Designers

We've been fans of COMUИE since its inception, and although the guys have been able to sport the line, the ladies have been adoring from the sidelines.  But not for long. Soon women will be able to embrace COMUИE with its first womenswear collection launching this fall. 

Judson Beaumont, of Vancouver's Straight Lines Design, has created these amazing stools and tables out of trees. Tree Rings are created using split Pine Beetle wood, which is then covered with a colored resin top. During the day, they look like a regular stump table, but at night, they become illuminated with light glowing through the resin, showing of the ring pattern.

Korean born artist, Koo Jeong A, collaborated with Belgian architect firm, L'escaut, to create an art installation composed of different bowls, a cradle and a tunnel, that also doubles as a skatepark. Located on Vassivière Island in France, the installation titled OTRO, is a daring skateable artwork that glows-in-the-dark. Koo Jeong A invites novices and experts to share the physical and sensory experience of her work by “skating the landscape” 24 hours a day.

For the launch of their Citiscape range of new street style headphones, Philips asked renowned French urban artist, graphicist, illustrator, and rapper Grems to etch three limited addition collector’s box sets to house them. Not content with tickling your proverbial visual taste buds, they asked NYC’s own electro maestro Machinedrum, a.k.a. Travis Stewart, founder of the Merck label, to pen three exclusive tracks to go alongside.

Liberty of London x Doc Martens collaboration
Wild Nature, the collabo between two of Britain’s beloved and quintessential fashion institutions not only marks the Olympics, but does it in a style that we really love. Available worldwide at Doc Martens stores, it takes the classic boot and adds Liberty’s trademark refined style to their rebellious reputation with an eighties floral twist. Quite literally a walking paradox. Grab a pair, as well as exclusively designed leather satchels, from June 1st.

Pennysmash | Launched in Toronto, and expanded to Vancouver, this is an artistic project that is not only awesome, but also gives back to the creative community. A souvenir project involving amazing artists Ken Lum, Ian Grais, Jerszy Seymour and Natalie Purschwitz, it takes your every day pennies, puts them through the PennySmash machine, and turns them into works of art, all for only $2.01. So take all those sad pennies, unsure of what to do with their lives now they have been deemed worthless, and give them new direction.

To celebrate the launch of their Summer 2012 footwear capsule, Stussy and  Converse linked in with Hanni El Khatib, who we interviewed a while back, and he is featured in this short film. Read the interview with Hanni El Khatib here