Melissa: Shoes That Redefine Affordable, Stylish, Recyclable And… Plastic!

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Melissa is a socially and environmentally responsible company in Brazil that employs sustainable practices, treats their employees well (paying them above average wages complete with benefits), collaborates with hip designers and fashion icons (like Karim Rashid, Zaha Hadid and Vivienne Westwood to name only a few) to churn out millions (over 50 million pairs in the past 25 years) of environmentally responsible shoes made with a special patented recyclable plastic compound called MEFLEX. A shoe begins as a large orb of plastic and takes a only a minute to produce. (more…)

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Sandro Meneghello and Marco Paolelli Spend A Lot Of Time In The Bathroom

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Meneghello and Paolelli Bathroom Design

They’re young, talented and there’s no one else in whose bathroom I’d rather pee. Designers Sandro Meneghello and Marco Paolelli, both born in 1979, have a flair for bathroom fixtures. (more…)

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The Best Photos From Last Night’s Opening Ceremony of the 2008 Olympics

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If you didn’t catch the 2008 Olympics Opening Ceremony – all 4 hours of it – in Beijing, I certainly hope you taped/tivo’d/recorded it. It’s impossible to do the sensory impacting performance justice. (more…)

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Designing The 2008 Olympic Pictograms and Those of Years Past

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above left: Inscriptions on the Gui bronze vessels; above right: Pictograms of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, Photo and graphic courtesy of ARCOG

Graphic designers had to consider how to create a look that represented China, but also how to design images that would be attractive to an international audience, ARCOG (the Art Research Center for the Olympic Games) deputy director Hang Hai explains. (more…)

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