Design WOO

The Pastie Project is an initiative by young jewellery designer, Leah Ball, with the premise of creating ‘couture nipple covers, made of precious metals and jewels’. Hmm, hmm. She’s currently looking for funding for the project through Kickstarter.

Le Parkour is an extreme sport where the participant keeps moving from point A to B in a rapid fluid motion, overcoming obstacles like concrete walls, stairways, rooftops etc. Since a limited people practice this urban sport (not all of us can move our tub of lard with such agility), finding appropriate footwear is always a problem. The 980 TATOU is a specialized shoe designed for this sport that offers better customization than normal running shoes. It’s not for your lemon-spoon race!
Here are the details:

· 980 TATOU consists of several parts, which can be easily changed and its several detachable parts allow for easy exchange, washing, and customization.

· Its structure responds to the unique movements performed in the sport.

· One part is the outer sole – a combination of the sole with the upper parts of the shoe, which offers grip on the sides as well as the sole. This is needed for jumping onto or from walls.

· The parts of the shoe that suffer from the most impact and abrasion have been given a greater sole or wall thickness.

· The gaps in the outer sole preserve excellent flexibility.

· When the outer sole does wear out, it can be changed without the need to replace the whole shoe.

· Another important element of 980 TATOU is the separate inner shoe. It allows the user to practice with a barefoot feeling and a high sensitivity for what lies underfoot.

· It can also be removed and changed, so the wearer can have different inner shoes for different applications.

· It is washable, so smelly shoes can be avoided!

· Insoles are an optional extra for 980 TATOU, and they come with three different absorption levels. They can be used to customize the shoe for one’s own personal preferences, depending on the application.

· Instead of shoelaces, 980 TATOU uses a new method of fastening which also enables the wearer to customize the shoe. Elastic bands in three different lengths are applied to the bottom and upper part of the shoe. Altogether, a maximum of seven bands in twenty different color choices can be attached to ten possible locations on the upper shoe. Thus, there are a multitude of possible lacing combinations.

The 980 TATOU won the Gold Prize at IDEA Design 2010.

Designer: Annika Lüber

There are false eyelashes… then there are Shu Uemura false eyelashes… and now, taking it EVEN further, there are Shu Uemura Neo Reflector Lashes. Look at those things. Or rather, how could you NOT look if someone went by in those? Can you blind yourself with them? They are like mini discoballs… on your lashes. The official description is “inspired by architectural approach of future fashion, these elegant, silver coated lashes softly sparkle with moon shape sequins. dimensional design with mirror shine effect for outstanding cyber-chic eyes.” These are part of their new Tokyo Lash Bar 2010 collection. See them up close on the next page.

p.s. Is anyone else incredibly sad that Shu Uemura is closing all of their US Retail spaces? They are some of the most beautifully designed shopping oases around! So so sad.

"A packaging can be an area to pass on not only thecharacteristics and brand of the product inside the bag, but also the feeling of a shopper,a giver, and a receiver. This idea inspires our team to design ashopping bag which can talk and interact with consumers. The front area on the bag consists of many little square boxes. Just flip up each of little square boxes and create an image or a letter you like."

That is so wonderful, you could be on the beach all day grooving songs in your ipod and never run out of electricity while wearing this solar photovoltaic bikini! And who goes in the water anyways.

A solar film bikini that charges your iPod! (With a USB connection!).

The suit is a medium-sized bikini swimsuit fitted with a 1 “x 4″ photovoltaic film strips were stitched together in series with conductive thread. The cells terminate in 5 volt regulator into the female USB connection