Ocupop

GAME ON! Move over autumnal bliss, winter’s here to play - Opening Day (well at least OCUPOP’s opening day) at A-Basin yesterday. More pics and video after the jump… (more…)

A video profile of Tinker Hatfield, Vice President of Design and Special Project at Nike and arguably the greatest sneaker designer of all-time (Air Jordans III - XV, Air Trainer, Safari). In the video Hatfield discusses his inspiration for for Nike’s 1987 Air Max sneaker, the first with a visible air bubble.

Another day, another memory of my high school art room. Speak Up links to this eleven page gallery of the work of designer Herb Lubalin. I discovered Herbert via a large stack of Avant Garde Magazine back issues i dug up from the supply closet, probably under a box of bulk-sized jars of Yellow Oxide acrylic paint. At the time, I knew I loved these strange periodicals a lot but had no idea I was looking at the work of one of the greats.

Read more about Lubalin.

The frequently great photography blog Photojojo! links to a diagram and explanation of Digital Camera Megapixels versus Maximum Print Sizes for your digital photos. Some very useful info for amateur and pro shutterbugs alike.

NOTE: The diagram may or may not be down due to digg efect. Try again if you get a timeout.

One of my earliest memories of connecting with the world of modern art was discovering a back issue of “Art in America” in my high school freshman art class featuring “Rabbit” by Jeff Koons on its cover. Fast forward 15 years and I find Koons creating a series of limited edition decks for Supreme.

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I found this post about the resemblence between the industrial design of a 1960 speaker and the current iMac while browsing through the stuff I had missed on SVN the past couple weeks.

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Honeyee is a website run by Hiroshi Fujiwara, a former Japanese pop star turned streetwear tastemaker. The site is mostly comprised of Japanese language posts about hipster Japanese events but also has a selection of blogs written by a group handpicked by Fujiwara which can be interesting on a daily basis if you are into the street art/streetwear/skate/sneaker/coolkid toy cultures. It sort of gives you a documentary style view into the lives of the people running the games.

The full list of contributors can be found here.

I recommend checking out Jeff Staple (Staple Design, Nike, Reed Space), Paul Mittleman (Supreme, Stussy), Kaws (KawsOne, OriginalFake), Keith Hufnagel (Huf, Real Skatebaords, DVS), and John Mayer (who I am just beginning to forgive for “Your Body is a Wonderland”)