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Nick Verreos, Heidi Klum make faces
Nick was one of my friends in junior high. We actually had sewing class together! (The memories that brings back; our home ec teacher, Ms. Behse, was a real nut)
It’s been super cool to see his success after appearing as a contestant on the second season of Project Runway. Viral video (above) of Nick reporting on the pink carpet at the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show in NYC. More at Nick’s blog.
Currently, Nick has several cool projects in the works. He’s also an instructor at Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising (FIDM) – where last season’s Project Runway was filmed.
Come to think of it, I wore a pink tie to my prom.
Video via Modelinia.com
Jeanne Moderno in Ponytail
When I drew Jeanne Moderno, my hopes were the fonts would end up somewhere in a cool fashion magazine.
UK-based Ponytail has em and has used them beautifully in their third issue. Website here.
Rudi Gernreich: Fun future fashion
Gernreich’s unisex thong, 1974
Rudi Gernreich (1922-85) invented the world’s first topless swimsuit, the thong and the ‘No-Bra Bra.’
He also designed the clothing on Moonbase Alpha (below). Article and video here. Posthumous MySpace here.
Costume design for Space 1999, 1975
Type note: Space 1999 used Futura and Futura Black for its title sequence.
Star Trek production design of the 1960s
The U.S.S. Kelvin, 2009
J.J. Abrams made a few changes to Star Trek.
Plotwise it had something to do with a black hole or alternate reality time travel singularity cinnamon gumball something or other. Below is what Abrams’ U.S.S. Kelvin would have looked like if it fit the style created by Star Trek’s original designer, Matt Jefferies.
Renderings by Kenneth Thomson Jr.
Star Trek’s 1960s production design is a reflection of its era. Cold War, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit – or Mad Men – in outer space.
Jefferies’ original Enterprise model sported antennas on the engines, a radar dish up front with deliberate nods to the military. I think that triangle thing under the forward hull may be for an anchor. Maybe.
The ships from the original series also sported traditional ‘painted’ surfaces – battleship gray hull – plus, identification tags, banners and typography. Port and starboard navigation lights. Just like the Navy. [Read more →]
New Wave Futurist bag
Giacomo Balla (1871-1958) was one of the original Futurists. Above is his 1916 design for a Futurist handbag. And in 1986, Italian accessories manufacturer Borbonese actually interpreted/built the purse out of seude and bakelite (below).
Both will be on display as part of the exhibition Futurismi Futuristi, which opens December 15th, 2009 in Turin, Italy. Details (translated) here.
Found via ItalianFuturism.org; purse images via sfilate.it
Latex ‘Wedgewood’
Elegant British jasperware reinterpreted in latex. Hat, neckpiece, mitts and pasties. By Peacock Blue Design Studio. Details.
Dürer style
Sort of a 16th century fashion magazine spread.
Used as a promo piece for my Jeanne Moderno fonts. Available as a print or on a greeting card/notecard/postcard.
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