Cool Hunting
| 24 August 2005view entries from: this week | this month | view previous day | view next day |
Shoebaloo Shop
by Carol T Chung
Heading to Amsterdam? Got a shoe fetish? Perhaps even with an inclination towards the extraterrestrial? Well, then check out the Shoebaloo store located at PC Hooftstraat 80. The interior of this designer footwear boutique was created by Meyer En Van Schooten. It's scifi interior not only looks the part, but also functions as such as well. The shop entrance is hidden behind mirrored doors that reflect the street. Once inside, the consumer is held within a rather sterile containment area (and all those lovely shoes!) with walls that connect seamlessly to the floor and ceiling. The retailor is able to change the atmosphere of the shop by adjusting the colors within. Cue the music! And let out that alien sex fiend hiding deep within!
Fairpack
by Ami Kealoha
Fairpack is Central Saint Martins student Mark Hadfield's Master's thesis and plan to reinvent the shopping bag as we know it. Still in development, Hadfield's project tasks designers with creating a graphic to adorn biodegradable plastic bags, recycled paper bags, and cotton bags as low-cost replacements for standard less eco-friendly sacks. His mission fuses ethics, design, and environmentalism to "unbrand" the common grocery bag, like the sneak previews (above) designed by Lee Hasler, whom Hadfield recruited after seeing his work in a British weekly design magazine. Currently, Hadfield's advertising, shopping his idea to the press, talking with market reps, and soliciting opinions of the site and designs for the bags. As the British might say, we're supporters.
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