July 14, 2008
It's not just the new iPhone 3G getting spiffed up -- MacBook users are growing bored with the looks of their slate-gray steely composite laptops and gravitating towards more eye-popping covers, namely by Paul Smith and Scott Campbell's Mama Tried Studios in Brooklyn. The Smith design looks like something I'd use to wrap gifts for my nephews -- dull and uninspiring. Campbell's work, on the other hand, is outrageously beautiful, teetering between tattoo artistry and Marin County psychedelia. What's more, he makes T-shirts, chairs, tables and prints. Check them out. The pistol-motif table no doubt provides nice perch to rest your boots, play Texas Hold 'Em and shoot whiskey (or just a fast game of backgammon over gin drinks).

