Cool Hunting
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Nau Online Store and Giveaway
by Evan Orensten
Celebrating today's long-awaited launch of Nau's online store, Cool Hunting readers have the exclusive chance to win one of their well-engineered, eco-conscious garments.
Making their activewear available for the first time on the web, the flash-based site has all the tricks you'd want for buying clothes online with zoom-in capabilities, size guides and plenty of other details to inform you about your purchase—a must when it comes to Nau's design innovations. The experience gives a good sense of the cuts and features that make their garments the ultimate examples of form-meets-function good design, like water/windproof shirts that go from bicycle to boardroom.
Nau online will also work in tandem with their planned "Webfronts," scaled-down retails spaces meant to encourage the shopper to do their buying online, which are slated to open this spring.
Exclusively for Cool Hunting readers, Nau is offering the choice of any one item from their current line. To enter, go to the contact form at the bottom of the page, choose "Nau Giveaway" from the pull-down menu, send us a note and we'll choose a winner at random. The giveaway will end this Wednesday, 7 March 2007, 11:59pm EST. We've chosen a winner! Thanks to everyone who entered.
Also on Cool Hunting: Nau sneak peek, Nau
Adobe CS3
by Josh Rubin
The long awaited Adobe Creative Suite 3 is confirmed for release at the end of the month at a special event in New York City. While details are being withheld until 27 March, this teaser video surfaced today (and correlates to this UK site). It's a playful, slightly abstracted view of how Adobe products fit in to the daily design work-flow many of us know and love. The six colors suggest the six products that will comprise the suite; speculators are saying those will be: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Flash and Fireworks marking the first truly integrated suite since Adobe bought Macromedia. Of course, those of us with Intel Macs are restless with the excitement of getting some native software.
via AppleInsider
SVSV: Sartor's Habit
by Josh Rubin
Sartor's Habit, the new SVSV collection debuting today, is the brand's take on truly bespoke clothing down to the hand-loomed 100% organic wool fabrics. With the usual renegade excellence that SVSV has built its name on, this (their third collection) mixes trademark streetwear-inspired silhouettes with bold adaptations of traditional fabrics. Versions of Afghani-style prints, houndstooth, plaids and other reinventions (woven on SVSV's own two looms) look particularly striking on jackets and coats with batwing sleeves, exaggerated collars and hoods.
The campaign, inspired by falling in love, tells a poetic story taken from a dream and was illustrated by Hellovon and shot by Kareem Black.
Also on Cool Hunting: Vonhideki, SVSV A Form of War, SVSV Aformofwar, Serum VS Venum
Jawbone
by Josh Rubin
Jawbone, the Yves Behar designed Bluetooth device, utilizes advanced noise cancellation technology to eliminate background noise from your call. I have been testing it out for a couple weeks now—walking on NYC streets, passing garbage trucks and ambulances, yet no one complained of the background noise and I didn't need to raise my voice to be heard. By using directional microphones and a bone conduction voice activity sensor, Jawbone is able to adapt to any noise environment resulting in clear reception and delivery. Although a tad bulky, it is lightweight, sleek and curved to match the outline of your face. The earloop and earbud come in different sizes and shapes allowing a somewhat customizable fit. The headset is constructed from medical grade plastic and is available in black, gray or red.
$120 at Jawbone
Macabre Clothing
by Lost At E Minor
The whole electroclash-in-fashion trend was supposed to be a phenomenon that revolutionized menswear. Alas, it has fizzled to a whimper. A mystery really, since electro acts like Ladytron and (Macabre's fellow countrymen) The Knife are still going strong. Well, in-season or not, fashion label Macabre makes really good stuff of that ilk. Combining cyberpunk with theatricality and androgyny, its designer costumes hint at a 25th century Phantom of the Opera performance.
