Designed, developed and handcrafted in Los Angeles, the West African Zebrawood iPhone Veil from Killspencer is made from premium, locally sourced Zebrawood Maple wood veneer. Great for iPhone users who don’t want a bulky case distracting from the overall design but still want to flash a little panache. Other styles include the Black Veil and Macassar Ebony Viel. Compatible with iPhone 4 and 4S.

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The Apartment is a creative agency that specializes in design for all facets of life, from branding, marketing, architecture, interior, product and graphic design. Looking at this interior transformation, you can see that the ideas put in motion come from somewhere deep, somewhere where the grand scheme is equally important as the details. It is therefore no surprise that a multi-disciplinary creative agency was behind this conversion. It’s nice to see the conservation of some of the original elements, like the brick wall, in contrast with brand new modern components, like that fireplace. There’s this modern, mid-century, vintage, industrial, oriental, classical mix going on, that you would think hard to pull off without looking confusing but the feeling in this loft is still very unified. The Apartment was able to capture the harmony and let it colorfully shine throughout.

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COIN 4 is a brand new case for iPhone 4 and 4S by urban prefer, a new Taiwanese lifestyle brand. COIN 4′s features are its curved back surface that allows easier grasping and the slots where coins can be inserted and transform the case to a stand. No need any more to remember to carry with you the extra stand accessory. Whatever kind of coins you carry in your pockets, be them Taiwanese Dollars, US Dollars, Euros, Yens or coins from any other country, no worries, you will find one that will lock in the slots.

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The website will be in sync with an outdoor street painting in Shinjuku Station Square, Tokyo. A group of artists, the Rinpa Eshidan1, will start the painting at 10AM on November 20, and will gradually flesh it out over eight hours and six minutes. As the painters work, their piece will come to life in real-time as artwork on the website – highlighting the speed of the prototype car, which will premiere at the Tokyo Motor Show on December 3. The website, created by Deltro, will be online until November 26.

For generations, this country’s veterans have proudly worn their military service on their skin in the form of tattoos, as well as on their uniform sleeves.  This Veteran’s Day, Sailor Jerry Rum is honoring Norman Collins, the man that inspired the brand, and is toasting to all the people who have – and continue to – step up and serve our nation.

There aren’t many men like Norman “Sailor Jerry” Collins around anymore. The father of old-school tattooing, Sailor Jerry was a true classic in every sense of the word. A tough old sea dog with a shrewd intellect, Jerry stood up for himself and stood by his work earning him a legacy that is still felt today.

It was clear from an early age that Norman was destined to leave his mark. Born on the west coast in 1911, Collins soon gained the moniker “Jerry” after his father noticed a similar disposition between the young troublemaker and the family’s cantankerous mule. By his teens, “Jerry” was hand-poking Pelikan ink tattoos as he ventured around the country hopping freight trains. At 19, he arrived in Chicago, cutting his tattoo chops in the infamous arcades of State Street. It was there that he enlisted in The Great Lakes Naval Academy. Skipping the globe on schooner ships, Jerry passed through the China Seas and other remote ports of call. During his travels through the Far East, he began to develop a life-long obsession with Asian culture, art, and imagery.

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“Tokyo has always been super supportive to me,” said KAWS (né Brian Donnelly) recently as he stood before the slick and zany canvas he contributed to Takashi Murakami‘s “New Day” auction to benefit earthquake relief efforts in Japan. “When Takashi asked me to take part in the exhibition and auction, it was a no-brainer. An instant yes.” KAWS responded with “KAWSbob Enters the Strange Forest” (2011), expected to bring between $30,000 and $40,000.

The painting, which measures five feet in diameter, borrows the cherubic and absorbent visage of SpongeBob SquarePants, here given the KAWS treatment with X-ed-out eyes, as well as Murakami’s own grinning-flower motif. “One of the first times I visited Takashi at his studio in Japan, he gave me a six-foot flower pillow,” explained KAWS. “He said, ‘I want you to have this, but are you OK to take it back?’ And I was like, ‘Of course.’” There was just the small matter of figuring out how to transport a giant plush flower back to Brooklyn (KAWS eventually figured out shipping arrangements). “I’ve always been touched by Takashi’s support and generosity,” he added, “And I thought this sort of image was appropriate for the occasion.”

This limited-edition volume, showcases the 100 most exceptional cars of the twentieth century. Each luxury vehicle featured from a 1909 Blitzen Benz to a 1997 Porsche 993 Turbo S was chosen for its revolutionary design, magnificent lines, and head-turning capabilities. This Impossible Collection is presented on cotton paper in a beautiful black rubber presentation box with a cutout metal plate. Available here.

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Takashi Murakami in front of his painting, “New day DOB’s Acrobatic Spectacular: Society” (2011), expected to bring between $350,000 and $450,000 at tomorrow’s sale. Below, he is joined by Yoshitomo Nara and KAWS. (Photos: Stephanie Murg)

On March 11, 2011, Takashi Murakami was in his Tokyo studio, busy with preparations for the biannual GESAI art fair that was scheduled to open in a couple of days. Then everything changed. “It was a total shock,” he said the other day at Gagosian Gallery in New York, recounting his experience of the magnitude 9.0 earthquake that triggered a tsunami and nuclear accidents. “In the days immediately following the earthquake, there was panic and hysteria, but eventually we started to think how we could do something, with artists.” That something was “New Day,” which began as a blog-based version of GESAI (the fair was cancelled in the wake of the disaster) and evolved into a range of activities, including the sale of merchandise and special installations at art fairs, with all proceeds donated to organizations helping with recovery efforts. Now the initiative is primed for its biggest event yet, an auction of 21 works donated by artists including Murakami and members of his Kaikai Kiki stable (Mr., Aya Takano) as well as the likes of Damien Hirst, Cindy Sherman, Jeff Koons, and Yoshitomo Nara.

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Volkswagen is going back in time with a ‘Back to the Future’ style disappearing act that takes the Golf GTI back to the 1970s. The online campaign by DDB UK, celebrating the 35th anniversary of the Golf GTI, kicks off with a viral film that opens at an event for the Golf GTI Edition 35, where a live audience is introduced to the new car and the Golf GTI’s engineers, before witnessing it vanish before their eyes as it travels back in time.

Viewers can then follow the journey of the Golf GTI via a series of videos on the Volkswagen UK Facebook page. The first video shows the time traveling car appear at Volkswagen’s German headquarters at Wolfsburg in 1976. The second shows where the car ends up.

In order to understand an artist you have to go to the source. Hennessy already showed you how they brought KAWS to the source of Hennessy at their headquarters in Cognac. After that, he brought them into his studio for a private tour of his artistic process and collection. Watch the video to hear KAWS’s thoughts on his partnership with Hennessy and the collision of art and advertising!