Style + Fashion

Be ready for the new year! It's that time again - time for a whole new year. A fresh start. A new beginning. Or just more of the same old, same old. Any way you slice it, it's time for a new calendar. For 2013, we've rounded up 25 of our favorite 2013 modern calendars. Which one will grace your wall or desk this coming year?

It's party season and I'm totally obsessed with Built's Origami Wine Tote. We bring wine with us when we go out to dinner, but now that we're going out a lot more often to holiday parties and events, we've always got a bottle in tow. Santa, please bring me one (or two!) of these.

Do you ever think about all the paper you use to wrap those Christmas and birthday gifts? It's a lot of waste! Graphic designer Amy Lewis decided to change that with her ecoChici reusable cloth gift wrap kits she conceived with the help of her husband.

Martin Yeeles, a graphic designer, is this week's Friday Five subject, and the co-founder and creative director of Boston-based stationery and gift company, Bob’s Your Uncle. He created all of the Bob’s Your Uncle line, which includes boldly contemporary greeting cards, gift wrap, place mats, file folders, dish towels, and more. In 1993, he and his wife, company co-founder and former shoe designer Michele Yeeles, moved to the States from their native England “just for a year or two,” and never left. In case you're not familiar with the saying, “Bob’s your uncle” is a British expression used to indicate that a given task is very simple. It was possibly inspired by Victorian Prime Minister, Robert Cecil, who appointed his nephew to a ministerial post. Translation: having Bob as your uncle was a guarantee of success. Let's see where Bob, I mean, Martin, finds inspiration.

I started out searching Society6's huge selection of artwork and products initially for holiday-themed items to include in this week's Design Milk Dairy but I ended up being fixated on reindeer!

Looking to bring a hint of nature to daily life, industrial designer Lorenzo Buffa designed a collection of watches called Analog Wooden Wat

Nervous System has just launched their new web-based Radiolaria app and, boy, is it awesome. Not only is it beautiful, but easy to use and fun. Plus, at the end you can buy what you design.

John and Wonhee Jeong Arndt of Studio Gorm met while studying in the masters program at the design academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands. They set up their first studio in Rotterdam, though today, they are located in Eugene, Oregon. Let's see what inspires the pair who make simple, practical, and always beautiful products and environments, in this week's Friday Five.

...and we're back with a theme this week for Design Milk Dairy! Are you puzzled as to what the theme is? OK, OK, so I gave it away in the title...

Oakland, California-based Jason Lees Design makes some really cool furniture and accessories, but his new jewelry collection featuring the same materials of wood, brass, leather, and paint are minimal statements of perfection.

Are you a chess player that also loves design? If so, the type(chess)set by Hat-trick Design was made for you. Gone are the generic chess pieces that come standard with every set, instead you'll find them replaced with typographic letters, like K for King.

This month's Designer Desktop creator just so happened to be our very first Friday Five contributor - UK-based illustrator Ben O'Brien. He d