Line We Love: Shakuhachi... When thinking about Australia, most people immediately conjure up a few specific associations, like koalas and kangaroos or the phrase “G’day.” But for your Who What Wear editors, these silly stereotypes are barely on our radar; how could they be when the country is simply loaded...

Do You Have Standards?... Corporate branding agencies have long valued the creation and use of Corporate Branding Standards Guides, or something lofty sounding like that. The idea behind the tool, often created as 400 page, richly illustrated books, was to communicate all the ways that the identity elements associated with the...

Eclectic Color Roundup: Video Color Anal... Video Color Analysis by Sebastian Koenig “This is a tool I built for fun with Processing (www.processing.org). It simply analyzes the contents of any video and generates a piechart. The value shows the average frequency of occurrence for each color detected. I randomly selected various...

Go Buy Now: Ladylike Bags... Up until recently, you were more likely to find a ladylike bag buried in your grandmother’s closet than swinging from trendsetters’ arms—but those days are over, dear readers. The prim-and-proper purse has gone from overlooked to on-trend and is currently gearing up for its moment in the...

Extreme Makeover: Business Card Edition... Obviously we love color… but we also love when color is used in great design.  And our friends over at Moo have a project to take old boring business cards and make them beautiful… and some of those cards might be yours. From the Moo Blog: Introducing our new initiative called ‘The...

Max Azria... Peter Beard’s images of Africa inspired Max and Lubov Azria’s travel-themed Resort collection. It’s a reference that can easily feel clichéd, but to the designers’ credit, their interpretation was fresh. Colorful batik-printed caftans and billowy silk dresses in a rainbow of...