Clean Mess | Spring/Summer 2010 Buttons
Clean Mess buttons and stickers will be available soon. Be a part of the street team and rock a button. It’s a simple black and white – solid for the summer especially with a white tee and exceptional jeans. Buttons will go on sale for $3 ea.
Brooklyn Bandit Fall/Winter 2010
I told y’all busters I’m living in the best borough..
Brooklyn Bandit has earned respect for their unique denim designs and incredible fitting selection. As the fall/winter season approaches us, the brand is ready to take the stage and release five new styles of jeans and three trendsetting button-downs.
“Write The Future” Crayola Crayon
These crayons, beautifully crafted by artist Diem Chau who is so apt at expressing the subtlest nuances in details, will inspire a great sense of creativity, but at the same time, evoke a protective desire to cryogenically preserve these gorgeous Crayola crayons till the end of time. Commissioned by Nike for the sportswear giant’s “Write The Future” campaign to celebrate the 2010 FIFA World Cup, packaged by Wieden + Kennedy (W+K) and created by Diem Chau, one of the childhood favorites, Crayola crayons are carved into tiny sculptures of Nike’s greatest football players and heroes of speed– Rooney, Ribery, Cannavaro, Ronaldo, Drogba and Robinho.
Complex June/July 2010 x M.I.A.
M.I.A is on the cover of the 2010 June/July issue of Complex Magazine, which trilly & truly a dope ass cover. You gotta really look into the lining of her top to see who’s featured this month. M.I.A of course, J. Cole, Common, and many more. She’s back from a little break after giving birth to her first child.
I would like this hat, sweeet!
In a new collaboration, Undefeated got together with Kangol to work on the ECK-1 Cap. The cap comes in a navy colorway with white logo embroideries of both brands on the sides and the back. The cap will be released on May 29th at all Undefeated store and their online store.
ABSOLUT’ x Spike Lee
ABSOLUT gets together with Spike Lee to design their latest limited edition vodka bottle – ABSOLUT Brooklyn.
“The bottle features a depiction of a brownstone with the number from Lee’s childhood home in Cobble Hill and bears his name on the bottle. Inside the bottle is a vodka flavored with apple and ginger. It has a retail price of $29.99 . Each of the city editions of Absolut has a charitable initiative attached, as part of this campaign Absolut is donating $50,000 to Habitat for Humanity to help fund an affordable homes project in Bedford-Stuyvesant.”
Gimme Gold
The latest from Acapulco Gold is the Disruptive Camo Camp Cap that takes a classic cap on an AG twist. The cap is produced in two colorways– black camouflage and olive camouflage– and both feature the unique AG camo pattern. 100% cotton fabrics are printed with an abstract circular camouflage design, and the camouflage prints are accented by random white and red circles for pops of color. Color coded ventilation holes and adjustable straps complete the cap with Acapulco Gold flag tag on the rear. Currently available at Acapulco Gold stockists and Acapulco Gold online store.
Interview Magazine April Issue for iPad
After blazing trails on the forefront of fashion, art and the creative world for the past four decades, Interview Magazine continues to lead the pack and break new grounds in terms of innovation. As this month marks the launch of Apple’s latest revolutionary product, Interview Magazine has hopped on the iPad trail in a speedy manner with pitch-perfect execution by launching its April issue on the iPad. Designed to be an interactive experience that will make the magazine more engaging for readers, the April issue iPad edition features more than 330 pages (or screens) of dynamic images, interviews and information from people in the world of fashion, film, music, art and culture–basically everything readers loved about Interview Magazine is brought to a new life of digital interaction on the iPad.
With the help of iPad, it is easy to sort through information, and one can click into the selected content (and can even jump to a select page at the click of a thumbnail) without having to search-flip through the magazine. Aside from easier access to specific articles and pages, the iPad edition also features a share function where one can share articles via Twitter or Facebook, and a rating function. Functions aside readers can experience photo shoots, art work and images in unparalleled visual depth on iPad’s 1024×768 resolution screen, thus making images more vibrant and vivid than ever. As long as one has an iPad, the issue will be available for download now at a special edition price of 99 cents through iTunes. In the near future, other functions such as a subscription service will be available through the magazine’s iPad editions as well.
Crackberry Macberry
I know y’all feel’n the new Macberry with the Clean Mess screensaver – I have the Apple OS X interface on my blackberry tour. Can you digg it? …Y E S S S WE CAN!
Rockwell by Parra Spring/Summer 2010 Collection
Illustrator and artist Parra releases his spring/summer 2010 Collection for his brand Rockwell. Full of hand drawn detail and quality the collection includes t-shirts and crew necks and the pieces are all broken down into color and black & white versions. The new season is set to hit retailers later this month.
Benny Gold x Hersk Days of Gold
Scott Hersk (hersk.com) lent his hand for the Days of Gold shirt. He and I have enjoyed more skate sessions together than I can remember. This design is inspired by our skate adventures and the retro 80s colors really add to the nostalgia. I love how the vintage skateboard products and spots create the letters of the design.
News: KAWS book by Rizzoli – Cover
Pub. Date: September 2010
Format: Hardcover
Price: $45.00
the cover of the upcoming Kaws book, published by Rizzoli.
Video: Pharrell Williams Interview “D’Art Assaut”
Blast Magazine talked to Pharrell Williams on his recent Paris trip, where he launched his new chair creations. Check out the video interview, where the musician talks about art and his latest project. Enjoy!
News: MVPuppet Puppets Revolution
Nike Basketball’s MVPuppets are calling attention for fans to join their cause in Puppet Revolution. Featuring the cast of characters: Lil’ Dez, Kobe, LeBron, firefighter, Mrs. Lewis, and etc…even a “mamba”? Screen printed on 100% cotton, currently available in limited numbers at NikeStore.com. Join the revolution!
Source via: FreshnessMag.com
Bodega x Converse Poorman Weapon, ish is REAL!
I’m hoping when my check comes I could order these if they not sold out already. I wanted to get some some boots for the rainy spring season but these would be better to open up with. Bodega and Converse have come together again and created these. Transforming the original silhouette into a super high-top that can be worn rolled down..which has been done before..but hasn’t looked this good.
A release is set for Saturday, March 13th at Bodega. The shoe will come in a custom ballistic nylon case lined with shearling. An etched flask will be included for those over 21 years of age. This pack retails for $120 USD, is limited to 100 sets and contains all the elements necessary for surviving the long winter and wet spring.
See more after the jump.
Phone Tough Case x Hard Graft
Less is more! Hard Graft pride themselves as purveyors of hand made lifetime accessories.
Details:
Phone is cushioned between two layers of felt
Snug leather pocket holds up to 2 credit cards
Slide your phone out by squeezing the bottom
Can be custom sized for most current smartphones
Asphalt grey 100% wool felt
Hazelnut brown 100% vegetable tanned leather
Handmade in Austria
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Not try’na toot my own horn, but this photo is so dope. Depth perception is heavy in this one. I tried something new called tilt shift photography. It’s when you focus the lens on a single part of the photo and shift around the surrounding/neighboring area to create an optical illusion of miniaturized scenery. Real tilt shift lenses are quite expensive, but a similar effect can be achieved by using Photoshop after you take the photo.
Original after the jump.
Hard Graft’s Shoulder MacBook Sleeve
Hard Graft’s Shoulder MacBook is a handmade MacBook sleeve that is made of a high quality leather. The sleeve features a removable leather belt strap with felt shoulder pad, a tuck-in felt closure with strong metal snap, and a compact leather pocket. Its leather belt strap is also adjustable. You can purchase the Hard Graft Shoulder MacBook Sleeve for $185 each on their online store.
Supreme x “Scratchy” Perry
If y’all don’t know who Lee Scratch Perry is you better do your research; google him, find his musiq, or pick up a back issue of Waxpoetics Magazine.
A complex and contradictory being, Lee Scratch Perry is one of the most important creative, artistic and musical figures to emerge in the latter half of the 20th Century. He is a devout Rastafarian that believes in extraterrestrials, has proclaimed his children angels in the literal sense, and advocates black supremacy and an end to taxation while living with a wealthy European wife in Switzerland. The sonic innovations he fostered at his Black Ark studio in Kingston during the 1970s have spawned immeasurable changes to popular music worldwide, and he has directly influenced numerous important figures active in other genres, including everyone from Paul McCartney and Brian Eno to the Clash, the Beastie Boys and Jay Z.
For this Spring season, Lee Perry has collaborated with Supreme on two T-Shirt designs featuring his written word and his original artwork. Available in-store on now.
Source via: Culture Shoq
Action Runner
Capture Action steps, relentlessly.
During a brainstorm/meeting or on the run, ideas can come and go unless they are captured as action steps.
Tend to your Backburner.
Keep a “Backburner” to catch ideas that may someday become actions. Whether it is an idea for the future or some small errand you want to remember, put it in the backburner and then forget about it.
The Action Runner was designed by the Behance product team and is based on the Action Method. The front of each page provides a handy template to capture ideas as action steps when you’re on the run. The back of each page features Behance’s dot grid for notations and sketches.
Your Passion is your work, treat it well. The Action Runner’s cover is a unique suede-to-the-touch hard cover. The pages are made of 80lb Premium Blend paper with a subtle texture (30% post-consumer recycled), printed full bleed, and perforated for maximum flexibility.
source via: Behance
Contradictory Agenda
Brooklyn based designers David Heasty and Stefanie Weigler (of Triboro Design) have created a New York City subway map printed in all florescent red. Simple huh? The redesigned map strips away the color-coded system while maintaining its functionality. Single color information design. Impressive!
The map embraces a dual (and seemingly contradictory) agenda, “offering practical and aesthetic improvements to the existing subway map while simultaneously subverting these improvements through the absurd adherence to a single color,” Heasty adds. “In this way the map reflects the often contradictory experience of New York City, the rigid systems and grids constantly interrupted by the unpredictable realities of a metropolis, the intermingling forces of order and chaos, and the city’s visual communications frequent inability to make sense of it all.”
- Print Magazine
Spott’d @Print Mag
UNIQLO Spring 2010 Men’s Lookbook
A great price point label, UNIQLO, presents their latest lookbook for Spring 2010. As usual, many well cut, well made goods to be had at reasonable prices – granted you have access to a store. I still gotta fish around for something cool, something different. The parka above looks to be a solid choice for spring outerwear. Olive is good. I’m expecting to see the trend this spring.
Chad Harris
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