Hasta La Ideas

After an enlightening morning of discussion, coffee and idea sharing had a lot to live up to—and it did just that and more. Read on for a quick recap of what went on in the afternoon sessions of the #Core77Con in Brooklyn:

Colin McSwiggen, Technologist and Writer
What responsibility do we have as designer to those who make and use our designs? McSwiggen showed us all the immense social and cultural impact created by the very rise of design in industrial and manufacturing settings. When white collar, clerical work began to separate from factory based work, a rift between the two worker classes was born, supported by architecture and maintained by further advances in technology. Today, we look at process of designing to make something easier as a potential introduction of more difficulties and stress into our own lives and the lives of those. Colin’s presentation was an eye-opening exploration of the real results of design. See what the crowd in attendance had to say:

Marta Salas-Porras, Creative Director at Obscura Digital
The remix is starting to take off and Salas-Porras encouraged us to pay close attention to the possibilities and opportunities all around us. From models of open source that are becoming standardized (think Getty Images and the Tesla patents) to the growing understanding that the “accepted” form of formal, post high-school education is nearly useless, we have countless chances to leverage the last unregulated resource available to us: Our creativity. Once we gain a firm grasp of the social and socioeconomic consequences of our designs, we can truly change the future, but it requires that we focus on the moment. Check out the audience’s reaction on Twitter:

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At the Google Glass Basecamp inside NYC’s Chelsea Market, the Lower East Side Film Festival transplanted some of its selections and audience for a night that was the first of its kind. “Glass Shorts” was an…

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The “anti-culture uniform” of teenagers from cities around the world has been reinterpreted into a range of menswear for London fashion brand Sibling’s latest collection.

A hand crocheted tracksuit and motocross jacket and mohawk headpieces made from viscose “hair” form the backbone of Sibling‘s Spring Summer 2015 collection.

The London-based fashion studio, founded by Sid Bryan, Joe Bates and Cozette McCreery, said that the collection was themed around teenagers, with spots and hair – “the two biggest preoccupations of your average self-obsessed youth” – appearing as motifs throughout the collection.

A series of looks were created by trapping individual strands of artificial viscose hair into a knitted yarn to create webbed garments covered in fine fringing.

Denim pieces were patterned with large paler spots made out of a series of smaller dots, as if they had once been covered with metal studs. On black, red and yellow sequinned knitwear, more spots mutated into the leopard print pattern that Sibling has used in previous collections.

Huge red pompoms made of raffia were used to create two spiky outfits to close the show.

“Rarely are clothes worn more as armour than when you’re young,” said the designers. “The pack anonymity of a group of ‘hoodies’, the up-yours gesture of a boy in a skirt or the societal baiting of a shocking hairstyle… challenging conformity and in-your-face declarations are everything.”

“While racked with insecurities, there is also the joy and power of dressing and grooming to extremes. Boundaries of taste or decency are pushed to breaking point, but there is a secret strength drawn from every stare, gasp or giggle.”

The studio collaborated with artist Mike Egan, who created cartoonish skull prints for hoodies and t shirts.

Although the collection debuted at this week’s London Collections: Men fashion showcase, it also included pieces from Sibling’s newly-launched women’s resort range, which featured looks “stolen straight from the boys but made feminine”.

Aprons and tunics for both men and women featured heavily, with the intention of creating a warrior-like visual effect and challenging gender stereotypes.

“With an unwritten code, [teenagers] form tribes and gangs, or in the Sibling world: families. It is a world of extremes and exhibitionism where a warrior attitude is essential,” said the designers.

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One of the highlights of Art Basel 2014 is an exhibition neatly tucked behind the main halls in a smaller gallery. “14 Rooms” is curated…

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