Original OK Basketball Shoe from 1950
While I was in Kobe, I got the chance to check out the ASICS Sports Museum, these are some of the pieces on display there, but barely the tip of the iceberg.
Marathon Tabi from 1953
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Straight out of Brooklyn, NY Raval & Knight is an up-and-coming Menswear brand that was created “to move past national boundaries and manufactured conflicts in design and style.” Founded by my friend Man Hoang and his partner Samuel Hubler, the line features detailed, handmade pieces inspired by 1970′s American style but constructed with British fabrics and techniques. To see two 20-somethings create such focused and mature work is truly inspiring.
Visit their website and buy something from the store here
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from SKETCH PISTON PARK
My song from our Midori game created by TEAMLAB. TEAMLAB is a group of Ultra Technologists that have been active in Tokyo since 2001. The group consists of a wide diversity of specialists including; Programmers, Network Engineers, Designers, Robot Engineers, Architects, CG Animators, Mathematicians and more. TEAMLAB carries out activities across a range of media, from developing web and robot technology, to installation art, video art and spatial design, making the border between Technology, Art, and Design more ambiguous.
We did a little interview with their leader Toshiyuki Inoko to explain the project, see below:
What is your approach towards “interactive design”?
People often say that men who are good at listening are popular with women but people actually enjoy talking more than just listening “if they could speak well”. To take it one step further, people enjoy expressing something more than just viewing a representation produced by someone else “if they could express it well”.
In the era of the mass media, the job of a designer was to attain a form of expression that was perfect in its quality. That was because the only point of contact with consumers was through mass media channels. However, the advent of the Internet and the networked society is changing the role of the designer. Since consumers enjoy expressing something if they could do so well, I believe that design should be about creating tools that enable people who are not professional creators to create things that make them want to “share it with friends”. It should be about tools that make the process of expression itself, something that they once struggled with, into a process that’s fun and enjoyable. It should be about constructing an environment that allows users to share their creations with friends. That is what I think interactive design is.
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LimberUp Moscow x Takeshi from Onitsuka Tiger on Vimeo.
In the man’s own words.
Shot by LightUp Film
Music by my little brother SkyRoyal
As part of our Made of Japan campaign, Onitsuka Tiger is working with Japanese-influenced creatives from around the world who embody the idea of East Meets West. Our Ryoshis, as we are calling them come from a diverse spread of personal and artistic backgrounds that all reflect a sense of artistic purity and focus on craft that is at the core of Japanese creative culture. Throughout the year we’ll be bringing you content from our Ryoshis as they give us their interpretations of our history, products and values. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tsuri Collection: Autumn/Winter 2010 by The Savants Collective from Onitsuka Tiger on Vimeo.
Onitsuka Tiger came together with the extremely talented Savants Collective to create this unique visual piece inspired by our Tsuri Collection.
Capturing the fading colours of autumn, the inspiration behind the Tsuri Autumn-Winter range comes from lake fishing in the mountains of Japan. Both apparel and footwear feature a multicoloured check pattern based on the ‘Katsuo’ pattern, which is inspired by the gradient stripes on the belly of a tuna fish. The pattern’s warm palette echoes the colour explosion of autumn trees.
Using a unique combination of mediums, Savants Collective was able to distill the meaning of the collection into this emotionally stirring, visually stunning short film that mixes 2d and 3d animation with Practical photography and a handmade miniature set.
Interview with Savants Collective Below:
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Onitsuka Tiger x Tillmann Lauterbach from Onitsuka Tiger on Vimeo.
Another excellent upcoming collaboration for OT.
Thanks again to Ken-Tonio Yamamoto for helping us put this together.
ASICS x Slam Jam Interview from ASICS on Vimeo.
Spoke to Matteo Teruzzi (one R) about the upcoming Slam Jam x ASICS Gel Lyte III
Once again produced, edited & directed by Ken-Tonio Yamamoto
camera by Denys Shypil
Music by Serphonic
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