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Tavi Gevinson: A teen just trying to figure it out | Video on TED.com
"Fifteen-year-old Tavi Gevinson had a hard time finding strong female, teenage role models -- so she built a space where they could find each other. At TEDxTeen, she illustrates how the conversations on sites like Rookie, her wildly popular web magazine for and by teen girls, are putting a new, unapologetically uncertain and richly complex face on modern feminism.

Tavi Gevinson is a fashion blogger and a feminist who encourages everyone to embrace their complexity and look cool doing it."
youth  flipforlessonplans  feminism  female  tavigevinson  popculture  teens  gender  girls  complexity  human  via:lukeneff  freaksandgeeks  myso-calledlife  fashion 
13 days ago by robertogreco
Prosthetics get the personal touch - latimes.com
"Synthetic legs have become a medium for self-expression, thanks to customization made possible by sophisticated technology. It's a bold melding of modern science and fashion statement."
2012  customization  fashion  science  technology  design  prosthetics  from delicious
7 weeks ago by robertogreco
COMPANY
"COMPANY IS AAMU SONG & JOHAN OLIN. COMPANY work as artists, designers, and producers, running their own shop in Helsinki."

[See also: http://com-pa-ny.com/products/tanssipage.html AND http://com-pa-ny.com/at_moment.html AND http://www.wowsan.com/?p=872 AND http://www.salakauppa.fi/ ]
architecture  clothing  wearables  glvo  finland  johanolin  aamusong  art  helsinki  fashion  design 
february 2012 by robertogreco
Made Better in Japan - WSJ.com
"For decades, Japan simply imported the wares of foreign cultures, but recession has led to invention. The country has begun creating the finest American denim, French cuisine and Italian espresso in the world. Now is the time to visit."

"During the robust economy of the '80s, Japan's exports ruled, and the country would import the best that money could buy from the rest of the globe, including Italian chefs and French sommeliers. Which made Japan an haute bourgeoisie heaven where luxury manufacturers from the West expected skyrocketing sales forever.

But now 20-plus years of recession have killed that dream. Louis Vuitton sales are plummeting, and magnums of Dom Pérignon are no longer being uncorked at a furious pace. That doesn't mean the Japanese have turned away from the world. They've just started approaching it on their own terms, venturing abroad and returning home with increasingly more international tastes and much higher standards…"

[See also Stateside: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/adam-davidson-craft-business.html ]
daikisuzuki  engineeredgarments  hyperspecialization  hospitality  hotels  apprenticeships  tiny  small  quintessence  shuzokishida  restaurants  kansai  tokyo  hitoshitsujimoto  realmccoy's  nylon  magazines  jeans  craft  coffee  denim  detail  perfection  food  fashion  lifestyle  economics  luxury  japan  scale  from delicious
february 2012 by robertogreco
Men Shop in Bulk - NYTimes.com
"WOMEN shop, men stockpile. That’s one theory, anyway, of how men buy clothes differently from women. If women see shopping as an opportunity, a social or even therapeutic activity, the thinking goes, then men see it as a necessary evil, a moment to restock the supply closet.

At the risk of perpetuating sex stereotypes, the archetype may have been Steve Jobs. When Mr. Jobs died in October, he left behind not only a peerless legacy, but a closet full of identical black cotton turtlenecks by Issey Miyake. “If he loved a shirt, he’d order 10 or 100 of them,” his sister, the author Mona Simpson, said in her eulogy.

It was an obsession that many men could relate to. Here, stylish New Yorkers reflect on their wardrobe hoarding."

[via http://kottke.org/11/12/the-men-who-shop-in-bulk ]
2011  comfort  habits  harrybelafonte  marcussamuelsson  clothesshopping  clothing  apparel  fashion  scottcampbell  paulsevigny  paulbirardi  billyreid  christopherbollen  jonathangalassi  gabeschulman  gregfoley  ianbradley  fabienbaron  chuckclose  michaelwilliams  graydoncarter  uniforms  personaluniforms  stockpiling  cv  shopping  women  men  gender  from delicious
december 2011 by robertogreco
James Bridle – Waving at the Machines | Web Directions
"These are sculptures by Shawn Smith. There’s going to be an ongoing problem with this, that if you sit way at the back, you might not see quite how pixelated these things are. There’s a whole different art-​​historical dissertation about what that means, the distance of the viewer."

"James Bridle’s closing keynote from Web Directions South 2011 was a a terrific end to an amazing couple of days, but don’t despair if you weren’t there. You can watch a full length video, read a transcript with the bonus of all the links James refers to, or even listen to a podcast.

So sit back, relax and enjoy Waving at the Machines."

[Video also at: http://vimeo.com/32976928 ]
newaesthetic  stml  artisyourfriend  vantagepoints  via:straup  art  future  robotflaneur  hawk-eye  gta  gregkessler  jenhesse  renderghosts  imaginaryplaces  carinaow  shawnsmith  maloescouture  minecraft  andygilmore  coll-barreau  gerhardrichter  helmutsmits  douglascoupland  beforeandafter  architecture  2011  fashion  camouflage  pixelization  waysofseeing  humans  design  8-bit  satelliteimages  googleearth  googlestreetview  tomarmitage  tomtaylor  thenewaesthetic  jamesbridle  jenshesse  marloescouture  gehardrichter 
december 2011 by robertogreco
The Curiosity Chronicles - Curious about...Crocs.
"What Of It? I’m not a huge Crocs fan myself, but I have to admit, these things are a powerful force to be reckoned with. Just as the Dutch championed a solid, wooden shoe for toiling away in the farms and factories, today’s modern workers clearly need their solid modern rubber klompen to toil away in their farmers markets and supermarkets. Worn by everyone from chefs to nurses, dads to directors, Crocs are the Volkswagon Beetle of shoes - quirky, iconic, fun, not for everyone, but very much a statement, however you choose to interpret it.<br />
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I Am Curious about modern riffs on traditional dress, rituals and foods, about the notions of practicality and emotion and how they overlap, about fashion and anti-fashion, how one man’s Prada is another’s Croc."
shoes  crocs  fashion  clothing  dress  2011  paulbennet  from delicious
september 2011 by robertogreco
Advanced Style: Age and Beauty - NOWNESS
"We're having a senior moment: From textile mogul Iris Apfel in her trademark owl spectacles to artist Ilona Royce Smithkin in DIY orange eyelashes, the stars of photographer Ari Seth Cohen’s Advanced Style blog represent the most fashionable older ladies and gentlemen of New York and beyond. Today on NOWNESS we feature Cohen’s iconic style mavens in an exclusive short by filmmaker Lina Plioplyte. “Hearing them speak about clothing is so fascinating,” says Cohen, who launched his site in 2008 and also has a documentary in the works. “There is history and memories in what they are wearing and I think it’s important to show that storytelling aspect, as well as their vitality and creativity.” Cohen spoke to NOWNESS about silver-haired confidence."
documentary  film  fashion  elderly  age  expression  via:kottke  style  beauty  art  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
Our Interview With Dieter Rams, The Greatest Designer Alive [Video] | Co.Design
From the third interview video: "Design has to be insulated in a company at a high level. Otherwise you can forget it. It's not design... it's fashion." [via: http://twitter.com/erlsn/status/74817277643591680 ]<br />
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Something there to apply to my experience with adding a new program or division to a school. Will need to write about that sometime over the summer.
design  dieterrams  apple  fashion  lcproject  tcsnmy  education  learning  administration  leadership  management  skunkworks  xeroxparc  towrite  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
Hallowgreen | Art21 Blog
"While we often think of contemporary art and how our older students might respond to it, we are always pleased that our very youngest students are so enthusiastic about it, too. Nick Cave is one reason why.<br />
Cave, chair of the Department of Fashion Design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, brings together his interests in fashion, performance and sculpture while making reference to African ceremonial costumes. Watch a video of Nick Cave, produced by United States Artists:"
nickcave  performance  performanceart  sewing  costumes  classideas  tcsnmy  art  fashion  interdisciplinary  multidisciplinary  design  glvo  wearable  textiles  sound  dance  sculpture  soundsuits  fabric  crossdisciplinary  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
Nick Cave :: JACK SHAINMAN GALLERY
art  fashion  performance  nickcave  costumes  classideas  tcsnmy  glvo  design  sound  soundsuits  textiles  wearable  sewing  fabric  assemblage  dance  sculpture  interdisciplinary  multidisciplinary  crossdisciplinary  performanceart  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
The Soundsuits of Nick Cave: Contemporary Art or Material Culture? : Bad at Sports
"My own lack of familiarity  with Cave’s work makes me wonder, though: Why is Cave’s show traveling to the Fowler Museum, which is a museum of cultural history, and not an art museum that has an equally strong ability to support and exhibit interdisciplinary art of this nature, like, say, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) or even UCLA’s “other” arts institution, the white-hot Hammer Museum*?"
art  fashion  costumes  design  sound  nickcave  fowlermuseum  ucla  2009  classification  interdisciplinary  multidisciplinary  crossdisciplinary  glvo  classideas  tcsnmy  wearable  performanceart  performance  sewing  soundsuits  dance  sculpture  fabric  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
Mongolian Diptychs Tell of Profound Change: A Yin and Sim Chi Yin Talk About His Work - NYTimes.com
"A Yin is documenting his home province of Inner Mongolia. He is a self-taught anthropologist-photographer who has made it his mission to record the last of the nomads there. The phenomenal changes he captures tell the broader story of China’s transformation. A Yin was cited by the National Geographic All Roads Film Project in 2007. Sim Chi Yin, a photographer and writer based in Beijing, interviewed A Yin for Lens. Their conversation has been translated from Mandarin."
photography  mongolia  culture  asia  china  urban  rural  tradition  clothing  fashion  urbanism  society  transformation  migration  nomads  nomadism  identity  innermongolia  lifestyle  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
Gravel & Gold
"Gravel & Gold is a shop in the Mission District of San Francisco run by three ladies, Cass, Lisa, and Nile. We sell useful goods from stand-up makers—hand-picked vintage and new things to wear, to adorn, to hear, to read & write, to furnish, and to love up. We like to know where our things come from and to directly support the people who create them."
sanfrancisco  shopping  gifts  boutique  diy  fashion  design  clothing  retail  glvo  via:robinsloan  art  handmade  make  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
Boutiques.com
"Boutiques.com is a personalized shopping experience, brought to you by Google, that lets you find and discover fashion goods through a collection of boutiques curated by taste-makers -- celebrities, stylists, designers, and fashion bloggers. Boutiques uses visual technology to help fashionistas discover and shop their look and creates the opportunity for designers to showcase their collections and latest inspirations online.<br />
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Boutiques.com is built on technology developed by our team of fashion experts who work with engineers to “teach” our computer systems to understand various patterns, pairings, and genre definitions. When signed into your account, Boutiques.com learns about your style and preferences and in turn, provides you better results and recommendations over time. Ultimately, Boutiques.com will provide shoppers with a much richer and interactive shopping experience and help drive traffic to retailers' websites."
boutiques  boutiques.com  google  online  clothes  clothing  design  shopping  fashion  webservice  2010  style  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
style rookie: it's happening.
"You guys may know how I feel about Sassy. You also may know that I've been babbling about how I think our generation should get one, too. Jane Pratt, founding editor and then EIC of Sassy, also became aware, and emailed me, and we've met a couple times, and it looks like we're going to start a magazine for an audience of wallflowerly teenage girls."
girls  magazines  sassy  classideas  toshare  fashion  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
A beautiful cultural blend: African kimono | The Japan Times Online
"The cultural cocktail is the brainchild of Serge Mouangue, a Tokyo-based concept- car designer for Nissan, who joined forces with Kururi, a Tokyo-based kimono- maker, to produce the traditional Japanese attire in 18 African prints sourced in markets from Nigeria to Senegal.<br />
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In the sedate confines of the Kururi store on Aoyama Dori, visitors are drawn to the bright outfits placed prominently in the window display."
japan  textiles  fashion  design  africa  art  kimono  from delicious
october 2010 by robertogreco
Flickr: bugheart's stuff tagged with planner
Gwen's travel planners, illustrated charts of color-coordinated clothes for her travels, are phenomenal. Blogged here: http://robertogreco.tumblr.com/post/1141416835/gwen-our-favorite-entomologist-creates-these
clothing  fashion  charts  combinations  clothes  gwen  bugheart  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
Bum flap - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [via: http://twitter.com/agpublic/status/23170061412]
"The bum or butt flap is a piece of removable material that hangs from the waist to cover the rear end. The flap is of ambiguous origin, but probably originally intended to reduce abrasive wear to pants. In homelessness the surface of pavement can rapidly wear the seat of pants and flaps act as replaceable buffer material. Bum flaps are often worn as a superfluous fashion statement, usually emblazoned with punk iconography.<br />
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The typical anti-consumer attitudes of flap wearers make them nearly exclusively handmade. Flaps are usually constructed by the wearer with the most suitable material on hand, often the canvas or denim of discarded clothing. Water resistant and thermally insulating flaps are desirable for long distance rail travel and camping. Flaps may be stitched to the underlying garment or suspended from the belt."
bumflap  clothing  homeless  fabric  tools  seating  wearable  buttflap  fashion  punk  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
Abacost - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [via: http://twitter.com/agpublic/status/23159960299]
"The abacost, abbreviation for the French "à bas le costume" (literally "down with the suit"), was the distinctive wear for men that was promoted by Mobutu Sese Seko as part of his Zairianisation programme in the Democratic Republic of Congo, between 1972 and 1990. Zairians were banned from wearing suits with shirt and tie to symbolise the break with their colonial past. The abacost was a lightweight short-sleeved suit, worn without a tie, though sometimes with a cravat."
abacost  clothes  clothing  colonialism  africa  mobutu  mobutuseseseko  mobutusuit  fashion  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
Jonathan Harris . World Building in a Crazy World . Ideas
"City ideas have to do with a particular moment in time, a scene, a movement, other people’s work, what critics say, or what’s happening in the zeitgeist. City ideas tend to be slick, sexy, smart, and savvy, like the people who live in cities. City ideas are often incremental improvements—small steps forward, usually in response to what your neighbor is doing or what you just read in the paper. City ideas, like cities, are fashionable. But fashions change quickly, so city ideas live and die on short cycles.<br />
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The opposite of city ideas are “natural ideas”, which account for the big leaps forward and often appear to come from nowhere. These ideas come from nature, solitude, and meditation. They’re less concerned with how the world is, and more with how the world could and should be."
philosophy  meaning  meaningfulness  memes  cities  fashion  nature  solitude  meditation  jonathanharris  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
The Seventeen Magazine Project
"The Seventeen Magazine Project is an attempt to spend one month living according to the gospel of Seventeen Magazine. This blog will serve as documentation of this endeavor, as well as commentary on the adolescent experience. For a complete list of project rules and goals, click here.
magazines  experiments  fashion  gender  sociology  society  participation  youth  culture  stereotypes  girls  geny  kids  documentary  media  seventeen  seventeenmagazine  consumerism  influence  teens  peers  economics  jamiekeiles  tcsnmy  classideas 
june 2010 by robertogreco
Philippe and Jasmine Starck at home in Paris
The Selby goes to the Starck home. I wonder where all those stuffed animals come from?
phillipestarck  homes  design  theselby  photography  interiors  fashion  celebrity 
may 2010 by robertogreco
Chairless by vitra.
"seating device for the modern nomad...sturdy strap of fabric allows user to sit down in relaxed manner – but w/ neither seat nor backrest...a solution par excellence for times when chairs are in short supply...so light & compact that you can carry it with you wherever you go...relieves spine & legs, so that hugging your knees or using a support is no longer necessary. because the pressure is taken off so many areas of the body, you feel relaxed all over. now your hands are free...
alejandroaravena  architecture  furniture  backpacking  design  fashion  vitra  nomads  neo-nomads  portability  fabric  gifts  glvo  srg  edg 
may 2010 by robertogreco
Holiday Matinee
"Are you looking to make a real, creative contribution to society? Are you incredibly passionate about your ideas? Do you require smarter more creative ways to market your brand? Holiday Matinee has over ten years of multi-disciplined experience – be it graphic design and brand identity, creative consulting and trendspotting, social media implementation, curating philanthropic events or motivating the youth of America – we do it all and bring it hard. We’re obsessed with good design, social responsibility and promoting creativity. Holiday Matinee’s formula is simple: we only partner with people, projects and revolutions we give a damn about. Then we go to work. (And we don’t sleep much)."
sandiego  art  agency  entrepreneurship  fashion  marketing  music  creativity  advertising  agencies  design  glvo 
march 2010 by robertogreco
Style Icon: Cayce Pollard from William Gibson's "Pattern Recognition" ---> NOGOODFORME.COM
"You'd think such an allergy to brands would put a cramp in a girl's style, but here's the other rub: Cayce has style in spades. She may be allergic to fashion, but she still loves clothes. You can tell, because the novel talks about her clothes a lot. (And she has a girly side: she enjoys spa treatments and does Pilates, for God's sake!) Her limitations with clothing actually work to give her a strong look, which the book encapsulates best:"
fashion  fiction  books  marketing  williamgibson  style  glvo  srg  patternrecognition  cosplay  clothing  wearable 
march 2010 by robertogreco
Neckwear industry in knots as ties' popularity wanes - latimes.com
"The dot-com bubble helped send ties to the back of the closet. Sales fell 18% last year. These days, "no one wants to overdress," one fashion expert says."
clothing  trends  fashion  ties  casual  formal  2010  economics  money 
march 2010 by robertogreco
Unhappy Hipsters
for the record
hipsters  humor  minimalism  modern  lifestyle  modernism  architecture  photography  culture  design  dwell  tumblr  blogs  photos  fashion  fun  satire 
february 2010 by robertogreco
Nested: My Letter to Tavi
"I'm raising my daughter, Penelope, and I am constantly wondering how do we (my husband Ben and I) raise a daughter like you. I don't care if she hates math and doesn't do well in school or whatever as long as she has a passion. That's not saying I think you do poorly in school -- it's just the traditional measure of success for a kid. I just want her to be passionate about something and put all her love into it..."
menatrott  fashion  deschooling  passion  tcsnmy  glvo  learning  doing  do  children  parenting  schools  schooling  unschooling 
november 2009 by robertogreco
Studio Mobo Fall 2009 | Institute of Play
"Studio Mobo is designed to activate kids' curiosity about creativity, design, and mobile technology. With a focus on digital citizenship and community engagement, Studio Mobo extends Q2L's focus on tinkering, problem-solving, designing, and inventing. This trimester we'll be collaborating with an amazing group of partners to present our pod offerings: Pearson Foundation Mobile Learning Institute, Mark Ecko's Sweat Equity Enterprises, the Education Development Center, and cooking up something special we call "Super Design Wednesdays" with the art and technology center Eyebeam! Stay tuned for more information about the awesome team of teacher-mentor experts you see mentioned below!"
design  gaming  comics  make  fashion  q2l 
october 2009 by robertogreco
Gallery - Prosthetics with aesthetics - Image 1 - New Scientist
"Prosthetics are usually designed to blend in with the human body without attracting attention. But they can also be fashion objects: tools to expand a person's abilities and distinctive additions to a person's identity."
prosthetics  science  medicine  fashion  aesthetics  design 
october 2009 by robertogreco
CREATORS INN by Elvine
"Partnering with different local independent organizers Creators Inn by Elvine has been offering visiting creators short-term accommodation during their stay in Gothenburg. Totally free. No hidden fees. The project is currently evolving."
göteborg  sweden  design  communities  creativity  travel  glvo  fashion  community  hotels  free  art 
july 2009 by robertogreco
This Blog Sits at the: Issac Mizrahi on Metro North
"wonderful piece of advertising...certain emotional tonality that distinguishes it from most fashion advertising I've ever seen...has a narrative verve...But...semantics of the narrative have been withheld from us. So the fun of the ad is figuring out what's up." + comment: "There's a meta-story here, as well. In his post, Grant highlighted the Paper Monster graffiti detail, riffed a few hypotheses on what it might mean & then the actual PaperMonster wrote in clarifying that the graffito was one of his tags. So the Mizrahi ad has now become, at least for the several people involved in this interaction, a platform for dialogue & a "place where people are meeting." As with the best viral marketing, the distinctions between the realms of media & "life" have dissolved & we are left with a multiplicity of forces exerting influence on each other. Advertising in the age of the critically literate consumer & the internet has the opportunity to create this mechanism & the chance to exploit it."
advertising  isaacmizrahi  fashion  grantmccracken  internet  medialiteracy  literacy  viral  marketing  dialogue  discussion  metastories  graffiti  conversation  meaning  storytelling  understanding 
july 2009 by robertogreco
A Continuous Lean.
"A Continuous Lean is about things. American things, good looking things, well designed things and all sorts of other things. Sometimes A Continuous Lean even talks about people and ideas. That’s it, keep it simple. More good, less bad."
us  beausage  clothing  fashion  style  culture  design  americana  history  madeinusa  shoes  wabi-sabi 
july 2009 by robertogreco
Sewing Patterns, Tutorials, Skills, Projects – For People Who Sew | BurdaStyle.com
"destination for do-it-yourself style...a virtual sewing circle, an open-source hub of ideas, expertise, and amazing patterns you can download & sew at home. We want you to learn something new every time you visit BurdaStyle. We want this website to inspire you...we want you to get involved: We're offering our ideas, expertise and downloadable patterns to the BurdaStyle community, and we hope that you'll contribute, too. There are many ways to be a part of BurdaStyle. Discuss sewing tricks and fixes with members of the BurdaStyle community. Add your sewing term definitions to the ones in our Sewpedia, or check out tips in our user-generated photo and video How Tos. Explore other users' creations in the Gallery, and upload photos of your own. You can even barter or sell what you make through BurdaStyle: Burda is the first established pattern publisher to release its designs without copyrights, allowing members of the public to market their BurdaStyle creations in limited editions."
burda  burdastyle  sewing  glvo  sharing  opensource  clothing  fashion  diy  howto  tutorials  patterns  craft  creativity  community  social  design  handmade  fabric  crafts 
june 2009 by robertogreco
Dress Codes - How to Look Like a Grown-Up While Biking to Work - NYTimes.com
"“I use to think that car culture was the problem, but now I think it’s bike culture,” he said. By that he meant that the discourse about city biking is dominated by cycling zealots who don’t have the desire, or the skill, to attract people who don’t see themselves as cyclists, just as people who ride a bike to work.
bikes  fashion  culture  dutchbikes  holland 
april 2009 by robertogreco
Worldchanging: Bright Green: Argentine Economics And Maker Culture
"My guess is, so long as the US dollar remains the global reserve currency, it’s going to be tough for local food and fashion to become a mass movement instead of a conscious political statement. While that may not be great news for the makers, it’s probably good economic news - as much as I like the steak, I’d be pretty unhappy if the Obama administration started looking to Argentina for macroeconomic advice."
argentina  economics  diy  culture  fashion  handmade  food  ethanzuckerman  worldchanging 
april 2009 by robertogreco
Products We Like: The Pocket
"Pockets are a great piece of “technology,” if I can use that term loosely. Pockets not only serve as impromptu gloves, they also allow us to carry many more things than we otherwise could, and safely. Early “pockets” were just bags that hung around the waist, tied to a belt. But those were too precarious and easily stolen, so a slit in clothing was made, and the bag was placed inside the clothing, next to the skin. Eventually, around the late 1700s, pockets began being sewn right into the clothes themselves, so that remembering and wearing the bag weren’t an issue."
via:blackbeltjones  clothing  fashion  sewing  technology  history  interaction  design  culture  innovation  pockets 
april 2009 by robertogreco
On the Street | The Fabric of History - The New York Times
via:chrisod  barackobama  inauguration  2009  society  us  politics  photography  journalism  storytelling  clothing  fashion 
january 2009 by robertogreco
Kevin Kelly -- The Technium - Better Than Owning
"Access is so superior to ownership, or possession, that it will drive the emerging intangible economy. The chief holdup to full-scale conversion from ownership to omni-access is the issue of modification and control. In traditional property regimes only owners have the right to modify or control the use of the property. The right of modification is not transferred in rental, leasing, or licensing agreements. But they are transferred in open source content and tools, which is part of their great attraction in this new realm. The ability and right to improve, personalize, or appropriate what is shared will be a key ingredient in the advance of omni-access. But as the ability to modify is squeezed from classic ownership models (think of those silly shrink-wrap warranties), ownership is degraded.
ownership  postmaterialism  kevinkelly  technology  society  internet  future  digital  economics  capitalism  music  property  rent  fashion  movies  information  free  sharing 
january 2009 by robertogreco
HAND-ME-DOWN
"These products have been made to last. So that one day you can hand them down to someone else. And they can carry on their little journeys."
sustainability  howies  reuse  manufacturing  bags  vintage  glvo  apparel  clothing  environment  spimes  rfid  fashion  organic  shopping  plannedobsolescence  plannedlongevity  beausage  wabi-sabi 
january 2009 by robertogreco
Gelatobaby » de LaB—>Thank you! [via: http://www.dwell.com/daily/blog/35831214.html]
"About de Lab
events  losangeles  architecture  art  design  fashion  glvo  goodmagazine 
december 2008 by robertogreco
Clive Thompson on How T-Shirts Keep Online Content Free
"Burns is not alone. Increasingly, creative types are harnessing what I've begun to call "the T-shirt economy"—paying for bits by selling atoms. Charging for content online is hard, often impossible. Even 10 cents for a download of something like Red vs. Blue might drive away the fans. So instead of fighting this dynamic, today's smart artists are simply adapting to it.
clivethompson  copyright  media  business  culture  longtail  t-shirts  tshirts  fandom  diy  fashion  clothing  cafepress  businessmodels  economics 
december 2008 by robertogreco
3D body scans used to create 2D sewing patterns - Core77
"The T-shirt Issue is an experimental project by Berlin designer's Mashallah Design and Linda Kostowski who converted the 3D files of 3 digitally scanned bodies into simple polygon forms that were used to generate unique 2D patterns for the garments."
glvo  clothing  wearable  sewing  fashion 
september 2008 by robertogreco
'walking city' pneumatic fashions by ying gao
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fashion  clothing  glvo  wearable 
august 2008 by robertogreco
YAKKAY - brainwear for smart people. Bicycle Helmet with cover
via:blackbeltjones  bikes  design  fashion  gear  helmets 
august 2008 by robertogreco
A TOUCH OF CRASH - New York Post
"The duds say it all - and it's depressing. Taking a cue from the grim economy, this fall's fashions at Banana Republic, Gap and H&M are featuring a distinctly Depression-era trend of cloche hats, pencil skirts, conductor caps and baggy, vintage-style dresses. One of the most popular styles appears to hark back to the impish, newsboy getup of the 1930s: baggy trousers, caps, pinstriped vests, oxford lace-up shoes and utilitarian handbags. "We associate the newsboy look with urban poverty - street kids of the 1930s," said Daniel James Cole, a professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology."
fashion  trends  history  markets  clothing  greatdepression  recession  crisis  economics 
august 2008 by robertogreco
Charles Eames interview in 1956 Video
full interview (with Ray too) here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8915508266195133792
eames  design  furniture  glvo  people  video  1956  fashion  interviews  via:tomc 
july 2008 by robertogreco
Letter from Tokyo: Shopping Rebellion: What the kids want: The New Yorker [see also finalhome.com]
"coat is designed to serve as a final home in the case of a natural or man-made disaster...For warmth, you can stuff its many pockets with newspapers, or with the floppy nylon teddy bears which Final Home also sells."
finalhome  japan  newyorker  tokyo  fashion  shopping  glvo  2002  nomads  neo-nomads  disasters 
july 2008 by robertogreco
Copenhagen Cycle Chic - Streetstyle and Bike Advocacy in High Heels
bikes  copenhagen  culture  denmark  fashion  urban  transportation 
july 2008 by robertogreco
Flickr: Vélocouture
bikes  fashion  flickr  images  clothing 
june 2008 by robertogreco
Arduino - ArduinoBoardLilyPad
:microcontroller board designed for wearables and e-textiles. It can be sewn to fabric and similarly mounted power supplies, sensors and actuators with conductive thread. The board is based on the ATmega168V (the low-power version of the ATmega168) (datas
arduino  electronics  technology  wearable  fashion  processing  glvo  interactive  toys  classideas  srg 
june 2008 by robertogreco
Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy | Special Exhibitions | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
"Through fashion and the superhero, we gain the freedom to fantasize, to escape the banal, the ordinary, and the quotidian. The fashionable body and the superhero body are sites upon which we can project our fantasies, offering a virtuosic transcendence b
comics  fashion  superheroes  art  costumes  culture 
may 2008 by robertogreco
Team Ladybugs | Project Ladybag
"It's a conceptual gadget purse that scans its contents for your arphids and then reports if you've got all your tagged valuables by "smiling" or "frowning.""
rfid  technology  fashion  gadgets  projects  electronics  bags  digital 
april 2008 by robertogreco
Patagonia - The Footprint Chronicles
"Tracking the Environmental and Social Impact of Patagonia Clothing and Apparel"
apparel  patagonia  products  sustainability  environment  clothing  footprint  green  fashion  transparency  visualization  maps  mapping  carbon 
april 2008 by robertogreco
Interview with Paul Pope - "tend to get my best work done at night...anywhere between eight and four or five in the morning..."
"...Also I think your body temperature drops at night by a degree and I notice in my hands if they're drier it's easier to work, that there's a certain way that your hand moves stylistically as an artist. I'm just trying to find a way to tame it"
paulpope  comics  video  interviews  howwework  work  cv  creativity  illustration  drawing  fashion  insects  camouflage 
april 2008 by robertogreco
Sruli Recht - ~Elt: ONE: “Leather ~Elt”: Precision Water-Jet Cut: BELT
"an exploration in removing the function from the function...do away with the buckle...aims to step backward away from the modern decorative whilst utilising the modern rococo in a robo-coco application. The future is the machined."
clothing  shopping  belts  fashion  design  srulirecht  iceland 
april 2008 by robertogreco
Sruli Recht - HVALUR - "skins presented here are equally kosher...
"...meaning when each whale is hunted from waters of Iceland there are parts that are unfortunately ´thrown out´. In this case, only part of whale usable for tanning, & also thrown out, is foreskin. So I guess you could call them 'Organic'."
srulirecht  whales  materials  design  fashion  iceland 
april 2008 by robertogreco
Click opera - The kids aren't alright ;-(
"Marxy's main concern, as a blogger working in marketing, continues to be the attempt to show that the kids are not alright, and that the grassroots Japanese creativity reported in the Western media is in fact either an illusion or concocted by a small el
japan  creativity  culture  momus  fruits  fashion  marketing  elitism  art 
march 2008 by robertogreco
Michael Chabon on why real-life superhero costumes don't work. This... (kottke.org)
"A constructed superhero costume is a replica with no original, a model built on a scale of x:1. However accurate and detailed, such a work has the tidy airlessness of a model-train layout but none of the gravitas that such little railyards and townscapes
superheroes  glvo  costumes  michaelchabon  comics  illustration  sewing  fabric  fashion 
march 2008 by robertogreco
arums galerie - Lilian Daubisse
art  artists  cardboard  liliandaubisse  costumes  sculpture  fashion  glvo 
march 2008 by robertogreco
Brand Avenue: Hey, Big Schlepper
"What happens to big-box retail (and by extension so much of suburbia), when the need to schlep is taken out of the equation? How does changing the experience of shopping change the experience of place?"
sustainability  nau  retail  business  green  transportation  urbanism  urban  mobility  shopping  lcproject  via:cityofsound  marketing  fashion 
march 2008 by robertogreco
Spring Fashion 2008 - Five New Yorkers Who Wear Only One Color Every Day -- New York Magazine
"Commitment? Art project? OCD? Five New Yorkers who wear only one color all day, every day (and it’s not black)."
apparel  clothing  color  fashion 
february 2008 by robertogreco
PopMatters | Columns | Rob Horning | Marginal Utility | The Design Imperative
"We are consigned to communicating through design, but it’s an impoverished language that can only say one thing: “That’s cool.” Design ceases to serve our needs, and the superficial qualities of useful things end up cannibalizing their functional
design  critique  criticism  function  form  utility  popular  aesthetics  retail  target  consumerism  consumer  society  competition  popularity  symbolism  industrial  products  customization  hipsters  marketing  image  personality  handmade  books  possessions  materialism  objects  fashion  style  commerce  variety 
january 2008 by robertogreco
MY Studio
architects  architecture  art  design  fabrication  fashion  firm  portfolio  urbancomputing  sustainability  installation 
january 2008 by robertogreco
urban [wild life]
fashion  design  masks  urban  glvo  animals 
december 2007 by robertogreco
-- jean-charles de castelbajac --
fashion  design  france  glvo 
december 2007 by robertogreco
IJM
see: page 1 - kitchen lite, south beach suite; page 2 - a saturday with bibi, spring is in the..., cinema oriental, shanghai chairs, ship's log; page 3 - salvador fashion, another kind of tree, chinese spring, portocabin, room 17
design  interiors  fashion  photography  studio  art  storytelling  glvo  color  stylists  frankvisser 
november 2007 by robertogreco
Architectradure: Transitional objects
"Hommage au Sol focuses around the foot and its relation to the ground. It includes accessories extending the body, transitory objects of perception, photos, videos and written documentation."
body  clothing  fashion  objects  perception  psychology  cativaucelle 
november 2007 by robertogreco
The U.S.S.R. Is Back (at Least on Clothing Racks) - New York Times
"young and trendy Muscovites are in the throes of nostalgia for the staples of Soviet childhoods, relics of a time when the U.S.S.R. was at the height of superpower status."
russia  trends  fashion  nostalgia 
november 2007 by robertogreco
The Rising Tides of Fashion Populism | www.japaninc.com
"Young Japanese women are increasingly buying their clothes from domestic manufacturers"
japan  fashion  trends  economics 
november 2007 by robertogreco
Interview with Di Mainstone
"Di Mainstone is an insanely talented fashion designer. She trained in fashion design at Central Saint Martins College of Art, London. Her work was soon sold at Selfridges, Urbanoutfitters and Harvey Nichols. Further design collaborations included illustr
interviews  wmmna  dimainstone  fashion  design  glvo  history  body 
november 2007 by robertogreco
L'ami K-Way se fait lifter - lesoir.be
"QUATRE DESIGNERS belges de renom revisitent un mythe de notre jeunesse. Le Waïka de Dany Boon devient trendy."
fashion  via:regine  glvo  clothing  design  children  childhood  littleredridinghood  nostalgia 
november 2007 by robertogreco
tights are not pants
"tell your douche friends: tights are not pants"
fashion  society  humor  apparel  via:javierarbona 
november 2007 by robertogreco
Maeda's SIMPLICITY: Clothing For The Mind
From "away messages" like earrings as an accessory, to MySpace or LinkedIn pages that constitute casual or business "mental attire," ...we live in a world where we put as much time into the clothing that we wear as we do our own online identities."
online  identity  expression  ambientintimacy  fashion  perception  internet  myspace  facebook  sms  texting  social  society  teens  youth 
november 2007 by robertogreco
Andrew Zuckerman Photography
animals  photography  video  film  fashion  images 
november 2007 by robertogreco
The Piracy Paradox: Financial Page: The New Yorker
"But we should be skeptical of claims that tougher laws are necessarily better laws. Sometimes imitation isn’t just the sincerest form of flattery. It’s also the most productive."
apparel  business  capitalism  competition  consumerism  copyright  culture  design  fashion  innovation  law  legal  patents  piracy  retail  trends  economics 
november 2007 by robertogreco
Chinese luxury market -- all smoke and mirrors? - Boing Boing
"In order to drive their brands as prestige labels with high margins, they must 1) conceal how they’re cutting corners and costs in manufacture, and 2) conceal their sales performance. If they fail, then the whole rotten house of luxury collapses."
capitalism  brands  globalization  fashion  luxury  consumer  consumerism  materialism  culture  china  us  trade  corporations  books 
october 2007 by robertogreco
Yoshikazu Yamagata
see also http://www.writtenafterwards.com/ (below)
japan  tokyo  yoshikazuyamagata  fashion  sewing  art  culture  society  glvo  education  environment  sustainability  communication  clothing  stories  storytelling  children  design 
october 2007 by robertogreco
GAS PROJECT BLOG | 山縣良和 インタビュー / Yoshikazu Yamagata INTERVIEW
"the everyone's new clothes of The naked king"..The reason of "clothing" to be "stuffed costume (all in one)" is to perform the collection as if everything jumped out from the book I created.
japan  tokyo  yoshikazuyamagata  fashion  design  sewing  art  culture  society  glvo  education  environment  sustainability  communication  clothing  stories  storytelling  children 
october 2007 by robertogreco
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