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October 23rd, 2010 admin

First 4 Prizes go to …

for the coolest Brand/Designer category:

Design Future by sunnyholt

to sunnyholt from the UK

Robogirl by kulbowsky

to kulbowski from the UK

for the coolest People/Ambient category:

hand in space by kandy

to kandy aka body heart and mind from the UK

Dool house by linearsky

to linearsky from Portugal

They won £100 cash each plus visibility. Visibilty means the 4 winning CoolPhotos will be shown on the LDF website. Plus they may be shown on posters, the guide or social media at LDF discretion. The name of the author will always be mentioned.

3 Special Mentions go to:

Birdseye by iamgavin

to iamgavin from the UK

volunteers by franalves

to franalves from the UK

Jung Myung Taek by sunnyholt

to sunnyholt from the UK

They won visibilty, it means this 3 winning CoolPhotos will be shown on the LDF website. Plus they may be shown on posters, the guide or social media at LDF discretion. The name of the author will always be mentioned.

That was a great cool hunting contest, thanks again everyone

Shicon.

October 21st, 2010 admin

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by trendhunter.comLevi’s has created a line of shoes made out of old jeans with the ‘Reused Jean Shoe.’ The ‘Reused Jean Shoe’ takes a few pairs of old jeans for each shoe, because each shoe has the iconic Levi jean pieces—including yellow stitching, coin pocket and stud button. A great reimagining of old jeans for Levi’s!

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Levi’s writes: “We’re focused on building sustainability into everything we do. To this end, Levi Strauss & Co. commissioned a scientific life cycle assessment of a pair of Levi’s® 501® jeans and Dockers® Original Khakis.

Our life cycle assessment helped us find out the facts about the climate change, water use and energy impact of each of these products.”

Enjoy Levi’s green denim life!

September 17th, 2010 admin

WIN €400 prize pot + VISIBILITY!

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Shicon.com is running an online ‘Cool Hunting’ competition in partnership with LDF 2010.

What else do you need to know? Simply

1) go out and take your unique eye, camera or mobile with you

2) join in and enjoy the Festival taking brilliantly original photos of the events, people, and designs

3) submit each photo on the “Coolest Brand/Designer” or “Coolest People/Ambient” contest here at shicon.com

4) watch your back because the Shicon team will be there too!

JOIN and WIN €400 prize pot + VISIBILITY!

4 prizes of £100 cash, 2 for each category.

Visibilty means the 4 winning CoolPhotos will may be shown on posters, the guide, online websites or social media at LDF discretion.
The name of the author will always be mentioned.

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Be cool, reflect the Festival,

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London Design Festival 2010

September 13th, 2010 admin

London Cycle Campaing will be at the London Cycle Showagain this year, which means you get a discount on entry for any of the public days: Friday 8, Saturday 9 or Sunday 10 October 2010. Just visit the LCC’s website purchase your ticket for just £10.50*, rather than £15 on the door.

Talking about the London Cycle Show 2010 I’d like to remember you the Caz Nicklin’s philosophy about the importante of Cycle Chic: “We hope to keep pushing people’s perceptions of cycling and encourage more women to take to wheels by providing products and advice that make sense to the modern woman.”

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September 8th, 2010 admin

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That’s an amazing project guys: reusing plastic bags to create everything, exactly as you do when you Knit/Crochet using cotton or wool! have a look at this amazing and simple tutorial:

September 4th, 2010 admin

How to reuse an old or broken umbrella? Here 3 creative & unique ideas:

Umbrella’s box magazines holder – thanks to Recycled Crafts Gossip

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“Umbrella dryers”: simply use an umbrella to dry your clothes “hang it upside down by the handle for use” by Things Your GrandMother Knew

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Umbrella as a sun shade, reusing only the covers thanks to Craftzine

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September 1st, 2010 admin

How to create high waisted skirts or trousers: I’m going to show you 2 ways, one more complicated but another very simple, so simple that you don’t even need to saw at all! Have a look and start to create by yourself. Be ReFashinoso!

Just open your wardrobe and start to do the same with your friends too. For any questions or if you get some old clothes but you have no idea about how to modify them please email to refashinoso@shicon.com

Then wait for Refashinoso Episode 18 Fashion Tutorial.
See you around

August 31st, 2010 admin

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As you already know, at Refashinoso we are addicted to “Be Eco-Fashionoso” and Copenhagen Cycle Chic is one of the most amazing inspiration site talking about how to cycle chic!. I’m going to show you just an examble of the “Guide they’ve created so far!

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On the Copenhagen Cycle Chic’s site you can read: “Here in Copenhagen, our bicycles are just tools that we use to get around. We don’t give them names or fetishize about them, we just use them. However, if you going to spend half your life on your bicycle, you may as well personalise it a bit. We see the bicycle, above, quite often around Copenhagen and it is the ultimate personalised example. Simply gorgeous.

I suppose this isn’t really a How To Guide but more of a source of inspiration from the cyclists of Copenhagen to you. With love.

There are different reasons to personalise your bike. To make it look a bit nicer, to make it match your personal style, to hide the rust, to make it less attractive to thieves. Whatever the case, the sky is the limit and only you can make it your own.”

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And now have a look at Copenhagen Cycle Chic’s site to find out all the ideas they’ve collected to personalize your bicycle right now! have a green life.

August 27th, 2010 admin


The winners of the “Eco Fashion” contest by Fiat & Vogue are:

It was amazing! It was not an easy brief, and the designers really surprised us and Fiat with their original and unique ideas for eco-fashionistas. We saw much diversity coming from different Cultures, Countries and so many colours. It was very hard to choose the winners!

Thanks to everyone for sharing your talent with us!

The winners were selected following one key rationale:

The most original interpretation of the “Eco Fashion” concept in everyday life, which fits the image of an icon like the Fiat 500.

Fiat didn’t make their final decision about the first, second and third prize yet.
But the 3 winners are:

eco friendly by jun087EcoFashionFlower by silvyjam

“Eco Friendly” by jun087 from Malaysia | “Eco Flowers” by silvyjam from Italy

RIFLETTERA by participant

“RIFLETTERA” by participant from Germany


We have also chosen 6 additional ArtDesigns to print out on “The best of” Shicon book/brochure 2009-2010:

garden of eden by radiomode Birds of Paradise by Cristina

“Garden of Eden” by radiomode from Singapore | “Birds of Paradise” by Cristina from Italy

ecoexistence by alnavasord These shoes by monrix

“Ecoexistence” by alnavasord from Colombia | “These Shoes” by monrix from Chile

Anyone can be Eco by felipesosadiaz ECOpherenology by Panthernon86

“Anyone can be Eco” by felipesosadiaz from Colombia | “ECOpherenology” by Panthernon86 from the UK


Thanks again for being part of our community,

Shicon.


August 26th, 2010 admin

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That’s the amazing idea by Michele Made Me: she shares on her blog all the tips & tricks to create this great mirror and pencil case reusing old denim!
Below just an example to show you how simple and funny is to create your unique pieces of Art Tree for everyday life! And now have a look at Tree Mirror Tutorial or Tree Pencil Case Turoial by Michele Made Me.

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And now have a look at Michele Made Me’s blog!