When the owners of Bestie Currywurst decided to build out their 25-seat restaurant themselves, they asked Scott and Scott Architects to design an interior using only commonly available materials that could be built with simple power tools. The owners also asked for a certain amount of flexibility. In order to use the space for purposes other than just a restaurant, such as hosting events like movie screenings and community meetings, they needed the benches and tables to be easily rearranged. To fit the requirements, the architects designed an almost entirely modular restaurant, with a peg wall system that can be used for anything from hanging lights, to displaying design objects, storing coats in the winter, and holding extra barstools.
Stop by Bestie if you're hungry in Vancouver, and see a few more images at Moco. 
If you find yourself at the Independent Label Market in London tomorrow morning, you might want to make XL Recordings's stall your first stop. This week the label screen printed 50 copies each of some of its bigger releases for sale at tomorrow's event, including new LPs from Vampire Weekend and Atoms for Peace. In addition to the LPs, they'll also have a CD of King Krule's brand new "Easy Easy" single, and a 7" from The xx.
Here's the list of special editions:
Atoms For Peace - Amok LP
Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City LP
Sigur Rós - Kveikur LP
The xx - Together 7"
King Krule - Easy Easy CD Single
Check out a GIF of all the covers:
Yonder Journal, an exploration-minded photography collective, divides its features into three categories. "Studies" are longform travelogs. "Briefs" are quick notes usually as a caption to a single photo. And "Guides" are Yonder's fully-fledged photo-heavy travel guides, complete with printable diagrams, maps, and cue-sheets. The group journeys through remote areas of the American West. But, as they clarify in a footnote to their Statement of Purpose, "'Western' is not a place. It’s an attitude and a quality, the hallmarks of which are self-sufficiency, self-reliance, transformation, rugged independence, saltiness, a predisposition to risk and margins, and a DTF-type of commitment to one’s pursuits."
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To soundtrack his new Calvin Klein fragrance spot, director David Fincher bypassed the latest LP from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and chose "Runaway" from 2009's It's Blitz!. Fincher also cast his sometime co-worker Rooney Mara to play a bummed out up-and-coming actress who rides the PATH train, gets a breakthrough role, and holds a somewhat gratifying press conference. [via Stereogum]
Neko Case is looking for a designer to create a new tour poster for some upcoming shows. Before you draw any comparisons to musicians looking for free help, rest assured, she's not looking to exploit enthusiastic fans for free design work, but instead offering a $1000 cash and a prize pack to the winning designer. There are some standard protocol requirements you can read about on the contest page, and a few simple requests: no Neko Case likenesses are allowed, the design should be "delicate yet powerful," and it doesn't hurt to incorporate the track list from her new album The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You. As a final stipulation, Case might even give you some input on the design.
Interested designers have until August 19 to submit work.
Images of "The Happy Show" at ICA via sagmeisterwalsh.com
Stefan Sagmeister's film may still be in production, but his related exhibit has been getting rave reviews. "The Happy Show" has been making the rounds and July 13 it arrives in Chicago. Visitors will feel as if they're walking into Stefan Sagmeister's mind as the designer attempts to up his happiness via techniques such as mediation, cognitive therapy, and pharmaceuticals. Typographical installations will fill the fourth floor galleries and in-between spaces at the CCC. Sagmeister combines his typographic maxims with social science data from psychologists and anthropologists. A 12-minute segment of the Happy Film will also be viewable.
Among our favorite online shops, Hickoree's carries great American- and Japanese-made clothing that interprets the store's sturdy Americana theme with some flexibility. Today, the shop announced its summer sale and there's loads of good stuff from labels such as Kaptain Sunshine, Dubbleworks, Tender Co., Left Field, Blue Blue Japan, and Dana Lee. The sale is organized in 20% off, 30% off, and 50% off categories for you discount lovers.
Under the right circumstances, donating power from one's iPhone to another is borderline heroic. The Juice Up is a new case concept with a built-in cable for power sharing. After connecting two phones, a simple app designates which way to send the power, and how much charge to give. Unfortunately, it's only in the concept stage as designer Francois Rybarczyk is still working on the electrical engineering. 
Almost a century ago, Wrigley relied on poetry and slightly creepy cartoons called Spearmen to sell gum. The Spearmen, which were an anthropomorphized version of their green arrow logo, were billed as helpful assistants in order to alleviate the social stigma around "rude" gum chewing at the time and promote chewing gum's calming effects.
For the packaging of their second single from this year's highly recommended Fade, Yo La Tengo looked to the bathroom for inspiration. The release of album opener "Ohm" will come packaged as a triple 12" single, in a shower curtain display case complete with metal grommets for actual use in the shower. In addition to the album version, two of the records will feature a "live rock" version and a "live quiet" version respectively. The single is available for pre-order from The Matador Store, but the quickest way to get one is at the CHIRP Record Fair at this year's Pitchfork Music Festival, beginning next Friday, July 19. Not a bad time to pick up some single-day tickets.
The band also released a new animated video for "Ohm", written by Donick Cary, who has writing credits from the Simpsons, with animation from Sugarshack.