Hannah Martin

Is a young British designer who is starting to make a play. A graduate of London's prestigious St Martins College, Hannah designs stunning women and men's jewellry. Her current collection is heavily inspired by rock'n'roll but she has also produced more intricate pieces such as the Braille Bracelet pictured left. The piece contains a message written in Braille that adds an extra element to the

My Trainers

Ok, so I was a little bored last Saturday morning. I thought I'd photograph my favourite trainers from my collection. They are starting from top left, Nike Zvezdochka, Nike unknown, Nike Cheyenne, Nike Mach Runner & Nike ACG.Tags: Trainers, Sneakers

One Eyed Fun

Seth Godin's blog directed me to this rather bizarre but interesting blog. I wonder if this movement will gain any real momentum. It does want to make you cover one eye with your hand though.

Monster Mash

If you're a fan of mash-up then I've got the perfect site for you. In the late 90s DJs started to make a name for themselves by 'bootlegging' records, putting an a cappella vocal over an instrumental version of another famous track (my favourite being Mojo's Lady mixed with Brandy and Monica's The Boy is Mine - I don't know why but it just worked for me). This has moved right into the mainstream

Nixon Watches

I'm always on the lookout for cool digital watches and was doing a little bit of coolhunting on flickr when I came across Nixon. Nixon produce a range of mid-price watches and most are pretty run-of-the-mill. The red, industrial looking digital watches however, look the business. Tags: watch, digital

Play/Create

British Designer, Daniel Brown, has an excellent site up at the moment. The site is called Play/Create and is very aptly named, encouraging people to mess around with the shockwave movies that are fully interactive. Brown was the London Design Museum's Designer of the Year 2004 and has worked on projects for a wide variety of clients, including Playstation, Warp Records, BBC, VW and Vodafone.

Amaztype & Mashapplications

Amaztype is a flash based navigational tool for Amazon. Using its very simple interface users can search for either books, music or films. Once the search is on Amaztype pulls together all the images of all the relevant books, cds or dvds and spells out the search word. The titles are navigable with basic information available and an option to click through to the title's Amazon page.This really

Adicolor Correction

Apparently:"Originally, the Adicolor was a shoe that was launched in the 80’s. It was a special model that came with pens so you could customize your own shoes. When the 35th Anniversary series came out, they used the Adicolor name for the Adicolor Superstars.Now adidas will launch a full series of Adicolor: 6 series each sorted by color. The first one is a white series delivered with pens. The

The Constant Gardener

http://static.flickr.com/28/65137642_5aadaa3168_m.jpg">This weekend I managed to pop along to our favourite cinema, The Coronet, and check out a movie I've been looking forward to for a while. Based on a John le Carré novel, the Constant Gardener is a beautifully shot film. Directed by Fernando Meirelles of City of God fame, the Constant Gardener maintains the pace and colour of Merielles famous

Interview with Next Big Thing

I recently met up with William Higham of Next Big Things Research, a London trends agency, and posed him a few questions. 1. You're from a music background, how did this get you interested in trends?I started off interested in the bands and then, the longer I was in it, the more I became interested in the audience. Plus I’ve always been interested in how popular culture shifts and mutates. I have

Xbox 360 Ad

Can be downloaded here. It's pretty cool. I like the proposition, that anyone can play. It's evidence that the gaming companies are moving away from targeting the teenage geeks and positioning their products as home entertainment centres.Xbox 360Tags: xbox360

Adicolor

You may recall that I had my very own experience of Nike ID back in September. Well now you can do the same with the Three Stripes too. Yes Adidas have launched Adicolor, your opportunity to mess about with your Stan Smiths, Micropacers and Gazelles. First launched in 1984, the ADICOLOR project was the earliest customization program of its kind. Buyers were given a pair of all white Adidas and a

Microzine (One)

Microzine, the cool gallery/store from North London is branching out."Tomorrow sees the launch of ONE - a collaboration with Microzine and Exposure; same Microzine spirit, different postcode.""The space is gallery-esque and the finds the usual über limited edition treats. Highlights of current stock include adidas/mcm collaboration kicks (there are only 125 in the world and they have five here),

I love my adidas

I love my adidas is a cool new blog on the block. Some excellent shots of rareities and new releases. These mash-up Stan Smiths caught my eye. Tags: adidas

A dot for every second in the day

One day measured in a pixel per second looks like this. It's incredible to break down the complexities of a whole day and see it illustrated in such a simple manner. Check out the time now here.via: RM116

The Hide Magazine

Hyde is an online magazine published 4 to 6 times a year in irregular intervals aiming to provide a forum for different kinds of unrestrictedly-practised art. "In each edition, we would like to give comers and artists the opportunity to present themselves and their work, while the selection of the artists is based on the planned topic." "We try not to focus so much on a certain genre or style

Annex 3

For a friends birthday this week we all piled along to London's latest eatery, Annex 3. Brought to you by the same people behind Loungelover and Le Trois Garcons, Annex 3 is pretty much what you'd expect from these gastronomic entrepreneurs.Hassan Abdullah, Stefan Karlson and Michel Lassare have made the decor of Annex 3 a mish-mash of 80s technology, fin de siecleopulencee and 60s swinging

Krumping

I first came across the phenomenon that is Krumping back in the summer. The New York Times had an article about this craze that had hit Los Angeles. Well, fashion photographer turned director, David LaChapelle, has created a feature length film on this manic dance craze. Krumping is a fast and aggressive form of dancing that appears to almost be fighting. Invented by Thomas Johnson, a birthday

Lavazza Calendar 2006

Lavazza have released their 2006 calendar. You can see more of their beautifully shot calendar here. Tags: lavazza

Samsonite Marc Newson

:trends: favourite Marc Newson has designed a line for Samsonite. Famous for his work with Nike, G-Star and Ford, to name but a few, Newson has now trained his sights on reworking luggage.'Combining ground- breaking mesh materials, courtesy of previous work with Nike, with an eye-popping colour scheme, apparently courtesy of the Teletubbies, the results have moved Samsonite to herald his

H+L Films

Last week we posted on the rather marvelous Hart+Larsson. Well they emailed me the other day to let me know that they'd added some short films to their site. And what marvelous films they are. Must views are 14 and Wow and the beautiful Yellow Springs Ohio.Tags: film

Nike Football Ad

Brief Blog has a post about the latest Nike Football ad that has hit the Mexican streets. A quite superb example of outdoor media, this ad is a great idea beautifully executed. Mind you, it can't be all that hard to work on the Nike Football account eh?Tags: Nike, Football