read NEW SKATEBOARD GRAPHICS

This is from a recent post over on WHATdesigners.com, but hey, thought that I’d share it over here too.

cufflinks JEALOUSY DESIGN

More cufflinks? Yes, sure we’re moving to short sleeve weather but I couldn’t resist these lovely links in oxidized silver. They come all the way from Sweden, just like the fish, packaged in a wooden box…and with free shipping. Plus they’re just a very reasonable $54. Now that’s blogsworthy!

CHECK IT @ Jeasousy Design

cufflinks STEVEN BROWNLEE

These cufflinks have more than a touch of class; they are class. Mahogany inlayed into silver. Handmade and signed and dated by the designer.

CHECK IT @ stevenbrownlee.etsy.com

walls INNER CHIMP

It’s just funny is all.

One-Up Designs is open again, and I am ready to turn my dining room into a chimp haven. The dining room has always had an element of chimp, but that was mainly due to 3 young boys. So it’s time to go all in and admit that feeding time at the zoo can be stylish too!

Check it @ ONE UP WALL GRAPHICS

watches NOOKA

Cool and geeky! These watches are perfect for the high school geek turned tech gazilliomaire turned Starbucks barista – yep, the economy has been tough on everyone!

Still, apart from being nice to look at these watches also need deductive reasoning to work out. Thus exercising your now unemployed brain while allowing for elusive time keeping and therefore not making you feel bad when you are watching Oprah at 3pm in your pajamas.

This is not biographical.

Check it @ www.nooka.com

tshirts WOVEN FLESH

The name is a little macabre; the t-shirts are darkly fabulous. Both can be chalked up to the designers being Danish.

I first came across Woven Flesh’s work through the Rumplo site. There’s a sampling of their work on Rumplo, but for more designs go to their website where you get to pay in Krona. How cool is that!

www.wovenflesh.com

icon OBAMA

Being on every cover of a magazine rack in Borders – that’s style! I think he even made it to the cover of Dog Fancier and Wine Enthusiast.

Can’t wait to see what the Weekly
World News has on the cover…then again YES I CAN!

bags MALCOLM FONTIER

When co-founder Gabrielle Kennedy emailed me about the bag company Malcolm Fontier, I must have been asleep! These bags are not only new and stylish, but just happen to be vegan too.

True to their word of making accessories for “free spirited jet-setters and go-getters” designer Malcolm contrived the idea while doing some globe trotting himself “over drinks in France, sketched out on long plane flights, researched in Hong Kong, and refined on the beach in Brazil”. Sounds absolutely awful doesn’t it?

Regardless of whether you are planning a trip around the world, or just dragging yourself off to work – these bags will keep your stuff in order and looking great.

CHECK IT @ www.malcolmfontier.com

wear PERFECT PAIR

Now, I am not suggesting that you attempt to wear cufflinks with a t-shirt – unless you have some male stripper cuffs just hanging around. Even then, not the sort of look I was going for. Really it’s supposed to be the ying-yang of modern man – dress it up or dress it down – just dress well.

Both of these designers participated in the WHATdesigners INDEPENDENT DESIGN GUIDE // Holiday 2008. Check the guide out for other gift ideas. The octopus t-shirt, $29.95,  is by jef designs and the wood inlayed cufflinks, $105, are by imooi.

wear THE RIGHT WHITE SHIRT

As cool as snow; as classic as a ‘52 chevy pick up. No discerning man should be without the perfect crisp white shirt.

Whether worn dressed up with suit and tie, or casually with jeans – it is an instant hangover cure if you need to drag yourself into work after a late night. But it has to be clean and crisp – and here are 5 favorites from The Guys Guide affiliate, Tobi.

CHECK IT @ Tobi.com

Ben Sherman, Blackout Shirt, $99
J. Lindeberg, Blade Slim Fit Lux Stretch Poplin Shirt, $195
Theory, Luxe Shirt, $265
Endovanera, Dressdown Shirt, $165
Helmut Lang, Basic Supraluxe Shirt, $210