Peter Saville designs new England shirt

England’s footballers will be wearing a new home shirt for their match against Bulgaria on September 3, with graphics designed by Peter Saville

Given the team’s pathetic performance over the summer it’s perhaps not the best time to be asking long-suffering fans to shell out £49.99 for yet another new kit. In the accompanying press blurb, manufacturers Umbro say that the design “takes its inspiration from the more formal classic shirts of England’s footballing past. Umbro has developed a new longer, more open neckline for the shirt, building on the square neckline that was designed for the away shirt but allowing additional movement across the chest, keeping its shape especially when a player is running.”

Saville’s contribution is somewhat minimalist. A graphic of multicoloured crosses sits on the shoulders which is, apparently, “evocative of the basting stitches synonymous with bespoke tailoring”. They are also meant to represent the diverse nature of modern English society, which should give the Daily Mail plenty to get its teeth into.

UPDATE: We will post an in-depth interview with Saville about the shirt following Friday’s game (this is now up, here). However, here are a few extra details that may answer some of the questions raised in the comments:

To those complaining that he “did nothing”, Saville’s brief from Umbro was strictly confined. He was asked to suggest some ways in which colour could be incorporated into the design of the shirt (the basic look and shape of which had already been determined) while still keeping it predominantly white.

To those of you complaining that the design won’t be visible from the stands… that’s kind of the point. It looks all white from a distance, then the detail is revealed close-up.

Saville’s proposal was that the pattern of crosses would cover the entire shirt and not just the shoulders.

A number of different geometric forms were considered by Saville and Paul Barnes, who worked with him on the project, based on the micro dots and other symbols that some menswear designers have been incorporating into their fabrics. Among the shapes considered was a plus sign, which Barnes then suggested could be transformed into the St George’s cross.

We will be talking to Saville about his contribution to the shirt later this week, in the meantime here he is in an Umbro video about the project

 

 

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Un clip très réussi dirigé par la collaboration d’Alex Takacs et Joe Nanki du studio de production Young Replicant, basé à Los Angeles. Le tout pour l’artiste Baths (Will Wiesenfeld) sur le titre “Lovely Bloodflow”, extrait de l’album Cerulean. A découvrir en images et vidéo dans la suite.



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Beauty Pick-Me-Up: Anstasia of Beverly Hills Perfect Brow Pencil

imageI’m not a thin, perfectly arched eyebrow kind of girl… mostly because my borderline out of control hairy eyebrows don’t lend themselves to that shape naturally and put up quite a fight. I therefore find my eyebrow style inspiration in fellow full-browed ladies- Cindy Crawford, Brooke Shields, and up and coming model Bambi Northwood-Blyth (a personal fave). Their brows are bold and just a little unruly, the operative word being “little”. A “lot” unruly and things can go wrong on your face quickly! It’s been more than once that my boyfriend has laughed and pointed out that one of my eyebrows has gone a little amok, hairs pointing in directions they never should. I have definitely spent my fair share of time at Sephora testing the different brow taming tools out there. I’m not fussy when it comes to my makeup and need something that does the job with as little effort possible. Enter the Anastasia of Beverly Hills Perfect Brow Pencil. Anastasia and her salon in Beverly Hills are famous for being the eyebrow experts, and her product line doesn’t disappoint. While clear brow gels (think clear mascara for your brows) are also great for keeping brows in place, this pencil is my favorite. It does double duty- a great silky pencil for filling in on one end and a brush for taming on the other. Watch out world! Now that I’ve perfected the brow tame, I’m pretty sure I can take on anything …

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Cancer City by Visiondivision

Cancer City by visiondivision

Swedish architects Visiondivision have created this undulating concrete habitat for crayfish in a stream in Sweden.

Cancer City by visiondivision

Cancer City was commissioned by a crayfish enthusiast who wanted to prevent crayfish emigrating to a neighbouring lake from his stream, where there was a lack of rocks, nooks and crannies.

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The honeycomb surface is punctured in places to allow the fish to seek refuge underneath.

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The peaks of the structure have removable lids to allow access to these protected areas during hunting.

Cancer City by visiondivision

A painted white line and underwater LED’s allow hunting to take place at night when crayfish are most active.

Cancer City by visiondivision

The structure, which is strong enough to walk on but also light enough to be carried without machinery, is made from a new type of concrete called Butong.

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The concrete is formed between a sandwich of flexible layers and contains the mineral calcite, which attracts crayfish.

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Here’s some more from the designers:


“A country gentlemen once bought 10000 crayfishes in the 90’s to plant in a stream running through his land. In the autumn he would capture about a hundred of them to eat at the annual Swedish crayfish parties. The crayfishes however slowly started to emigrate to another nearby lake outside the patron’s estate. Desperate of seeing his neighbors feast on his crayfishes, he contacted visiondivision to solve his problem.

Visiondivision decided to help the patron by building him a refugee where the crayfishes could imigrate back. By investigating the condition of the stream we soon found out that it was the lack of stones, hiding places and the lack of calcite that probably had made the crayfishes emigrate. The city planning would focus on solving these issues.

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The design became an undulated concrete landscape where the crayfish live inside the hills. The hills are equipped with lids so the gentleman can walk on top of the landscape, capturing his yearly crayfish quota. A white path runs on the construction so the hunter can hunt at night time when the crayfish are as most active. Water proof LED lights are attached inside the hills that attract the crayfish and make them visible for the hunter. The hills have several escape holes and underground safe zones so the hunting won’t be too easy which would be unjust to the crayfishes.

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The choice of material was crucial for the success of the project. The construction obviously should be water resistance, the city should be strong enough to carry some full grown persons or animals walking on it, the city should also provide shelter to the crayfishes and the construction should not be too heavy since it should be moved to a remote place where no machines can go. The choice of material became “Butong”; a lightweight slightly transparent concrete invented by the firm with the same name.

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Butong is only two centimeters in depth without any metal reinforcement that can rust and the mould could be bendable after casting which enabled us to make an undulated landscape of concrete without having to build time consuming casting forms. Another attribute with Butong is that it includes calcite; a substance that attracts crayfishes.

The exquisite concrete endeavour is now resting in the stream waiting for its inhabitants to arrive. Walking on the flawless craftsmanship just one week after inauguration we met one of the first inhabitants staring at us from its new nest.”

Credits: visiondivision through Anders Berensson & Ulf Mejergren
Butong team: Lars Höglund & Benjamin Levy


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The Designers Accord Seattle Town Hall: September 23rd

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