The dapper gents of Street Etiquette have announced their latest project ‘Genesis of Style’. The project will focus on the issue of style through the eyes of people who’ve embodied their definition of style. They teamed up with Photographer/Videographer TONE and Alejandro Perez and who brought their vision to life and displayed the integrity and character of all those individuals involved.
Michael Andrew, a good friend of ours residing in Harlem by way of Austin, Texas, goes into detail on what the word ’style’ means to him. What I most admire about the video is that he gives his definition of style effortlessly, as if we rehearsed previously. The internet is one of the most powerful engines ever created giving us the ability to link to individuals all around the world simply because we posses something in relation. The fact that in the early stages large companies chose to ignore the might and impressionable power of the web displays why many of them are now looking for ways to get inside a loop that, at this point, is almost closed.
Look for the full project to drop in the first week of January.
Two years ago, the City of New York’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, unveiled the city’s first official condom on valentine’s day. the original design features the letters ‘NYC CONDOM’ in the iconic style of the city’s subway-line logos.
The city is giving New York city dwellers the chance to promote safer sex throughout the city. They’re asking New Yorkers to design a special edition wrapper for NYC’s iconic prophylactic. The contest is open to any new york city resident 17 and older. The winning design will grace condom packages in fall of 2010 and could also appear in social marketing campaigns.
Blu Dot was born in 1997. Their goal is to bring good design to as many people as possible. Which means creating products that are useful, affordable, and desirable. To make that happen, their design process is founded on collaboration. Not just among ourselves as we play show-and-tell with concepts, but a total collaboration between pencil and paper, materials and machines, even packaging and assembly. We like to think that the form is almost inevitable, a by-product of the process.
When they opened their SoHo store in 2008 they were introduced to the resourceful culture of “curb-mining”: the act of finding furniture and art on the street. Now that a year has passed, they decided to conduct a curb-mining experiment of their own.
On November 4-5, 25 Real Good Chairs were dropped around NYC, free for the take. Many were GPS-enabled. Watch the film to see what happened.
Orlando-based designer Jason Dean sent Design Boom images of his new graphic work ‘the ABC’s of Branding’. He created a composition of alphabets using logos of famous brands of all time printed in posters. With out using ink, letters were foil stamped and embossed in silver and gold colors. 500 limited posters in each color, signed and numbered, will be produced.
Urbana is a multi-disciplinary design and architecture studio led by Rob Ley. The studio’s latest project is a large-scale haptic light installation that is located inside a new development project in Los Angeles. The installation is located at the top of a grand public stairwell, which leads to an underground subway station. The designers at Urbana wanted to explore the idea of tactile desire within public space. While most public installations focus on the masses as an audience, Lumenscape explores interaction on an individual level. The installation is composed of translucent tiles that have a unique texture and allow the light behind them to shine through to create a vivid glow. The light changes in color and intensity over time, further promoting interactivity with the user. Continue reading “Urbana: Lumenscape” »
The debut lifestyle collection Aknowledge is based on 6 key pieces: the cotton t-shirt, the classic chambray woven, high quality clean denim, experimental denim washes, the denim jacket and the trend driven jacket.
While denim is always the cornerstone, the above mentioned accompanying tops are key elements of the collection. The solid cotton v-neck tee with subtle hits of color is a staple. This perfect v-neck is fitted but easy, with a slightly lower v and a perfect length to wear tucked in or out, layered or on its own. The denim shirt in chambray and denim, both sleeveless and full length, is essential for wearing denim on denim. Mixed media tops also make a strong statement in their detailed construction and bold statements. Continue reading “Aknowledge Tops F/W 2009” »
This year was pretty special for a few folks, from Lady Gaga’s undeniable presence, the explosion of Indie bands like Passion Pit, reggae dub mixess by Major Lazor and Kanye’s free publicity for Taylor Swift. We sat down and debated about what were some of our favorite songs of 2009. We don’t care about chart sales, download counts, ringtones or whatever else get’s calculated into being considered a hit… we’ll leave that to the other guys. Our list also isn’t in any sort of order, it’s one big diverse selection of music that we hope you enjoy. If we missed a few good ones, feel free to yell at us in the comment section.
Parisian artist Andre has been pretty busy this year, from his special edition of Belvedere and now working with Louis Vuitton on their Spring/Summer 2010 Eyewear collection. Andre and LV created a mini site dedicated to the collaboration which features a range of Polaroid photographs of known tastemakers including Andre himself, Gildas Loaec, Olivier Zham and many others. Check out the mini site here. Continue reading “Louis Vuitton S/S 2010 Sunglasses Campaign by Andre” »
MTV has hopefully redeemed itself from Jersey Shore with it’s upcoming show The Buried Life. Four friends, Ben, Dave, Duncan and Jonnie left home in the summer of 2006 to complete their list of 100 things to do before you die. For every item they accomplish they help a stranger with an item on their list by asking them “What would you like to do before you die?”. Relying on the mere efforts of goodwill and gumption, these guys have lived out some of the many wishes we all say we would love to do some day.
The name “The Buried Life” comes from a poem written by Matthew Arnold in 1852. The idea is that day-to-day stuff can sometimes bury you and make you forget what you’re passionate about in your life. Jonnie read it in English class and showed it to the rest of the team who agreed that it’s message was totally in line with how they were feelin. The question “What do you want to do before you die?” became their tool to ‘uncover’ goals & dreams.
Be sure to tune in to MTV on January 18th to catch the premiere.
The Museum of Modern Art has launched a exhibition of the works of famed filmmaker Tim Burton. Burton isn’t just an imaginative filmmaker; he’s also an amazingly talented artist. Burton’s retrospective, which is spread throughout the museum, focuses on the director’s 14 feature films, while also offering drawings, paintings, photographs, sketchbooks, props, and short films that have never previously been exhibited. Spanning a lifetime of creativity — from his teenage drawings and college films to character sketches from his upcoming Alice in Wonderland movie — Burton’s Gothic vision is as captivating as it is astounding.
The entry of the third floor gallery is by way of a three-dimensional monster’s mouth. The creature’s red-carpet tongue takes visitors down a black-and-white striped hallway, which displays flat-screen monitors playing Burton’s six-episode Internet series The World of Stainboy. Passing through this metaphorical orifice, you come out in a darkened gallery, filled with Day-Glo paintings of freaky characters on velvet and a rotating carrousel sculpture illuminated by black lights.
