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THE TRANSDISCIPLINARY STUDIO

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

The French artist duo Aurélien Arbeit and Jérémie Egry, founder of the studio Études, created their third men’s collection for the Autumn/Winter 2013 season. The superlative pieces are the evolution of the brand Hixsept and the publishing house JSBJ. Other than the fashion, it is their overall aesthetic that forms a mot juste for contemporary [...]

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LET’S UPCYCLE THE WORLD III

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

My personal Top 5 of the 50 Creative Ways to Repurpose, Reuse and Upcycle Old Things of Twisted Sifter:
Top 1: Turn Old Credit Cards Into Guitar Picks

Top 2: Repurpose a Card Catalogue Into a Mini Bar

Top 3: Upcycle Old Light Bulbs Into Candles

Top 4: Repurpose Old CD Holders Into Bagel Storage Device

Top 5: Use Old [...]

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ANOTHER WORLD…OF DRESSING

Friday, March 15, 2013

Here is sighswhispers if anyone is interested in the history of fashion; the beauty of Thieryy Mugler in the 80s, Charles Jourdan advertisements or Helmut Newton for Vogue.

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LET’S UPCYCLE THE WORLD

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Like recycling, upcycling is a kind of waste prevention – but in a very creative way.
WE UPCYCLE is a blog by Lisa Schultz and Magdalena Akantisz, two students from the University of applied arts in Vienna, on which they posted 30 things they created out of waste materials for 30 days in a row. For [...]

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What The World Needs Now

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

It’s funny, but this latest gif paradise called The Anthropocene Man somehow seems to be the most accurate portrayal of life (and death) in early 2013. Also, and quite unrelated: RIP online dating scam master Tim Dog.

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LES CHRONIQUES PURPLE

Sunday, February 10, 2013

Les chroniques du mois de janvier/The January chronicles from Purple co-founder Elein Fleiss’s new site Les Chroniques Purple – Gaelle Obiégly, Soledad Manrique, Anders Edström, Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle, Kyotaro, Jeff Rian, Amit Berlowitz, Danielle Vallet Kleiner, Laetitia Benat, C.W. Winter, Guillermo Ueno, Anne Frémy, Althea Saint Amand, Pablo Guerra, Shuling Cheng, Stephen Sprott, Federico Nicolao, Henry Roy, Asako Kitaori, Charlotte Rolland, Pablo Durán, Judith Affolter, Jean-Christophe Bailly, Olivier Kervern, Elein Fleiss, Cosmic Wonder Light Source, Julian Gatto & Mercedes Villalba, Fernando Mariani, Yannick Haenel, Takashi [...]

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FROM A GARDEN TO MARS

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Valentina Karga a.k.a Berlin Farm Lab is sharing her diaries related with two projects about self-sufficiency in the new book 30 Days in the Garden / 15 Days on Mars by Crap is Good Publications. The artist is showing us how to build a bio digester or searching new ways of producing food while living on [...]

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THE FUTURE OF ARCHITECTURE

Sunday, November 18, 2012

Utopias and dystopias have generated  several scenarios throughout the history related with spaces. In order to search for new perspectives Crap=Good collaborated with theorists, artists and architectural offices as well as several participants invited by an open-call. As a result of this attempt, now, we can interact with the book ‘What is the future of architecture?‘ in Motto Berlin [...]

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THE PAST IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Amazing stuff. Retro photography blog from Chris Wild. Don’t know where to start – how about Victoria Beckham photoshoot from 1992…

Oh and also Scotch Hair Tape ads from 1970…

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Alternatives in Print: F de C Reader

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

The F de C Reader is a pocket-sized biannual emergent from a certain redundancy in publications regarding the world of fashion. Rather than claim, this reader exudes need for a re-primed canvas with a peculiar focus on clothing and all its metaphorical and metaphysical realms. Seasons and collections are still encapsulating for chief editor Alin [...]

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