by Chris Force | May 29, 2020 | Design
LET’S DO SOMETHING we’d all love to right about now—jump five years into the future. It’s now 2025. There’s been five years of aggressive—and I mean tear the thing down and rebuild it aggressive—innovation in the world of cars, trucks, and motorcycles. Some...
by Chris Force | May 21, 2020 | News
Sixtysix magazine is back with its fourth print issue, featuring in-depth conversations from some of the world’s most prolific designers and creatives. Finalized in quarantine, the issue is available worldwide now. When Sixtysix started, we promised to travel the...
by Chris Force | May 21, 2020 | News
My desk faces east toward Lake Michigan. It would be a stunning view if it weren’t for the half-mile of lofts, college-prep schools, hotels, and mid-rise buildings between here and there. Still, it’s not bad. The desk is a three-piece job, a tabletop built to click...
by Chris Force | May 20, 2020 | Design
Alex Strohl lives a life most of us daydream about. The 30-year-old French photographer spends most of the year traveling the world creating images that mix outdoor exploration with quiet contemplation. For an adventure photographer his work is understated and...
by Chris Force | May 15, 2020 | Travel
Vibrant, colorful, new. It’s hard to escape these three terms when reading or thinking about Mexico City. The city of nearly 9 million residents is exploding with restaurants, boutiques, hotels, museums, and galleries. Its diversity and excitement can make most other...
by Chris Force | May 8, 2020 | Design
It’s sunny, low 70s, in the Del Rey neighborhood of West Los Angeles. A new office compound is under construction—one of many new developments aimed at making room for the tech, startup, and media companies that are flocking to the area, what’s being referred to as...
by Chris Force | Feb 12, 2020 | Design
It was 1977. At the Consumer Electronics Show, then held in Chicago, the world’s first personal computer, the Commodore PET, was announced. Apple Computer was incorporated. Star Wars hit the movie theaters, and Harley-Davidson released the very first Low Rider...
by Chris Force | Feb 5, 2020 | Design
Illustrator Claudia Chanhoi (known to her Instagram faithful as BrainXEyes) creates bawdy images that pop with color, humor, and sharp perspectives on contemporary dating and gender mores. Her work—think suggestive pickles, cartoonishly glistening butts, disembodied...
by Chris Force | Jan 13, 2020 | News
CES, “the global stage for innovation,” attracted more than 170,000 attendees this year in Las Vegas. The event hosted more than 4,500 exhibitors over 2.9 million square feet in a seemingly never-ending ocean of gadgets both practical and ridiculous. Smart home...
by Chris Force | Dec 13, 2019 | Products
“When we started thinking about the Electrified S2, founder Ties Carlier and I tried to understand car users in a city context. We talked a lot about something that is as easy to leave on the streets as a car without needing a big lock. Something that makes you not...
by Chris Force | Dec 9, 2019 | Design
If you were interested in fast cars in the ’90s there’s a good chance you rarely even saw the Toyota Supra Mk.4. Released in ’93 with chart-topping performance, advanced technology, and the massively capable 2JZ engine, the car failed to resonate with American buyers....
by Chris Force | Nov 14, 2019 | Insights
As we agonized over putting the final touches on Sixtysix Issue #3 (and let’s be honest, by “final touches” I mean completely reorganizing and frantically re-editing entire sections of the book while drowning in self-doubt), I found my creative process, the one that...
