Due to my horrendous sense of direction, I own a Garmin nüvi 1250. I thought it would help help me navigate the network of roads in the city. But, of course, it didn’t. Apart from a highly inefficient user interface, the screen resolution and size do not accommodate the needs of frantic, nervous driver cursing [...]

Merely uttering the name ‘Tom Ford’ brings to mind images of a masculine, suave and hypersexual man (or a feminine, sultry and hypersexual woman). Although I most certainly do not fit into that mold, I understand the effects of brand image, perception and association. He has cultivated a following so eager to live up to [...]

More great work from Moving Brands. Along the same vein as their work for Norton & Sons, their rebranding efforts for E. Tautz & Sons centres around appropriating a classic, traditional aesthetic to contemporary tastes. And they do it with great flair and panache:

“Edward Tautz founded E. Tautz in 1867 at 249 Oxford Street between [...]

I recently just signed my life away by purchasing a piece of real estate. Although I have yet to move into the place, I am beginning to realise that this move will be accompanied by a large carbon footprint. It is an opportunity for me to discard all the old and barely working appliances [...]

“Maj. Harry Pike and his Flyin’ Fish was attached to the 16th Fighter Squadron when this picture was taken October 22, 1942 at Peishiyi. The following year he was shot down by flak over Hankow and survived a flaming crash although badly burned on his hands and face. A Japanese doctor in Hankow saved him [...]

I have been to many wax museums as part of school field trips. Never once was I particularly impressed with the wax figures of Hitler, General Mao, Gandhi, Mother Theresa and all the others. Sure, they bore a striking resemblance to the actual subject, but they were, nevertheless, obviously mannequins, albeit wrought of wax. Of [...]

I grew up in a different part of the world. My childhood reading consisted of Malaysian fables and Chinese legends, with just a smattering of European folklore and Indian myths. I most certainly did not know of Bigfoot until I came to Canada. Popular in the Pacific Northwest regions of North America, I first heard [...]

Found these wonderful shoes from the Rokin Spring 09 line. Rokin “makes new classic mens shoes, partly seasoned with influences from the West Coast of Sweden, and inspiration from different subcultures; new, as well as old… Rokin shoes are comfortably soft and smell wonderful due to the use of natural materials and a high quality [...]

Like every other starving student, I bought furniture from Ikea. However, I simply never got better at understanding the cryptic diagrams provided considerately to cater to people of different continents and languages. Of course, my inner-cynic contends that Ingvar Kamprad runs his company in perpetual penuriousness, unwilling even to employ the services of [...]

As a Canadian, I am ashamed to say that my knowledge of Canadian history is shallow. In my defense, I have only lived in Vancouver for 10 years. Take, for instance, Downtown East Side (DTES). It is one of Vancouver’s oldest neighbourhoods and the historic heart of the city. The City hall, the courthouse, Woodward’s [...]