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Good Vibrations Storage Unit by Ferruccio Laviani.
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Mike Friton is a freelance shoemaker, weaver, paper sculptor and innovator with over 30 years of experience at Nike. His innovations are responsible for many elements of athletic footwear that people wear today. Each of his crafts informs one another and he is constantly exploring the fringes of his field. Mike’s work is a great example of how non-traditional methods of exploring one’s craft can lead to unique end results. (via Ed)
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“Often I don’t really know how to do many of the technical details I want to do. I know that it’s possible, so I just start by trying. I just jump on the sewing machine and see what comes out the other side. At St. Martins, I was told to come up with drawings first, but clothes are meant for the body and its design has to start as a physical thing, not a concept. It’s because we don’t work with preset rules that we’re able to take things to a whole new level. From pattern making, to selecting materials, to the sewing, the closures, we developed everything by ourselves.”
— Conroy Nachtigall (Arc’teryx Veilance) - Archetype
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“The problem with graphic design and graphic designers is that they aren’t willing to say “You don’t need this.” And this is more than just making design simple, it’s about questioning whether we actually need to do this project in the first place.”
— Ben Terrett - “What you need isn’t graphic design it’s whatever else. Or maybe nothing.”
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Abe Burmeister explains how a punk-rock ethic helped him create a business building a new niche in a market he had no experience in. Abe just wanted a pair of pants he could both ride his bike and go to work in - and all his partner Tyler needed was a shirt that stayed fresh despite his pedal-powered commute. He describes how the duo paired intensive research in New York’s garment district with the connectivity of the web to create Outlier - a performance fashion business that only sells over the web.
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“I believe we are entering an era of post disciplinary creative thinking, where the most exciting talent are hybrids and we are still forcing these people to pigeonhole themselves as something our current processes can deal with. Something that fits our modus operandi.”
— Pablo Marques - Should we embrace hybrids and let go of skeuomorphism when looking at creative talent?
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Hiroki Nakamura (Visvim) - Building from the Inside Out
(Source: hypebeast.com)
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The International Center for the History of Electronic Games (ICHEG) has acquired a collection of more than 250 drawings that document how designers at Atari created some of the most important games of the arcade era.
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De Stijl, Dutch for “The Style”, also known as neoplasticism, was a Dutch artistic movement founded in 1917. In a narrower sense, the term De Stijl is used to refer to a body of work from 1917 to 1931 founded in the Netherlands. De Stijl is also the name of a journal that was published by the Dutch painter, designer, writer, and critic Theo van Doesburg (1883–1931), propagating the group’s theories.
