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BMW CHALLENGES THE CONVENTIONS OF TRADITIONAL CAR DESIGN WITH ITS G.I.N.A. LIGHT VISIONARY MODEL PROJECT

Falling under the category of "2008's SIckest Design Concept", BMW's GINA Light Visionary Model project (note to Chris: you need a better name for this, talk to Jobs) which stands for "Geometry and Functions in 'N' Adaptations" basically means that Bimmer designers we're given free reign to go buck wild and really think outside the box when it comes to the form and function of BMW car design as it relates to the future. Chris Bangle, the Director Of Design for BMW Group really breaks it down in the video below as to why they undertook this design driven endeavor. Now don't go and get all excited on us...the images and video that you are about to see are purely conceptual and this is definitely one whip that you will not be seeing at a dealership near you anytime soon! Enjoy!

SNEAKER SCIENCE CLASS

Our type of class! Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania is offering Sneakerology 101, a course on everything sneakers. From the rise in the 70’s to hip-hop, the class covers sneaker culture and design.

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A NEW SEXY TWIST ON D/A DIGITAL CLOCK BY ALVIN ARONSON

RISD student/designer and soon to be graduate Alvin Aronson has come up with a clean and fresh new design for the digital clock. Aronson desceibes d/a clock as "An object that plays on the common LED-display digital clock with physical segments that slowly fade in and out of a white surface. The D/A Clock introduces new characteristics to the digital mediation of time: a physical dimension and intermediate states – the time between 0 and 1."

Check out a video of the clock in action.

(Source: www.neublack.com)

THE iSTICK BY ALEXEI MIKHAILOV

This lipstick style mobile device with touch screens on all four sides doesn't exist yet, but we definitely know  women some who wish it did.
For more info visit: Alexei Mikhailov

(Source: www.idealist.com)

CHECK OUT THE ART OF CHRIS GILMOUR

It's pretty amazing! Chris makes his art objects strictly using cardboard and glue. There is no supporting structure, no wooden or metal frame, just cardboard and glue, amazing! Check out his work.

To see more of his work visit: www.chrisgilmour.com

REPUBLICA EYE WEAR INTRODUCES SEVEN NEW SUNGLASS STYLES IN TIME FOR SPRING '08

With daylight saving officially in full effect and spring eleven days away, here are seven new sunglass style frames from República. Also, check out their first annual sale. Older frames are now $99.00 for a limited time. Lastly, word on the street is that there will be a República + Peralta Project + SOA collabo coming this summer...stay tuned.

SAMUEL JACKSON ROCKS REPUBLICA'S OSAKA FRAMES

STREET ART WARS

The Vandalism Vandal:  Who’s been splashing the city’s most prized graffiti? The hunt for the radical, young—and possibly lovelorn—conceptual-Marxist street-art supervillain.

By Sam Anderson

I. MEDITATIONS ON A STREET-ART SKIRMISH:
Graff beef! Fetishized commodities! Counterrevolutionary fucktards!

The first good look I got at one of the Splasher’s actual splashes was at a place called the Candy Factory, an abandoned brick wall at the south end of Soho that’s become, over a couple of generations, one of the most important nodes of illegal art in the city—a shabby outdoor Louvre of wheatpasted posters, stencils, and stickers squeezed between a construction zone and a parking lot. The view changes almost daily: Its prime spots are probably fifteen layers thick. On the day I went, at the center of the mess stood a Technicolor poster of an anthropomorphic pickle-shaped rainbow; above him, there was a portrait of a little Swiss-looking girl innocently playing a flute. And above her, in the upper right corner of the wall, was a sad, frowning candy corn, looking even sadder because someone had flung white paint over its face—a ragged spray that covered one cheek and part of his nose. Near the splash was a poster-size manifesto, partially torn, apparently declaring the candy corn’s crimes against humanity. It was titled AVANT-GARDE: ADVANCE SCOUTS FOR CAPITAL, and it read, in part:

REVOLUTIONARY CREATIVITY DOES NOT SHOCK OR ENTERTAIN THE BOURGEOISIE, IT DESTROYS THEM. OUR STRUGGLE CANNOT BE HUNG ON WALLS. DESTROY THE MUSEUMS, IN THE STREETS AND EVERYWHERE.

The manifesto ended with a warning: THE REMOVAL OF THIS DOCUMENT COULD RESULT IN INJURY, AS WE HAVE MIXED THE WHEATPASTE WITH TINY SHARDS OF GLASS.

So began my tortuous descent into the curious case of the Splasher—a scandal that had gripped the city’s underground art scene for months. It was a tricky case, with triple-crossed motives, riddles nested in mysteries, and loops of self-devouring irony linked together in a gigantic chain stretching clear across the city, from the most expensive Soho boutiques to the Williamsburg waterfront to the industrial streets of Bushwick. Everyone was a suspect: cops, ex-students, anarchists, petty vandals, corporate marketing execs, self-made kings of the underground art scene, even some of the victims themselves.

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