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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.

Be cool, reflect the Festival,

London Design Festival 2010

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.”

Hi guys, here we are: Cristina Savi, Editor at Verbania News, the one on your right with the Crazy Eco Mask and Giulia Massera the Creative Director at Refashinoso driving an Eco Scooter!

We are here together to launch a challenge today:

“FreeStyle & Refashinoso are Looking for Your Creative Ideas in Recycling Fashion! Because you deserve to Be Unique.!”

What do you have to do? Simply send your ideas to us at refashinoso@shicon.com and info@cristinasavi.it

As you already know Refashinoso is now Partner of FreeStyle Re-loaded it means that we will start to share information and tips about Fashion and Art Recycling.

Among our project:

- Create a network of creative recycling ideas

- Provide the public with more tools, knowledge and tutorials for DIY

- Create a business network where you can find items produced by artists using recycled materials

- Create events to promote this kind of projects

That’s why the best & crazy & original ideas from everywhere will be published here at Refashinoso and at FreeStyle Re-loaded.

You already know that amazing Websites like ThreadBanger, The surfthechannel, mahalo wrote about us and Viceland & Ecofashionworldare our Partner. So what are waiting for?

The first Event to promote the “Eco-Bags” from “Ginko” project created by re-using “Coffe’ Packaging” is June 4, 2010 from 19.30 in Extremadura Cafe – Milan.

Don’t miss this opportunity. See you soon!

Vice to celebrate the arrival of Skate 3 sent Vice staff photographer, and avid skater, Jonnie Craig off on a road trip to Ramsgate with a group of friends.

While they were there, they made the most of the best thing about skating, the hanging about with mates bit – an aspect which Skate 3’s revolutionary multiplayer features make use of for the first time. Skate 3 allows you to play with friends online and work as a team. No more sitting in your room in the dark racking up points alone, you can build the ultimate team and compete with others online, design your own parks and logos. In short – you can do a lot more than you can do in Ramsgate, and you can still do it with your mates.

Have a look at all the details on Vice’s website.
Because Refashinoso loves design, sport and healthy life!

Vice and Nintendo have commissioned seven artists to create a Pokémon inspired piece of artwork to celebrate Nintendo’s newest Pokemon releases on the DS, and are holding an exhibition to showcase the works, from 24th – 31st March, at Blackall Studios.
The exhibition opens with a big launch party on the 24th, full of Nintendo product for guests to demo, Pokemon inspired food, lots of booze and a stellar line-up of DJs: Filthy Dukes, Friendly Fires and Real Gold. The event will be guestlist only, attended by members of the press, select tastemakers from the Vice network, and competition winners.

ArtWork by Jon Burgerman

Artwork by Andy J. Miller

Go to Vice website to see the works, find out more about the campaign and enter the competition.

There’s nothing better than lots of colour splashes on your dress to put you in a good mood!

Fernando Brizio is a talented product designer from Portugal, responsible for some of the most creative recycled art and fashion.
Like this Felt-tip Pens Dress: by meticulously inserting coloured felt-tip pens, nib down, into a white dress fitted with little pockets, the ink is bleeds into the fabric in a sequence of splodges. The idea behind the dress is that the owner slips the pens into the pockets herself just before entering the party or whatever she’s attending and bursting into messy bloom. As you can see the felt tip pens are inserted in the small pockets of the dress. Within an hour – to one and a half hours the colored ink bleeds into the fabric and creates a one-off design for each occasion. The owner can then clean the dress and color it in a different way for each time they wear it.
Watch this video by Fernando explaining how it’s done:

Thanks by Erika Cogoni.

Designersblock is more than a design show, it’s a culture that has grown over 12 years. It has students and graduates together with long established design companies and everyone in between. This year, Designersblock has been an exhibition inside an exhibition. It took place in Earl’s Court, in a pavilion apart, during 100% Design. Among its stands, there was a very strange installation, that looks like a room: the place in which two artistic projects met each other. The two projects are “Invading memories” by Chu YinHua and “Strange•R” by LimWeiLing. Now, they converged in a unique project, then in a unique website too.

It’s not simple to explain the two projects. It’s better to use the words of their founders. “The term Strange•R comes from the word stranger. A Strange•R is an everyday object which once was familiar but now seems strange, having random words deriving from the dreams and experiences of the people in the city applied on them. R is Re-live, Re-born, Re-use, Re-visit, Re-learn, Re-think, Re-create, Rejoice, Relationship… These diverse interpretations will see the transformations of everyday objects into something that can be reapplied into our daily life in a renewed way. At the same time they assume characters that tell of the stories of our city”. We can say the essence of a Strange•R is an “Invading memory”.

People had an active role in the project: they could be “Object Translators”. Their task was to give life to an abandon object. Re-think it. Re-invent it. In a way that allow to see the strangely familiar and the familiarly strange. Results are surprising. And if we do catch hold of the surprising and wonderful in the everyday, let’s think about the limits of what is possible and peraphs you may come face to face with a moment of revelation.

Last Spring, Eco-Design Fair teamed up with Regenersis – The UK’s biggest mobile phone recycling company, to run a design competition during Love London Green Festival 2009. Designers were invited to create an original and innovative product suitable for any sort of domestic use; from a piece of jewellery to an item of furniture, using old mobile handsets as raw material.

Amazing ideas and designs join the competition and finally:
First Prize goes to Claire Potter for Conversation Chair 

Runners up:

Anna Kompaniets for Hat and Georgie Tym for Handbag.

Alle details at Eco Design Fair

We met Sarah Baulch in Sunday, in a fascinating instant suck in Brick Lane under the Old Truman Brewery. Who is Sarah? She is the stylist and the creative mind of ReVampt.

ReVampt is a small company intent on designing and producing fabulous products which are well made, quirky and unique. The unused off cuts of the fashion and textile industry inspire Sarah to create gorgeous retro pieces for home and people.

She takes vintage & modern materials, samples, extras, inspirational purchases and other unused accessories directly from the fabrics and makes it into something new: handbags, cushions, home wares, quilts with several techniques, patchwork very often.

ReVampt receive vintage fabric and accessories from retired dress-makers and former makers who no longer have the time or inclination to produce work themselves. Everything is handmade in the UK by individuals or small businesses. ReVampt combines a 21st century eco friendly approach with traditional skills and crafts. The surprising result is beautiful well crafted pieces from a sustainable and eco friendly source.

ReVampt is based in London, 52 Grafton road. In 2008 the company was finalist in Start-up Stars, a competition sponsored by HBC .