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Tired of having to go into the MoMa (although that store never sucks) for your Muji fix? Lucky for New Yorkers, Muji’s very own full-blown store will be opening next Friday, November 16 in SoHo.

MUJI is dedicated to reducing waste and conserving resources. In this spirit, MUJI encourages its customers to use “My Bag” in order to reduce waste that results from the use of paper or plastic bags at MUJI stores. The SOHO store is planning to introduce interactive events using “My Bag” to encourage environmentally friendly shopping to customers in New York City.

Don’t forget:
Opening: 16 November 2007, noon-9pm
Muji
455 Broadway
New York, NY 10013

Billionaire Boys Club is the joint fashion venture between Pharrell (rapper and producer) and Nigo (owner of A Bathing Ape). Their second flagship store will have its grand opening this Saturday, 15th in Hong Kong and was designed by Wonderwall, the design team behind the Bape stores. The first two floors of the store are themed with an Ice Cream Parlour and the third floor will take you into outter space.

Check out the BBC Blog for more photos.

The Rack is a quarterly bi-lingual publication, published in Chinese and English, gear towards covering international street culture, with a special emphasis on Asian influenced global youth culture.

Rack - Steal this magazine

VEST takes a look at the ideas of contraband and the value of goods in relation to their limited availability, as well as broader terms of luxury, boundaries and rules. Pictured above is the Goods modified plate by Jonathan Sabine.The VEST collection will be shown at MADE in Toronto, from September 6 through October 20.

Vest Collective. Read more here from MoCo Loco

Kidrobot is having a mega sale starting Tuesday September 4th up until Sunday September 9th. With discounts up to 60%, you best be heading to www.Kidrobot.com or to any of the Kidrobot stores!

We Are (Commune) has just relaunched their website along with their new F/W 2007 Look Book.

The site and images are amazing, definitely worth checking out.

These are a set of really cool packaged wines by Click Wine Group.

The packaging of Bootleg wines provides an ultra-clever update on the image of Italy as a boot-shaped peninsula. Each bottle is sleekly shrink-wrapped to look as though it’s clad in thigh-high leather, while a sexy zipper that running the length of the bottle further suggests that the wine is utterly well-heeled.

from eternallycool

The New College Beat is a small circulation, self-published work of minority interest made by
Ryan Waller.

Here is Pumas new Urban Mobility line, features some sleek and modern products that are accented with wood panels.

Link here, from NotCot

Blackle is Google’s answer to energy saving. It does this because the screen is predominantly black, and although it is dependant on your screen settings, it has been proven that darker screens requires less energy than white or bright screens.

In January 2007 a blog post titled Black Google Would Save 750 Megawatt-hours a Year proposed the theory that a black version of the Google search engine would save a fair bit of energy due to the popularity of the search engine. Since then there has been skepticism about the significance of the energy savings that can be achieved and the cost in terms of readability of black web pages.

So the next time you suddenly feel the need to google something, try blackling it instead. At a time when wasted energy has become more concerning, Google steps up and proves that every little bit counts. Please help spread the word.