Urban Outfitters has been pushing a contemporary global trend this season that started with Burkman Bros’ “Tourist” collaboration, and continues with the pop-up “BAZAAAAAR Street Market” that opened in LA on Friday and launches in New York on Thursday, 9 May 2013. LA designer and Della founder Tina Tangalakis explains that the project has been in the works since July 2012. Her line of fair …
Named World Design Capital 2014, and host to the influential annual Design Indaba conference, Cape Town has left Johannesburg out of the spotlight. Most recently Adidas and Michel Gondry have both made their mark in “Jo’burg” with projects that may just change common notions of what some believe to be South Africa’s most promising city. Johannesburg’s Maboneng neighborhood, sometimes called “The place of lights,” has …
Private jets epitomize luxury for being convenient and, most importantly, supremely expensive. But Nextant Aerospace in Cleveland, Ohio has cut the cost of a small jet in half with the Nextant 400XT. Instead of starting from scratch, the company takes an inefficient jet and upcycles it into something new, thus creating the world’s first remanufactured airplane. Developing new aircraft is itself an expensive, high-risk endeavor, …
