In the market for a luxury leather apartment for your iPad? Lotuff and Clegg, purveyors of fine hide accessories, might have something to interest you. Vegetable tanned, hand stitched in New England leather is left unlined, what better to keep your over sized iPhone safe than soft suede? Lightweight with a tab closure, one of the nicest cases we’ve seen in a while.

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01. Patten “Plurals” Video

“From patten’s ‘GLAQJO XAACSSO’ album, out now through No Pain In Pop.” (factmag)

02. Building a Successful Furniture Business, Part 5: Hellman-Chang Wonders “How Do We Take Over?”

“In Part 4 we saw Hellman-Chang attract the interest of A. Rudin, a well-established, fourth-generation family-run showroom and furniture line serving interior designers and architects. Now Dan Hellman and Eric Chang have to step up and find the cash, time and manpower to fulfill an order far beyond what they’ve been able to produce thus far.” (core77)

03. Coca-Cola Red Cans Turn Arctic White

“Beginning next month, white will be the new red. Coca-Cola and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) are joining forces in a bold new campaign to help protect the polar bear’s Arctic home. For the first time ever, Coca-Cola is turning its iconic red cans white in celebration of the polar bear and committing up to $3 million to WWF’s polar bear conservation efforts. The Company is also asking fans in the U.S. to join the ‘Arctic Home’ campaign by texting donations.” (dieline)

04. David Calvo Solves A Rubik’s Cube In Less Than A Minute… While Juggling

“Get with the program internet. We’re no longer impressed by videos of people juggling or solving Rubik’s cubes in a few seconds. Oh wait, this guy does them both at the same time? Daaaayum. That’s impressive. But now I’m bored again… and with heightened expectations of YouTube videos. Thanks a lot juggling Rubik’s cube guy! (Where’s that sarcasm font when you need it?) Okay, seriously, I’m freaking out. I need more procrastination material or I might have to actually do some real work. Quick! Someone upload a video of a cat making a weird face while skiing on watermelons and rapping about double rainbows!” (incrediblethings)

Another look at the offering from Lavenham for Autumn Winter 2011. The “Classic Stock Supported Range” really does not bring new looks to the table as much as it revisits the classic shapes and quilt patterns that Lavenham is known for. Choose from a variety of shades and vest vs. coat cuts. Dig in.

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Collegiate prep gets an a colorway update with the help of this Kitsune Blucher. A proper blend of blues make the shoes very wearable and proper for a select look. Consider it one of the better colorways in this silhouette in some time. Opening Ceremony has it.

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A fun one from the Porsche Design group: this champagne/bottle cooler pays homage to the original ribbed cylinder on air-cooled 911 vehicles. The anodized bas features the Porsche crest laser cut. Keep your bottle chilled or air-cooled for the guests. They’ll be talking about this one. A fun one as seen on Notcot.

We only have one requirement for our hats – a hefty brim. The slim brimmed trilby was worn to death by lightweight wannabe rockers, so a change was always gonna come. We could ramble on (geddit?) but we’re just trying to buy more hats for our rather bare looking hat wall – shout out to Gay Talese. (Lock & Co)

8485 shares lookbook images from the Apolis Activism Autumn Winter 2011 collection. The well laid out looks showcase We see a few carry overs in the collection as well as collaborative work with Sierra Design against new styles and takes that will keep you hunting.

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Some looks from The Generic Man’s Autumn Winter 2011 offering. The big brother line to the very popular Generic Surplus, The Generic Man collection is a directional step upwards in terms of quality and build. The shoes are more trad proper as well. TGM has been around for some time. Well worth a look.

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Here’s an umbrella to match those Clarks*. Like socks and underwear, we find it hard to rant and rave about an umbrella. They’re one of those things you don’t think of if they work correctly – we’ve never heard anyone say ‘wow, these umbrella’s really keeping me dry’. So we’re just going to admit that we like this umbrella because of the orange colour. And it also doesn’t look too big, which is nice. We’ve all been terrorised by the man carrying an umbrella made to shield three people at once. (Garbstore)

They call it a timeless frame and they may be right. The 1032 is a clean look in three new shades of cola, black, and transparent grey. Wear them in any manner than suits you. Italian acetate is used throughout the vintage oval shape. Small details give the necessary hits to make them strong. Eyegoodies has them.

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