The Make Something Workshops is a series of youth creative workshops held in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami and Tokyo. The goal is to work with public school art programs and youth mentors to encourage aspiring artists and give hands-on experience in art, film, fashion, design and music.
This month Nike teams up with Make Something!!, Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt and National Design Museum.
Based around the upcoming World Basketball Festival, the Workshops are split into Design and Art curriculums. The design week offers teenagers aged between 14 and 18 the chance to learn and work with designers, from Jordan Brand, Nike, Nike Sportswear and Converse to design apparel, footwear and more.
The experience continues with 10 other creative Make Something!! art-based workshops, led by world-renowned artists, handing over skill and experience on how to produce and promote your own creative talents. To end with a blast, the World Basketball Festival Celebration Event will be held at famous Rucker Park in August.
SLAMXHYPE is giving kids the chance to take part in the famed Make Something Workshops, a once in a lifetime opportunity, and a chance to launch your career and most importantly learn from the best! You must be aged between 14 and 18 years old, and located in the New York Tri-State area(The workshops will take place in Soho, New York City).
There are a number of workshops to choose from: Register here
Nike continues the Write the Future campaign, but his time uses is to increase awareness about AIDS in Africa instead of selling shoes or promoting World Cup. The campaign comes together with (PRODUCT) RED and give you some information on what you can do to make a difference.
Nike is treading into new waters with their latest project. The project, titled the Nike 78, will allow 78 artist to work on art projects that were inspired by and included products from the company.
“NIKE78 is an exciting new project created by Paul Jenkins and inspired by NIKE. Creatives involved will receive a brand new pair of NIKE shoes and will be asked to use sport as inspiration to challenge their function. The project will be documented on this website and after the shoes have been collected, an exhibition showcase is planned for the London Design Festival 2010. This is a unique project featuring some of the most talented creative individuals, studios and other organisations.
NIKE have been chosen as the inspiration for this project due to their rich history of creative ventures and the brand’s constant aim to push the boundaries of sport, something which NIKE78 will also seek to creatively challenge.”
I have included a couple of my favorites, but you can hop over to the site and check them all out. I know we have some really artsy readers, if you had a pair of Nike shoes as part of an art project, what would you do? Let us know in the comments.
With the World Cup sitting just around the corner, Nike has released the full length video to promote their “Write The Future Campaign”. The campaign is centered around the world’s most popular sport, football (or soccer to you Americans), and how winning or losing can have an impact on the lives of your countrymen. Football fans around the world will be able to experience the full three-minute film online at nikefootball.com from May 20th at 6pm GMT before it rolls out through global partnerships with Facebook, YouTube and QQ.com on Saturday the 22nd. The spot will then air across 32 countries, sharing the campaign with millions of fans around the world on May 22nd.
The film feature appearences from some of the world’s best players, including Cristiano Ronaldo, Didier Drogba, Wayne Rooney, Fabio Cannavaro, Franck Ribery, Andres Iniesta, Cesc Fabregas, Theo Walcott, Patrice Evra, Gerard Pique, Ronaldinho, Landon Donovan, Tim Howard and Thiago Silva. There are also special guest cameos by tennis legend Roger Federer and basketball superstar Kobe Bryant, with Homer Simpson completing the star-studded cast of appearances.
In addition to the theatrical aspect of the film, we get a good look at Nike’s supercharged Elite Series football boots. The sneakers provide new levels of performance for players during the tournament. Nike’s Mercurial Vapor SuperFly II, CTR360 Maestri, Total90 Laser III and Tiempo Legend III all feature a new performance upper to improve on-field visibility and a reengineered outsole to deliver lightweight performance for every style of player. The Elite Series is available to players at all levels and also incorporates Nike Football+, which features exclusive insider access to the world’s best coaches, players and teams for total game improvement. All four Elite Series boots to be worn by Nike players in South Africa, the Nike Mercurial Vapor SuperFly II, Nike CTR360 Maestri, Nike Total90 Laser III and Nike Tiempo Legend III, are available at retail and at www.nikestore.com as of May 22, 2010.
For additional information, check out Nike Facebook starting at 6pm GMT today.
The Nike Musical Shoe is an invention that I don’t quite understand just yet, but it is really interesting. If shoes are actually made into an instrument, to be played by your hands.
Corning the market in luxury sneaker accessories is Lacett Couture, an online retailer that sells top of the line jewelry exclusively for Sneaker Heads. With diamonds being the symbol of love and desire since the beginning of time, LACETTcouture hopes to take that love and implement it to your shoes. Each LACETTcouture piece is custom made to perfection in order to preserve uniqueness and originality, making diamonds a Sneaker Heads best friend.
Available in 14kt white, yellow, rose’ gold or platinum, each set comes with either natural white or enhanced colored diamonds. You have to option of a few sets, the Invisible set, Pave’ set, Channel set or Prongs set. At about thirty millimeters long, twelve millimeters wide and approximately three to four millimeters thick, they are the perfect size to accent your laces and toe box.
LACETTcouture was nice enough to send me a few replica sets for my sneaker collection, and it didn’t take me long to fall in love. Even though these were replica diamonds, the stones were clear and sparkled just like the real thing. Set in sterling silver, the replica’s come in a variety of colors are well, guaranteed to match your favorite pair of kicks in your closet. They sit just like lace locks or other custom tags, right above the toe box, which makes them a definite neck breaker.
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I know the musicians and guests at the Musicfest Northwest were geeked when Nike invited them to design their very own AW77 Hoodie in their Customization Truck for its debut.They were able to work closely with a design consultant to devise and create an AW77 hoodie that met their style expectations within 20 minutes.
There is good news folks: we can do this too.
Look out for a customization truck in your area or customize your own AW77 Hoodie through NikeiD with chenille numbers and words.
Now these hoodies aren’t just any ole’ hoodies. I guess you call them historic since the AW77 was created in 1977 by running legend and Athletic West founder, Geoff Hollister, who revamped the workout staple with a half-zip. Today those styles has broadened into fitted colorful full-zips and pullovers.
Custom shoe painter JGoods has spent years creating a kit so that anyone can customize their own shoes. The newly released JGoods Sneaker Customization Kit allows any one of you to try your hand at creating your own hand painted shoes that won’t be seen anywhere else. The kit includes a complete guide, specially formulated JGoods Leather Paint and all of the necessary materials needed to start your own trend.
What’s dope about the kit is that it can be used to do everything from changing the color of a panel, do a minor restoration or completely transform the shoe into an original piece of artwork. via JGoods
Originally designed by Alex Aranovich in 2002, it was manufactured and distributed worldwide, under license by 2K T-shirts from 2003-2005… And now the original “I Glove MJ” tee is back, re-released by the original artist, Alex Aranovich.
Since creating the design in 2002, Alex Aranovich has served as Senior Art Director at Zoo York, and as an Art Director at Studio Number One in Los Angeles. Most recently, he has illustrated automobiles for Lexus magazine, and created identities for brands such as Flight Club, Hall of Fame Ltd, SLBarbier, and Vacation Vinyl.
These shirts have been seen on the likes of Quest Love, an infamous Nike collector/employee who goes by the name RetroKid and Maryss from the Beat Freaks [to name a few]. Maryss holds a special place in my heart, as she had been selected to be one of the backup dancers for Michael Jackson’s UK tour dates.
If you like these, check back with us in a few days…we have a surprise for some of you readers
