Lectors Peter Biľak & Radim Peško part of Sofia Design Week 2012.

Sofia Design Week ( 1 - 8 of June) is an international festival for design and visual culture. It takes place every June in Sofia. It features a professional forum with prominent speakers from all over the world, as well as an extensive program of open events aimed at the broader audience - exhibitions, workshops, discussions, talks, screenings, parties, book openings, events for children, etc.
Sofia Design Week strives to serve as a platform which stimulates and supports the development of design professionals in Bulgaria. At the same time the festival aims to present and promote sustainable and sensible practices for better and beneficial visual environment from around the world.

This year two lectors that I chose to write about will participate.
Peter Biľak was born in Czechoslovakia, lives in the Netherlands; worked at Studio Dumbar, before started a design studio in The Hague, Netherlands, where he works in the field of editorial, graphic and type design, combined with part time teaching at the Royal Academy of Arts in the Hague; in 1999 started Typotheque type foundry, in 2000 founded, edited and designed art & design journal DOT DOT DOT; in 2009 co-founded Indian Type Foundry, now writing for various design related magazines; and collaborating on creation of modern dance performances.

 Radim Peško is a designer currently living in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. His work focuses on typography as an intersection of technologies and language, type design, and occasional exhibition projects. He is a regular contributor to various publications including Dot Dot Dot magazine. He currently teaches at Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam.

 You can find more information about Sofia Design Week calendar HERE!

On my wishlist - Asics x Ronnie Fieg

Amanda Brooks in black & white

Tom Sachs’ Crumpled Nikes

Tom Sachs is a visual artist famous for sculptures that deconstruct and fuss around with all kinds of iconic objects, like McDonald’s and handguns. Nike’s now given him license to twist up their classic sneakers and the result is a subtle fuzzing of the shoes’ normally sharp edges, making a shoe that looks schlumpy, crumpled like a piece of paper and colored in with colored pencils.

Read more: http://www.thefader.com/2012/05/16/tom-sachs-crumpled-nikes/#ixzz1wKoyImF5

Isabel Marant cork wedges

€340 @net-a-porter

Givenchy Women's Magnetic Horn Earring

£146.00 @ln-cc.com

Lanvin Ivory Horn Sunglasses

MSGM Plissè skirt

Balmain Eagle Print Shirt

Sebago by Ronnie Fieg s/s12

Adrian Johnson x Stussy

Marc by Marc Jacobs wedges

 

 

Marc by Marc Jacobs wedges, a colorful high-top leather sneakers feature a lace-up front, over-sized tongue, and hidden 4 inch rubber wedge. An absolute must have  for this summer!

Prada Saffiano Calf Leather and Hemp Tote bag

Kate Spade pool party clutch

Coffeeee

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Orangina x Soledad

Orangina is celebrating the launch of Miss O at colette with a collector's box containing the Soledad signed three different flavors: Orange, Pink Grapefruit and Raspberry, with 0% added sugar.

Lucy Eldridge

Lucy Eldridge is an illustrator living and working in Brighton. She primarily works with watercolours and pencils and finds herself inspired by weasels, the moon, jam jars, cats, Peter Broderick, and rubber alphabet stamps. All the work below comes from her Animal series.
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Elena & Mira

Giuliano Fujiwara Boots.

Giuliano Fujiwara has revamped their Brown Boots from the F/W '11 collection by making very slight changes to the design. These boots ($789) showcases a large tassels tucked underneath the lace-up middle and and excessively thick rubber sole.

COMME DES GARÇONS Black Jersey Socks

$50.00 USD @ssense.com

Chunky Rodarte

INTRO mag april 2012 ft. moi

MOSCHINO CHEAP & CHIC FORK NAPA BAG

Chanel Crochet Leather Fringe Bag ft. Louis Leeman sneakers

Azzedine Alaia animal printed boots

Liberty x Nike ss12 - to die for

Dropping on April 2nd the first installement of the Nike Sportswear and Liberty of London collaboration includes covetable Nike running styles featuring Liberty’s “Lagos Laurel” print. Nike’s Cortez, Air Max One and the Nike Free 5.0 all get the treatment of one of Liberty’s most talked about prints.

In May the collection will be extended with the addition of three basketball styles: the Blazer, Hyperclave and Dunk Sky High WHICH I MUST HAAAAAAAAVE!!!!. The Dunk Sky High will feature a wedge heel inserted into the shoe.

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Neon.

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Air Max 90 Hyperfuse

COACH x JAMES NARES COLLECTION

James Nares X Coach Spring Summer 2012 Collection is a luxurious tote bags designer art collaboration that illustrates the artist’s brushstroke paintings to life on double-layered Italian canvas with vachetta leather shoulder straps and handles and vegetable-tanned leather base.
The elegant design with excellent craftsmanship are held together by a single heavy-duty seam and the artwork imprints the impression of a painting set in motion. Each bag is numbered and features a Coach leather storypatch with James’ signature.

White Stag.

Wildfox Couture White Stag Lennon Sweater in Dust Storm $229.00

Gareth Pugh Boots

Gareth Pugh has created a strapped patent leather futuristic inspired boot for SS12 collection. This boot features shiny black patent leather, straps across the midsection that resemble a sandal design, silver zipper closure at the back, and lastly a thick rubber sole.

Golden heart.

SUPER – ss ' 12 “Offshore” collection

SUPER presents its Spring/Summer 2012 Offshore collection of sunglasses, where the overriding color palette is made up of soft, translucent hues. Those colors are at play on the reworked Basic frames, featuring matte acetate finished in blue or green and fitted with contrast colored lenses. The Giaguaro, Lucia and Panama combine acetate and metal hardware in smoky tints with semi-transparent lenses, all carrying an elegant retro aesthetic. The Ciccio and Flat Top come in striking tortoise colorways, while the Leon represents the first ever all-metal SUPER frames. The oversized Leon is equipped with a single bridge and high-quality Barberini glass lenses. The entire collection is available now at SUPER’s online store. Very cool ad!

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Vendôme Pierre Corthay haute en couleurs !

JERRY SWEATSHIRT by KARL

£135.00 @ karl.com

FURLA ss12 fashion show @SerdikaCenter

The orgaznization of the event was great! I loved the show! The Furla collection for spring-summer 2012 is a rich travel diary filled with visual and tactile notes on the Mediterranean and Italian tradition. The colours of nature. The blue of the sky, the black and white of rocks and pebbles, the warm earth tones such as honey, red and yellow, with gold and silver accents.
The materials: bull hide, vintage-effect leather, coarse salt-and-pepper canvas, as well as reptile skin and materials of high-tech inspiration such as neoprene.

A natural, bright atmosphere in which the Candy Bag takes center stage with a series of special editions, including the highly distinctive rubber boston bag with python-print cowhide trim presented in a fresh, lively turquoise. It is an all-Italian creative game that continues with other versions featuring bold juxtapositions and a combination of technology and traditional craftsmanship: rubber and wicker in perfect La Dolce Vita style, rubber and ostrich-feather boa worthy of the red carpet in Venice, and rubber and super-light aluminium, riveted like the fuselage of an aeroplane.