The Dignified Man’s Survival Kit

Every week here at The Dignified Devil, we spend a lot of time thinking about how we can help the modern man survive the modern world. This week of course is no different. Today we explore the apps, the tools, the gadgets and the books that will enlighten the modern man as he navigates his way through his week. These are the things that are worth a man’s time, money, attention and space in his Junk Drawer.

The Essential
Duck Canvas Tray
By Best Made Co.

Modern life necessitates a few vital tools which the modern man mostly keeps in his pockets throughout the day. If your things tend to end up strewn about a random dresser or table top with no discernible order, we urge you to live better. The folks Best Made Co. have an elegantly simple solution for your chaotic clutter problem, the Duck Canvas Tray. Place your effects in a conveniently located tray and never wonder where your car keys disappeared to again.

Available: Bestmadeco.com
Price: $26.00 

The Music
The Complete Columbia Album Collection
By Johnny Cash

An American icon, a musical genius, and a cultural legend: Johnny Cash is the archetype of the American badass, the man in black. Celebrate the height of his most creative era with the Columbia Album Collection, a complete set of 59 records and two singles compilations. If your knowledge of Cash begins and ends with Ring of Fire, do the dignified thing, educate yourself…

Available: amazon.com
Price: $265.00 

The App
iTunes Festival London
By Apple

30 nights of live music? Watch the shows free with the iTunes Festival App on your iPad, iPhone, computer, or Apple TV? Free streaming music from the iTunes Music Festival in London from the likes of: Jack White, Band of Horses, Deadmau5, Norah Jones, Beth Orton, The Killers, Matchbox Twenty, Mumford & Sons, Lana Del Ray, Alicia Keys, Muse…? As dignified as it gets.

Available: iTunes Music Store
Price: Free 

The Book(s)
Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopedia
By Editor’s Damon Murry, Stephan Sorrell and Sergri Vasiliev

Photographs, drawings and texts from a collection of more than 3,000 tattoos accumulated over a lifetime by a Russian prison attendant, Danzig Baldaev. The tattoos Baldaev chronicled give us a rare glimpse into a secretive world of prison culture in a land we know little of. The tattoo conveys powerful messages in its distinct iconography and language, creating a system of inclusion and exclusion inaccessible to the uninitiated. Through this fascinating book you will come to know something of a dark and dangerous world beyond society. With a foreword by Baldaev himself, and an introduction by Alexei Plutser-Sarno, you may not encounter a more compelling book for a long time.

Available: amazon.com
Price: $100.00

The Gadget
Wireless Charging Speaker
By TDK

We live in remarkable times. The next level of ease of use and convenience can be yours from the team at TDK. Recognizing there simply is no excuse for the hassles of cords and docks in a technologically-advanced, modern world, they invented a speaker system for your Qi compatible device that receives and plays music via Bluetooth and charges the device through an inductive charging system. Simple, clean, convenient; sounds perfect to us.

Available: tdkperformance.com
Price: $400.00