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Cover photo by Terry Richardson
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 WHAT HAPPENED?And Why Does Everything Look Like Shit?When did the world become one gigantic DON'T? The way people look in general has been plummeting since the 60s, but it seems like the whole of culture is at an all-time aesthetic low. Women think we like fake tits and toe rings, men over 40 are still putting g...READ MORE | |
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  DEAR DIARY1998
Dear Diary,
I'm in Long Island once again. Tonight for some strange reason I feel like getting on the train. It's not like I want to go to the city for any reason at all, I just feel like being in transit. I am not excited about being he...READ MORE | |
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 ASSBLASTERFrom 'Taint to Crack and BackYou know when you have those shits where there's so much bile and drugs and booze in your system from the night before that your entire anus starts to fall out of your ass and dip into the toilet like an elephant trunk? You don't? Well, you're not the partier ...READ MORE | |
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 DOS & DON'TSAnd we thought last month's "Paki Wearing a Skrewdriver Belt Buckle" was as good as it gets. Tabernak! (That's Quebecer for "fuck"). This month we've been trumped by "Black Guy With a Wattie Belt Buckle." What's next month going to be, Alicia Keys wearing an "...READ MORE | |
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 iHUSTLEWhen Addicts CreateThe other night my friend called me to let me know that a crazy black crackhead had just tried to sell him a brand-new G5 laptop right out in front of that huge liquor store near Astor Place. He hadn't investigated it at all, but I had been looking for a cheap...READ MORE | |
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 SWEET HOME ALABAMASouthern Schoolkids Are Ready to RumbleThe homemade weapons FEATURED HERE were confiscated from students enrolled in middle and high schools in the Huntsville City School district of Northern Alabama. They were chosen from among a huge collection of weapons kept by the Huntsville Campus Security Su...READ MORE | |
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 GROSS JARDue to overwhelming amounts of reader mail requesting its return, we are pleased to bring you Gross Jar 2.0.
This is how it works: we take a jar and put a bunch of really foul shit in it. Then we set it outside the back door of the office and check wh...READ MORE | |
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 ANARCHY IN THE UKAnd You Thought Alabama Was BadDear Yanks,
How many people have you heard of who got "ashtrayed" (breaking an ashtray over somebody's head) or "canned" (ripping up a can of lager and rubbing it over somebody's face a hundred times until their face looks like a crossword)? Probably ...READ MORE | |
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 I'M DYING OVER HEREThere are people in the funeral industry who really piss me off. First they try to guilt trip you into spending more money than you have for a royal send off. If you can't afford the Cadillac funeral, they try to make you feel like you're a cheap son of a bitc...READ MORE | |
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 DESIGN 101Killing Roaches SimplifiedFuck all the bells and whistles of modern design. I don't need a gigantic chopping machine with four speeds and serrated edges to cut up my dinner-I'll just use a knife, thanks. Worked for Neanderthal man, should be right for me. I mean, they haven't changed t...READ MORE | |
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 LITERARYBook Reviews - The Design IssueLocas- The Maggie & Hopey Stories, Handwritten– Expressive Lettering in the Digital Age, Funny Pages, Blankets...READ MORE | |
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 DEATH TO ROACHESThe Age of MachinesOK, so maybe not everyone is going to want to eat roaches to dispose of them (pussies). Some of you are going to need contraptions and gizmos to take care of your dirty work for you. We asked a few geniuses we just so happen to know to design us roach-killing ...READ MORE | |
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 VICE PICTURESThere is a place in Deer Shelter Rock, Wisconsin, which is so terrifying that going there stoned (which I just did) is the equivalent of, say, doing acid and watching The Shining by yourself in a cabin in fucking Romania.
It's called The House on the ...READ MORE | |
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 LONG GONE JOHNAnd His Long Gone HomeI love waking up every day and being hit with sensory overload. I treasure everything-art, artifacts, junk-it's all the same. I go out every weekend to swap meets looking for more stuff to bring home. That's what I work for and what makes me happy.
As...READ MORE | |
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 POCKETS DUMB FATIn case nobody told you, Atlanta is the new Atlanta. Check it out: A knock on the door. Who is it? I would happen to know. The one with the flow. Who did it? It was me, I suppose. JD's in the Rolls, Luda's in the Cut Supreme, and those fools are riding right t...READ MORE | |
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 PILE OF SHITInterior Decorating the GarbageI fucking hate that magazine Wallpaper*. Sad yuppies beating off to the impossibility that one day, they too may be rich enough to build a giant chrome sphere on top of a Spanish mountain. It's just like the Vogue magazine syndrome, where a bunch of homosexual...READ MORE | |
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 SKINEMABy Chris NieratkoOUTRAGEOUS
Check out the box cover design. It's all tabloid-looking, right? I'm all about reading tabloids. I used to be into the really fucked up ones that would have the stories of Jesus appearing in a woman's vagina and aliens taking over a bike...READ MORE | |
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 THE VICE A TO Z OF DESIGNWhat ever happened to Herb Lubalin, Grapus, Tadanori Yokoo, Ken Adam (the Dr. Stranglelove/James Bond set guy), Kate Gibb, Saul Bass, Shinro Ohtake, Keiji Ito, Willy Fleckhaus, and all those Polish poster artists?
Being a designer used to mean you dro...READ MORE | |
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 TIDBITSDesign ClassicsDUNKS
They kind of got overdone around 1999, but what a masterpiece. The Dunk first appeared in 1985, and it came with all this lofty PR talk about how it would make you fly and improve your...dunk. Nike print ads for it read, "Be true to your scho...READ MORE | |
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 PILLS OF SWEDENInside Dungen's Medicine CabinetWhen I was going through my "classic rock" phase, I asked my mom if she was a hippie in the 60s and if it had been awesome. "No, I was not a 'hippie,' and no, it most certainly was not 'awesome,'" she spat. "People called them hippies, but I just called them B...READ MORE | |
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 FREE PIMP C!The Benefits of a Well-Designed LifePimp C is half of UGK, and he's one of the coldest Southern rapper/producers never to get his due. Though UGK had a couple of breakthrough moments-guesting on Jay-Z's "Big Pimpin'" and Three 6 Mafia's "Sippin' On Some Syrup"-they're still a connoisseur's choic...READ MORE | |
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 SOUND DESIGNNore is Rap Music's Bob VilaAfter years of record label limbo, uneven record sales, and breakups-to-makeups with his partner Capone, Lefrak lyricist Noreaga finally got his mind right. Not only has he joined the Roc-A-Fella team, but the CNN superthug (whose first emcee name was Papi) is...READ MORE | |
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 MANDELA'S HELLHOLEA Designer's ParadiseI am an all-right-looking, white South African girl that's been living in London for the last six months and it's just occurred to me all these English guys asking, "So, why did you move here?" are only asking because they want to get in my pants. Instead of t...READ MORE | |
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 WE'RE JAMMINGHope You Like Jamming TooIs there anything more annoying than being forced to listen to some obnoxious idiot blather into their mobile on public transport? Wouldn't it be great if you had a battery-powered pocket device-like, say, a phone jammer-that at the press of a button instantly...READ MORE | |
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 ELECTRIC INDEPENDENCEHave you seen the packaging for Richard D. James' new Analord series? Go to rephlex.com and click on the floating faux-leather binder thing. It looks like one of those tacky menus with wipe-clean pages you find in fake posh restaurants, but I've heard it's act...READ MORE | |
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 HORRORIZEDCapricorns' Death DesignsJust because you've got 5 million green skeletons sucking blood and cum out of a dead nun's cunt on your album sleeve doesn't mean that your metal group is scary or heavy or anything other than laughable and sad.
The original idea behind London's Capr...READ MORE | |
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 GAMESMortal Kombat: Deception, Kill ZoneMortal Kombat: Deception
Publisher: Midway Games
Platform: PS2
Genre: Fighting
Fuck PC-quality graphics and the "taste and smell" extension that X-Box are secretly developing for their release of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas bec...READ MORE | |
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 BIG DEALAustralia Wows the World With Big FruitFor centuries man has designed and built wondrous, awe inspiring monuments which cast shadows over mediocrity and survive as testament to their hard work. These creations, which seem to defy the boundaries of impossibility and laugh in the face of modern archi...READ MORE | |
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 WARPED VISIONWolf Eyes According to Stoned PeopleWolf Eyes makes the kind of music that burrows into your skull like a hungry maggot. It's all screaming, atonal moans and chainsaw buzz combined with blood thumping bass kicks and fried bubbling brains and it's as scary as shit.
Pioneered by electroni...READ MORE | |
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 DOOMS DAY DISCOThe Shitkatapult Strike 50 DVD is an example of design with a purpose where form reflects the content. The DVD is a celebration of this Scheiss fine label's 50th release and contains 24 warped, mind-boggling tracks and videos from the likes of Das Bierbeben, T...READ MORE | |
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 VICE FASHION - FUNCTIONAL FASHIONMost things aren't designed for people in wheelchairs. When it comes to clothes, everything's just uncomfortable and unpractical; sweaters are too long, pants too short. A baggy t-shirt might look cool when you're standing, but sitting down it just looks lumpy...READ MORE | |
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