Launched in 2007, London’s Monocle came right when the world was getting rough. It arrived at a time when the economy had seen better days yet emerged with a spotlight on quality, craftsmanship, education, knowhow, international affairs, business, and culture. All elements that succeed past any economical speed bump. For their first ever book, The The [...]
After reading Bill Bryson’s In A Sunburned Country, and with the arrival of Zanerobe, we’re a bit obsessed with Australia. The thing is, Australia is an easy country to be obsessed with – it’s practically another world. There are species and “things” that exist in the land down under that don’t exist anywhere else in [...]
To celebrate the release of Issue 2 of our in-house publication Human Being Journal, we packed up and traveled from Richmond, Virginia to New York City and invited all of our friends and family to party with us. Special thanks to Space LES for hosting us, DJ Lucas Walters for playing the jams, Heineken for providing [...]
Just because we sell a fair share of collared shirts doesn’t mean we don’t keep our eye on the adventure world – and the adventure world is certainly a world that you need to keep an eye on. Backflipping dirt bikes is old news, whenever you turn to the television or internet, it seems someone [...]
I’ve got traveling, exploration and adventure on the mind as I prepare for a cross-country road trip and a summer spent in Los Angeles. My friend (and photographer) Laura Dart has started an Instagram series of her favorite trucks and buses in Portland, which has me romanticizing about a beautiful old ’70s Wagoneer, wind in my [...]
It’s officially picnic season! Pack your lunch and escape the florescent glow of your office for an hour, because food just seems to taste better outside. Public parks are a dime a dozen even in the most urban areas, so there’s almost guaranteed to be a grassy knoll within reach. We scoured the globe for [...]
The American Mountain Men Association represents a group of individuals that would make you both jealous and scared at the same time. Hailing mainly from the western states but scattered throughout the country, is a brotherhood of men dedicated to preserving the traditions and ways of this nation’s most fearless pioneers and daring explorers. They [...]
Foster Huntington is a man of action. Jumping ship from what many would have considered a dream job designing for Ralph Lauren, Foster bought a van, left Manhattan and opted for a life on the road. He now is fully immersed in the popularized #vanlife that he created, and has since put over 60,000 miles [...]
A visually stunning adventure by bike, Reveal the Path explores the world’s playgrounds in Europe’s snow capped mountains, Scotland’s lush valleys, Alaska’s rugged coastal beaches and Morocco’s high desert landscapes. Ride along and get lost in the wonders of the world. Filmed across four continents and featuring Tour Divide race legends Matthew Lee & Kurt Refsnider, [...]
We’re excited to announce the release of the second issue of our biannual print magazine, Human Being Journal. Issue 2 includes work by contributing photographers Charlie Engman, Ashley Florence, William Godwin, Matt Licari, Olivia Malone, Duy Nguyen and Harper Smith, along with 192 pages of 9 species, 1 haiku, 5 colors, 2 paper stocks, 9 [...]
There’s something special about a person who can completely step away from their day to day job and do something incredible. What defines incredible is up to you, but we’d say completing a self-propelled circumnavigation of the globe fits the description. That’s just what ex-software engineer Erden Eruc did for 1,026 days and 37,472 miles [...]
“Pat Perry is from Michigan and is committed to real things”, declares the Info section of the artist’s website. And Pat’s time working with the National Park Service on a residency in Katmai National Park, Alaska appears to be as real and as authentic of an experience that one can commit themselves to. While in [...]
This past Valentines day sparked record sales of roses, chocolates and all things fitting to the fourteenth of February. During that same time, across the world in Allahabad, on the shore of the confluence of the Yomuna and the Ganges river, nearly 80 million people massed for the world’s largest religious gathering, also known as [...]
If you’ve ever been to Oakland, chances are you love it, and if you haven’t, we think it’s high time you change that. Often misunderstood and not as well known as its neighbors, Berkeley and San Francisco, Oakland should rightly be a destination all its own. Our friend Angela Tafoya is a supercool lady and [...]
A couple of years ago I visited a friend in Paris during April – I loved seeing all of the flowers in bloom, eating treats in the ninth (especially at Rose Bakery), and visiting Merci – there was a beautiful installation up when I was there. Looking back at the photos I took on my [...]
I’ve lived in Toronto for almost three years, since moving back from Seoul, South Korea. Since then, I’ve grown to love this city and the people and places in it. Here are some of my favourite places to shop, eat, and visit. Shop: Robber – One of my favourite shops in Toronto, Robber has beautifully selected [...]
We’re big fans of anything with the word “friends” included in it. So when Matthew E. White (Richmond, VA), one of our favorite people in the whole wide world, reached out to us about Friend Island at SXSW this year, we listened. “Friend Island is a dream to be a part of. Hometapes (Portland, OR) [...]
The tiny West Texas border town of Marfa is 200 miles from anywhere. Perhaps best known as the location of the 1956 James Dean movie, Giant, it was the backdrop of the now iconic photo of James Dean sprawled across an old Model T with his ankles propped up lazily against the windshield. It appears [...]
In 2002, the government of Norway launched a program to attract more visitors to their 18 scenic highways designated as “National Tourist Routes” by building a variety of architectural overlooks and rest stops along the way. The 18-year project has already built nearly 120 sites that have been designed by Norway’s best architects. The estimated [...]
I wanted to begin my time posting here at Need Supply Co by introducing you to the city where I live, Gothenburg, Sweden and one of its most iconic landmarks—Skanskaskrapan. Gothenburg, Sweden (Göteborg in Swedish—pronounced “yota-bori”) is the second largest city in Sweden with around 550,000 residents. This historically industrial town was built at the [...]
Due north of San Francisco and some miles south of the Oregon border, is an 80 mile stretch of undeveloped California land known by the romantic name, The Lost Coast. The name came about after the area experienced a drastic depopulation in 1930s and stuck as the region’s steep cliffs and rocky costal terrain made [...]
The 9th installment of our Meet the Maker series brings brothers Raan and Shea Parton, founders of Apolis, and their traveling Nomad Market installation here to Richmond, Virginia. Apolis began in 2004 with the simple idea that people can live better lives if they are given equal access to opportunity. It is built by a [...]
Here in Virginia, we’re closing out a full week of non-stop rain and now slushing through the remains of a nasty winter storm. We’re longing for sunshine and missing the days that stayed bright long after 4:00 pm. In a nutshell, we’re dreaming of sunny California. Two of our favorite blogging ladies recently returned from [...]
Cabin Porn is a blog that features rad cabins in some of the most unbelievable, obscure and remote places around. Take a look and for more cabin porn go here.
Cape Town, South Africa is without a doubt one of the most beautiful cities in the world. It’s full of drama – cliffs that plunge into the sea, miles of the most beautiful coastline you’ve ever seen, a mountain as flat as a table top and another shaped like a lions head, valleys filled with [...]
Besides calling the beautiful state of Virginia our home, we’re constantly amazed at what you can see in a day. From our home base of Richmond, VA, you can drive one hour west to the Blue Ridge Mountains (part of America’s oldest mountain range), or two hours east to the Atlantic Ocean. Just two hours [...]
Dean Potter is a mad man. If you’ve ever skimmed the sub-culture of free soloing and/or wing-suiting, there’s a good chance you’ve heard of him. In Dean’s downtime from hucking his body off the tallest faces on earth and climbing world-renouned faces such as Switzerland’s Eiger without a rope, he, like most climbers, enjoys slack-lining. This [...]
AJ Lund is a former Richmond gal now living in Seoul, Korea. She was one of the most stylish ladies around these parts, and we’re pretty sure that rings true on the other side of the world too. AJ is diving into any fashion-related project she can find, and completely immersing herself in Korean culture. [...]
In the Peruvian Amazon, a possible new species of arachnid in the genus Cyclosa has been recently discovered, and has a pretty amazing talent. This little guy builds elaborate spider replicas in his web from collected debris, complete with long, spidery legs. According to scientists, it is most likely a defense mechanism meant to confuse [...]
Here in America, we’ve got some pretty weird holiday traditions. We stare at a glowing fireplace on a TV screen, hide a stuffed elf around the house to get kids to behave, and wear purposefully hideous and tacky holiday sweaters in public. We searched the globe and found that no two holiday celebrations are alike, [...]
Aylin Beyce is one of our very raddest friends, hands down. She has this unassuming cool quality that is, unfortunately, all too rare. When you first meet her you think, “That’s one cool chick,” and then as time passes you begin to discover that she’s secretly doing (and has been doing for some time) insanely [...]
Flower Safari is a group exhibition and celebration of spring, which took place in Cape Town, South Africa. The show was hosted at Side Street Studios in October and November, and we still can’t get over its beauty. Styled by the lovely Mariah Breitenberg of sizetoosmall, the show featured clothing by Take Care, jewelry by [...]
We just received the final pieces of The Hill-Side A/W 2012 collection, the Old Virginia Modified Herringbone scarves and ties. This “broken herringbone” fabric is so unique and interesting, woven for The Hill-Side in rural Virginia by an older gentleman named Bob. “Old Bob” is a 6th generation weaver; his family has been weaving fabric in Virginia [...]
In a small corner of Western Poland, an area formerly part of the German province of Pomerania, lies a mysterious forest of about 400 crooked pine trees. These crooked trees, which are surrounded by a much larger forest of normal, straight trees, each have a bent angle of 90 degrees at the base of their [...]
Founded by gallerists in 1970, Art Basel stages the world’s premier art shows for modern and contemporary works, sited in Basel, Miami Beach and Hong Kong. Defined by its host city and region, each show is unique, reflected in its participating galleries, the artworks on display and the parallel content programming produced in collaboration with [...]
Although the roots of skiing originated in Scandinavia, once immigrants set foot in New Hampshire in 1872, the steep North Eastern hills soon became the place to be for all things on two planks. It was the small town of Berlin where North America’s oldest continuously-operating skiing club was founded under the name Berlin Mills Ski [...]
Just Here’s Fine is a project by photographer Victoria Hannan, in which she looks at the lives of London’s cabbies. The project is powered by Hailo, and gives real heart and soul to so many typically nameless, faceless drivers. Jamie Thirteen years ago, Jamie left a job in an office because he didn’t like anyone [...]
Gisèle d’Ailly van Waterschoot van der Gracht, or Gisèle Waterschoot of the Canal, is a 100 year old artist and publisher we recently saw featured at Freunde von Freunden, and were completely mesmerized. When we dug a little deeper, we found that Gisèle may just be one of the coolest women to ever live. Her life story reads [...]
As it gets colder outside, most of us retreat to thick socks and turning up the thermostat. But not Ed Viesturs. While we’re nestled under two wool blankets and a cat on our lap, Ed is typically somewhere in the world at least 26,000 feet above our heads – where it’s really cold. Ed is [...]
If there is one true thing in this world, it’s that nothing beats a good cup of coffee. Being the addicts we are, we’re always in search of the perfect cup of joe, and have found that the little guys – the small local roasters and true coffee snobs – are just about as close [...]
Twenty-five year old Swedish photographer Anna Ådén‘s lovely work is so dreamy it almost has us excited for the coldest of seasons….almost. If you’re like us and need a little help keeping your chin up as winter approaches, take a peek at more of her work here.
After a year of teaching, our friends Kate and Cody were ready for an adventure. This summer, they spent three weeks exploring Nicaragua, where they participated in a home stay, took intensive Spanish and surf lessons, and went fishing, volcano boarding, swimming under a waterfall and in a volcanic lake, and body rafting in Somoto Canyon. They hung [...]
In 1993, California’s Lynn Hill did something that no one on earth (man or woman) had ever done. With her partner Brooke Sandahl, she became the first person to free climb one of the most famous rock summits in the world, The Nose of El Capitan in Yosemite Valley. Prior to this, The Nose stood [...]
We’re excited to announce the release of our first biannual print magazine, Human Being Journal. We have been printing something each season, but never sharing thoughts and ideas. It’s a strong belief within our company that the products only represent one part of the story. The people who buy our clothing also sleep, eat, ride bikes, travel to [...]
After the 1960′s, the early 70′s brought a change to climbing in Yosemite Valley. Most of the popular routes had been climbed and the “sport” had now become popular. Hundreds of climbers could be found on the large walls of California’s Half Dome and El Capitan on a daily basis. This led to new and [...]
Brooklyn-based Dépanneur considers themselves a convenience store. That may be an apt description if all urban convenience stores stocked elderflower soda, locally-sourced hand soap, and German Katje yogurt gummies along with their household cleaning supplies and cigarettes. Perhaps we could call them a locally-minded gourmet shop with a European grocery twist, but then you’d be missing their delicatessen [...]
Part time photographer, part time jewelry designer, part time stylist, and full time artist, Belgium-based Eefje de Coninck has yet another side project: a blog capturing talented girls in the spaces they call home. In her monthly installments, she profiles young female designers, photographers, illustrators, etc., capturing moments of quiet inspiration sprinkled with a few words of wisdom, “Home could be anywhere, but it [...]
As we speak, Chris Burkard, Keith Malloy, Cyrus Sutton, Trevor Gordon, and Dane Gudauskas are preparing to surf undocumented waves in the remote regions of Russia. They’ll fly from southern California to Kamchatka, Russia. It’s a pretty far trip. Preparing for a trip like this takes research, time, and plenty of patience – especially when [...]
On April 28, 1947, a handmade raft constructed of balsa trunks, hemp rope and bamboo, departed from Callao, Peru and headed west into the Pacific via the Humboldt current. The raft was destined for the Polynesian Islands in hopes to show that a vessel made of similar materials and technologies could have allowed the people [...]
Fall is just around around the corner, but yet summer is still firmly here…the temperatures are starting to cool but the days are still long. You know what that means? It’s getting to be the perfect time to go camping! Husband and wife photography team, We Are The Rhoads, contributed a photo essay for the most recent [...]
