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I’m a big fan of graphic tees from Japan – here’s a collaboration between Atmos and Bounty Hunter. There’s a couple of color combos to choose from.
MSRP: Est. $81.00USD
I can’t afford a trip to Japan right now, so I guess I’m gonna go eBay apparel hunting!
For more details, check out: Atmos Tokyo.
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No Subtitles, but if you understand Japanese, then catch this interview by Sneaker Resource with Hikaru from Bounty Hunter and Yuichi Sato from Atmos:
Coca-Cola is teaming up with Blank You Very Much (BYVM) for a cool design t-shirt contest and the winner will get $5,000 bucks. So, all you aspiring designers, artists, and anybody else – head to BYVM and download the t-shirt template and start designing! The t-shirt design will be judged by an all-star panel – Bobby Hundreds (Founder of The Hundreds), Wendy Lam (Editor-in-Chief of Nitrolicious.com), Jared Flint (Art Director for Gilt Groupe), Michael Dupouy (Founder of La MJC), and Darren Romanelli (DRx).
Important Contest Dates:
Contest ENDS: October 29th, 2012 at 11:59pm.
Community Voting
From 12:01am on October 30th, 2012 to November 12th, 2012 at 11:59pm
Judges Deliberate
Starting November 13th, 2012
Judges & People’s Choice Winners Announced
Shortly after November 26th, 2012
For more details, rules and downloading the t-shirt templates – go to: BYVM x Coca-Cola.
South African home designer Katie Thompson teams up with Mercedes-Benz and takes an old SL car interior dashboard and turning it into a useable office desk.
Check the in-depth article about Katie’s project with Mercedes-Benz at: Business Insider.
Image via Liam Brazier
Check out artist Liam Brazier’s unique art drawing style with these iconic superheroes. He uses sharp lines and triangles.
This is why we all need a 3D printer:
Image via Patrick Jouin/MGX
Designer Patrick Jouin created this Bloom Table Lamp from a 3D printer. What’s cool is that the lamp can “bloom” like flowers which act like a dimmer switch so you can control much light you want.
For more info and images, go to: Inhabitat – Bloom Table Lamp.
For more of his works, check out his site: Patrick Jouin.
Image via SteelDrake Blogspot
So far, this is still just a concept but designer Steel Drake can sure make a car-loving grown man drool. Production cars borrow heavily from concept cars and this design gives us a glimpse of where Mercedes is heading towards the future. There are some similarities to the Lamborghini from the hard sharp lines at the door and also the bottom vents in the front, but the front grill and logo is unmistakeably Mercedes. Though no matter how much influence is drawn from either car company, this is still one SICK looking car.
For more images, go to: Steel Drake Mercedes-Benz SF1.
I’ve seen this a while back highlighted in European design magazines – the Plumen 001 is the world’s first designer energy saving light bulb and what a great idea it is. Instead of buying pendant lights or other light fixtures to cover up the ugly light bulb – why not beautify the lowly light bulb itself?
For more info, go to: Plumen.com.
Are you a Marvel-fan and an Apple geek with iPhones and iPads galore? PDP and Marvel have come up with some cool retro iconic cover designs cases for the iPhone 4 cases and neoprene covers for the iPad.
MSRP: $34.99USD iPhone 4/S case and $24.99USD neoprene covers for iPad.
For more info and other PDP designs and covers – go to: PDP x Marvel Comics.
When I first saw these Marvel themed sneakers, I immediately though of my son back when he was five years old wearing his little spider-man shoes and his power ranger backpack to school.
Fast forward to this year and, with the success of the Avenger movie, adults now have a chance to wear their own superhero sneaks but with more style. These fantastic kicks from Reebok lets you proudly display your favorite hero on your feet – without having to feel too embarrassed when walking around in them.
Check Marvel.com for more info on these kicks – Reebok x Spiderman & Reebok x Avengers.
A few months ago, we here at Retrenders showcased the purses that were designed by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama (https://retrenders.com/2012/06/11/louis-vuitton-x-yayoi-kusama/) in collaborating with Louis Vuitton. Kusama’s bio is as interesting as her body of work and that’s exactly what fascinated Marc Jacob at Louis Vuitton. Recently in London, Selfridges, a high end department store in the UK, launched a window display designed by Kusama in collaboration with Louis Vuitton. It is nothing but spectacular and is a total treat for the eye.
Selfridges & Co
400 Oxford Street
London
W1A 1AB
Contact store for Yayoi Kusama x Louis Vuitton Concept Store Hours.
For more info, go to: Selfridges.com – Yayoi Kusama x Louis Vuitton.
Who doesn’t like giveaways? Mono B x Clothes Encounters Giveaway Contest.
Easy and Simple Rules:
1. Subscribe to Clothes Encounters
2. Like Mono B’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/monoBclothing
3. Like and share this image: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=487058584652208&set=a.41243421544…
4. Giveaway is international.
5. The contest begins September 28, 2012 at 11:00 a.m. PST and ends on October 5, 2012 at 11:00 a.m. PST. (only a few days left – so enter NOW!)
6. Winner will be randomly chosen and announced on October 8, 2012 on Mono B’s Facebook page.
I’m real, not a drawing!!!
Taking “anime eyes” to a whole new level:
19-year old girl Anastasiya Shpagina from the Ukraine loves anime – here’s Anastasiya on a Ukrainian talk show explaining the “anime” look. No subtitles.
For more info, read the article at: Examiner – Real Life Anime Girl.
This might be the coolest darn fishbowl I’ve ever seen!
Growing up, I remember having a fish bowl with a couple of fish in it which all somehow wound up upside down when I came back home from school. So, I bought my son a fishbowl with a couple of fish and, unfortunately, that didn’t last too long either. When I came about this beautiful hand blown fishbowl from Turkey, my first thought was maybe the fishes would have lasted a little longer living in something so beautiful. Then my second thought was next time I should look up how to raise fish.
For more info, go to: Aruliden – Fishscape.
Image via 24° Studio
As part of the Shitsurai Art International Competition, Crater Lake was one of the winning art installation projects to be installed in Kobe, Japan. This structure has all the features I adore in a design – simple, elegant, & functional. Can you imagine this art piece lined along one of the piers or maybe even Fishermen’s Wharf here in San Francisco? This installation can serve a multitude of functions – a bench to rest, an area for the kids to play on and I just know all the skateboarders are eyeing this wondering what trick they can do off this.
For images and details, go to: 24° Studio – Crater Lake.
Check out this cool homage to Mr. Marvel Stan Lee by illustrator Camilla d’Errico.
This month, the No. 9 rank tennis player in the world, Caroline Wozniacki launches her own underwear line, “This Is Me” Collection. The collection features two distinct fabrics – microfiber and cotton/lycra.
Need a winter jacket to rock? Check out this new jacket by outdoor apparel company Helly Hansen. The H2 Flow Jacket can keep heat locked-in or stay cool with adjustable zippers to allow better ventilation. The H2 Flow is for both men and women.
Canadian illustrator Ïve Bastrash reimagined these iconic posters with his own fresh cartoon style and, in my opinion, some look better than the original. A movie lover and a video game artist, Ïve also designs playing cards featuring Jack Nicholson, Cher, and Sonny Bono as the Jack, Queen, and King cards of a poker deck respectively.
Here’s a few more of my favs:
ALHAMBRA, CA. Known for her “cute noir” art style in Japan and in the States, Junko Mizuno is an underground artist that has been featured worldwide on television and in print media. We caught up with Junko at Gallery Nucleus for her exhibition on Hansel & Gretel. Listen to Junko in her own words on her art and career by Project 760 Productions’ Richard Sze.
Do you want this in your house? Heck yeah! My own Dark Knight man-dungeon.
Image via WERD.
Oh, wait a minute … I can’t afford this – It’s a cool $2 million USD for this.
Source: Werd – Dark Knight Themed Home Theater.
Art by Evgeny Yakovlev.
Take popular geek & comic book heroes/villains and insert them into comedic situations and that is what you get – art by Evgeny Yakovlev aka Lost-Angel-Less.
Redhead Girl via Viana Arts
The answer please. Is this your final answer! Well, it’s actually not a photograh, but a drawing of a girl using only Bic color ballpoint pens! Amazing. Artist Samuel Silva took inspiration from a photo by Russian photographer Kristina Tararina. He took around 30 hours to draw this and used 8 different colored Bic ballpoint pens (what a great ad plug for Bic!).
To check Samuel’s quick Q&A and more images of his artwork, go to: Deviant Art – Viana Arts.
The ever-changing color lights inside polished stainless steel mirrors come together to create one amazing art project by Christopher Jenner. For some reason, I can’t stop staring at this and humming “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.”
Your wall in room is to plain. Add some retro video game inspiration with this Donkey Kong Shelf by designer Igor Chak. What a conversation starter – it looks vintage with it’s pixel-inspired creation and is made made from carbon fiber. The shelf supports up to 60 pounds of weight.
This might be the closest I will ever get to owning a Leica – as a skin for my iPhone. The plastic skin case has solid Leica details.
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