Build Your Own Platform

Flat-pack platforms, Playboy's archive for iPads, a sneaker encyclopedia and more in this week's look at the web

Fashion-forward shoe designer United Nude teamed up with Spanish performance artist Alicia Framis for a carbon-fiber flat-pack shoe you build yourself, based on the belief “that humans will one day live in outer-space.”

Chanel Metiers D’Arts, Guillet

Google's Chromebook, inside a Chanel atelier, dissecting an FBI tracking device and more in this week's look at the web

Chanel’s rich history continues to captivate media attention, this time with a peek that Another Magazine takes inside Guillet, one of the legendary ateliers that the label purchased in 2007. Images show a glimpse of the Bastille workshop where 15 artisans craft silks, velvets and other frippery gets into blossoms of all shapes and sizes.

Flexbook

Google's Chromebook, inside a Chanel atelier, dissecting an FBI tracking device and more in this week's look at the web

Designboom recently had a competition to explore the future of living technology and Hao-Chun Huang’s “Flexbook” was shortlisted from a massive number of entries. The device is a malleable multifunction concept allowing the user to rotate the screen and fold the keyboard to fit their liking.