Friday, 19 November 2010
Niceness - a timeline animation of fashion milestones
Karl Lagerfeld often quotes a line from the German poet and writer Goethe: “Make a better future by developing elements from the past.” It is the designer’s mantra at Chanel and it looks like a smart take on how to handle history. Alber Elbaz says that he visits the Jeanne Lanvin archives briefly before each collection––but more to catch the spirit of the house’s founder than to find actual inspiration. That is the essence of heritage luxury: a quiver of emotion from the past in a thoroughly modern world
Saturday, 9 October 2010
Mcmaster University puts a logo onto a human hair
Julia Huang used a focus ion beam microscope (FIB) to shoot a beam of gallium ions at the surface of a human hair, carving atoms off the of the surface of the hair to etch these McMaster University logos. When not tattooing hair, they'll use the FIB microscope to fabricate nanoscale devices. Check out the department here
Thursday, 30 September 2010
Walt Whitman
Levis used a Walt Whitman poem in an ad and their logo stood out like a fake smile.
WORKS IN PROGRESS: Jeffrey Wright reads Walt Whitman from Ina Howard-Parker on Vimeo.
Tuesday, 28 September 2010
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