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August 2006

Bazaar Adriatic
DesignBOT, Personal — August 24, 2006 Posted by Adriean
Street Fashion at your fingertips


Specializing in contemporary street fashion is online apparel outlet Bazaar Adriatic which carries noted designers such as Harjuku Lovers, tokidoki, cardboard robot and Doe just to name a few.
What is BazaarAdriatic?

Bazaar Adriatic is the place for "no-hype" fashion. The teams of buyers that have chosen each piece on here are actually seasoned professionals in the fashion or music industry. This site has been created to offer the best of up and coming fashion and music styles that take shape from the streets, clubs, dive bars, and inspiring garage artists that have an ever lasting effect on society.

Here we believe that fashion, music, and art are part of an unending parallel that takes shape in each of us everyday. As this site takes shape in our lives, we hope that it will do the same for you.
Apart from the large selection of apparel and accessories, be sure to check out BA's great collection of 12" vinyl albums available in their Music section. Very smooth.

Link: Bazaar Adriatic
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Ice Cube
Accessories, Misc, Outdoor — August 23, 2006 Posted by James
Coolahhh
This just may be America's most wanted cooler. Ice down those libations and Express Yourself by adding some chill atmosphere to your par-tay...

Designed by Danny Venlet for Belgian outdoor furniture company Extremis, Ice Cube is made from white polyethylene with fluorescent bulbs inside. But priced around $1650 (without lightbulbs, by the way)... it's All About the Benjamins, baby.

Drink It Up, yo.

Designer: Danny Venlet
Manufacturer: Extremis - Ice Cube
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Karim Rashid vs. Contempo
DesignBOT, Designers, Furniture — August 22, 2006 Posted by Adriean
Karimi Couch


Though he may have the odd hater, you have to respect the amount of pieces that K-Rad (that's right, you heard it here first) pumps out these days.

Of note for me has to be his latest sofa design for Italian manufacturer Contempo. The appropriately coined Karimi Couch stays true to the style that has been Karims bread and butter with the usage of his mainstay patterns consisting of his familiar "cross and peanut" motif.

Now I know some of you are moaning and groaning about this well travelled route, but really people what would you rather see him do ? A village pattern ?

Link: Karim Rashid
Link: Contempo
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LA's New Independents
Events — August 18, 2006 Posted by James
CA Boom's new architecture and design tour series


CA Boom has expanded from a one weekend per year design show, to offer a design and architecture tour series four Saturdays this fall in Los Angeles.

The tours will be organized in the same fashion as the tours offered during the CA Boom design exhibitions with architects and designers personally guiding attendees through the project offering insights into the design process. Confirmed architects and designers as of this posting include: Bestor Architecture, Unruh Boyer Architects + Design, Techentin Buckingham Architecture, Fing & Blatt, Space Internationall, Xten Architecture, etc. See more details after the jump.

Tour dates:
  • Silver Lake - September 9
  • West Hollywood Hills - September 30
  • Hollywood Hills & Los Feliz - October 21
  • Echo Park & Mt. Washington - November 11
Link: CA Boom Fall Tours
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Rob Buttery : Clocks
Art, DesignBOT, Graphics — August 10, 2006 Posted by Adriean
Summer line released


Artist/designer Rob Buttery recently added a fresh new batch of designs to his already eye catching series of wall clocks.

Sporting abit of a Canadian feel to a few of the new pieces, Rob displayed his Summer line at last months THAW exhibit in Edmonton.

Link: Collectiv
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FROST 2006 Call for Submissions
Competitions, DesignBOT, Events — August 10, 2006 Posted by Adriean
skatedeck design exhibit


The Works International Visual Arts Society and IDEA are bringing back the annual FROST design exhibit which is slated for early December 2006 (4th to 9th)

This time out the focus shifts from furniture design to skate and longboard design.
The objective of this year's exhibit is to focus on the skateboard/ longboard design culture. From its early history to visions of the future,*FROST will explore the many aspects of the board from graphics to accessories and its relationship with the end user.

Designers are asked to create a graphic of their choice for a blank skate deck and/or longboard deck. All submissions will be juried by IDEA and 30 skate decks and 30 longboard decks will be chosen for production.

Olive Skateboardsª will be printing the winning graphics onto their respective decks that will be displayed and sold by silent auction at *FROST2006.
Apart from the graphics component, the exhibit also has a Conceptual category where designers are asked to create outside the normal realm of skate design with items such as custom deck designs, apparel and skate environments.

Submissions are currently being accepted until September 21st with the chosen entries being named early October.

Link: IDEA
Link: The Works
Link: Olive
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