If you’ve never bought a men’s magazine in your life, you’ll be relieved to know that on this day, of all fine days, with a copy of Manzine tucked away in you man-bag, you can finally claim your rightful place alongside the other men of this world.

We praised this track a couple months back and now we’re super ecstatic that it’s getting a proper release!

Jake Davis continues his “Test Shots” series with this short, sexy flick featuring model Tanaya Henry.

the next generation of African musicians will soon reign over mainstream pop.Today’s track of the day is case in point. Tinashe, a young chap raised in Zimbabwe but carefully transplanted to South London, comes to release his debut single ” Saved” next week off of Island Records.

“Detroit Lives” is about, as Knoxville puts it himself as we see him drive around Motown in a mighty classic muscle car, an attempt to “see what’s goin’ on other than all the bad stuff you here in the news.”

It’s def not the norm for designers in fashion to be humble, gracious and sincere ( jus’ sayin) and especially with someone as highly regarded and rated as Billy Reid, top US designer, multi boutique owner and Southern gentleman (recent winner of the GQ/CFDA Best Menswear Designer award). Billy’s the subject of Jake Davis’ in [...]

“Futures,” Carl Craig’s recent remix for chill-out kings Zero 7, is another one to add to his pantheon of genius.

Continuing to highlight classics in our daily style life, Jake Davis celebrates fresh and expressive eyewear through the lenses of Silver Lining Opticians’ Jordan Silver and Erik Sacher, for his second installment of the K-Swiss ‘All Things Classic’ video series. In this vid Jordan takes us deep into all things past present and future of [...]

Taking a visual cue from the timeless images of Blue Note album art, this short film spotlights the craft of New York barber extraordinaire Joselito (of Joselito’s Barbershop fame) as he gives a tight cut to the smoky strains of Miles’ trumpet.

est voila ! we’re delighted to have DJ LeFtO back with us for an exclusive KSPACE.TV 66 Mix and May Day special as he travels to join us in California for some crackin’ DJ sets in early May (will post them soon). If in Europe you can catch LeFtO in his hometown Brussels on his radio show, live in clubs and with the ‘Friends and Family’ (recently Rich Medina in the area), as well as in London often with Gilles and the Brownswood crew and those (like me) lucky enough to be at the annual Worldwide Festival in Sete, France early July.

You’ve most likely noticed an increase in many things ‘awesome’ around here – granted, it’s probably a California symptom but hey there are in fact many shades of awesome-ness on the left coast of the US. The latest being ‘Awesome Challenge’ where ordinary people take on extra-ordinary tasks like um deciding to climb Cali’s highest summit Mt Whitney at 14 505 ft starting April 28th and besides the personal challenge of it all, it’s for a great cause in helping under resourced urban teens make it into the great wild outdoors and beyond.

Boxing has kinda always been the rockstar music and art infused sport what with the likes of Muhammad Ali, Tyson, Warhol and Basquiat (classic boxing meets art poster show), iconic SA prez ‘Madiba, and even Miles Davis who chased his blues away in the ring (as seen above and in our boxing culture album ). [...]

“How would you design Vanity Fair?” Mario Lombardo replied tersely : “Not at all.” White on white—from abstract painters Kasimir Malevich and Robert Ryman to the humble tennis shoe, pale monochrome on top of pale monochrome has always proven a classic style. That’s clear in Mario Lombardo’s poster concept for K-Swiss’ You Gotta Know Your Classics poster campaign, “Blond On Blond,” where the words and colors (or lack thereof) literally deconstruct off the page. It’s a witty homage to the all-white tennis style epitomized by the K-Swiss Classic shoe…..

Non-Format is one of the most acclaimed design collectives working today. A duo made up of Kjell Ekhorn and Jon Forss, since Non-Format began in 2000 they’ve won all number of awards in their field, as well, their clients range from the coolest to the biggest. Non-Format’s contribution to K-Swiss’ You Gotta Know Your Classics campaign, for example, uses oversize type to crushingly illustrate the theme with subtle absurdist humor and a nod to Constructivism.

Everybody loves a Classic ! whether it be an object a person a sentiment or in this case here simply an evergreen Classic trainer. It’s more than stood the test of time, since 1966 in fact and keeps on setting the standard. It’s also a design aesthetic and to expand on that 8 emerging worldwide designers were asked to interpret their own take on a or The Classic in ‘You Gotta Know Your Classics’ and the results are as striking as they are varied !

Ok, this issue of Jacques is not destined to be rated as a new sports journal, but it may certainly be notable to sports fans if only for its celebration of “fit”-ness. Jacques is a print publication (one of the last standing), a sort of old-school throwback skin mag, that features un-retouched pics of lovely young ladies.

Norwegian design collective Grandpeople started putting their distinctive mark on everything from fashion and music projects to high art and advertising. Spanning avant-garde electronic-music album covers and stylishly groundbreaking retail posters for basketball kicks to the cover of Chuck Palahniuk’s novel Fight Club, whimsical illustrations for Tokion magazine and edgy rocker t-shirts, Grandpeople clearly can do it all, and with innovative panache.