February 2011
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Design: The Acoustable Coffee Table
Designers: Jérôme Spriet and Wolfgang Bregentzer
Website: http://www.acoustable.com
The Acoustable Coffee Table Sound System a TEAC sound system within that provides 360 degrees of audio playback. By either USB or optional WiFi, your laptop, your iPod and more can all connect to this table for an amplified audio experience that is much better than your device’s built-in speakers. The...
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Design: Icon Watch
Designer: Takumi
Website: http://www.poketo.com
Simple, bold, and totally chic! Inspired by the old-school 8-bit graphics the face of the watch is shaped like a computer icon. Add a little bit of modern nostalgia to your wardrobe with this stylish watch. Check it out after the jump:
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Film: Jessie J ft. B.o.B - Price Tag
Artist: Jessie J ft. B.o.B
Director: Emil Nava
Website: http://www.jessiejofficial.com
This is the 2011 woman to watch! Jessie J urges people to relax and stop worrying about money in a newly-debuted music video for her single “Price Tag”. The U.K. artist sings in between the feel-good vibes, “Why is everybody so obsessed? Money can’t buy us happiness.” Check it...
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Designer Highlight: Maud Traon
Designer: Maud Traon
Website: http://www.maudtraon.net
Maud Traon’s rings are miniature sculptures of a wide range of materials. Copper, fimo, synthetic stones, plastic frogs, wax, modelling planes and more make up Traon’s chunky narrative rings that tell tales of post-apocalyptic landscapes.
Traon is a graduate of the Royal College of Art in London where her focus was on gold and silver...
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Marc by Marc Jacobs Spring 2011
Photographer: Juergen Teller
Models: Andrej Pejic & Jaco Ven Den Hoven
Stylist: Poppy Kain
Website: http://www.marcjacobs.com
We’ve seen a preview of Marc by Marc Jacobs’ Spring/Summer 2011 advertising imagery, lensed by Juergen Teller. But now, on his website, Jacobs has just unveiled much more of the campaign. Shot in Marrakech just before Christmas, the campaign...
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The Pagani Huayra Supercar
Price: $1,400,000
Website: http://www.paganiautomobili.it/
Putting this on my grocery list for next week (we can all dream right?). There’s a new Pagani on the road, ladies and gentlemen. The new Pagani Huayra has been officially revealed to the world, although few of us may ever see it in the flesh.
The Huayra is the newest flagship of this boutique Italian sports car manufacturer, a name...
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Turn Your iPhone 4 Transparent!
How interesting! One enterprising user has taken off the front and back glass panels of his iPhone 4 and converted them into clear panels by removing the paint using a paint thinner. Clever!
As you will see from the images after the break, the results are quite amazing as you can see the insides of the iPhone 4, which surprisingly look quite good.
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WeTheUrban T-Shirt Design Contest!
Calling all graphic designers! Want your work to be seen by an audience of thousands? Want your design sold as one of the first shirts in the grand opening WeTheUrban’s clothing store? Well this contest is for you! We want you to come up with a design for one of our new shirts!
Rules & Guidelines -
This must be YOUR own work! If you would like to include the WeTheUrban logo in your...
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Paris Hilton Covers VOGUE Turkey
Photographer: Terry Richardson
Fashion Editor: Mary Fellowes
Make-up: Kate Lee for Chanel
Website: www.vogue.com.tr
Terry Richardson and Paris Hilton don’t seem like the likely ingredients for a Vogue cover, but they have pleasantly surprised! Paris is sporting a black jacket from Balmain; glasses by Terry Richardson, and red jersey from Koton. Not too shabby! Behind the scenes video...
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Design: The Echoism App - Which Side of Your Face...
Creator: Julian Wolkenstein
Website: http://www.echoism.org
How cool is this?! Based on the idea that those with symmetrical faces are considered more attractive, this iPhone app lets you play around and edit pictures of yourself or others to see if it’s really true.
The app takes a photo, splits it into left and right and creates two separate, symmetrical images of the subject’s...
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WeTheUrban x Betsy & Iya Giveaway! Morse Code...
Prize: Morse Code Romance Necklace
Deadline to Enter: 1/31/2011
How to Enter-
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Simple as that! In honor of the love month coming up, we decided to team up with the amazing Betsy & Iya to giveaway this handmade morse code necklace! The winner will be chosen this Monday afternoon....
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Bad Barbie: The Works of Mariel Clayton
Photographer: Mariel Clayton
Website: http://www.thephotographymarielclayton.com/
It’s Barbie bitch! Ontario artist Mariel Clayton’s latest series depicts Barbie as a psycho serial killer! Not too sure how I feel about this. This is possibly the darkest Barbie and Ken related imagery you can imagine, but nonetheless super creative and rather addictive. Check out what all the hype...
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Surplus Saturday #3 - Vintage Finds Edition!
WeTheUrban’s third Surplus Saturday! Pretty simple… surplus = more supply than demand. Every saturday we’ll bring you the hottest 7 products that are affordable for you to grab of the week! This week we compiled a list of the top 7 best vintage products we could find! Note: all tech items featured are still currently working. Check it out after the click:
Original Marilyn Monroe Life...
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Design: Evolution of the Mobile Phone Russian...
Designer: Kyle Bean
Website: http://www.kylebean.co.uk
In today’s day and age it’s all about the android and the iPhone. Luckily, designer Kyle Bean is here to remind us about our roots with this Russian Doll-esque project that looks at the history of the mobile phone. The models are created completely out of paper and cardboard, pretty crazy. More after the click:
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FIRENZE4EVER Styling Lab at Luisa Via Roma
Stylist: Zarko Davinic
Photographer: Alessandro Pace
Models: Carmel Imelda Walsh and David Lipari
Hair and Makeup: AVEDA
Website: luisaviaroma.com
In the beginning of January DesignScene.net was part of Luisa Via Roma’s FIRENZE4EVER 2nd edition, bloggers all over the globe gathered in Florence to officially kick off the opening of Spring Summer 2011 season. Design Scene head blogger,...
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Your Daily Sensuality: Erik Foss' Word Series
Artist: Erik Foss
Website: http://www.erikfoss.org
This very prolific and talented artist has created work in a multitude of formats, working with collage, illustration and painting! All of which serving as a visual commentary for America’s brief history of politics, racism, bigotry and corruption.
Erik has just released his latest body of work; a series of collages using vintage...
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Video Premiere: Moment 4 Life - Nicki Minaj ft....
Director: Chris Robinson
Producer: T-Minus
Website: http://www.mypinkfriday.com
The much anticipated video for Minaj’s third single off of Pink Friday, Moment 4 Life, has finally arrived! Moment 4 Life is the first video of many to be released in promotion of Pink Friday. In an interview on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Minaj revealed that Roman Zolanski’s mother, Martha Zolanski,...
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Lomography Valentines Threesome
Designer: Lomography
Website: http://www.lomographyuk.com
The Lomographic Society Proudly Presents: The Lomography Valentines Threesome! In honor of the love month, Lomography is releasing a line of three new camera’s! The first one (pictured above) is called the Diana F+ “Take My Heart”. This camera is wrapped in a masterpiece and dedicated to the very first love story. How...
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Become a Writer for Skins!
UK Skins is on the hunt for the next aspiring script writer! Now, we all know that Skins has been in the news lately and they have been getting a lot of attention for how racy the show is and will become, but what most people don’t realize is that underneath that all is a fantastic story line. Did you know that the writers of the show both in the UK and I think the US as well are between the...
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Dolce & Gabbana Fall/Winter 2011.12 Show
Milan Fashion Week
Season: Fall Winter 2011.12
Designers: Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana
Website: www.dolcegabbana.com
D&G have done it again! Fun and quirky outfits are all the rage in their latest show at Milan Fashion Week! Check out the show and photo’s after the jump:
photo source: designscene
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WeTheUrban x Five and two GIVEAWAY!
WeTheUrban has teamed up with amazing jewelry designer Briana Rose to giveaway 2 items from Five and two!
Prize: The ASTER Crystal Ring & ROXY Quartz Point Studs
Deadline to Enter: 1/28/2011
How To Enter:
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Simple as that! The winner will be randomly selected Friday evening. A...
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Design: Recycled Fortune Cookie Coin Purse
Designer: Diana Eng
Website: http://www.dianaeng.com
How creative?! Eng’s Fortune Cookie coin purse combines several eco-fashion design practices into a small, well-crafted pouch. The Project Runway alumni makes her purses from recycled leather that is marked and traceable through an online database. The laser-etched ID number might indicate, for instance, that the hide was destined for the...
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It's Tumblr Tuesday! →
Well would you look at that? It’s Tumlbr Tuesday! Click the link above to recommend WeTheUrban for fashion! If we get into the top 10 recommended, we’ll reveal some huge news about WeTheUrban coming soon! Thank you!
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HUH?: Color Changing Sweatshirts That Detect Air...
Designers: Nien Lam & Sue Ngo
Pollution has never been so fashionable: A pair of NYU grad students have created a high-tech sweatshirt emblazoned with pink lungs that suddenly show blue veins when exposed to dirty air.
Nien Lam and Sue Ngo came up with the idea for a class on wearable technologies in the interactive telecommunications program at Tisch School of the Arts. How...
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Design: Parra's New Coffee Tables
Designer: Parra x Toykyo
Website: http://www.toykyo.be/studio
The Dutch artist Parra just put the finishing touches on this set of coffee tables with the Belgian production house and representation firm Toykyo. There are only eight of them, and if you don’t have a real job you probably can’t afford one, but damn. Dope, huh? More after the jump:
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Paris Haute Couture - Dior Spring/Summer 2011
Paris Haute Couture Week 2011
Designer: Christian Dior
Illustrator: René Gruau
Website: http://www.dior.com
Models walked the runway during the Christian Dior show as part of the kick off to Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2011 at Musee Rodin today January 24, 2011 in Paris, France. Check out the show after the jump:
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Design: The Standard x KAWS Lightbulbs
Created for The Standard Hotel in New York by Brooklyn-based artist KAWS are these limited edition lightbulbs! The KAWS Light Bulb Set for the Standard are a limited, but non-numbered edition of 1,000 sets that contain 3 bulbs each, of one bulb in each color: red, purple and green. Act fast because they’re apparently flying off the shelves! Take a more intimate look after the jump:
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Boxing Kitten's Spring 2011 Vintage 50s Lookbook
Models: Naima Mora & Sara Liz Pickett
Photographer: Kwesi Abbensetts
Creative Director: Jasmine Benjamin
Website: http://www.boxingkitten.com
Boxing Kitten has always been, first and foremost, about the joy of print and color, but throughout the seasons we’ve noticed more than a few nods to the 1950s and classic rockabilly. Once we saw this lookbook, we were sold!
For spring, the...
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Surplus Saturday #2
WeTheUrban’s second Surplus Saturday! Pretty simple… surplus = more supply than demand. Every saturday we’ll bring you the hottest 7 products that are affordable for you to grab of the week! Check it out after the click:
Anthony Shirt
Price: $32
Leather Skull Bracelets
Price: $45
Sacred Geometry Art Book
Price: £4
Skipper Stripe Tee
Price: $14
Wrapped Rose Necklace
Price:...
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Design: Book Art by Isaac Salazer
Artist: Isaac Salazar
Website: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bookofart/
It has been a good while since any book art was featured on these pages. Today and Tomorrow draws attention to Isaac Salazar, who appears to fold, rather than carve, letters into books. A full selection of his work is available on the artist’s flickr page. A selection appears after the jump.
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Curating: Eric D. Wills Interview
Blogger: Eric D. Wills
Website: http://www.ericdwills.com
“People say that “haters” motivate them. I never understood that. Love motivates me.”
Philosopher, graphic/web designer, photographer, fashionisto, and renaissance man, Eric D. Wills, is this weeks curating interview. We had the pleasure of speaking with this genius Eric about himself and what ‘style’ is. This is one read...
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WTU x Jawbreaking Jewelry Necklace pt. 2
Designer: Aly Silverio
Website: http://www.shopjawbreakingjewelry.com
The Barcode Necklace is WeTheUrban and Jawbreaking Jewelry’s second collaboration together. The numbers on the necklace represent the date of WeTheUrban’s first post.
The use of the barcode design is meant to be ironical, a warning that if we are not careful as a culture, we are all in danger of...
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Self chec Launches "Love Yourself" Campaign
Photographer: Guido vitti
Creative Officer: Pete Favat
Website: http://www.selfchec.org
AdFreak.com caught the launch of the new campaign for Self chec called “Love Yourself First” and encourages people to check themselves for life threatening diseases such as breast and testicular cancer by promoting the practice of routinely checking yourself for signs. The campaign posters...
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Short Film Friday: Window World by Karl Lagerfeld
Director: Karl Lagerfeld
Models: Babora Dvorakova, Magdalena Frackowiak, and Baptiste Giabiconi
The Karl Lagerfeld ‘Window World’ video is the latest short by Chanel’s esteemed designer. The odd, and somewhat creepy, video explores the world of mannequins, with models like Baptiste Giabiconi, Magdalena Frackowiak and Barbora Dvorakova cast as doll-like, plastic figures sporting a lot of...
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Arch: Museum of the Moving Image
Architect: Leeser Architecture
Location: Astoria, New York
Website: http://www.movingimage.us
The ‘Museum Of The Moving Image’ by Brooklyn-based practice Leeser Architecture has opened its doors to the public in Astoria, New York. Consisting of a complete redesign of the structure and a three-storey and courtyard addition, the 97,700 square foot project features a number of new program spaces...
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Mugler Fall/Winter 2011 - Video
Creative Director: Thierry Mugler
Website: http://www.thierrymugler.com/us/en
On January 19th, 2011, Nicola Formichetti debuted his first collection ” Anatomy of Change ” for the house of Mugler, accompanied by the musical direction of close friend and collaborator Lady Gaga. Astounding video after the jump!
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Katy Perry Announces North American 'California...
Looks like i’ll be seeing her in June! Gearing up to entertain fans throughout North America, Katy Perry has announced dates for her 2011 California Dreams tour.
The “Firework” singer took to Facebook to break the news during a live interview, during which she unveiled her 41-city travel plans. Her opening acts are top notch: Robyn and Marina & The Diamonds. Check out...
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Film: Gregory Gorgeous's The Avenue
Fisher/Morris Productions
Starring: Gregory Gorgeous
Website: http://www.theavenueshow.com
We’ve spent the last 2 years watching Gregory evolve and now he’s at his prime and has a new reality show! This is Toronto, Canada’s ‘The Hills’ in a sense except it will be aired each week on Youtube (so everyone around the globe can view) starting January 25th.
The...
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Cigarette Ash Landscape
Artist & Photographer: Yang Yongliang
Website: http://www.yangyoingliang.com
Everything Yongliang does is fantastic, but two things about this work of art are especially amazing. First, the scale. Second, Yang Yongliang has turned a collection of black and white photographs and formed a collage mimicking cigarette ash. The ash itself mimics a city scape, and the photographs are all...
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Design: EXOvault iPhone Case
Designer: EXOvault
Website: http://www.exovault.com
Exovault is a metal iPhone case that acts like a vault — locking your iPhone inside and protecting it from damage. The Exovault metal iPhone case is machined from solid metal stock in two pieces, providing you with a distinctive and beautiful hand-crafted object that sets itself apart from the average modern plastic world.
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Film: INFLUENCERS - In Depth Series
INFLUENCERS: How Trends And Creativity Becomes Contagious, created by R+I Creative was released last November and garnered a lot of attention in a short amount of time. The original documentary featured interviews with some of today’s most notable and recognized creatives including jeffstaple, Dao-Yi Chow, Sky Gellatly, Rob Stone, Jon Cohen, Josh Peskowitz, and more.
The documentary is now...
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Arch: The Sapphire Gallery
Architects: XTEN Architecture
Location: Los Angeles, California
Website: http://www.xtenarchitecture.com
Can you say dream pad?! The Sapphire Gallery is a residential gallery addition to a private residente in Los Angeles, California. It is designed to display a private collection of contemporary art while also providing for a home office with views to the sorrounding hills.
More images and...
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Design: The BoomCase
Designer: Mr. Simo
Website: http://www.theboomcase.wordpress.com
With all the bags you own, it’s probably been quite some time since you had a hard suitcase. You’re not the only one that occasionally needs to squish things under a seat or in the overhead just to get stuff across the country, so there’s a surplus of vintage hard-sided suitcases ripe for the picking by Mr. Simo.
Once he gets...