It seems Santa received my Christmas list this year because, wrapped and waiting under the tree was Marjane Satrapi’s latest graphic oeuvre, Chicken with Plums. I must confess, I was a bit worried that nothing could live up to the author’s heart-wrenching bestseller Persepolis and her sharp-as-a-tack protagonist but, (phew) I was wrong…

Tags: Book Design Bookworm Design Iran, Chicken with Plums, Embroideries, Graphic Novel, Marjane Satrapi, Nasser Ali Khan, Pantheon, Persepolis, Random House, Tar, Tehran
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From a Tecktoniks dance-fest to 3D wonderlands to animations galore here is Lo’s very eclectic selection of the best music videos of the decade…

Tags: 10 000 Hz Legend, 3D, À Cause des Garçons, Abingdon, Africa, Air, Amnesiac, angola, Barry Conner, Bastien Lattanzio, Beatbox, Bjork, Black Diamond, Buraka Som Sistema, Chicago, DJ Znobia, DVNO, Ed Banger, Electric Performers, Encyclopedia Pictura, europe, Fallon, France, Gaspard Augé, Good Life, Göteborg, Graduation, Guillaume Berg, Heartbeats, Iceland, Illinois, Jonas & François, José González, Julie Budet, Justice, Kanye West, Lisbon, Lo Martin, Lo's List, M.I.A., Machine Molle, music video, Nicolai Fuglsig, OK Cowboy, Oughties, Paris, Pascal Arbez, Pleix, Poney Part 1, Pop-Up, Portugal, Pyramid Song, Radiohead, Reykjavik, Romain Gavras, Saint-Brieuc, Shynola Collective, So-Me, Sony Bravia, Sound of Kuduro, Spotlight, Stress, Sweden, T-Pain, Tecktonics, TEPR, Top 10, Top Ten List, united kingdom, United States, Veneer, Versailles, Vitalic, Volta, Wanderlust, Xavier de Rosnay, Yelle, Yorgo Tloupas, †
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I love the simple whimsy of these tees by Parisian Genevieve Gauckler. The formula? Quippy, nonsensical phrases like “Elves, dwarfs, and spirits with magical powers are welcome” and “61% Human 39% Sausage”, flat, silhouetted graphics and punchy colorways. All 2K tees are $35 – check out the full collection here.

Tags: 2K by Gingham, Fashion, France, Genevieve Gauckler, Paris, T-shirt, T-Shirt Tuesdays
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Clockwise from top left: Charity : Water Little Black Box, WWF Species Adoption, Ideaco’s Fusbol, Lacquerware from Bambu, Found My Animal Leashes, Wants for Sale Limited Edition Print…

Tags: 1% for the Planet, Aid to Artisans, Andy Warhol, Animal Adoption, Artecnica, Bambu, BARC Shelter, Barrett Marsden Gallery, Bourg-Argental, Brooklyn, Cambodia, Central America, Charity : Water, Design w/Conscience, Do-Goodism, Eco-Friendlies, Eindhoven, Emma Woffenden, Enschede, Fair Trade, Food Bank for New York City, Found My Animal, France, Gift Guides, gifting, GLOBE Project, Green Feet, Guatamala, Heifer International, Ideaco, India, Jane Goodall, Japan, London, Louis Animal Foundation, Needs for Sale, New York, NYC Garbage, Organica Deluxe, Osaka, Pakistan, Petfinder, Sustainable, Tasar Silk, The Girl Effect, The Netherlands, Top Ten List, Tord Boontje, Toys for Tots, tranSglass, united kingdom, Walter Cronkite, Wants for Sale, World of Good, World Wildlife Fund, WWF
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Although the exact parameters of what makes a track Electro are a little fuzzy and certainly up for debate, the universal ants-in-your-pants, get-up-and-dance, party-all-night-long vibe is what makes this genre so approachable…

Tags: 09/14 2007, 11h30, Amazon, Apparat, Ayo Technology, B4kn, Best of the Decade, Blitz 'n' Ass, BLN, Boys Noize, Ce Jeu, Cocotte, Danger, DatA, Electro, Fatherfucker, Futurecop!, Information First, Jahcoozi, Living in a Magazine, Mount Sims, N.A.S.A., Oi Oi Oi, Operate, Peaches, Restless, Shine Shine, Spotlight, Teenage Bad Girl, TEPR, The Sixty One, The Unicorn & The Lost City Of Alvograth, Top 10, Wild Light, Yelle, Zoot Woman
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I bought a little album called L’Ecole Du Micro D’Argent by IAM just a dozen years ago and since then, French rap has been a staple in my musical diet. I’ve discovered some incredible start-to-finish albums along the way (Taxi OST, Freeman’s L’Palais De Justice, Oxmo Puccino’s L’Amour Est Mort) along with a solid podcast: Yo La La…

Tags: Amazon, Arsenik, Au Nom de la Loin, Best of the Decade, Bladi, Boulevard Des Misérables, Deux Pieds Sur Terre, Diams, Dwele, Eh Connard, Entre Ciment Et Belle Etoile, Fayçal, Freeman, French Rap, Gravé Dans la Roche, IAM, iTunes, J'ai Mal au Mic, Je Serais La, Keny Arkana, Kohndo, L'Amour Est Mort, L'Ecole Du Micro D'Argent, L'Palais De Justice, La Main Sur Le Coeur, Le Meme Sang, Lunatic, Ma P'tite Histoire, Mauvais Oeil, Murmures D'un Silence, Oxmo Puccino, Pas L'temps Pour Les Regrets, Princess Anies, Revoir Un Printemps, Second Souffle, Sinik, Sniper, Spotlight, Top 10, Top Ten, Y'a Pas de Mérite, Yo La La
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Ok – the decade is on the out & we’re left with a whole slew of amazing music to help us cling to the memories. This week at MTV Iggy we’re putting together a ridiculous amount of Top 10 music lists, from staff favorites, to my must-hear Electro of the decade, etc, etc… To kick it off on Lo’s List, here is my desperate attempt to choose just 10 tracks overall (I failed, as there are 13 – but that’s a lucky number, so, zip it!)…

Tags: Aesop Rock, Animal Collective, Bat for Lashes, Beirut, Boards of Canada, Come On Feel the Illinois, Dead Prez, Fugazi, Geogaddi, In Rainbows, Kala, Labor Days, Lets Get Free, Little Dragon, Lo Martin, Lo's List, Lust Lust Lust, M.I.A., Menomena, MGMT, Miike Snow, Paper Planes, Phosphorescent, PJ Harvey, Pride, Radiohead, Spotlight, Strawberry Jam, Sufjan Stevens, The Raveonettes, Top 10, Two Suns, White Chalk
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We used to learn our alphabets by reading those classroom banners that associated each letter with an animal or object. These days as kids become increasingly computer dependent at an early age I thought it was about time to adapt an old method to a new medium…

Tags: ABC's, Brooklyn, Christopher Monroe Delorenzo, kawaii, Keyboard Decal, Lo Martin, Lo's List, New York, Product Design, Technology, Toys, United States
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Toronto-based New Zealander Helen Acraman clearly has a soft spot for bears (ditto here). These tender pen & ink illustrations have the textural quality of aboriginal art, with meticulous use of tick marks and simple geometrics to create fur, feathers, and the like, mixed with a very Nordic-folk-ish approach to color…

Tags: Aboriginal Art, Canada, Etsy, Folk Art, Found @ Etsy, Helen Acraman, Lo Martin, Lo's List, New Zealand, Nordic, Toronto, Ursine, ZukZuk
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This holiday season, whether you’re driving over the hill and through the woods or taking a transatlantic aeroplane to get to grandma’s house, the better you pack the smoother your journey will be. The comfort of long travels comes down to one essential piece of luggage: the Carry-On (or, if you’re roadtripping, the one bag you don’t chuck in the trunk)…

Tags: Amazon, Artbox, Born to Run, Caran D'Ache, Chicken with Plums, Choward, Christmas, Christopher McDougall, Clif Bar, Comme Des Garcons, Copper Canyons, Dover Street Market, Franzus, Hello Kitty, I Design Shop, Incase, iPhone, iPod Classic, Jad Abumrad, Jee Kim, KabaClip, Kabalab, Kusmi Tea, Labello, Manuella, Marjane Satrapi, Muji, New York Magazine, Old Navy, Panasonic, Pantheon Books, Peasants and Travelers, Podcast, Prince Vladimir, Radiolab, Random House, Rei Kawakubo, Robert Krulwich, Sanrio, Tarahumara Indians, The Container Store, The Gap, WNYC, Zojirushi
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My Wonderful World of Fashion by Nina Chakrabarti, Folk & Flora Notecard Set by Reprodepot, Pictorial Webster’s, Harry Allen Rollerstop Bookend, Penguin Classics with Cover Illustrations by Coralie Bickford-Smith, Nel’s Pack of Dogs Bookshelf & Bench…

Tags: A+R Store, Ad Hoc at Home, Amazon, Amsterdam, Book Design, Bookworm, Bouchon, Calcutta, California, Chronicle Books, Cookbook, Coralie Bickford-Smith, Crafts + DIY, design, Designboom, Djerba Goldfinger, Easthampton, europe, Fashion, Folk & Flora Pattern Books, Furniture, Gift Guides, gifting, Harry Allen, India, Itty Bitty Book Light, i^3 Lab, Laurence King Publishing, Lili Lite, London, Maira Kalman, Massachusetts, mexico, Mt Vernon, My Wonderful World of Fashion, NEL Colectivo, New York, New York City, Nina Chakrabarti, Pengiun Books, Per Se, Pictorial Webster's, Proteak, Reprodepot, Rollerstop Bookend, Studio Smeets Design, Sustainable, Technology, Textile Design, The French Laundry, The Netherlands, Thomas Keller, Top Ten List, united kingdom, United States, Valentino, Where's Waldo, Yountville, Yuval Ziegler, Zelco
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The Quiet Life is a Los Angeles design shop founded in 1997 as an outlet for purely creative ideas by Andy Mueller and OhioGirl colleague Jennifer Pitt. Aside from the dozens of incredible tees for sale…

Tags: Andy Mueller, California, Do-Goodism, Evan Hecox, Good Cause, Jennifer Pitt, Lo Martin, Lo's List, Los Angeles, Mark Owens, Neil Doshi, Niki Livingston, OhioGirl, Sphinx, T-Shirt Tuesdays, The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, The Quiet Life, United States
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Terra Plana’s Maplow Shoe, Carga Bag, Jemma Redux Libby Bracelet, George Gina & Lucy’s Xciting Kanji Bag, Diamond Silhouette Ring by Alissia Melka-Teichroew, Happy Socks, Ugmonk Tee… More after the jump!

Tags: Alissia Melka-Teichroew, And Then I Woke Up, Angela Cage Dress, Argentina Brazil, Bordella, Brigitte Bardot, Brooklyn, by:AMT, Carga Bag, Curiosity Shoppe, Diamond Silhouette Ring, Eindhoven, europe, Fashion, Fashion Scout, George Gina & Lucy, Gift Guides, gifting, Happy Socks, Japan, Jemma Redux, Libby Bracelet, Lingerie, London, Maplow Shoe, Neckush, New York, New York City, Porcelain Key, Saikai, South Burlington, Stephano Diaz, Stockholm, Sweden, Terra Plana, The Netherlands, Top Ten List, Troy Mattison Hicks, Ugmonk, united kingdom, United States, Vermont, Xciting Kanji
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Sophie Cuvelier Garlands, Fu-Magnum Moustache Mug, Our Childrens’ Gorilla Switches and Gauges Poster, David Weeks’ Hanno the Gorrilla & Ursa the Bear, Gangrene Plush Microbe, Zuny Bookends, Little Red Stuga’s Cloud Cushion, Suck UK’s Origami Sticky Notes

Tags: 3M, Art Fry, Balouga, Big Cartel, Boo Baby Blanket, Charlie Chaplin, Clifford Richards, Cloud Cushion, David Weeks, Dr. Fu Manchu Dr. Spencer Silver, Eat Your Heart Out, Gift Guide, Hanno the Gorilla, Happy Tape, Hercule Poirot, Kangaroo Kurio, kawaii, Letterpress, Letters Lubell, Little Red Stuga, Malaria, Molla Space, Murdock London, origami, Our Children's Gorilla, Peter IBruegger, Plush, Post-It, Recipe Card, Sophie Cuvelier, Suck UK, Sustainable, Swine Flu, ThinkGeek.com, Thomas Magnum, Tom Selleck, Top Ten List, Toxoplasmosis, Tweek Studio, Yoni Zigler, Zuny
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A special thank you to Ankur for making it to our wedding party aand for bringing Yuval and I this scrumptious little book! A delicate narrative by Londoner Rob Ryan, This is for You follows the artist-as-a-young-boy in his attempts to fill a void he has discovered in his heart…

Tags: Art & Design, Bookworm, Chronicle Books, gifting, Hodder, London, papercutting, Rob Ryan, Sceptre, This is for You, united kingdom
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Frogger, Space Invaders, Pacman, Arkanoid, Centipede… The hours I spent at the crazy, cat-tormenting Australian neighbor’s house just to hone my ability to cross the pond, kill the fleet, and evade Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde for yet another round…

Tags: Arcade, Arkanoid, Asteroids, Australia, Barcade, Brooklyn, Centipede, Dig Dug, frogger, Galaga, Geekology, Jameson, Jerome Martin, Lego, Michael Hickox, Motion Graphics, New York, Pacman, Pong, Rally-X, Space Invaders, Toys, Tron, United States, Your Daily YouTube, YouTube
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As promised, here’s a quick intro to all the cuteness that can be found at Poketo’s online shop. From fuzzy bear post-its and mustachioed pen pal cards to day planners, checklists, and travel journals, if you’re one of those crazies that spends her Saturdays roaming the aisles of Office Depot (yeah? so?) then Poketo will be sure to fill some stationary void on your desk!

Tags: Accessories, Australia, California, CUPCO, kawaii, Lo's List, Los Angeles, Plush, Poketo, Stationary
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Just in case you think Poketo is still solely in the business of making radical limited edition art-covered wallets, this post is for you. They make other stuff. Lots of cool i-want-it other stuff, like, kawaii up the whazoo (more on that right after this, pinky swear…)!

Tags: Andrew Holder, Argentina, Australia, Buenos Aires, California, Fashion, Japan, Karaoke, kawaii, Korea, Lo Martin, Lo's List, Los Angeles, Maikon Nery, Melbourne, Moscow, Poketo, Russia, Sarajo Frieden, Seoul, South America, T-Shirt Tuesdays, Tokyo, United States
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Yes. We’ve heard it all before: plastic bags are evil. They’re killing hundreds of thousands of marine mammals each year and, with the rate at which we use them (500 billion – 1 trillian anually) versus the rate at which they biodegrade (400 years) the outlook is downright miserable. Aaand, we’ve seen this gimic before: decorate a reusable bag well and we just might reuse it. Well, here’s something new…

Tags: Andi Kovel, Angharad McLaren, Areaware, Artecnica, Bamboosk8, De Paper Bag, Eding:Post, Esque Studio, F74 Bob Bag, Fernando Campana, Freitag, Greener Grass Design, Humberto Campana, Japanese Modern Design Website, Jos Vandermeulen, Justin Parker, Magno Design, Magno Radio, Monsieur Morel, Picnica Bunny Bag, Resource Revival, Singgih Kartono, Skateboard Deck, Slump Vase, Sweet Bella, TransNeomatic Bowl, Unica Home, Velocity Art and Design
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Ok, ok. So the ball & chain is right: I have a bag fetish. It’s actually a container obsession: our house is full of oddly shaped jars, vintage cans, quirky bowls & trays – all holding tchotkies I’ve gleaned over many years of foraging flea markets, boutiques and the like. But, yes, bags, pouches, fabric zippie things – sign me up.

Tags: Accessories, Biking, Brookfarm General Store, Brooklyn, Dallas, Death and Texas, DNTX, Etsy, Found @ Etsy, Handmade, Lo Martin, Lo's List, New York City, shopping, Texas, U-Lock Holster, Williamsburg
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