Nice little film on the craft of espresso, compliments of Intelligentsia. Part of “an ongoing series that documents our search for the ultimate tastemakers.” Tis impossible to over-geek on coffee…

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Tap, tap, tap…a single writing session with what must be the first aesthetically beautiful word processing program will make clear just how deeply the ugliness of Word is affecting your work. Omm Writer envelopes your screen and your head in a soft blanket of image and sound, allowing you space to think and to write. Simple word processing tools provide exactly what you need and nothing more. Writing feels intimate and pleasurable again, and we are grateful, yes. (via The Post Family)

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Tokyo-based Kengo Kuma’s retail space in Osaka for Lucien Pellat-Finet, French fashion designer known for cashmere and knits, expresses “the tenderness of cashmere fabrics by using an organic pattern surface on the plant in architecture.” Kuma’s fondness for transparency and natural materials is apparent in the wood honeycomb structure that flows throughout the building….beauty! (via Designboom)

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