Slippers

Slippers sono ciabattine da viaggio ricavabili da una scatola di scarpe inutilizzata. Design by Studio Klass per “Experimenta 2009-Lisbon”. All’interno del post, il making of.

Public Office

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A great project from this Toronto based print shop.

After extensive customer research,’ The New Management’ is taking over your local store with an innovative and responsive concept that focuses on the needs of our customers and their communities. With a new approach to the local shop, “Impact Store Concept” puts forth a new kind of store designed to become an intrinsic part of the neighborhoods we service. The first of its kind, The New Management’s store, located at 780 Queen Street West reacts to the trends of the Trinity Bellwoods ‘hood, offering the right product mix and pricing, service delivery and a whole new brand of interior design and merchandising concepts that uses a diversified blend of the latest materials to highlight the local market’s distinctive character. You can learn more about this initiative on their site.

AND, they’re the gracious sponsors of this months contest. So check out both this weekend!

Supra Fall 2010 Non-Signature

Anteprima per le Supra collezione Fall 2010 dedicata al lifestyle e per questo Non-Signature. Ho scelto le mie due preferite.
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Supra Fall 2010 Non-Signature

Supra Fall 2010 Non-Signature

Free the Animals

Illustrazione disegnata nel 2009 da Pianofuzz per l’architetto Alvaro Cortes.
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It’s a table! It’s a desk! It’s a table …

There is a new addition in Ikea’s Vika build-your-own-table series that is wonderful for people who live in small spaces. The Vika Veine begins as a small table, perfect for all your small table needs:

but then transforms into a really great office for a laptop user:

The Vika Veine comes in white and a black-brown and works with the VIKA table legs. The interior of the desk includes cable outlets inside the desk unit, so only one cable runs to the table/desk. The inside lid pockets are made with a heavy felt that Ikea says “absorbs sound and can also be used as a notice board.” And, like so many of Ikea’s products, the Vika Veine is pretty reasonably priced at $100 — not too bad for two highly functional pieces of furniture.

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In Brief: ARTnews Goes Digital, Art Spiegelman Goes Dancing, and More Creative Moves

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  • ARTnews, which recently published its annual list of the world’s top 200 art collectors, is going digital. Executive editor Robin Cembalest tells us that entire issues of the magazine will now be available via Zinio, which offers formats optimized for PC, Mac, and the iPad. Meanwhile, the summer issue offers more good news for the art world. “We’re genuinely surprised about how robust the [art] market appears to be,” Christie’s CEO Edward Dolman told ARTnews. “It’s not just the top end of the market that is strong. It has much more depth than we’ve seen in recent times.”

  • In other Art news, cartoonist Art Spiegelman is getting his dance on. The Pulitzer Prize winner recently collaborated with the choreographers and dancer-athletes of Pilobolus (betcha can’t say it just once!) on “Hapless Hooligan in ‘Still Moving,'” now running at the Joyce Theater in New York City. Spiegelman created an animated film that the dancers interact with in a work that Leigh Witchel of the New York Post describes as “a tribute to old-style cartoons like Krazy Kat. It tells the tall tale of Hapless, a nebbish wearing a tin can for a hat; his not-very-faithful girlfriend, and their misadventures at home and in the underworld,” he explains. “Basically, it’s Orpheus starring Popeye.”

  • In the wake of the financial implosion that led to the shuttering of his fashion house, Christian Lacroix is back in the money, sorta. The designer has been appointed artistic adviser to the Monnaie de Paris (the French Mint), which in addition to producing coins and medals offers a swell selection of wearable homages to Antoine de Saint Exupéry‘s The Little Prince. According to WWD, Lacroix’s first assigment will be to design special medals for marriages and PACS (civil unions) in France, then he’d like to focus on creating new commemorative forms using precious metals.

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  • Quote of Note | Marc Jacobs

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    Looks from Marc Jacobs’ fall 2010 collection

    “As a designer, you make the clothes and put them out there and then they have to exist on their own. I learned long ago that people would come backstage after my shows and tell me what was going on, and I should not bother with correcting them, because what really mattered was their experience. Once clothes are in a shop, it really doesn’t matter what a designer was thinking; it doesn’t make a coat a better coat because it was inspired by turn-of-the-century England.”

    Marc Jacobs

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    Mountains and Opening House by EASTERN Design Office

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    This house in Takarazuka city by Japanese architects EASTERN Design Office has a studio supported above the residence on two mounds of crushed marble. (more…)

    Dos Equis Cargo Hunt Ticket Giveaway

    Enter now for your chance to win tickets to “the world’s most interesting” event

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    Visitors to CH may have noticed some ads on the site for Dos Equis’ Cargo Hunt, the brew’s online scavenger hunt game/contest suited only for the most interesting people. Complete with backstory, interactive games and prizes galore, the clever beer company has created what they’re touting as the world’s most interesting game.

    For die-hard fans and strangers to the game alike, Dos Equis will be hosting a one-day-only real-life version of the Internet sensation on 21 July 2010 at a secret location in NYC. Participants will be able to compete in character-testing events such as walking through a bug-pit or making their way through a patch of quicksand. The full night of competition will be giving away some serious prizes, not to mention food, drinks, and live performances. Regardless of your level of adventure, the night is sure to make an impression on anybody.

    Unfortunately for most, the most interesting event is exclusively for the most interesting people. CH readers are in luck, though, as they’ve already made the cut. We’re giving away ten pairs of tickets to some lucky, fast-typing readers who believe they’re qualified to be there. The first ten to write on our Facebook fan page with what they consider to be the most interesting CH story of the last week will automatically win a pair of tickets, as well as a chance to win more of the event’s exclusive prizes. Head over to Facebook.com/CoolHunting to enter, and remember that you can’t enter without being a fan of our page first.


    Pinterest

    Exclusive invites to a new social bookmarking site inspired by the bulletin board

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    Those looking for a more dynamic way to track their web finds (and those of others) will like
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    , a new invite-only site that co-founder Ben Silbermann calls “a personal version of Cool Hunting.” With a format combining the simplicity of sites like Tumblr and the visual stimulation of those like Ffffound, the service one-ups others by “making it easy to follow people, making collections beautiful, and always attributing images to the original source,” explains Silbermann.

    In keeping with a bulletin board concept, users can create “Pinboards” devoted to specific interests—as a new user, a page with preloaded categories like Books Worth Reading, For the Home or Style helps start things off. You can invite collaborators to contribute to a particular board, and subscribe to others’ feeds to create a visual catalog of interests.

    Especially for Cool Hunting readers, Pinterest is opening up invites to the first 150 to
    follow this link
    and sign up. For those in NYC on 26 July 2010, you can join in a meetup at the Droog store.