Polaroid Originals is the new brand from Polaroid, dedicated to original format Polaroid analog instant photography.
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CP Slippers
The Luxurious Beauty of Simplicity in Design since 1981. You’ll never come back to your indoor rubber slippers again.
RCS Online Store
A stylish automotive online store with a responsive interface.
Howlt
Howlt is the art and design platform of Haruki Higashi, a Brooklyn based artist whose About page lists Nike, Marlboro and McDonald’s among his clients. The shop sells tees, iPhone cases, tote bags, latte cups and a risograph zine under three labels, Howlt, Howlt Coffee and a licensed David Shrigley range, inside a site that also holds a works portfolio and a New York journal. Built on Gatsby and Contentful, with Shopify handling cart and checkout.
Website Design
Black, white and two accent shouts. The interface runs on black and white, with a near black at #121212 for type and a warm off white at #fcfcf9 for panels. Colour appears twice only, a red #e21000 and a yellow #f5c31c, both kept to small marks.
Four custom faces, three of them proprietary. Type is set in Howlt, the studio’s own sans, with Domaine Text for serif passages, a face called Twm for display and Feijoa Medium Italic loaded as HowltItalic. No system stack appears.
Everything is a thumbnail grid. Works, Journal and Shop share one template, a dense grid of square images with a title and category line under each. The shop is distinguishable mainly by its price line.
Shopping Experience
Thirty one items under five category tags. The shop holds 31 products tagged Accessories (20), Tees (5), Bags (3), Home Goods (2) and Books (1), and a second tag set for brand, filtered from above the grid.
Most of the grid is sold out. Nine items carry a price and the other 22 show SOLD OUT in its place. Prices run from $17.49 for the Howlt Coffee Tumbler to $50.64 for the Have a Smile tee, the uneven figures pointing to conversion from yen.
Product pages read like exhibition labels. One image sits beside a paragraph of description and a bullet list of materials, followed by PREV and NEXT arrows stepping through the catalogue. There is no review block and no size chart.
Checkout is Shopify, shipping is regional. Shopping Info lists VISA, Master, Shop Pay, Apple Pay, Google Pay and Paypal. Shipping is 500 yen in Japan and free over 10,000 yen, $5.00 in the USA and free over $100, and $8.00 elsewhere.
Brand Storytelling
The shop is one wing of a portfolio. Navigation gives equal weight to Works, Journal, Shop, Cafe, About and Contact, framing the store as one output of a practice rather than the point of it.
The journal indexes neighbourhoods, not products. Its tags are Brooklyn and Manhattan districts including Bushwick, Dumbo, Park Slope, Williamsburg and Soho, beside art culture, food drink and lifestyle.
Credentials are listed, not narrated. About carries a plain exhibition record from 2006 to 2019 and a press list naming IdN, Etapes, HYPEBEAST and several MdN titles.
Notable Features
Two cities in one footer. Brooklyn and Fukuoka addresses appear with map links and daily hours of 11 AM to 6 PM, qualified as “Irregular holidays”.
A bilingual switch on every page. A JA and EN toggle sits in the footer and the whole tree is duplicated per language, product copy included.
A blunt returns policy. Shopping Info states that “Orders cannot be cancelled under any circumstances”, limiting exchanges to wrong or defective items reported within seven days.
VIA Copenhagen
It all starts with a thought, a new material or an undiscovered need. We aim to design furniture that will last through the emotional connection between a material object and the human mind. By thinking out of the box we create designsolutions that are innovative, versatile and timeless.
Beacon
Beacon is a collaborative design project to raise money for disaster relief efforts around the world. All proceeds from print purchases and gallery donations go to Direct Relief.
Montluc
Exceptionally high quality diamond jewellery delivered to your door direct from the maker.
VANS
Vans is an American manufacturer of skateboarding shoes, based in Costa Mesa, California, owned by VF Corporation. The company also produces apparel and other products such as T-shirts, hoodies, socks, hats, and backpacks
AVIVA
Jewellery made of unique materials, many of which are recycled.
Buffy Comforters
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Only/Once
Only/Once collects and sells vintage design artifacts, principally Braun products designed by Dieter Rams alongside pieces from Bang and Olufsen and other mid-century labels, organized into collections such as the Bauhaus Collection and the Braun Collection with a Magazine section of editorial posts. The storefront is a custom build with Stripe-powered checkout.
Website Design
Black, off-white and a warm red circle. The palette runs mostly black text on off-white, punctuated by a single red-orange used for sale accents, sold-out tags and the circular Only/Once stamp logo that repeats in the header and footer.
Product photography against plain grey. Individual pieces, radios, fans, clocks, a Braun SK 61 turntable, are shot on a plain grey ground, while the homepage and category headers use warmer lifestyle shots, such as a cream Braun radio on a shelf beside a houseplant.
Sofia as the display face. The stylesheet defines Sofia as the site’s custom font family, used across headings and product names.
Shopping Experience
A dense numbered grid. The BRAUN Selection category page states an item count and lays products in a three-column grid, mixing posters, books, clocks and radios in one list rather than splitting by object type.
Sold items stay visible. Rather than hiding out-of-stock pieces, the catalogue keeps sold objects listed with a Sold badge and a Get Notified prompt, useful for a collectibles shop where the exact item will not return.
Stripe-powered checkout. The cart and checkout run on a custom two-column layout, contact and shipping fields on the left, an order summary on the right, with Secure Payment via Stripe stated under the pay button rather than a redirect to a third-party checkout.
Brand Storytelling
A one-line mission. The homepage states its purpose plainly: the mission is to collect unique and timeless design artifacts, from heritage to contemporary, reinforced by a Dieter Rams pull quote, Good design is as little design as possible.
Press coverage as a blog post. The Magazine section runs editorial pieces rather than product news; a recent post covers the shop’s own feature in Monocle magazine’s April 2026 print and digital edition, describing the interview with a Monocle writer and photographer.
Notable Features
A named collectibles taxonomy. Products sort by object type, Lighting, Electronic Audio, Clocks, Home Deco, Lifestyle, and separately by curated Collections, Bauhaus, Braun, Dieter Rams, giving two parallel ways to browse the same inventory.
A live chat widget. A chat bubble sits fixed in the bottom right corner of every page, offering direct contact alongside the standard contact form and newsletter signup.
Restock notifications on sold pieces. Rather than removing a sold item, the shop offers a Get Notified option against it, treating each object as potentially reappearing in a future drop rather than permanently gone.
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