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Link About It: This Week’s Picks
1. Flight Attendant Uniforms
From the jaunty matching cap to orange-and-pink striped polyester, the stewardess uniform has made many a transformation over the years, best highlighted in this slideshow which tracks styles from the ’40s to current incarnations.2. BAFTA Nominee Posters
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Caracalla Bagaglio Commemorative Motorsport Collection
U.K.-based makers of luxury Italian-leather holdalls Caracalla Bagaglio fashions their “Commemorative Motorsport Collection” line after the past triumphs of famous race cars and their drivers. The company, owned by motorsports aficionado Simon Jordan, borrows its first name from the Roman emperor whose historic baths were the site…
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Caracalla Bagaglio Commemorative Motorsport Collection
U.K.-based makers of luxury Italian-leather holdalls Caracalla Bagaglio fashions their “Commemorative Motorsport Collection” line after the past triumphs of famous race cars and their drivers. The company, owned by motorsports aficionado Simon Jordan, borrows its first name from the Roman emperor whose historic baths were the site…
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Jansport Heritage Series
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Jansport Heritage Series
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Link About It: This Week’s Picks
1. Athens Bench Mark
Yatzer spotlights a contest going on in its hometown—Athens Bench Mark challenges residents to redesign the Greek capital’s benches to revitalize and revamp its image. The contest is open through 6 April 2010.2. Mapenvelope
Shown on The Hardback Henid, Turkish artist Beste Miray revamps the… -
Link About It: This Week’s Picks
1. Turpan
With locations in East Hampton and Santa Monica, Turpan is a design shop showcasing tasteful contemporary and minimalist design pieces like Hermés tea cups and Japanese stationary via Arktip Intel2. New York Fashion Week: A Visual Essay
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Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum
by Anna Carnick
Opening today and capping off a year-long 50th anniversary celebration, the Guggenheim presents Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum. For this salon-style installation, the museum invited nearly 200 artists, designers and architects to submit their dream proposals for interacting with the iconic Frank Lloyd Wright-designed… -
Don’t Move Here Online Video Series
Wieden+Kennedy’s latest venture, an online video and radio portal dubbed WK+Entertainment, puts the advertising giant into the content production game. Among the offerings, the web series “Don’t Move Here” documents Portland’s ever-blossoming music scene in video. Helmed by writer, curator and director Aaron Rose, who’s behind the…
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Henrik Vibskov: Graphic Works
Minutes before Danish fashion designer, DJ and artist
Henrik Vibskov attended the opening of his latest exhibition “Graphic Works” at Berlin’s Pool Gallery (there through 6 March 2010), he answered a few questions for CH. While brushing his teeth, Vibskov opened up about what it’s like to… -
Acne Fall 2010
No other brand could really close Stockholm’s fashion week than the city’s own home-grown independent super-brand Acne. With recent glimpses of its forthcoming venture into the world of furniture tantalizingly close in Paris, it was time to see what the brand has in store clothing-wise for the…
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Stockholm Fashion Week: Beckmans XV, Odeur and Whyred
Day two of Stockholm’s Fashion Week brought an enticing mix of old and new together. Drawing an inquisitive crowd, the Beckmans XV show represented fifteen students from the second-year fashion program at Beckmans College of Design.
Similar to how their third-year counterparts collaborated with colleagues in advertising…
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Interview with BMW Design Director Adrian van Hooydonk
Adrian van Hooydonk, Director of BMW Group Design, envisions a motoring future shaped by sustainability and performance. Just completing his first year on the job as the head of BMW design (replacing Chris Bangle), van Hooydonk is responsible for the new BMW 5-series and the general direction…
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Platform 3.17
by Paolo Ferrarini of Future Concept LabWhen a devastating earthquake hit L’Aquila in April of 2009, Italian civil service agency the Civil Protection launched the C.A.S.E. Project to rebuild safe, high quality homes. Employing 16 Italian companies to design and build these new houses, the book “Platform 3.17″ tells…
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The Beard Revue
From the cold, rainy Pacific Northwest (where some might trace the origins of the enduring beard trend), the popular blog Beard Revue features beard-related art, music and crafts as well as the eponymous beard reviews.
Graphic designer Michael Buchino started the blog as a bet in January…
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Link About It: This Week’s Picks
1. Eight Bizarre Newly-Discovered Deep Sea Creatures
From the white furry arms of the Yeti crab to the delicate pink body of the transparent sea cucumber, these beautiful otherworldly photos hint at the wonders of the world beneath.via @typefiend2. Font Aid IV
The Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA) called…
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Pancake & Franks Limited Edition Prints
With a signature style she calls “urbane and metropolitan,” designer Stacy Pancake skillfully combines her finely-wrought illustrations with cheerful colors and whimsical designs for a colorful collection of limited edition prints. Inspired by her line of letterpress greeting cards that she sells under the moniker Pancakes &…
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Beckmans College of Design Fashion Showcase
“In a Perfect World” is the upshot of a final assignment by twelve fashion students from Stockholm’s Beckmans College of Design, who used the concept as inspiration for a collaborative exhibition of their individual designs.
Taking place at one of the city’s best department stores, the group…
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Art 4 Haiti Charity
Known for her delicate and detailed illustrations, New Zealand-based artist Sarah Lanarch recently created Art 4 Haiti, a charity in which artists lend their talents to raise awareness and funds for the crisis in Haiti.
Feeling first hand the effects of the crisis (Lanarch lost her brother-in-law…
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Giuliano Fujiwara Spring/Summer 2010
Regarded as a key player in minimalist tailoring, Japanese label Giuliano Fujiwara presented an invigorated spring/summer collection at Milan earlier this month. A subtle, gray palette tempered by cherry red, acid yellow and bold blue accents commanded the runway, making for a perfectly restrained collection of avant-garde…
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“Wood You Like a Cup of Tea” Pot
With a brutish form and use of volcanic black material, Swedish designer Jakob Solgren’s teapot makes a bold statement in a field often considered a defining one in an industrial designer’s career. The humble vessel, providing ample opportunities for personal twists on the spout or the handle,…
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Geometry Lessons T-Shirts
For artist Lincoln Mayne shapes don’t get any better than geometric ones, a theory he recently put to the test with his debut t-shirt collection Geometry Lessons. His designs center around three ubiquitous shapes—the circle, the square and the diamond—but his treatment of them looks more urban-tribal…
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Link About It: This Week’s Picks
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Katherine Morling’s Sculptural Ceramics
by Richard Prime
Working out of one of South London’s hidden creative hubs, the mystical New Cross and Deptford, Katharine Morling creates whimsical and often outlandish sculpture from porcelain and ceramics.A world away from the often stuffy stigma of the form, her work attracts a solid base of admirers…
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Mark Jenkins: Meaning Is Overrated
Blatantly funny, out of place and eerily real at times, artist Mark Jenkins’ installations in the public domain are well deserving of the triple takes they get from passerby. In “Meaning Is Overrated,” opening at L.A.’s Carmichael Gallery, we get a dose of his new shenanigans with…
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Warmi Knits
Now in its second season, Warmi continues to blend contemporary style with indigenous craftsmanship. A Franco-Colombian artisanal fashion label, each collection is designed by the brand’s Colombian-born, Paris-based founder, Sylvia Toth, then produced in a remote mountainous village in Northern Colombia by a cooperative of women weavers.…
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Transmediale Festival Berlin
Now in its tenth year, Berlin’s Transmediale Festival gears up for the new decade with a future-perfect program. Exploring the intersection of contemporary art and digital culture, the festival features works that shape the way people think about and experience technological and scientific developments. With exhibitions, conferences,…
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Tom Tom Magazine: Interview with Founder Mindy Abovitz
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Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams
Available stateside this month, Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams covers the breadth of the influential German designer’s career—notably his projects for furniture company Vitsœ and the forty-plus year’s worth of work for consumer electronics manufacturer Braun. Published by Gestalten, the title comes from…
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Interview with Photographer Chris Zedano
by Alison Zavos for Feature ShootOriginally from Lima, Peru, photographer Chris Zedano has been living and working in New York since 2002. For his project, “Staple Street,” he photographed some of New York’s most interesting characters on the eponymous street dating back to at least the early 19th century…
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