The Fall 2009 issue of LTD arrived today, the cover a collaboration between Japanese pop artist Takashi Murakami and cultural renaissance man Hiroshi Fujiwara. While Jeff Staple’s interview with Fujiwara provided some insight into his enigmatic aura, it was the introduction to the feature “International Hustlers” that most caught my attention.
What exactly is a [...]
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I am a member of the Equinox gym in Palo Alto, a happy neighbor to General Motor’s local Advanced Technology unit. The sign gave me a good laugh the first time I saw it last year, before the company had collapsed into the hands of the US federal government. Now I find any [...]
Pop-up stores were once strictly the domain of Nike and other trendsetting brands as they sought to reach a limited audience of urban tastemakers. Earlier this month, on my way to Uniqlo on Broadway in Soho, I saw a new take on the medium. Instead of hawking exclusive limited edition wares, Vitamin Water was [...]
A good friend of mine moved to Manila in January. I ran into his cousin in San Francisco the other day. It was late – the middle of the day in the Philippines – so we decided to give him a call. Neither of us had his local mobile, but I retrieved [...]
The Spring 2009 issue arrived in the mail a few weeks past, providing the usual mix of interviews, brands, products, photography, and design. LTD Mag is the print publication of LTD+, a New York boutique marketing and media agency led by “Hawaii” Mike Salman. With an American focus but international presence, the quarterly [...]