continue Reading... - May 18, 13
1. The $325,000 Burger Researchers in the Netherlands have been working tirelessly to create an entire hamburger's worth of beef muscle tissue from laboratory incubators. An expensive process, the point of their efforts is to give legitimacy to the research, which is supported...
Continue Reading... - May 17, 13
For over five years now, NYC-based design studio Rich Brilliant Willing (RBW) has been on our radar, conceiving and debuting beautifully creative lighting, seating and table designs each year during );...
Continue Reading... - May 17, 13
by Gavin Lucas Intrigued by the Tumblr-girl phenomenon—where images of girls are posted online and then endlessly reblogged on various Tumblr sites—Brooklyn-based illustrator Jon Burgerman has decided to join in....
Continue Reading... - May 17, 13
We recently joined Theo Lieberman of NYC's Milk & Honey to try out his latest creation; a fruity and bitter cocktail ideal for tropical living. Crafted in tandem with Lauren Schell of ,...
Continue Reading... - May 17, 13
Founded in 1956 to preserve the historical craft of handmade carpets, Hong Kong's Tai Ping has grown into a global leader in quality carpeting. In recent years the renowned maker of woven Axminster, hand-tufted, machine-tufted, printed carpet and Axminster carpet tile designs introduced...
Continue Reading... - May 17, 13
Spring is here (in the Northern Hemisphere) and summer is just around the corner, which means one thing: time to step up your sunglasses game. If you want to leave the Wayfarer crowd in the dust, the...
Continue Reading... - May 16, 13
Ten years ago Catherine Bailey's interest in lending a design hand to the small but established California pottery company Heath Ceramics took a detour that resulted in Bailey and her husband serendipitously buying the Sausalito-based company....
Continue Reading... - May 16, 13
Advertorial content: Birchbox Man heralds their one-year anniversary with another stellar package of curated goods. This month's offerings include two CH favorites—Benjo's colored shoelaces and Continue Reading... - May 16, 13
A recent graduate of California College of the Arts, Toyin Odutola is already celebrating her second show at Jack Shainman Gallery in NYC. The energetic artist produces ink works...
Continue Reading... - May 16, 13
The thin line between fine art and explicit material has been tiptoed by adventurous artists for generations, but few contemporary photographers expose the alluring and complex nature of the naked female form quite as well as NYC-based ); return...
Continue Reading... - May 16, 13
by Paul Armstrong Most people would balk at being given "waste materials and innovation" as a jumping off point, but 21-year-old Sophie Postma found inspiration instead. Her line of minimalist clutches, bags and iPad cases are...
Continue Reading... - May 16, 13
by Michael Kucmeroski Although all of Washington, DC has much to offer in terms of sightseeing and history, there is something enticing about staying in Georgetown. The area around the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (C and...
Continue Reading... - May 15, 13
As a part of New York Design Week 2013, the charitable, grassroots design organization Reclaim NYC will host its second furniture exhibition with a corresponding charity sale from 16-18...
Continue Reading... - May 15, 13
Japanese textiles, and denim in particular, have been a long-standing obsession of mine—long-standing, but somewhat uneducated. With the goal of schooling myself on these beautiful and ancient materials, I recently joined Emil Corsillo and Mitch Frank of ); return...
Continue Reading... - May 15, 13
Sometimes Portland is just so "Portland"—and we love them for it. The small-batch-everything mentality has given birth to an endless supply of start-ups with interests varying from leather goods to ice cream. The most...
Continue Reading... - May 15, 13
In 2010 Recon released the world's first Heads-Up-Display-enabled snow sport goggles, capable of displaying real-time statistics like speed, altitude, time and temperature on a full-color micro LCD screen. Now, three years later, the innovative...
Continue Reading... - May 15, 13
Inclement weather and clunky fenders beware: Plume's new mudguard (a Britishism for fender) will keep cyclists on the road—and dry—no matter what Mother Nature has in mind, all the while keeping the aesthetic of the two-wheeled...
Continue Reading... - May 15, 13
In the first of our videos to air at this year's 99u conference we took a trip to Torrence, CA just outside of Los Angeles to talk to the folks behind ,...
Continue Reading... - May 15, 13
by Gavin Lucas Reaching the ripe old age of 30 this year, London-based illustration agency Central Illustration is reaching out to American clients with two limited edition screen prints...
Continue Reading... - May 14, 13
Amanda Chantal Bacon’s little juice bar on Rose Avenue in Venice, California has turned into a thriving mecca for raw food. This summer will see Moon Juice expanding, with an opening in Silver Lake, and Bacon...
Continue Reading... - May 14, 13
“The idea is a simple one,” says Do Lectures founder David Hieatt, “people who do things can inspire the rest of us to go and do things too.” This is the premise of the small yet...
Continue Reading... - May 14, 13
While it may not seem like it, the concept of a brand collection lookbook is relatively new. In fact, the single word still draws a red squiggly line under it in most word processing programs. But now...
Continue Reading... - May 14, 13
After debuting the Luxe bag earlier this year, Defy Bags is expanding on their line of cleaned-up cases for the urban commuter. With years of experience producing burly messenger bags—like those made from 24-ounce tarpaulin...
Continue Reading... - May 14, 13
A style once reserved for cubicle jockeys and gas station attendants, the short sleeve button-down has picked up speed in the menswear market in recent years. And shorts? Well, they've always been popular. To celebrate the recent uptick in temperature most of the Northern Hemisphere is finally experiencing, we've pulled...
Continue Reading... - May 13, 13
by Adam Štěch There is a fresh new wave rising in Czech fashion. Relatively young names have come onto the scene, and several new events have been established to showcase their work. In recognition of the talent, we've gathered three exceptional fashion designers—coincidentally, all graduates of the Academy of Arts,...
Continue Reading... - May 13, 13
Network Awesome is a website where you can easily lose track of time and yet never feel like time is being wasted. Living up to its name, the Berlin-based site is brimming with utterly curious content...
Continue Reading... - May 13, 13
Covered in henna-colored scribbles, Vitamin D2 is the unassuming sequel to Phaidon's extensive 2005 tome Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawing. Like its predecessor, Vitamin D2 explores the contemporary world of art's most fundamental, but sometimes overlooked tool, the pencil. Approaching its subject...
Continue Reading... - May 13, 13
Part of the New Museum's 2013 Ideas City Festival, Seth Kinmont’s new project, Tender Lotto, explores the concept of value and the creation of it. Rather than just a sculpture to be viewed, Tender Lotto...
Continue Reading... - May 13, 13
by Kyana Gordon Sips of rum punch, luxurious private villas and postcard-perfect white sand beaches are reasons many vacationers flock to the Caribbean. Holly Bynoe and Nadia Huggins, two ambitious women from the chain of glittering islands known as St. Vincent and the...
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