Wanna learn one of the greatest skills known to man? A skill so life changing you’ll never go back? You do? Great. Screen printing is one of the funnest activities you can do, the ability to create a set of posters, packaging, t-shirts easily and relatively quickly is one of its biggest draws. The problem is all the gear you need. The guys at Print Liberation have put together a complete DIY screen printing kit for your use, and when they say complete they mean complete. All with a dedicated store for all the consumerables it’s now even easier to set up a small print workshop in your own home. Visit the whole store here and Design Milk have a competition going for US residents where you can win a whole bundle of goodies here.

Wanna learn one of the greatest skills known to man? A skill so life changing you’ll never go back? You do? Great.

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Famed Basketball player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar shares life lessons he’s learn with Esquire from money issues to family. Here’s a few poignant sections of Kareem’s 20 Things I Wish I’d known When I Was 30. “3. Become financially literate. “Dude, where’s my money?” is the rallying cry of many ex-athletes who wonder what happened to all the big bucks they earned. Some suffer from unwise investments or crazy spending, and others from not paying close attention. I was part of the didn’t-pay-attention group. I chose my financial manager, who I later discovered had no financial training, because a number of other athletes I knew were using him. That’s typical athlete mentality in that we’re used to trusting each other as a team, so we extend that trust to those associated with teammates. Consequently, I neglected to investigate his background or what qualified him to be a financial manager. He placed us in some real estate investments that went belly up and I came close to losing some serious coin. Hey, Kareem at 30: learn about finances and stay on top of where your money is at all times. As the saying goes, “Trust, but verify.”” “7. Be patient. Impatience is the official language of youth. When you’re young, you want to rush to the next thing before you even know where you are. I always think of the joke in Colors that the wiser and older cop (Robert Duvall) tells his impatient rookie partner (Sean Penn). I’m paraphrasing, but it goes something like: “There’s two bulls standing on top of a mountain. The younger one says to the older one: ‘Hey pop, let’s say we run down there and screw one of them cows.’ The older one says: ‘No son. Let’s walk down and screw ‘em all.’” Now, to counter the profane with the profound, one of my favorite quotes is from the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer: “Talent hits the target no one else can hit; genius hits the target no one else can see.” I think the key to seeing the target no one else can see is in being patient, waiting for it to appear so you can do the right thing, not just the expedient thing. Learning to wait is one of my greatest accomplishments as I’ve gotten older.” Read more here.

Famed Basketball player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar shares life lessons he’s learn with Esquire from money issues to family.

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Illustrator Clara Lacy was recently on Meet The Makers filming her process and thoughts on her practice. Watch below. A recent graduate from London’s Camberwell College of Arts her intricate and skilful pencil drawings have attracted work from I-D magazine and Goodhood. Check out all her work here.

Illustrator Clara Lacy was recently on Meet The Makers filming her process and thoughts on her practice. Watch below.

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Have you seen that swift T-shirt folding Lacoste advert? Here’s how you can impress the ladies with your folding skills. Wired shows us a quick How To from their May 2013 issue illustrated by Tobatron the alter ego of Toby Leigh. Here’s a link to the whole thing, now you have no excuse not to have a tidy chest of drawers. How To Fold a Shirt in Two Seconds www.tobatron.com

Have you seen that swift T-shirt folding Lacoste advert? Here’s how you can impress the ladies with your folding skills.

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Hand-maker of minimal canvas California inspired Japanese bags, Sunset Craftsman Co. is the star of this short by Felicia Elise. Taking its name from the California sun blessed landscape, Sunset Craftsman Co. is small operation in Okayama Japan that crafts perfectly simple and durable bags. You wouldn’t expect anything less from a Japanese designer though would you. Take a watch of this short shot by Felicia Elise (who much like SC co. I can’t find much about) which takes a quite a detailed look at the production of one their bags. If you can find anything on either of these guys to link to let me know, they seem to give a low profile!

Hand-maker of minimal canvas California inspired Japanese bags, Sunset Craftsman Co. is the star of this short by Felicia Elise.

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