Our friend Cliff Kuang mentioned he is now writing for Fast Company’s new design blog…Loving it!
This is about a month old but i enjoyed these Umbro competition entries. “After thousands of entries, here at Umbro we can unveil the finalists in our competition to customise the sole on a pair of Specialis. The response we had was amazing, with a fantastic range of designs from different ages and different countries around the world. These are the final 14, chosen from the thousands of different designs by a team of judges which included Umbro designers Stuart Semple and Stewart Scott-Curran, and Esquire’s art director David McKendrick. Initially we planned to have 11 winners, but the points system used by the judges to pick their favourites meant that we ended up with four designs tied in 11th place!”
Svpply. A site that combines the function of an referral e-commerce site and FFFFound for fashion and the like. So dangerous. love it!
“Svpply is a retail bookmarking and recommendation service. Filtered through the collective wishlists of our members, Svpply features the full spectrum of retail products, from the exclusive to the wholesale.”
Copenhagen in T- 20 days.
“To live is the rarest thing in this world…”Oscar Wilde
Made for an interesting read in between (multiple) reaches for coffee. Although, to be fair, dining al fresco certainly livens any conversation.
“And I say: That little ole lonely elevator girl looking up sighing in an elevator full of blurred demons, what’s her name & address?” —The last line of Jack Kerouac’s introduction to The Americans by Robert Frank, 1958.c. On view @ the Met this fall.
Passion pit- “Manners”, is holding up quite well on multiple listens. Proving to be a strong buy.
Aesthetic pieces I can certainly get behind.
Credit: William Eggleston (Untitled).
Fontshop’s blog, ‘FontFeed’ posted a nice little critique on the cover of the July issue of Esquire Magazine that features supermodel, Bar Refaeli covered in hand-created type by superdesigner, James Victore. Love his quote here:
“I have an exquisite wife, and I practice on her. Also, we worked with three different models. Everyone is different. The flesh is different, the curves are different.” – Victore
It explains that while this cover is very nice to look at, the process has been done before…a couple of times over. No harm in that though.
“I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked. “Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re all mad here.” – Alice in Wonderland
” I told you to keep quiet”- Don Draper [Mad Men/S2/Episode 6]
“I went to see a psychiatrist. He said “Tell me everything”. I did, and now he is doing my act”- Richard Prince
“Whats the world got in store? whats the world got in store for you? whats the world got in store for you now? ” – Wilco
As a parting gift; tea and strumpets
h(y)r Collective is a style blog touching upon all things cool for men. check it out to see what you should know!
We just discovered another great architecture blog called, Office for Word & Image (OWI). OWI is a specialized in full reportages, including text and images on architecture and interiors.
In their own words, ‘We choose amongst the archives of some of the best photographers and journalists for features with a contemporary look and an interesting story. In our selection we aim for top quality photography of exclusive private homes or exceptional public buildings, accompanied by sharp interviews with some of the world’s leading architects.’
Typographica is a review of typefaces and type books, with occasional commentary on fonts and typographic design. Founded in 2002 by Joshua Lurie-Terrell. Edited since 2003 by Stephen Coles, also of The FontFeed and The Mid-Century Modernist.
Designed by Chris Hamamoto and Stephen Coles.
Preserve is on going project to produce a permanent visual record of hand painted building signage. Many of these are being erased from our cityscapes either being worn away by weather over time, covered as buildings have been repainted, disappearing as buildings are demolished or replaced with modern signage equivalents.
This sublime West coast structure by Studio 0.10 Architects caught our eye some weeks back. Love the way the circulation wraps around the mixed program of domestic living, apartment for guest, work studio and office. Definitely one of the better pieces of architecture we’ve seen on our favorite architecture blog, ArchDaily.
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Be sure to stop by ‘Selectism’, a men’s fashion blogazine that focuses more on presenting young and up-coming labels that deliver style with high end quality.
find more of these hilarious gems at fmylife.com
An ingenius and playful way of looking at our city. I must say, some of the Legos look a bit foreign to us, as the company must have improved their lego library…some of these sizes weren’t available to us when we were young.
“During the cold and dark Berlin winter days, I spend a lot of time with my boys in their room. And as I look at the toys scattered on the floor, my mind inevitably wanders back to New York.” – Christoph Niemann
We are honored to be apart of Netdiver.net’s best for 2008!
“Netdiver Best of the Year is always a long awaited release of which projects and whose talents have made a strong and lasting impression in the previous year. We aimed to list 100 and just could not. So how about 110 because we feel they gave their 110% best?
Now in its 7th edition, the crop of the year is for us, the top of the year. Hope you agree. Refresh your memory and (re)encounter new sources of design inspiration.”
