Category Archives: Fashion

The knitted voice

April 5, 2009

Knitting the voice
Take a voice recording, digitize it and push it through a 1970’s knitting machine. Not the first thing I’d think to use a voice recording with but it’s just such a beautiful idea…
By Ellen | Comments (0)

Knitting with a vision

January 1, 2009

News Knitter
I can’t think of a project that has got me this fired up in many years. Take an RSS feed and port it to a knitting machine. And it’s not just the idea that’s brilliant…
By kenblaue | Also posted in Manufacturing | Comments (1)

Timbuk2 - The bag builder

March 21, 2008

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Timbuk2 Bags have been doing the customization thing now for a long time. Probably one of the first interesting product…
By Ellen | Also posted in Products | Comments (0)

John Maeda and Reebok customs

January 6, 2008

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John Maeda, renown media artist, professor and theorist from MIT Medialab has teamed up with Reebok custom for a shoe. It’s a pretty shoe, a nice shoe…

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RBK Custom - The best customized sneakers yet!

November 15, 2007

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But last week I ran across RBK Customs, Reebok’s turn to weigh in against Nike, Adidas and Puma. I have to say RBK is by far better that all the others to date…
By alan | Also posted in Products | Comments (0)

Create a Converse

November 9, 2007

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Converse has gone custom, all the way. Customizing your Chucks are now a main part of what Converse has to offer from their website. IT’s pretty comprehensive…
By kenblaue | Also posted in Products | Comments (0)

Customized Sneakers

September 10, 2007

Customized Sneakers

Shoe fetish has been around for a long time, since well before the 1970’s. But in the past three or four years the bespoke approach to sneakers has taken off…
By kenblaue | Also posted in Art, Products | Comments (0)

Sketchel Bags

September 10, 2007

Sketchel bags
Sketchel is a bag as a work of art (or design) and a work of art as a bag. Each bags graphic shell are unique while all the bags are identical…
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Ode to a Threadless

September 10, 2007

Threadless
If I think of one thing that has moved or better yet proven the benevolence of platform design it’s hands down Threadless…
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