I thought I would show you a few of the gorgeous dresses worn on the Cannes 2011 red carpet or to the photo calls. Salma Hayek wore this gorgeous grey Gucci gown on day 1 of the Cannes 2011 Film Festival.
Darkie Fashion From Cape Town
May 17, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Themba Mngomezulu was introduced to fashion by a mother that sold second hand clothes to support the family. So when he grew up, there was a natural gravitation to the fashion industry. Themba began making clothes for himself and for friends, before starting his own fashion brand in 2002, Darkie Clothing.
Bokos Your New Favourite Sandals
May 17, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Bokos Sandals were created by two brothers from Minneapolis, Minnesota. The idea came while spending sometime overseas and coming home with a pair of sandals that were durable, easy to clean and fun to wear, been so comfortable, they ended up wearing them everywhere.
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The Sustainable Mason Jar Portland Press
May 16, 2013 By Leave a Comment
The Portland Press is a lid and cozy that turns your mason jar into a sustainable French Press. Bucket, started a Crowd Supply campaign to fund the production of The Portland Press and wants to produce sustainable products, locally made and long lasting. All of the materials used in the Portland Press are from within the Portland region.
Planet Money Global Economy T-Shirts
May 14, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Planet money is a joint venture between the NPR and This American Life, to explain the American economy to its people. Every t-shirt in the world is the result of a global journey, with Planet Money’s t-shirts, they actually tell you where their t-shirts have been. You can meet the people that grew the cotton to make the fabric, the factory workers that worked on the spinners that made the fabric.
The US economy is a system that affects everyone in the country, but not a lot of people understand. A group of mixed media journalists decided to make the economy something fun to discuss. So they developed t-shirts that help explain the economy and make it fun to find out about.
SafeSleeve Protects The Essentials
May 13, 2013 By Leave a Comment
SafeSleeve is a laptop sleeve that protects you from the effects of the radiation that emanates from your laptop after two engineers were warned by a lecturer that using their laptops on their laps could cause serious damage to their health.
The Vitra Factory Design
May 13, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Vitra, a Swiss furniture brand, has continued a 25 year strategy of commissioning internationally renowned contemporary architects like Sanaa to design their factory. Sanaa is a Basel-based Japanese architecture firm that consists of Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa.
The design idea applied by Sanaa was to build an industrial facility that, compared to the 12,000 square metres of the old structure, provided 20,000 sqm of working space.
The space is divided into 4 working areas that are able to work independently from each other. The building on the whole has a circular footprint which makes sure that the delivery and loading of goods in different locations, optimizes, reduces and simplifies internal traffic.
Weirdly Designed Wooden Creatures
May 9, 2013 By Leave a Comment
These Creative Wooden Creatures are a kit that allow children to create and use their imagination to make their own little creatures. Designed for children above the age of 5, the toys let children from all cultures and backgrounds learn and discover animals of the sea and land.
Ghost the New Free Open Source Blogging Platform
May 9, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Ghost is set to change the way you blog. Blogging has essentially changed the way news and events are reported over the last 10 years, but the way we blog, surprisingly, hasn’t changed at all. Most platforms are complicated to operate, closed to newcomers or simply too expensive for new bloggers to take advantage of.
The Interactive Fish Tank Experiment
May 9, 2013 By Leave a Comment
The Interactive Fish Tank is an experiment in design and public interaction, blurring the boundary between the real and the virtual by placing virtual fish under real water.
