Tuesday, April 28, 2009

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Max Wallack, 12 years old designer

Gagnant du concours "Trash to Treasure" lancé par The Design Squad et ayant pour objectif de créer un abri de fortune en recyclant des déchets urbains, Max Wallack un américain de 12 ans a eu l'idée de construire ce "Home Dome" à l'aide de sacs plastiques, de fils de fer et d'emballages de cacahuètes. Winner of the "Trash to Treasure" launched by The Design Squad and aimed to create a shelter built with recycling of urban waste, Max Wallack an American of 12 years had the idea to build this "Dome Home" to 'using plastic bags, son of iron and packaging peanuts.

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In a pop atmosphere conducive to artistic creation, the architecture firm Design Terada has designed the interior of the Senzoku Gakuen College of Music, a new university dedicated to Japanese music.

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Going To College
Early on, the company focused on the college market as a key demographic and it has been a successful effort.

A la Jimmy Buffet, Vineyard Vines has “college tours” that bring the VV lifestyle directly to college students on their campuses. Complete with beach parties and pink foam whale hats reminiscent of Buffet’s “land sharks” they are marketing the Vineyard Vines brand directly to a core consumer audience.

To say that Shep and Ian created and effective and inclusive grassroots marketing environment is an understatement; they knew exactly which demographic they were targeting and how to reach it.

Unfortunately, they might have been a little too successful in that particular market. In the eyes of some, the brand has become somewhat synonymous with beer chugging, rowdy preppy frat boys.
While not an image problem per se, this reputation among college and immediate-post college consumers does somewhat degrade the brand’s image within part of its core market.



Unflattering subsets aside, this kind of legwork develops an enthusiastic customer base that sees their support of the brand as part of their own lifestyle. The company has a business unit dedicated to producing customized designs for colleges, their sport teams and fraternal organizations.


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To keep these collegiate efforts coordinated and effective, it also has dedicated brand managers who focus solely on the university market; working with student leaders, administrators and sports teams. A key goal of course is that as these students grow up and head off to their own careers, a new supply of Vineyard Vines diehards are ready to open their wallets.

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Friday, April 24, 2009

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A New York City-based clothing designer plans to put patriotism back on the runway by launching a luxury label that's 100 percent made in the U.S.

For decades, the American garment industry has been losing out to cheaper, mass-produced fare from overseas. All the major houses of haute couture depend at least partially on foreign textiles or labor to clothe the world's jet-set crowd. Even pricey labels known for their "American-ness" image, like Polo Ralph Lauren, can't boast a "U.S.A. all the way" line.

But that may change at the hands of Keith Jack Edward Lissner. The 29-year-old Highland Park, Ill., native is working to launch a full line of entirely American-made luxury apparel from his new company Lissner Haberdashery.

Find out what's hot and what's haute in FOXNews.com's Fashion & Lifestyles Center.

"Everywhere in the line it is American," he said. "The cotton, the zippers, the buttons, even the linings. There is a bit of alpaca in the wool, but it is milled here in the U.S."

Lissner, who worked as a designer at Perry Ellis and Ralph Lauren before starting his own company, said he came up with the idea for an completely American-made line when he realized that most U.S. fashion was born on foreign soil.

"I was noticing how little business I did in the United States — almost all of the business is done overseas," he said. "I started wondering, is there a product here? I kept hearing all these stories from old-timers about the mills and the qualities of the product coming from this country."

But he also heard the stories about how American mills began to empty out as the fashion industry began focusing more on volume and relying more on the mass production and cheaper labor available in other countries.

"It used to be we could make a lot of things here," said longtime San Francisco-based designer Colleen Quen, who works hard to keep her line all-American. "But then maybe 20 years ago, there was this big boom of mass production in [Asia] and everywhere else. I've seen the changes."

Lissner said his research led him to view the sorry state of all-American haute couture. New York-based designers, who did their sewing in the Big Apple, were all using foreign-made fabrics, only because affordable, high-quality U.S.-made textiles just didn't seem to be available anymore.

Los Angeles-based American Apparel might be entirely made in the U.S., but could hardly be called a luxury line. In San Francisco, the all-American idea has already caught hold of a small group of designers, but they work in very small quantities or to order, offer only partial lines or specialize in ready-to-wear outfits.

Quen's been acclaimed in fashion circles, and regular Bay Area symphony- and opera-goers will recognize her designs. She makes an average 90 items a year for clients, but keeping it all-American hasn't been easy.

"It's because I've developed a good rapport with a few vendors I have faith in," she said. "It's really personal. And we need more of that. We need more support, we need to think globally but think locally about where we are in the U.S. Everything's going too far away, and we need to draw back into our treasures here. The way people are thinking, they all go to China, where it's cheaper, but we need to follow our own path."

Others, like designer Brenda Kett, who's been making high-end custom men's clothing in San Francisco's Mission District, said that today keeping a line all-American from harvest to showroom floor is nearly impossible.

"Everything I do is made in the United States, but the supplies we use are unfortunately not made in the United States because they don't exist in the United States anymore," Kett said. "I certainly take my hat off to this man if he's trying to do it, because it seems like a monumental effort. I wouldn't know where to start if I were limited to U.S. efforts. It would be a heck of a job, I think."

After extensive searching, Lissner found enough U.S. suppliers to justify his boast of an all-American line, with a couple minor compromises. The wool contains some alpaca that was raised overseas but milled in the U.S., and the lack of pure-silk sources led him to develop a silk-cotton blend with an American mill. His apparel will sell from $500 to $10,000, with an average price of about $2,500. The women's line will launch in fall 2007 and the men's in fall 2008.

Lissner said he's creating his label in honor of the turn-of-the-century immigrants from whom he's taking some style ideas, as well as from his grandfather, Charles Lissner, a Russian immigrant who turned his horse-and-buggy scrap business into a major recycling company.

"I think his line's really romantic and I've been sort of pegged as that sort of an artist myself," said Jennifer Constantine, a singer/songwriter who will be wearing Lissner to the Grammy Awards. "I would love to wear something romantic and pretty, and I think he can pretty much hit that on the head."

Among those rooting for designers like Lissner and Quen are American textile companies, like Jasco Fabric, which is located just outside of New York City and specializes in organic Jersey wool.

"I thought they were going to turn to things made in the USA, but they didn't to the degree I expected after 9/11," Jasco owner Howard Silver said. "Nowadays, everything is so cookie-cutter, homogeneous. Everyone's wearing the same thing because they're all using the same supplier, the same factories. It's hard to do anything personalized anymore. That's why this [all-American-made theme] isn't just buzz — it's got lightning."

Jill Siefert, professor of fashion design at the Art Institute of California-San Francisco, said Lissner faces good odds, but she offered a caveat.

"It sounds like he's focused and has a niche, and the more niche new designers have, the better chance they have of surviving; clients are looking for something different than what the person next to them is wearing," she said. "The only challenge he will face is being accessible to the right clients. He'll have to make a choice in buzz. Hopefully, he'll stay true to his notion of small and high-end."

Quen said she hoped that what she and Lissner are doing will lead to something bigger, not for themselves, but for the American fashion and textile industries.

"If we start thinking that we can do this and start helping [American] businesses, we can do it more and make it like it used to be, when we could make a lot of things here," she said.

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this is pretty cool idea.

PUT YOUR CAR KEYS BESIDE YOUR BED AT NIGHT

Tell your spouse, your children, your neighbors, your parents, and everyone you run across.

Put your car keys beside your bed at night. If you hear a noise outside your home or someone trying to get in your house, just press the panic button for your car. The alarm will be set off, and the horn will continue to sound until either you turn it off or the car battery dies

This tip came from a neighborhood watch coordinator. Next time you come home for the night and you start to put your keys away, think of this:

It's a security alarm system that you probably already have and requires no installation. Test it. It will go off from most everywhere inside your house and will keep honking until your battery runs down or until you reset it with the button on the key fob chain. It works if you park in your driveway or garage. If your car alarm goes off when someone is trying to break into your house, odds are the burglar rapist won't stick around. After a few seconds all the neighbors will be looking out their windows to see who is out there and sure enough the criminal won't want that. And remember to carry your keys while walking to your car in a parking lot. The alarm can work the same way there. This is something that should really be shared with everyone. Maybe it could save a life or a sexual abuse crime.

P.S. I am sending this to everyone I know because I think it is fantastic. Would also be useful for any emergency, such as a heart attack, where you can't reach a phone. My Mom has suggested to my Dad that he carry his car keys with him in case he falls outside and she doesn't hear him. He can activate the car alarm and then she'll know there's a problem.

Officer Scott Lascallette, GPD

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I love this site. Funny how many blogs there are on the net, yet I feel like I don't have good ones to check out that don't just show the same things every other bog shows...you know? Anyway...I ran across this blog after linking to it from ffffound.com. I love good packaging - The Dieline is almost an overwhelming amount of examples, or at least studies of it. What Engadget is for time wasting looking at electronics, The Dieline is for wasting time looking at packaging...mostly food/beverage. And, bonus, it has a pretty good commenting user base...I usually hate blog comments, you know, the typical super cynical, say stuff you'd never say in real life, super hater comments - none of that here. In fact, it looks like a bunch of industry types with actual experience in what their commenting about. Either way, its a great blog - and well named, check it out. ***Their logo was super hard to cut into our 100x100 image size, sorry, ha. And speaking of packaging, the mountains are no longer blue on this Coors Light I'm drinking...bummer.

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