Beyond Elegance

Art, espresso and amateur tattooing from Todd James and Alexis Ross

Opening tonight, 13 November 2012 at 560 Washington Street in NYC, artists Todd James and Alexis Ross are joining forces in a joint show called “Beyond Elegance.” Both pranksters in their own right, Ross and James are influenced by a self-taught aesthetic and penchant for farce. The duo and the team behind the show—which is being presented by Andy Valmorbida and PM Tenore—have been working …

Silent Manifesto

Fashion soldiers hit the streets of San Francisco in a march celebrating Maison Martin Margiela at H&M

Advertorial content: Clad in sterile white aprons, 300 fashion soldiers took to the streets of San Francisco last weekend to march on behalf of the upcoming collaboration between Maison Martin Margiela and H&M. The Silent Manifesto speaks to Margiela’s notorious anonymity, which allows the clothing to remain the main message, while the visually compelling, public declaration channels H&M’s ethos to make high fashion accessible to …

Low-Tech Factory

ECAL students explore self-sustaining manufacturing process for Designers' Saturdays in Langenthal

For its 14th edition earlier this month, Designers’ Saturdays in Langenthal, Switzerland invited ECAL undergraduate and Masters students in industrial and product design to let their imagination run free while developing a series of machines exploring the manufacturing process of a selected product. The project was overseen by industrial designers Chris Kabel and Tomas Kral. Students had the opportunity to experiment with techniques such as …